If you missed tonight’s Nets game, you’ll be fine. In a pretty brutal battle of offensive ineptitude, the Nets lost to the Pistons 90-89 at the Palace.

What was most frustrating about this one was that it was a game you’d love to have won if you are Brooklyn. Two teams playing lousily, and the Nets proved they could hang in a game with their best offensive player laying more bricks than SAM, the bricklaying robot.

Despite a low scoring effort for 48 minutes by both teams, the Nets kept themselves in range. And then Brook Lopez finally woke up in the fourth quarter and hit two completely absurd threes to tie the game. That was really fun until it wasn’t because he was off the mark on a deep go-ahead shot from beyond the arc with under a minute to go. This was the second-most Nets-y play of the game. The first was with four seconds left when Jeremy Lin fumbled the inbounds pass on the team’s last possession. They didn’t win after that.

I really wish the Nets won this game. When you are a young team, these are just nice games to be on the right side of. But alas. The last few weeks have been strangely fun for the Nets. It looks like we are finally seeing a few rays of sunshine on this young, disorganized roster. But if you were looking to this game to see some more of that, you were probably disappointed. Oh well. On to the next one.