‘It’s a different team’: The Nets are winning the very games they lost last season

Despite their record, however, there is still room for improvement. The loss of Kyrie Irving (unvaccinated, and thus, ineligible) has forced a team built around three stars to learn how to play with two. The Nets have taken on a hard-working, “Blue-Collar Boy” persona, and it has shown up in the rebounding and hustle columns, but the facts still remain.