The Nets narrowly beat the Bucks 126-123, and with the defending champion on the road and Irving's single-handed lead, this victory is a huge boost to their confidence this season, and even a landmark victory that affects them for the second half of the season. Why?
Because this game actually has two very significant implications for the Nets:
First: Harden's deal, the Nets are also winners;
At this time, many people choose to trade, many people think that the Nets have lost, and it is a self-destructive Great Wall, without Harden, it is difficult for them to win the championship again. But from the current situation, Harden's new signings have brought an overall boost to the Nets is very obvious.
Sescuiri is a very good shooter, and when he comes to the Nets, he can average 19 points per game, a very stable shooting point on the outside, and even a thigh of the current team. Playing the Bucks, he contributed 19 points and 3 assists, and shot 4 three-pointers. His containment on the perimeter was critical to the Nets' tactical execution.
Joe Harris can't come back, Mills is a demigod, and with Sescuari as a stable point, the Nets' outside offense will become more stable.
And another new signing, Drummond contributed 17 points in this game, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, the offensive and defensive ends have brought great help to the team, which makes up for the Nets' previous weakness in the interior, especially the defensive end, drummond's arrival, almost to strengthen the Nets' biggest shortcomings.
Drummond's inner basket, defense, height, including athleticism, etc., have finally stopped vagrancing on who to use as the starting center. Before they had Aldridge, Griffin, Clarkston, including rookie Sharp, but these people are uneven, each has obvious weaknesses, and Drummond, although the offense is not as good as Ade, but at least he grasps it under the basket, and the defensive role he brings is irreplaceable by others.
In this game, Drummond did a good job of limiting the alphabet brother's attack on the inside. James Johnson has been pestering the letter brother, from the outside line to defend him, but when the letter brother burst up, James Johnson is difficult to stop him, at this time Drummond on the inside line of the auxiliary defense, blocking his breakthrough line, it becomes very critical, the two form a bag clamp, forcing the letter brother can only pass the ball out.
So, the role of Cescuri and Drummond in helping the Nets is very big and very obvious, and Ben Simmons has not yet returned, if it can bring the expected help at that time, then, this deal, the Nets actually did not lose at all, they are also winners. After all, according to Harden's previous mentality and state, even if he stays, it is just a waste of time between the two sides, and leaving the team is a good thing for both sides.
Second: Healthy Nets will still be the favorite to compete for the title
Durant can return soon, Ben Simmons is expected to play before April, and when the two of them return, the Nets' offense will not dare to say that it will be better than the era of Irving, Harden and Durant, but according to the current team's offensive lineup configuration, it will not be worse. But the defensive end will definitely be more than one notch higher than the previous 3 Giants period.
Drummond's defensive role in helping the Nets inside has begun to show, and when Ben Simmons returns, the defensive player will be able to bring a huge defensive boost to the Nets on the front. At least against a team like the Bucks, the Nets have a defensive player who can entangle the alphabet on the defensive end. Coupled with Durant's own defensive ability, the combination of Durant and Ben Simmons' forward defensive pair, and Drummond sitting on the inside, will obviously make the Nets' penalty area more solid, no longer as full of holes as before, not to mention, their bench seats and forward defensive players like James Johnson.
So, when the Nets' offense isn't much weaker than before, but the defense is elevated by a notch, the Nets' offense and defense will become more balanced, and the overall strength of the team will become more outstanding. Obviously, this new Nets will undoubtedly become a very competitive team, and it can even be said that when the Nets lineup remains healthy, no team can be sure to win them in 7 games!
The narrow victory over the Bucks, although only a game, but it is of great significance to the Nets, at least they can officially get out of the shadow of a period of time before the trade with Harden, while the arrival of new signings has given the team a new lease of life, and when Durant Bency returns, the team's championship prospects are still worth looking forward to.