Use the net, that bullsh17! It's personal preference. You wouldn't wear the same boxers baxkwards if someone else liked to
I am setting up a tent with Living soil, cover crops, netting. In fact I may use X2 nets. One thing is though, I will have access the 3 sides of my tent as I will have the room to. But I have done it with 2 12L pots in a .8M tent, whats that, almost 3'...? ...that was with having access to 1 side only.
Where there is a will, there is a way!