Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again invaded professional sports. In an announcement released yesterday, the Premier League confirmed that 42 of the 3805 players and club staff were infected positive in the latest week, setting a new record high in statistics; among which Tottenham and Manchester United, Brighton, Villa, Leicester City and West Brom of the Championship have all become the hardest hit areas, and many Premier League games have been affected. Although La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga are not as common as in the Premier League, there are also confirmed cases of new crown.
On the NBA side, the most important thing today is undoubtedly that Curry has become the three-point king in history, but the NBA league has also been plagued by the epidemic. The Bulls have 10 players tested positive for COVID-19, so much so that they have at least two games that have been confirmed to be postponed. At the peak of the Hornets, 5 players were infected with COVID-19 at the same time. And the defending champion Bucks side of Middleton has been infected with a new crown some time ago, and now it is the turn of the letter, and Matthews and Smart are also recruited at the same time. The Lakers' "false positive" on the Lakers' side some time ago was just a false alarm, but Horton. Tucker, Howard, and Munch are really in trouble this time. The Raptors, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Knicks, Pacers, Heat and other teams were not spared, and a new round of large-scale strokes was the turn of the Nets. Before the Nets played the Raptors, Ader, Bemburi, Millsap, Carter and James Johnson, Harden and Bruce Brown triggered the health and safety agreement at the same time, and counting the "immortals" that no one could find, so that even if Durant forced it with an injury, the Nets still had only 8 people.
On such a night, Durant played 48 minutes and 11 seconds, Mills played 43 minutes and 18 seconds, both of which were season highs, while this year's No. 44 coach Kessler Edwards played 43 minutes and 41 seconds, easily playing a career high. When the draft was lost david. Duke and Griffin, who had been DNP in the previous games, were in the starting lineup, and the only three people on the Nets bench were rookies selected this year, and the Nets were really exhausted. But on such a night, the Nets were beaten 44-25 in the third quarter, and finally bit the other side into overtime, in a very tragic way, thrilling to win the game.
On the night, Durant recorded a big triple-double with 34 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists. But the offensive and defensive ends need to shoulder heavy responsibilities at the same time, resulting in Durant's offensive efficiency in this game has been greatly affected, shooting only 12 of 29; when Durant was obviously unable to play in the fourth quarter, it was Mills who stepped forward. In the fourth quarter, he scored 16 points, shot a three-pointer in the final stage of regular time, and shot 30 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, and Mi Shen, who originally wanted to hold his thighs, inadvertently beat himself into a thigh. And a few rookies seized the rare opportunity, the top 4 rookies together grabbed 31 rebounds (Thomas only had 1), the Nets were stunned to rush out of the frontcourt rebounds, grabbed 60 rebounds...
However, on the night of the fierce victory, Nash was once again spat upon by the outside world. In the third quarter, from 10 points ahead to 10 points behind, Nash didn't even call a timeout. Durant, who has undergone Achilles tendon major surgery and played with an injury, played 48 minutes in the regular season, and in the eyes of the outside world, Nash has gone crazy.
Of course, these practices were placed on Nash, at least not as an accident. After all, Nash is a very young rookie coach, he often does not know when to call a timeout; there have been too many times in the past two years when the opponent has started, he is indifferent on the sidelines, but the momentum of his own side is good, he may be in the context of temporarily stopping the momentum, maybe the ming card hosting is already the best choice. While Nash was around D'Antoni, the others had not learned it, but the "death exercise" main force had been truly transmitted, and even more so. Ironmen like Harden were plagued by injuries last season and did not allow them to rest, and nash used them as a long-term absence; and in the series that played the Bucks last year, the Bucks' 8-man rotation was short enough, but Nash was even more desperate, and the next few games were basically 6-man rotations...
But behind Nash's death and Durant's exhaustion, Irving and Harden are hard to blame.
This summer, the Nets' operations through the free agent market and the draft are entirely centered around the Big Three. When the offensive firepower of the Big Three is too fierce, the Nets have brought in a number of defensive players this summer, and the intention of inviting Van der Pul, who is good at building defense, as the chief assistant coach is very clear, that is, to take the way of superstar pocket + tenacious defense to compete for the championship. But Irving's refusal to get vaccinated led to a long-term absence, and Irving still needed to occupy salary space without playing, which led to the team's inability to strengthen, which had a very big impact on the Nets and meant that the other two giants needed to bear more pressure.
Since the beginning of the season, Durant has played a BUG-level performance; but Harden's performance this season is extremely unsatisfactory, and the state fluctuations are very large. This time, on the reason for Harden's infection with the new crown, Kevin Pelton, a famous American media personality, mentioned that Harden had taken Brown to a nightclub before triggering the security agreement. Considering the large-scale infection within the Nets, and the first to be recruited was Millsap, whose family had returned to care for a serious illness, it is not possible to associate Harden and Brown with the new crown and go to the nightclub. But when the epidemic began to flood in Europe and the United States, he also took his little brother to the nightclub, did Harden's mind put on basketball? Did he make up his mind to storm the championship?
When I first told Durant to join forces to do something big, as a result, Irving did everything in the Nets for two years; and the Nets smashed the pot and sold iron, sending all of Aaron's senior blue-collar workers and LeVert's qualified sixth people out, and as a result, Harden not only became fatter and fatter, but also did not have the strength to burst on his legs, and at such a special time, he also had to go to the nightclub, and Durant, who was about to be exhausted, was really miserable by Owen and Harden.