1. After every missed shot, instead of yelling or whining at the referees (like the Kings did), the Nets got back on defense. Wow!
2. New Jersey's defense actually played defense instead of falling down every time Shaq looked at them (like Vlade "no-talent" Divac does). This shows a team that actually cares about the game instead of trying to make a mockery of it.
3. After the game, Jason Kidd accepted the loss. He didn't blame the refs, David Stern, the Laker Girls, or anything else for the loss. Unlike the Kings, who whined, cried, and blamed their loss on everything from the hardness of the floor to Jupiter not aligning with Saturn properly.
New Jersey is a classy team. On several occasions when players on either team were fouled, the fouler would try to grab a hold of the foulee to prevent them from falling down. Think we would have seen that in the Kings series? Ha.
The Nets gave the Lakers so much respect that Collins was asking Shaq for an autograph late in the fourth quarter with about a minute to go in the game. Just look at the replay, even the refs called this one wrong, you see Collins draped all over Shaq's back with both hands swating Shaq's body five or six times. After the sixth time, and three seconds in the paint later, one of refs blew the whistle and thought that Collins was fouling Shaq! Collins was just looking for a pen!
The Nets looked like a High School team in awe of finally playing a real NBA Team.