Following Monday’s seventh straight loss to open the season , a tight-lipped Noah Clowney kept his locker room comments brief, but noted that Jordi Fernández met with players individually and as a team to address how they can sustain effort more consistently.

“Transparency,” Nic Claxton said when asked about those meetings. “Just trying to get everyone on the same page, and really just trying to get us to play harder consistently, and I think we did a better job at it today.”

Competing for a full 48 minutes has been Brooklyn’s biggest challenge through its winless start. The fire that defined Fernández’s first season has been missing in Year 2, but the team’s meetings before Monday’s 16-point loss to Minnesota appeared to make an impact.

The Nets still fell short, but they looked sharp

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