If the problem was the record, then firing Steve Nash wasn’t an immediate solution.

At the end of an utter mess of a day for the franchise, the Nets couldn’t even hang their hats on a win, falling to 2-6 on the season after a 108-99 defeat to the Bulls on Tuesday night at Barclays Center.

Though the Nets held a halftime lead, and looked for much of the night to at least be giving a better effort on defense, they ultimately lost a game they spent much of the night commanding, giving away a 10-point lead with just over two minutes to go in the third quarter to lose by nine, getting outscored 31-19 in the final period and finishing the night with 17 turnovers.

“You play back-to-back games, takes a lot of effort out of us,” interim coach Jacque Vaughn said. “First Indiana [on Monday] and to ask our guys to play a significant amount of minutes again, [the Bulls] were a little fresher.”

Brooklyn didn’t let the Bulls pull away until late in the fourth, trading baskets with Chicago and leaning on some timely play from Royce O’Neale, who finished with 20 points, but the damage was done.

Zach LaVine’s shooting touch helped put the Bulls over the top, as two straight 3s from LaVine extended Chicago’s lead to nine with just under six minutes to go. Unlike the Nets, the Bulls would hang onto their lead.

LaVine finished the night with 29 points and five assists and, as Brooklyn sputtered late in the fourth, the Bulls kept at it, forcing a key turnover by Kevin Durant when the Nets had a chance to cut the lead to five just under the four-minute mark. Instead, LaVine keyed a 5-0 run to push Chicago’s lead to 12 and prompt fans to exit Barclays Center.

“We played good defense, they shot 43 percent from the field, but you got special players over there like Zach,” Durant said. “He can make tough shots.”

On a day where quite literally everything went wrong for the Nets before a ball touched the hardwood, it was only fitting to end with a loss.

The bigger story from Tuesday was everything else — Nash’s firing, the organization’s continued fumbling of the Kyrie Irving situation, the seemingly imminent hire of Ime Udoka, who is currently suspended by the Celtics for an improper relationship with a subordinate — but the basketball team itself is still playing far below its talent.

Durant held up everyone else on Tuesday, finishing with 32 points and hauling the Nets into a competitive game nearly by himself. Irving had a quiet night, not scoring until the fourth quarter and finishing with just four points on 2 of 12 shooting.

It’s only eight games into the season, but it’s hard to imagine a single worse day for the franchise.

The scary part for the Nets is that there are still 74 games left for imagination to become reality.