The playoffs, in the final analysis, are a contest with fewer weaknesses than anyone else.
As long as you have obvious weaknesses and shortcomings, you will be targeted by opponents to the point that you can't take care of yourself.
So don't look at some teams in the regular season flying dragon in the sky, can not be a lifetime. In the playoffs, as long as the opponent has the ability to catch his weakness and beat him violently, he will often lose very undignifiedly.
For example, the Jazz in these years, the Rockets in previous years, the Bucks, and then the Suns in Nash and the Nowitzki Mavericks.
And today's Nets.
If you are like the author, after the regular season with the Nets and Lakers this season, you should have the same experience:
The intensity of confrontation is the common dead door of these two teams.
The Lakers do not need to mention more, the whole team of old and small, hoarded defenders and centers, but lack of the most important three or four positions of this era "swing forward". Throughout the season, I endured the embarrassment of a defender not being strong and a center slower than my opponent, and when I came back, I could only sign Stanley Johnson and Gabriel, a "rag" that no one wanted.
Their flaws can even be picked up by most opponents in the regular season.
Speaking of the Nets, although the game lost only 6 points 103-109, the Nets have not led since the first quarter of 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
Bruce Brown, who has 26 points and 8 boards, Mills, who has 4 points on 5 of 3 points, and Griffin, who is back in rotation, are not desperate.
However, their real master will be Irving 16 points, 3 boards and 9 assists, durant 16 points, 8 boards and 8 assists.
The two combined, are not as good as Tatum, who has 39 points, 5 boards, 6 assists and 6 steals.
The pairing of Durant, 34, and Irving, 30, also theoretically need to have a tough enough team to support them, running to open up space for them on the offensive end, providing a stable quality of blocking and shooting.
Provide them with enough protection on the defensive end, keep an eye on the main attacker on the opposite side, and let them save as much physical strength as possible.
This is the underlying logic of the superstar team, after all, not everyone is like Jordan, Pinnacle LeBron, Alphabet Brother to attack and defend a grasp, or 24-year-old Tatum such a useful physical strength.
But what about the Nets?
With 3 minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, he trailed 88-103.
They remain on the court with Durant and Irving, as well as Bruce Brown, who is 1.93m tall, Curry Jr., who is 1.88m, and Patty Mills, who is 1.83m.
When I saw this, my heart was Gordon:
It's over.
In this lineup, the interior defense and rebounding depend on Durant, and the only one who can give Irving a worry on the outside defense is Bruce Brown.
Let your two most consistent scoring points take charge of the defense, and then hand over the offense to Brown, Mills and Curry?
It's hard to say the three helpers didn't fight hard, and they packed the final 15 points to keep the Nets from losing.
But from the logic of the game, the Nets lost completely.
Their two best players were completely restrained and then had to use three role players as fig leaf.
Blame Nash! Such a luxurious lineup was used by him as a fart.
But has anyone ever wondered why Nash "committed suicide" by releasing such an unbalanced lineup in the moment of life-and-death battle?
The Nets are not without a tall interior line, Drummond is now the league's rebounding efficiency second only to Gobert's center, Clarkston has also been a lot of playing opportunities in the past two years.
But their shortcomings are more deadly, Zhuang Shen is invincible but moves slowly, and the awareness of defensive compensation is even more different from Gobert's by 18,000 miles. Being present not only drags down the team's space, but also will be infinitely targeted by the opponent's blocking.
Clarkston was young and strong, and Nash wanted to groom him to start. But his crude technique, his slow reflexes, and his misjudgments were simply the second Wiseman.
Nash didn't use either of them, just as Vogel didn't dare to use Howard and Cole abandoned Wiseman, the logic was the same.
Nash is not without good cards in his hand, griffin scored 8 points in this game, countless times with Robert Williams, who may be the best defensive interior in the East this year, reminding people that he was the most effective defensive player last year.
However, the last time he played the hawks went back to April 2, in fact he played a total of 60 minutes since March.
It's no different than being deprecated.
If the Lakers sent away the championship team of Pop Kuzma Caruso at the beginning of the season, in exchange for the brainless Wei Shao, the formation of a "ten base salary" rotation is doomed to failure.
Then the Nets are in a series of man-made disasters, they played themselves to death.
Irving didn't get vaccinated, playing just 29 games in the regular season, and Nash could only make up for his absence by piecing together a roster.
When he returned, Cameron Thomas, Sharp, and Edwards, who had played for most of the season, could only sit on the bench.
Harden was replaced as a core point guard in the middle, which is equivalent to the team's tactical system being torn down and restarted.
Griffin and Jeff Green, who proved to be tough last season, were inexplicably abandoned, and James Johnson, who was introduced as a replacement, was cut before the playoffs began.
There's also Aldridge, who has not played a few games and does not know what the significance is, and Ben Simmons, who has not yet known when he will make a comeback.
The last to be reused in the playoffs is Bruce Brown, who is full of hard work and obviously under-height, and Curry and Mills Jr., who have overlapping roles and must be targeted as defensive shortcomings.
I really want to ask the Nets:
What did you practice throughout the regular season?
Just as this year's Lakers' defeat is not directly related to Vogel, Nash and him are more of a victim than a perpetrator.
As the league's 75th largest, two-time MVP, the premier offensive master of the first decade of the 21st century, and a recognized perfect teammate,
The reason why the Nets hired Nash as the head coach that year was to see his excellent leadership ability and excellent communication and coordination among the junior superstars.
But who would have thought that the moths that occurred in the Nets in these two seasons were far more complex than the infighting between Durant and Green.
Catching up with the "ok combination" period of the Lakers that year, the wind was jealous.
It was the cycle of even Zen master Jackson hanging on to the crown and walking away.
Compared with the Celtics in front of him, I am afraid that Boss Cai's heart is incomparably complicated.
Udaca on the other side is also the first year of coaching, but he brought the team to life.
The Celtics also had a bad start, but after settling the contradictions calmly, they became the team with the best record in the league in 2022.
The opposite side also suffered an injury attack, but the defensive big core Rowe returned after only a month of rest after meniscus surgery.
Opposite are equally talented, but Durant, 34, and Irving, 30, are so vulnerable in front of 24-year-old Tatum and 25-year-old Jaylen.
It was a complete failure.
Durant's 2021 hard-fought highlight was lost because of this series.
Owen's demonism in the past few years has finally ushered in the punishment of the basketball god,
Boss Cai invested thousands of dollars, but created an NBA "farcical circus".
Steve Nash's "Mr. Perfect" name, because these two years of coaching have also been discredited.
Of course, the most injured is Durant,
Four years ago,
Also 34 years old,
The same Celtics,
The same are Tatum, Jaylen, Smart and Horford,
Also away from 0-2 behind,
James of 2018 led the Cavaliers to a 30-point win over the Green Army 116-86 in game 27 points, 5 boards and 12 assists in the third game of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Then 44 points in the fourth game, 46 points in the sixth game, 11 boards and 9 assists.
In the seventh game, he played 48 minutes, 35 points, 15 boards and 9 assists at the Boston Garden Arena, leading the Cavaliers to a smooth 87-79 pass.
Durant, are you okay?