Averaging 107.3 points per game, 109.4 defensive efficiency, all ranked ninth in the league, and three best defensive players Gobert, the Utah Jazz is a veritable defensive team, with a record in the top four in the West.
However, in the face of such a brass wall, Durant completely ignored it, and he broke through the opponent's defense line with a comprehensive performance of 15 of 23 shots, 7 shots of 4 three-pointers, and slashed 37 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists.
Throughout the game, the Nets' winning keyword is simple: individual ability. Until the middle of the second quarter of the game, the Jazz still had a slight advantage, and the only tactic the Nets could come up with was to constantly look for Durant and let him use the score to solve the problem, whether it was the drift of three points after being forced into a dead corner to receive the ball, or the middle distance dry pull under strict defense, which was unsolvable.
Based on Adu's strong bottom-up ability, the rest of the Nets also began to erupt, the inside Line Clarkston faced Gobert, first grabbed the offensive rebound, and then sent a block on the defensive end to counterattack successfully, after entering a good situation, Mills also began to erupt, shooting consecutive oncoming three-pointers, the Jazz once trailed by nearly 20 points, and gradually lost their fighting spirit and desire to win.
1. The real starting point of the smooth attack
The game is too much, it is not difficult to find some similar rules, want to play a wave of offensive climax, often need to patiently grind the position battle when the score has not yet been opened, want to do this well, either the head coach has a superb tactical literacy, can constantly change the way of playing, or has an offensive star, for the Nets, the key to victory is certainly not the former.
Durant's standing stick singles have been questioned a lot, such as it is likely to reduce the enthusiasm of the team, or lose directly because of personal discomfort, but it has to be admitted that all the smooth offense is actually inseparable from the defensive appeal of superstars, compared to those so-called organizational masters, durant's way of using personal threats to create breakthroughs is undoubtedly more direct.
In the third quarter of this game, when a wave of offensive climax ended, the Nets needed to continue to expand the lead, and it was Durant who crushed the opponent with consecutive shooting points, and in the blink of an eye, the Nets' total assists have come to 31 times, indicating that they have not always relied on superstar singles, but the superstar singles as the best means to open the situation, and Durant is the real starting point.
After winning, the Nets have achieved a record of 6 wins and 1 loss in the last 7 games, the only one to lose is still killed by the lone ranger's slightly lucky three-point shot, they average 125 per game in 7 games, and the offensive firepower dominates the league, like a king posture.
2, the wind review fell to the bottom, Harden really dragged down the Nets?
The Nets situation is very good, it has to be reminiscent of Harden who was traded, yesterday he made consecutive mistakes that caused Philadelphia to lose to the Raptors, today's "Dengdi Combination" rotation, the team is all soldiers, 113-106 defeated the First Heat in the East, it is really difficult not to doubt the value of Harden's existence, why is he where, where there are offensive problems?
In fact, this question is not difficult to answer, because Harden's personal characteristics determine that he cannot help the team create a higher power ceiling, and the way of playing that requires a lot of ball possession is actually based on the premise of reducing the output of teammates.
When there is Harden, whether it is the Nets or Philadelphia, the tactical system must be centered on him, otherwise Denge can easily play a heinous and dismal data, but when the tactics are really developed around him, because of the decline of the personal offensive threat, the team cannot play like a cloud of cooperation, so for the head coach, how to use Harden is a very difficult problem.
Now Harden's wind evaluation has fallen to the bottom, but this does not directly deny his value, can only say that Harden is an excellent player with his own system, he still has the ability to lead a weak team into the playoffs, but the championship team needs to be team and tough at key moments, from this point of view, Harden did drag down the Nets with the goal of winning the championship.
3. All the staff began to perform, and the nightmare in the upper half of the east came?
Since the Bucks took a break from the alphabet brother on March 20 and lost miserably to the Timberwolves, the teams in the upper half of the East have collectively entered a state of "not wanting to win", first the Philadelphia double star slump, constantly sending low-level mistakes to lose to the Raptors, and then the rotation is the home star, did not expect the Heat not to be far behind, directly lost to the "Philadelphia Second Team", it seems that they do not want to be the first in the East.
So what exactly are these teams doing? Of course, I don't want to meet the Nets prematurely in the playoffs, and the essence of the latter's poor record this season is that Durant's injury, trade rumors and Irving's lack of vaccination have shaken the military's hearts.
But now that the trade is over, Harden has exchanged curry and Drummond jr. for the more effective, Durant has returned from injury, and Irving has stabilized the situation with consecutive high-scoring performances, and everything has returned to the state of being firmly in the east at the beginning of the season.
On the book strength of the lineup and the ability of the stars, few teams in the league dare to call the board head-on, an unsolvable historical supergiant + peak second offensive point + fully configured lineup, such a Nets can be called a nightmare for the strong teams in the upper half of the East.
"We can now integrate better." Perhaps Nash has no intention of offending Harden, who has left, but if even he can understand the importance of team offense and egalitarianism, and constantly improve himself, the Nets are indeed more championship-like.