Nets finally get second win with blowout over lowly Wizards
NY Post
WASHINGTON — The Nets picked up their second win of the season Sunday.
Were their victories Pyrrhic, or were they progress?
Brooklyn routed Washington 129-106 before a small gathering at CapitalOne Arena, listed as 14,164 but appearing about half that size. They came out on a football Sunday to watch a pair of teams tanking for lottery positioning, and the Nets lose by winning.
The blowout saw the Nets improve to 2-11, the third-worst record in the league — and thus, third seed in the lottery. Both wins came against the two teams “ahead” of them, with the Wizards and Pacers both a league-worst 1-12.
And while Washington dropped its 11th straight game, the Nets have won two of their last six, leading by as many as 24 points and showing improvement on the glass and on defense.
“We’re trying to get one percent better,” Nets coach Jordi Fernández said. “We try to challenge our guys to play the right way. We had a few games where we showed signs of consistent competitiveness, and then we had a really poor game, and now we’re back to two games of being pretty competitive. Now we want to show the third one.
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