Nets lose to the Grizzlies!
In a just-concluded NBA regular season game, the Nets lost to the Grizzlies 120-132, the Nets Irving scored 43 points and 8 assists, Durant scored 35 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists, both of them played very well, but why did the Nets eventually lose?
The ultimate individual and the ultimate team
The Grizzlies, after missing their star Morant, once again took the team to the extreme, and it turned out that without Morant, the Grizzlies achieved a record of 14 wins and 2 losses. In this team everyone has a lot of individual ability, and they look more like a whole, although they are still very young, but they are completely integrated.
The Nets are both very capable of durant and Irving, and without Harden, they are back to where they were when they first joined forces. Today's Nets want to win, and they're more likely to watch the team's superstars perform, but they seem to see their cap here as well.
Today's game is a very typical example, in the first half of the game the Nets were at one point behind by as many as 18 points, but in the third quarter the Nets relied on the supernatural performances of Irving and Durant, who overtook the score.
But in the fourth quarter when the team entered the rotation, the Nets' offense had problems, the Grizzlies' defensive strategy was very clear, when Irving led the team alone, they resolutely chose the bag, and it was very difficult to defeat a team on their own.
The turning point of the game came when Durant was leading the team alone, nash chose to let Irving lead the team at the beginning of the fourth quarter, when the Nets were still able to bite the score, and after Durant returned, the Nets' center of gravity was all given to him. But in the face of the Grizzlies' bag, Durant's shooting rate declined, and the Grizzlies took the opportunity to play an offensive climax, quickly expanding the point difference to more than 10 points.
In just 2 minutes of Irving's break, the balance of victory and defeat tilted. While it's only a regular season game, that's the whole epitome of the Nets today.
11-52！
This is the gap between the nets and the Grizzlies' bench today, the Nets this team is relying on individual ability to lead the team, last season when the big three combined, they have the ability to rely on the performance of three people to beat the opponent, but now different, Durant and Irving are very strong, but want to rely entirely on personal ability to defeat the league's strong opponents is unrealistic.
If the Nets lost to the Bucks last year because of some other factors, we also know that this is an inevitable phenomenon for the Nets. Such an outcome will occur if the main players are consumed excessively, and today Irving played nearly 44 minutes and Durant played nearly 40 minutes.
If you enter the playoffs, the Nets are bound to remain in this style of play, and in the 7-game series, it is difficult to guarantee that the Nets will not have problems. This is the real situation of the Nets today, I don't know after watching today's game, what do you think of such a Net?