On April 24, Beijing time, the NBA playoff Nets played out against the Celtics G3. Nash's three major failures were exposed, causing heated discussions and being scolded on the hot search. Kuzma praised rookie coach Uduka and bluntly said that it was phenomenal.
In this series, Nash encountered his former assistant, Uduka. This season is the debut season of Uduka's coaching, and as Popovich's senior disciple, Uduka has proven his coaching ability.
This season, the Celtics have built on Uduka to become the best defensive team in the league. In this series, his defensive arrangement of Durant can be described as quite effective, all kinds of confrontation, bag clamp, do not give Durant an easy shot, and also cut off Durant's connection with his teammates.
Throughout the first half of the showdown, Durant made just five shots, got seven points, and only had one assist, and the Celtics defense worked again.
Nash, on the other hand, has been spat upon many times. Especially in the case that Durant encountered an opponent's bag and could not open the offense, he did not respond, which attracted the anger of Nets reporter Alec Sturm.
Nash was limited to Durant, and no solution was just a big failure. Second, in the case of Drummond being blown up by his opponent, he was still reused. Third, and the biggest controversy, is that Nash's coaching philosophy is to use his own stars.
In the final moments of the third quarter, Nash sent Griffin, who hasn't played at a major moment since March. Apparently, Nash was letting go.
After Griffin came on the pitch, he had an eye-catching performance on both ends of the attack, defending Tatum and winning the ball. Then, shooting a three-pointer, Crawford couldn't help but push, Griffin should have played long ago. However, Griffin failed to save the team, and the Nets lost one more game and fell behind 3-0.
Interestingly, Kuzma couldn't help but praise rookie coach Uduka, bluntly saying that his game plans and adjustments were phenomenal.