Beijing time on April 21, the Nets series against the green army of the second game, the game of the Nets star Durant still played poorly, time to the third quarter of the game, the Nets 79-75 small score led the green army, then Durant has two free throw opportunities, if two free throws, the Nets can get rid of the green army anxious to chase the rhythm. For Durant, who has always had a high free throw shooting rate, it is not difficult to hit two free throws.
With Durant's first free throw, the ball hit the iron, and the Green Army generals also high-fived and celebrated, which obviously made Durant's expression into embarrassment, because of his poor efficiency in the first half, the Green Army treated his two free throws as if they were watching a joke. But durant has one more chance anyway to hit the Nets to get to the beginning of the number 8 first. Then Durant pointed to the sky, which is his standard celebration action, and the camera was given to Durant's mother on the sidelines, she also followed her son to make the same action, this scene is most likely that the mother and son are bound to win together, and Durant, who adjusts his posture, takes the second shot, also plays iron and has a very poor leather ball posture. At the same time, facing her son's two penalties, the camera captured the surprised expression of Durant's mother on the sidelines. It can be said that Durant's two free throws are a microcosm of the poor state of the whole game.
There is no doubt that in the end, the Nets lost to the Green Army again 107-114, and they have stood on the edge of the cliff after losing twice in a row, and the team's situation is not optimistic. Looking back at the entire game Durant got 27 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, 17 shots only hit four times, most of the points came from free throws, and Durant like Irving's play in this game is also too poor, the last game he can also lead the Nets against the Green Army, and this game was played without any ability to fight back, Irving only got 10 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist. It can be said that as the two cores of the Nets, they performed so badly in the playoffs that they couldn't really think of how the Nets should win.
Now the media is almost always showing a one-sided trend, believing that the Green Army will sweep the Nets in the first round, and the feud between the two sides will also end with a unilateral crush. Such an analysis is actually very likely, but before the playoffs, Simmons had said that he would play against the G4 of the Green Army series, and now the team has lost two consecutive games and does not know whether Simmons will return early. The Nets' current defensive system is like a loose mess, and they really need a presence that can lead the team on the defensive end, and Simmons just has that defensive ability.