In last season's NBA playoffs, the Nets and Bucks seven peak showdowns left a very deep impression on the fans, although the Nets lost the seven major battles, but in the case of core injury, can fight with the final championship Bucks to the last moment, but also let the fans see the potential of this team, but after the start of the new season, their performance has surprised everyone, the Nets, who ranked first in the East at the beginning of the season, fell directly to the eighth position in the East after a long losing streak. In order to be able to get the team out of the trough, the team management also used Harden to trade Ben Simmons, Cescuri and Drummond, after the completion of the transaction, the Nets also had a significant change, in the new big three Durant, Irving and Ben Simmons did not play, won a wave of two consecutive wins, in this regular season, the Nets encountered the Challenge of the Wizards, in the case of the three cores did not appear, the Nets showed their tenacity in the first three quarters, the two sides drew into the decisive quarter, What fans did not expect was the final quarter showdown, the Nets suddenly fell into a scoring drought, and finally they also lost to the Wizards 103-117, stopping their winning streak!
At the end of this season's trade, the Wizards also completed a trade with the Lone Rangers, sending away the poor Dinwiddie and Bertans in exchange for the inside player Porzingis, but now Boshin is still in the stage of recuperation, and can not play for the Wizards, and the core of the backcourt, Bill, because of the season reimbursement, is also unable to play, which also makes Kuzma and Pope the leader of the court, but the two of them are not in a good competitive state in this campaign, a total of 14 shots only hit 5 goals, a total of only 12 points.
In the case of poor performance of the two cores, the Wizards were able to laugh to the end, relying on the excellent performance of other role players, in this game they had a total of 10 players on the scene, except for Kuzma, Pope and Garford, the remaining 7 players all scored in double figures, of which the Japanese rising star Hachimura Tsuki scored a team-high 20 points, and in terms of interior confrontation, the Nets were completely destroyed, and the inside score was absolutely crushed at 54-28, which was also the key to their victory.
The Nets were able to win a wave of two consecutive wins after the trade was completed, Cescuri and Drummond were indispensable, but in this game, the performance of the two did not meet expectations, of which Drummond contributed only 6 points and 9 rebounds in the 18.3 minutes of his play, while Cescuri, although he performed well outside the three-point line, shot 3 of 6, but only 1 of 5 from the two-point range, only got 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Mills, who had not performed well before, returned to this game. On 5-of-7 shooting from outside the three-point line, he scored 22 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, but the advantage of the outside line could not make up for the pit on the inside, and finally the Nets could only accept the result of the loss.
In fact, as early as the Nets formed the Big Three, the inside line has always been their weakness, and now after trading Ben Simmons, if it can be transformed into a qualified fourth-position player, the Nets are expected to fundamentally change the problem of lineup imbalance, but Nash, whose coaching ability has been questioned, can complete such a difficult task is the most worrying thing for basketball fans!