The good news is that the Nets understand that they need to "bounce back" from their blowout by the Heat (which followed blowout losses last weekend to the Rockets and before that the Grizzlies).

Bad news is that they're not sure what went wrong vs. Miami.

"I don’t know why we’re losing so badly in these losses," Deron Williams said before the Bulls game. "It just seemed like last game in the third quarter nothing went right for us. Everything went right for them and they kind of blew us out of the game."

P.J. Carlesimo thinks he has an idea. It's not the other teams. It's the Nets. "We’ve beaten some good teams," Carlesimo said. "The problem isn’t beating good teams. The problem is us."

No matter. The Nets could get a break Friday night. Kirk Hinrich is back in Chicago getting an infection looked at and Carlos Boozer is out with a sore hamstring. Joakim Noah is questionable.