After the All-Star, the NBA finally ushered in the regular season game, the Nets sat at home against the Green Army, due to the home battle plus injury situation, Irving and Durant continued to miss, and the Green Army lineup is neat, they are bound to take down the Nets of the missing major general, after four quarters of games, the Nets are defeated, and finally 23 points are invincible, the Green Army avoids losing consecutively at the same time, give the Nets 2 consecutive losses, this is the Nets 15 games lost 13 games, and the Green Army won 12 of them in the last 14 games, which shows the gap between the two teams, Harden, who has no stars, no tactics, and no "backstabbing", Nash said in a post-game interview: "I don't care about the result, if the Green Army also has four players who don't play, then the Nets will most likely win the game", which immediately caused the anger of the fans.
From the perspective of the whole game, the Nets have no ability to resist, the opening green army faces such a competitive opponent, the performance is extremely strong, Horford, Lowe in the Nets inside the line no one can stop, Smart's three points, let the Green Army start to maintain the lead, and the Nets offensive weakness, defense is lax, the opening three minutes only rely on Brown to get 2 points, Tatum and Brown's three points, directly put the point difference on the double, Bruce Brown and Curry Jr. for the Nets to stabilize the point difference, but the Green Army feel undiminished, Smart three points in a row, Widened the point difference to 13 points again.
In the second quarter, Horford, Pu richard, Brown, consecutive long-range shots, they played a 13-4 offensive climax, the point difference directly up to 20 points, laying the foundation for the victory of the game, Clarkston and Johnson for the Nets to narrow the score, plus Curry Jr. and Drummond inside and outside shots, the Nets narrowed the point difference to 13 points. In the third quarter, Smart and Tatum scored three points in a row, the point difference was widened again to 20 points, And Little Curry scored 7 points, but Tatum directly returned the favor, the point difference was maintained at 24 points at the moment, and in the final quarter, although Curry Jr. felt good, but Tatum led the Green Army to no one to stop, and finally won the game.
Nets 5 people scored in double figures, Curry Jr. played 31 minutes, hit 10 shots in 19 shots, shot 2 three-pointers, got 22 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist, in the second half, Curry Jr. tried his best, but the Nets as a whole did not perform as well as the Green Army, Mills shot 0 of 9, 5 of 3 points, only relied on free throws to get 1 point, facing the Defense of the Green Army, he was completely lost. Durant sat on the bench with new signings Simmons and Dragic, and watched the team's fiasco with no expression. I don't know what these three thoughts would have thoughts when they saw the team so vulnerable, especially Dragic, who came to the Nets for the championship, and now this situation really didn't make him think.
After the game, Nets coach Nash said in an interview: The whole team did not play well, the team's two training games after the All-Star Game were very good, maybe it was those two trainings that made the team a little tired, Mills's performance was sluggish, maybe it was because he was too tired, too much playing time made his state fluctuate, for the Nets, health is the most important thing for us, if the Green Army starters also have four people missing, then the situation in this game will be very different, so I will not care about the results of this game, I think the team could have played better, could have made fewer turnovers, and then we need to do more and we'll race against time to keep up the rankings.
Nash's words should not be said by a head coach at all, after all, it is a fact that the Nets are injured, but this is not an absolute reason to lose, there is no fighting spirit in the whole game, the defense cannot be defended, and there is no tactics to speak of, is this all an injury problem? Isn't team training affecting physical strength because teams don't have resilience? Did Mills play long in the first game? If not, please don't say that physical strength has affected him. Now that Harden is gone, the Nets lack players who take the initiative or passive responsibility, and Nash is talking about external reasons, shouldn't his tactics be reflected?
The Green Army played very well, the whole team scored 7 people in double figures, Tatum scored a game-high 30 points, starting in 2022, the Green Army began to show their strength, their defensive effectiveness, limiting opponents' scoring and shooting percentage and net effectiveness, these data are at the top of the league list, the last 10 games have won 9 games, the youth army has begun to launch an impact on the playoffs, and what the future of the Nets, we do not know.