In the last game against the Heat, basketball star Durant came back, but failed to help the team reverse the decline; today at the TD North Shore Garden Arena, Irving can finally appear and reunite with Durant, and the two team has scored 56 points but suffered four consecutive losses. Celtic's Tatum single-handedly scored 54 points to successfully defend his home field.
After the loss, the Nets have achieved a record of 32 wins and 33 losses, ranking ninth in the East, it is worth mentioning that the competition for 8-13 places in the East is very volume, the eighth place Hornets and the tenth place Eagles have the same record as the Nets, but they have a 5-game difference from the Cavaliers in the East, as for the schedule behind the Nets, not only to have direct dialogue with the Hornets and Eagles on the edge of the playoffs; but also to face the Bucks, Heat, Grizzlies, these powerful championship-winning teams.
Such a situation is unexpected by many fans, even the American media, the Nets on Christmas Eve are still invincible, to destroy the trend of decay, to block the Buddha, run amok in the league, but the sky is not beautiful, Durant's accidental injury has become the fuse of all contradictions. At the beginning of the new year, the team began a wave of 11 consecutive losses, and more negative news about the team was exposed.
Irving insisted on not vaccinate, and even engaged in some inexplicable riot operations in the team locker room, Harden was dismissive of this; as for Harden in the team's continuous away games, he spent the night wandering in adult nightclubs, and even contributed 4 points in the game against the Kings, for a super scorer, such an operation is really abnormal, well-known reporters analyzed this move is Harden's silent protest, when he was also such a passive game in the Rockets, and finally the team had no choice but to choose to trade.
Soon the team's contradictions escalated, even head coach Nash did not know to prevaricate reporters, Durant is also actively persuading Harden, hoping to release the previous suspicions with the team and impact for the final championship, but the huge gap makes the atmosphere in the team depressed, and the 11 consecutive losses before the All-Star Game simply put the team to death. The funniest thing is indeed the captain selection at the All-Star Game, Durant ignored Harden, and this scene was also hyped up by the media.
Before the trade day, the Nets sent Harden away in exchange for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Johnson and future draft picks. The media seems to be a win-win deal, for now, the 76ers' gains are obvious, the cooperation between the emperor and Harden is natural, tianyu is seamless, deng ge has broken the team's record one after another, and under the leadership of the two of them, the team has attacked the top of the Eastern Conference.
On the other hand, the Nets, in the absence of absolute superstars, still rely on the role players to play and solve the urgent needs, but in the end it is not a long-term solution, once the team is dumb on the offensive end, this frightening Nets is a fish belly team, without any lethality. With Durant's comeback, Irving's away appearance, the team still has not been able to stop the decline, according to this momentum, it will not take long to rush out of the top 10 in the East, to attach the impact of the draft, but this year's first round of signing, the team has been traded to the Rockets, properly lose the present, lose the future.
Irving, Durant and Ben Simmons will become the Nets' new big three, which is a joke, and has not yet played a full game, only a big name. Irving 'part-time' playing, the away Dragons home disappeared riot operation, but also afraid of playing not bad this season; Simmons repeated injuries, uncertain comeback time, waiting for his comeback is afraid to wait until next season, fans question his competitive status, and that means which does not play which shooting, the Nets have such a dilemma, but pity Durant.