On February 7, Beijing time, the Nets suffered eight consecutive losses, losing to the Nuggets on the road, and the team fell into the play-off area. Irving scored 27 points in the whole game, nothing helped, Harden continued to be out of the game, since Durant was injured, the Nets played a 2-9 record, to everyone's surprise.
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Having suffered 8 consecutive defeats, it shows that the core cohesion of this team has been weakened. Speaking of core cohesion, in fact, we found that even last season's Nets lacked core cohesion. What does the general core cohesion come from? The first is to have a strong unified leadership core, and the second is to have a clear tactical arrangement. We found that none of these existed at the Nets.
First, the Nets don't have a unified, strong leadership core.
From the perspective of the court, Durant is the biggest leadership core, but Durant's personality on the court is mild, and after the big injury, the shooting is also more and more, the explosive force is weakened, and the way of playing is gradually pursuing efficiency and simplicity. When the team has difficulties, Durant's approach is to come up with a classic mid-range shot to solve the game, and does not make proper guidance and adjustments for the teammates' sloppiness or poor play. Durant needs to be a little more ferocious on the court. Even after being eliminated by the Bucks last season, Durant's look is indifferent, in fact, this is not suitable for leading a team that is in ruins. Durant's leadership style, still stuck in the leadership style of the Warriors, is more and more of a Thunder period of helplessness.
In the matter of leading the team, Irving and Harden have taken part of the leadership.
In the current Nets, the identification of who is the first star is still very vague. In terms of ability and seniority, Durant is the only boss, and in terms of practical utility, Harden can also be the boss. And Irving is once the final key mr. gentleman, one of the league's most famous singles players, and his status is also very high. This creates a diversion of leadership.
Strictly speaking, the Big Three are a leadership collective, but they are divided internally, which means that when someone is not there, someone will have other thoughts. According to the past reason, when someone in the three giants is absent, the other giants should increase their attack intensity to supplement the gap, but some people are unbalanced in their hearts and have not taken on the big responsibility, which is also a manifestation of the lack of a strong competitive mentality in his heart. This may also be related to the media environment.
Now let's turn to the second point, the Nets don't have a clear tactical arrangement.
Tactics are the system, the system is the tactics, look at the tactical system of the Warriors and Spurs today, you will understand that the real strong team has its own set of tactical logic, tactical logic helps them not to hover in the trough for too long, help them play the highest performance when there are stars. The Nets, on the other hand, are completely dependent on the offensive drive of the Big Three and have never formed a complete and effective set of tactical logic, which has led to their inability to cope with the dilemma.
If Nash has a colesive set of tactical arrangements that vary, with clear player running positions and suspension techniques, harden won't be tired even if Durant and Irving aren't there. Even in the case of the Big Three not taking turns, the Nets can still improve the tactical status of role players, thereby training them, ensuring that when the Big Three returns, they are still a good lineup supplement.
At present, the Nets only have singles, and even outside the Big Three, Thomas's singles have been developed. Except for singles or singles, everything is singles, how can you integrate the team? In the position of head coach, Nash is indeed unqualified, and cannot give up the establishment and cultivation of the tactical system because the big three are strong singles.
Because of the above problems, the Nets have led to more and more military distractions. The above problem is the base problem of the Nets since the season, and it is not caused by Irving's part-time job. It's like the Lakers' problem is not caused by the inefficiency of Westbrook, and the Irving and Westbrook problems are just the most superficial problems of the two teams. The Nets should have taken it seriously and come up with ways to improve it early, and that's mostly the work of management and Nash.
Management can make trades in exchange for some efficient role players, and the manager has to cultivate the tactical system, which is the most basic change and the easiest change. Otherwise, the Nets' problems will continue to hurt everyone's confidence, so much so that they forget the seniority of the full lineup, forget how close they were to winning the championship, and the public opinion environment alone is enough to kill them.