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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Kiki Vandeweghe was asked to describe the Nets’ defense on the final two plays Sunday night and he used some coach-speak, saying “We were supposed to blue it.”

The Nets did, but spelled the other way -- they blew it.

Here was another game the Nets could have and should have won. They didn’t lose because of Randy Foye’s back-to-back baseline jumpers over Yi Jianlian in the final 45 ticks. The Nets fell, 89-85, Sunday night because of everything they did and didn’t do for much of the last three quarters of the game.

“I thought we played 40 minutes of pretty good basketball,” Vandeweghe said.

Forty minutes is good enough for college, not the NBA. The irony is in the pregame, Vandeweghe was talking about