In the history of the NBA, creating a luxurious core lineup to impact the championship, almost all teams dream, but not all luxury lineups can reach the expected heights, the Lakers' F4 combination of the year's dismal end is enough to explain this problem, and last season the Nets also built the core lineup of Durant, Harden and Irving, but after only maintaining more than a season, the Nets Big Three collapsed, in this season's trade deadline, The Nets sent Harden back to the younger Ben Simmons, for them, ending the losing streak to stop the decline of the team is a top priority, in this regular season, the Nets went to Miami to challenge the Eastern Conference leader Heat, this battle Durant is still hanging a free card, and Ben Simmons can not play for the team, Irving became the nets' sole leader and core on the court, but in the face of the defensive leader, Irving's performance once again disappointed all fans, and the team's weak interior line was also hammered by the Heat. In the end, the Nets also suffered 11 consecutive defeats 111-115, and the title favorite has become the biggest laughing stock of the league, and the long losing streak will inevitably hit the morale of the Nets, thus affecting the cohesion and self-confidence of the team's locker room!
In fact, from last season's playoff performance, it can be seen that as long as the Nets can ensure the healthy appearance of the big three, they have the strength to compete with any strong team in the league, but Irving's attitude of not focusing on the overall situation, coupled with the poor coaching performance of head coach Nash, eventually led to Harden's discouragement and chose to leave Brooklyn this season, which also made Irving the object of criticism by many Nets fans.
In this game with the Heat, Irving only scored 11 points in the third quarter, which made many fans helpless to say that the Nets management should decisively send Irving to keep Harden, although Irving suddenly broke out in the last quarter to score 18 points, but it was too late to change the fate of the loss, the whole game Irving played 41.1 minutes, 22 shots only hit 10 goals, cut 29 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, in the case of Durant can not appear, his performance, Obviously can't help the team to laugh to the end.
Unlike the Nets' downright superstar basketball, the Heat are a more holistic team, in this game, they played a very smooth overall offense under the tandem organization of championship guard Lowry, although none of the players scored more than 20 points, but they had as many as seven players to score in double figures, of which Adebayor showed his dominance on the inside, hitting 8 goals in 12 shots, cutting 19 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal double-double. Under his leadership, the Heat beat the Nets by 11 rebounds in the game, and the huge advantage of the inside line became the biggest winner of the game, and Lowry's fatal steal in the final moment once again proved its worth!
In fact, as early as the beginning of the formation of the Big Three, the inside line has been regarded as the Biggest fate of the Nets, when Harden, Durant and Irving can all appear, the three's super scoring ability can also make up for the disadvantages of the inner line to the greatest extent, but now hardened, the Nets have returned to Ben Simmons without projection ability, which greatly reduces the team's offensive ability, which is also the reason why the outside world is not optimistic about their impact on the championship prospects!