With the deepening of the season, the net's impression on the fans is becoming more and more unreliable, the weak team dares to lose, and the strong team cannot win! It is not difficult to see that the Nets do not have the mercury-like offense of the past, and the ability to attack is not at the championship level. There are many reasons for this situation, Irving's absence, Harden's downturn, the weakness of the interior defense and so on. In addition, head coach Nash has been the object of fan crusade more than once, and his coaching ability has also been questioned by the outside world. In fact, as early as last season, the Nets failed to win the championship in the case of having the big three, and it was inseparable from Nash, he overused the big three, and also lacked the depth of the lineup to dig and build.
For the Nets, their goal this season can only be to win the championship, because Harden's contract is about to expire after the end of the season, and if the team fails to win the championship, the luxurious big three of the Nets will most likely disband, and the team will become a joke in the league. So if the Nets want to rely on their current lineup to compete for the championship, their best bet may be to get coach Nash off. After all, Boss Cai took the full level number to let the rookie coach practice, which is really unreasonable. So what is the specific reason why Nash had to leave class, and the poison tongue king listed the following four.
One: single offensive tactics, constantly staged "singles feast"
This season, the Nets can be said to have no offensive tactics to speak of, basically Harden's possession of the ball and the center to block and dismantle, strong under the basket, but Harden's ability to finish this season has declined too much, resulting in the Nets' lack of offensive strength. In addition, Harden will also play cards at the top of the arc to pitchers without the ball, which makes the team's offense too test the player's outside projection ability, so joe Harris is absent and Mills is unstable, and the Nets are difficult to harvest the game. In the end, most of the Nets' offense could only be completed by Durant through individual ability. After two seasons of running-in, Nash has not been able to establish a tacit understanding system for Durant and Harden, and the two have basically no linkage on the court, and such a style of play is also very serious for Durant's consumption.
Two: Nash is too paranoid in hiring people
Griffin's rotation this season may be the biggest adjustment Nash has made, because Bembry's performance is significantly better than Griffin, Nash dared to make this change, and since then, Nash has been using Bembry, his average playing time is gradually approaching 20 minutes, even when he feels bad, Nash still sticks to his own employment strategy and will not make other attempts, which is enough to reflect Nash's stubbornness in using people. Nash is quite conservative in his use, and durant and Harden have played very high times this season, and in the previous 26 games, Harden played a total of 942 minutes, the highest on the team. Durant missed 2 games and played a total of 871 minutes, ranking second in the team. If it weren't for Joha and Owen not playing, Nash would not have used newcomer Thomas.
Three: Nash's on-the-spot reaction ability and poor experience in leading the team in the playoffs
Nash's on-the-spot coaching ability is also his weakness, and some fans ridicule Nash: the only head coach in the NBA history without technical fouls, and bluntly said that Nash always does not say a word on the sidelines, shaped like air, "stable as Tarzan", and does not even call a timeout. When the team's offense came to a standstill, or when the opponent's score play made some changes, Nash had difficulty responding in time, resulting in the team often falling into passivity on the field. The problem could be even more serious in the playoffs, as the playoffs also test the game between coaches, and the ability to make targeted adjustments in seven games is one of the keys to a team's success.
In addition, judging from Nash's performance in last year's playoffs, he still lacks a lot of experience, just like in the series with the Bucks, after the opponent changed from a large lineup to a small lineup with a letter brother playing five, Nash stuck to the previous style of play, resulting in the team in the last two games into big trouble.
There are many coaches in today's free agent market who are more experienced than Nash, among which D'Antoni is undoubtedly more experienced than Nash, and although D'Antoni is obsessed with overusing superstars, D'Antoni has a Harden instruction manual. Here the poisonous tongue jun is also very confused, whether it is Nash who did not unlock Harden, or whether Harden really has a serious decline in level.
In short, for the Nets, firing Nash may be a wise choice, especially this season their goal is to compete for the championship, if they continue in this state, they may stop in the East Finals. Owen told the media that we are a team that needs coaches, and now we see that it is really correct. Nash is really like air at the Nets. Do you support the Nets' change of coach?