Before playing the Spurs, when asked how to avoid panic in the last 5 games and 4 losses, Nash replied particularly calmly that losing can make the team find deficiencies. However, after winning a game against the Spurs, the Nets lost to the Blazers on the road!
Who of these opponents hasn't been more difficult than the Nets lately? The love of complaining highlights incompetence
In recent times, Nash has been constantly emphasizing that the Nets are a defensive team. But since the Nets returned from Christmas, the points lost in 9 consecutive games were 115, 108, 110, 120, 118, 121, 121, 119, 114, and the last 9 games averaged 116.2 points, the inside line of the protruding pants are gone, such a Nets also deserve to be called a defensive team?
Of course, before this game, Nash had also complained about the schedule and complained about the personnel disorganization.
But not only are the Nets back-to-back, but the Blazers are also back-to-back. Even if the Nets fly back-to-back from the big east, yesterday's Nets game was played at 1 a.m. Beijing time and finished at 4 a.m.; and although the Blazers are consecutive home games, the previous Blazers were played at 10 o'clock Beijing time... This means that when the Nets fly to Portland to sleep in the hotel, the Blazers may have just finished the last game, and the Nets have less time to adjust than the other side?
And from the lineup point of view, although Harden did not play this time, Ade and Joha could not play, but Irving came back; on the other hand, the Blazers, the three shots on the outside and Nance can not also play? When Durant and Irving are paid more than all the players on the other side combined, aren't the Nets available to them more than the Blazers? Is it hard to believe that Nash thinks of Anfenni. Simmons and Ben. McLemore and Owen, Durant is a level player?
Further ahead, when the Nets lost to the Clippers, the other side gave way to Little Card, George, Little Morris, Kennard, Zubac, and even Director Lu. When they lost to the Bucks, opposite holliday, George. Hill, Allen, DiVincienzo, Connaughton, Arlo, Budenholzer weren't there either; when they lost 76ers, there was no Simmons, no Tielin, no Niang. To win the Pacers, there was no Brogdon, no Le Vere, no McConnell, no Craig, no Duarte. Win the Spurs game, the other side is also a lack of major generals...
When the Nets have difficulties, the opponents they face are more difficult than them, and No matter what excuses Nash makes, he seems so pale and powerless, and constant complaining can only highlight Nash's incompetence.
Crazy singles is like playing wild ball, and Nash will leave D'Antoni for nothing
Since taking up the Nets' coaching whip, Nash's coaching skills have not been seen at all. Last year, the Nets actually encountered a lot of trouble, Durant has been hanging up the free card for a long time, Harden was plagued by injuries in the second half of the season, and Irving also played to save the world at the beginning. But in D'Antoni's system, Harden is actually quite good with a group of basic salaries. And this year D'Antoni is gone, just to see Nash play himself...
Even if Irving only returns as part-time players, durant and Harden's attendance this season is very guaranteed; so compared with last season's nearly half of the games are single-core leaders, nearly half of the games are double-core teams, the vast majority of this year's Nets games are double-core, Nash this season's difficulties can not be greater than last season's; but the result? Not only did Nash not solve the defensive problems that the Nets had before, but the offense also pulled its crotch.
This season's Harden performance is obviously not as good as last season, on the one hand, it is related to Harden's physical condition is not as good as the game, on the other hand, it is related to the positioning.
When the trade first came, Harden was nominally the third leader of the team, but in the system created by D'Antoni, Harden was the real offensive core of the Nets, and he continued the playing style of the Rockets; coupled with the long single-core team, harden was the biggest opponent of the MVP competition for Teacher Yo before last year's injury. And this season D'Antoni is gone, the magic ball system has been dismantled, although it seems that the ball is still in the hands of Harden for a long time, but Durant is the core of Nash's team, the Nets' game often opens the "stick singles" mode from the first quarter; and in this game Harden rotation, the Nets' internal line wants to score only by scrambling for offensive rebounds, secondary offensive scoring, the whole game depends on Durant singles, Irving singles, Thomas also comes up singles, Mills also has to hold the ball singles, this team has a holistic to speak of?
When Durant got up on January 6 and played 41 minutes, 37 minutes, 43 minutes, 42 minutes in 4 days, back-to-back, he had to start singles with the ball from the first quarter, could he not be tired at the end? Can his efficiency be guaranteed?
Nash, who didn't play full-time, couldn't take the Nets out of the East
When talking about the Nets' loss to the Bucks last year, many people will always mention the letters first to pad Irving down; others will say that if Durant's toes are smaller, the Nets will pass. But in fact, that round of the series has already reflected many of Nash's shortcomings to the fullest.
For example, the on-site response is too poor, even if it is called a pause, the layout is a mess. In the final moments of G3, they could completely beat the big score to 3-0 and end the suspense of the series early; after the suspension was arranged, the Nets played a shocking and "stunned" tactic. First Griffin forced the sideline ball almost wrong, and then it turned out to be Bruce. Brown challenges the basket to the height of Big Lo... And the last timeout, three points behind, Durant received the ball in the position of the middle line...
Another example is his distrust of role players. The Nets' inside line in that series had been hammered by the letters, And Joha felt cold in the hand, and Nash looked at Jeff. Green and Griffin were ravaged by the letters in turn, watching Joha keep playing iron, still insisting on the 6-man rotation...
Of course, Nash's biggest problem with coaching the Nets is that he can't play full level.
In these two seasons, the Nets' best performance under Nash was precisely during Harden's solo leadership last year. And the best stage of this season is also some time ago, Durant and Harden took turns to lead the team. However, as long as the single core becomes a dual core, the Nets' combat effectiveness will be affected immediately. The main reason for this situation is that Nash can't make a choice question; when there is only one superstar, he knows how to firmly keep the thigh of that superstar; but once he has two thighs in front of him, or three thighs for him to choose, he does not know how to balance the use of superstars.
The Nets, which formed the Big Three, are undoubtedly a team that aspires to win the championship. But so far since the beginning of the season, their record of playing the top four teams in the East and West is 0-8, and now they are playing the Clippers, the Blazers, and the Spurs, which are no longer sadistic, and although the Nets are still ranked second in the East, their recent performance is very much like a playoff marginal team. On the basis of sitting on a full rank, the Nets' road to the championship needs a qualified leader. As long as Nash leads the team, this Nets don't think about the championship thing anymore.