Back at home there was no way back
The Brooklyn Nets returned home, but there was no joy in them as they were already trailing 2-0 in the series. Irving played fantastically in the first game, and the Nets' role players exploded in the second game, but in these two games, we didn't see the familiar Kevin Durant. In a way, this is naturally not Durant's fault, he is very hard, but physical strength has always been his problem, coupled with the Celtics League's first defensive efficiency, it is really helpless.
Nash failed to create more easy-hitting tactics for Owen Durant, but that's what he's capable of, and you can't expect him to make all of a sudden progress. Therefore, if the Nets want to hold the home and keep the suspense, they have to rely on the personal ability of Irving and Durant. As for Ben Simmons, he will have to play a fourth game to return.
At one point, the Nets trailed by 12 points
At the beginning of the first quarter, Bruce Brown was still the most energetic person, taking the first seven points of the Nets' opening game, and then Irving had two free throws, Durant's three-point surge, and the Nets opened with a wave of 12-5 directly stopping the Celtics. After returning from the timeout, Tatum responded with Durant's three-pointer, followed by two free throws, and chased three points to score eight points in a row. Irving's mid-range was still in color, but Tess snapped his hands. Irving pulled on the basket and Jaylen hit a back-up jumper and Clarkston managed to eat the pie.
Durant's back-up jumper hit hard, and then the Celtics pulled the gap 7-0. Brown's key three-pointer stabilized the situation, Tatum scored four consecutive points with a difficult shot, Irving responded from mid-range, and the first quarter ended, and the Celtics led the Nets by five points at 30-25. After returning from the second quarter, the Green Army was another wave of 9-0 small high-level, the point difference directly came to 12 points, the Chuang Shen basket hooker broke the scoring drought, Brown stepped forward again, constantly impacting the box, and consecutive points helped the Nets narrow the point difference to 5 points.
Gway crushed Durant to a layup, Claxton made a layup, Gvi scored three points, Durant responded with two points, Claxton continued to dunk, Mills hit a key three-pointer, and the point difference came to 1 point. The Nets had problems defending, Smart went up on an empty basket, and at the end of the half, the Nets were still three points behind the Celtics 50-53.
The second round show became the Odd Soldier
The nets' two cores, the performance is not satisfactory, Irving 11 shots 4, got 10 points, 2 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, Durant 5 shots 3, is 7 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal, did not carry the team, but the two major second round shows carried the team. The first was Bruce Brown, who shot 7-of-13 from the field, 5-of-5 from three-point range, and had 16 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, and 1 block, not only filling the data column, but also scoring the highest points in the team. The second was Clarkston, who had 10 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block on 5-of-6 shooting.
It was because of the excellent performance of the two major second-round shows that the Nets were able to go from being 12 points behind at one point to only 3 points. Tatum had 12 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, which was excellent for Durant's defense, Brown and Tatum both scored 8 points, in addition to the Celtics bench also had a good play. Pregart scored 10 points, Gwee had 7 points and 2 rebounds, and Rowe, who had just returned, had 2 points, 1 assist and 1 steal. In the case of a weak front, Nash never used Griffin, which is really puzzling.
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