Today, the Brooklyn Nets continue their NBA regular season journey against the Utah Jazz.
Despite playing on the road, the Nets are confident that they have what they call an "away advantage." Nets core guard Irving insisted on not giving a shot, so he was judged to only play this season's away games. As a result, the Nets have always believed that they will be more effective on the road, after all, they can have one more All-Star guard.
However, Irving's competitive state is really not good, and his performance on the field is really difficult to convince the public. In this game, the Nets lost 102-125 to the Jazz by 23 points, and Irving played extremely ugly. Playing 31 minutes after the game's opening game, Irving had 15 points and six assists on 6-of-20 shooting, which was very subdued.
Of course, the Nets are currently in an uneven lineup, Durant and Harden are absent due to injury, of which Harden is also caught in the trade rumors, the Nets already have the idea of sending Harden away in advance. But that doesn't mean Irving can perform poorly, it's when he needs to play the role of star.
In fact, Europa played less than rookie scorer Thomas, who contributed 30 points on 11-of-19 shooting to play a career masterpiece. Instead, Irving only played three quarters before taking a break and simply gave up.
Irving played a number of away games after his comeback, with a combined record of 4 wins and 7 losses, which did not show any ability to reverse the momentum, and also made the Nets' "away advantage" a laughing stock. Unconsciously, the Nets recently swallowed a 7-game losing streak, the morale of the whole team is low, and Durant's comeback has no timetable.
In this way, it is difficult for the Nets to impact the championship, and perhaps the rebuild will be this summer.