On April 21, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and in the first round of the focus battle, the Greenshirts Celtics played at home to the Nets. At the beginning of the game, the Nets' advantage was very obvious, they once stretched the point difference to 17 points, it seems that the game has slowly lost suspense, but as the game progresses, the Green Shirts are getting better and better at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the third quarter is 30:25, the fourth quarter is a single quarter of 29:17, and finally they completed a big reversal at 114:107, and the series score has been 2:0!
In this game, the two core states of the Nets are very sluggish, Durant shot 4 of 17 in the whole game, got 27 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, and Irving shot 4 of 13, only 10 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist, the downturn in the offensive efficiency of these two people is the key factor for the team to lose!
Compared with Durant, the downturn in this game Irving has made the team suffer significantly more damage, although Durant's shooting rate is extremely low, 4 of 17 shots in the whole game, but he can still have a chance to shoot at key moments, although he did not shoot, but at least it is the role that superstars should assume. But Irving was nearly invisible at key moments, scoring just 2 points in the fourth quarter!
Although Irving played more than 40 minutes in the whole game, it really didn't impress too much. For a team that is absolutely core, this is absolutely intolerable. Although his personal offensive efficiency is not high, he can also use his own containment to create opportunities for his teammates, but Irving only gave 1 assist in the whole game, which also proves that Irving's enthusiasm in this game is indeed not high!
I don't know if it's because he's spending Ramadan or because there are really other problems with this game, but if Irving were invisible at a critical moment, the Nets might really be stopping the first round of the playoffs this season!