Isaiah and DeMarcus will score. If Vasquez can squeeze points out of Thornton, Patterson and Thompson while producing some scoring himself, the Kings offense is in good shape. That says nothing of the defense — up to No. 27 from No. 30 thanks to the Nets' horrid shooting — or of the development of McLemore. (I do imagine that Vasquez can help McLemore score easier buckets, but I also think that McLemore's development is a separate major factor in the team's offensive performance.)

Games like Wednesday are why Pete D'Alessandro wanted Vasquez. We need more of them.

Now, some strung-together notes on a fun game.

* NetsDaily's reaction is about as flummoxed and disappointed as you'd expect.

* A weird Isaiah trend continued. Per NBA.com/stats, this season he's scoring 6.3 points on 43 percent shooting in about 13 minutes per game in the first half, and 12 points on 50 percent shooting in 15 minutes in the second half. The dirty little secret is that in a couple of the Kings' worst losses he was part of the problem (poor shooting, etc.) in the first half, but did so much during the requisite comeback attempt that we ignored it. Last night, he had 7 points on 2-6 shooting in 14 minutes in the first half and 12 points on 3-5 shooting (5-5 line) in 12 minutes in the second.

* Isaiah and Vasquez played 10 minutes together in the fourth. The Nets went small to cut into the lead, so Michael Malone used both point guards plus Thornton for much of the quarter. It worked.

* No Jimmer Fredette. So much for that, huh?

* Luc Richard Mbah a Moute similarly got left out for the most part. He did play a 4-minute stretch at power forward in the second half as the Kings' big men struggled with foul trouble.

* Another strong crowd (15,122). One issue I'm seeing that doesn't really matter but still pops out is that there are a lot of open seats behind the broadcast table in the first half. The organization appears to move people down by the second half, but I'm wondering if those seats are little overpriced given the state of the team. It'd be really cool to get some loud fans in that section nightly.

* Joey Crawford made such an awful technical call on Cousins that he apparently apologized for it at halftime. He did not, however, take the freebie point away from Brooklyn. Thank goodness that didn't matter.

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