The Nets have been very turbulent this season, in addition to the manager's tactics and on-the-spot coaching ability has been questioned, the personnel level has changed a lot, originally thought that after the second round of the playoffs last year, the whole team can work harder to impact the championship, the result is that Irving does not vaccinate, is absent for a long time, and cannot play the home game after returning. Harden was traded away, and the era of the "Ohardo" Big Three came to an end. It is also unknown how Ben Simmons and others will change when they come to the team. Coupled with long-term injuries to the likes of Durant, Ade and Joe Harris, the nets are currently losing 10 straight.
According to ESPN's BPI prediction, the Nets only have a 2% chance to make the NBA Finals
At the same time, according to the media summary, the team that suffered 10 consecutive defeats in that season has never reached the division final before.
Therefore, the current Nets are in a desperate situation, on the one hand, there is historical data to support them, it is difficult for them to enter the Eastern Conference Finals. On the other hand, the prediction of foreign media is that the probability of advancing to the finals is only an embarrassing 2%. It is worth mentioning that similar data has appeared last season, that is, the Lakers in the playoffs, they were predicted to play against the Suns in the first round, the probability of reaching the Finals was only 2%, and sure enough, the defending champion Lakers at the time was eliminated by the Suns.
Such a situation is the most helpless for the boss of Cai Chongxin, to know that since the acquisition of all the shares of the Nets, he has officially become the big boss of the team, from the beginning cai Chongxin invested a lot of money and energy in the Nets. Obviously, often going to the sidelines to watch the game, social media encouraging the likes of Irving and Harden, warming up before the game, and cheering up the players after the game are all the behavior of Nets owner Tsai Chongxin.
The level of investment in funds, this is also obvious to all, Cai Chongxin from the summer of 2019 to take the seriously injured Durant, Irving and Jordan jr., the formation of the big three, to the arrival of Harden, Griffin, Mills and other people in the later stage, 4 years 198 million US dollars to renew Durant, he gave the team a huge investment in funds. Rookie coach Nash was invited to coach, but there are a number of experienced coaches around him, such as D'Antoni, etc., in order to create a "Cole" that belongs to the Nets.
Everything Tsai Chongxin did was for the championship, after all, the Nets had never won a championship in the history of the Nets, and New York basketball had been silent for many years, and Tsai Chongxin's big investment was to hope that the team could impact the first championship in team history. The result is that Harden left, Irving did not play at home, injuries continued, manager problems and so on, which was frustrating.