The Nets will be big underdogs to the Cavaliers in Friday’s home opener.

They’ll be hard-pressed to play worse than in Wednesday’s season opener.

“We definitely need to have a sense of urgency and figure out our identity. So we’ve got to figure that out as a team,” Michael Porter Jr. said. “It’s the first game, can’t overreact, but at the same time, we saw some glaring problems individually and collectively. So we’ve got to figure out how to get better, watch the film and be better Friday, for sure.”

Being better than they were in the opener is a low bar. The Nets didn’t defend. They didn’t stick together.

They didn’t get back in transition. And they didn’t get production from Porter and Cam Thomas, who combined for 27 points on 7-of-24 shooting and a minus-38.

And that was in a 13

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