Though Marks can claim to have learned patience, he is nonetheless paddling like hell beneath the surface to get the Nets whole and prepared. The season is no longer a marathon. “Everybody feels a sense of urgency,” Marks said. “I don’t think anybody’s sitting here going, well, we’ll be okay, you know, and it’ll be fine. Those words never come out. It’s a sense of what else can we do? Are we doing everything we can to get this group on the floor together as quick as possible, healthy, playing the right way together?”