Jordi Fernandezs Nets influence is already being seen

Everybody had their job in the Nets ecosystem.Some have more than one, some more important than others.As a rookie head coach, Jordi Fernandez has a host of new responsibilities — from implementing systems on both ends of the court to managing the game to dealing with the media.

But no job is more important than development.Not just developing players, but developing a winning culture.That means setting a standard they’re going to measure up to.“Yeah, that’s my No.

1 priority,” Fernandez said before Sunday’s 114-104 loss to the Knicks at the Garden.“That comes with what you do in your day to day, right? Are you willing to get 1 percent better every day? Are you willing to build relationships with your players? Are you willing to accept your role, and not just accept it but embrace it? Those things are at the end of the day, what’s going to keep building our identity.“So far, I’m very proud of the guys.

You guys can see the games and how these guys fight.If the mistakes are honest mistakes, we’re trying, it’s all good.

But you don’t see the day-to-day, what they do in practice and how they interact with each other, and I’m very happy with how the process is going so far.We’re not close yet, but we’ve made progress.

So, it’s just the beginning, and we have a plan.”The Nets had dropped four out of their past five going into Sunday’s game at the Garden.But nobody who has watched them — even before they erased Friday’s 19-point fourth-quarter deficit to take a lead with 12 seconds left — could deny that Fernandez has them buying in and playing hard.The Nets drew just nine charges all of last season, the least of any team since such stats started being tracked, per Elias Sports Bureau.

But they came into Sunday with seven in 13 games, tied for ninth-best in the NBA this season.But for a franchise coming off a 32-50 season so disappointing that it prompted them to trade Mikal Bridges to the Knicks and start a rebuild, it is...