G3 was a brutal massacre, with the Celts abusing Durant and his team-building philosophy.
As Smart said, the Celtics' approach to defending Durant's single defense and assisting defense worked very well. In this way, it is rare not to reduce Durant's shooting rate by one level, but to prevent Durant's shot feeling. Before this series, can you imagine such a result?
After Durant was taken care of, there was a scene of a surprise pass back to Brown shooting three-pointers and various mistakes, which is not the Durant we are familiar with. In the fourth quarter, Durant still did not dare to shoot, or passed the ball to find an opportunity, which was equivalent to cutting off an arm, so Jaylen Brown was happy.
In fact, Durant's anxious mentality has appeared from the first two quarters, and his passing mistakes, and Irving's mistakes and a series of mistakes have shown that he has too many psychological problems. Durant is a ball nerd, and what is not going well will naturally show up. Durant's anxiety and confusion were then too obvious until the Nets eventually lost.
It is clear that this game is due to durant's change of mentality caused by the loss. But why does Durant have such a change of mind? Here we try to analyze it.
The collapse of mentality is nothing more than a huge gap between reality and ideals, and we have examined the course of the Nets' three seasons and may find some answers.
First of all, the Nets are a team that everyone thinks is the strongest in health, and this perception must also be solidified in the thinking of Durant and others, so their goal has always been to win the championship. Durant, who left from the Warriors, has a high heart, and also believes that he is one of the most dominant stars in the league, has the strength to dominate one side, and winning the championship is also an inevitable goal.
But there is a difference between winning a championship and winning a championship.
The average championship-winning team has a stable tactical lineup, a stable on-court and off-court, a stable play and an inevitable strong point, but these cannot be found in the Nets. The Nets have all the theoretical stuff, but none of it is real. With the improvement of the overall offensive and defensive development in the contemporary era, durant and Irving's singles advantage is no longer a significant advantage with their injuries and physical changes.
So when the Nets had a losing streak during the season, reality had already declared their failure. This kind of failure is multifaceted, but the presence of Durant and Irving in the lineup allows this failure to retain the last hope.
Durant once blamed Harden for leaving, believing that if he wasn't injured, Harden could not leave. His determination is that a healthy self can guarantee the record, and harden has a reason to stay, but Durant does not agree with Harden's ideas about possession and tactics.
That is to say, Durant has a desire for results and an arrogance for control.
The Nets' immediate losing streak after Durant's injury illustrates many of the team's grassroots problems. Many of their victories are the result of the forced recovery of healthy Durant, and this forced redemption is also due to Harden's presence.
Durant and Irving are still very confident in themselves, unwilling to admit that harden who is declining is also a huge help to the Nets, so they try to embarrass Harden when facing Philadelphia. Helping teams win consecutively into the playoffs is another process of accumulating confidence. In essence, they still deeply recognize themselves as the top players in the league and have the ability to dominate the world.
Before facing the Green Army, the Nets' problems have been fermented through a three-point season, always objective, and more serious, but everyone, including Durant and Irving himself, including Nash, believes that with durant and Irving's ability, can cover up most of the problems, the Nets can at least play 7 games with the Green Army. As everyone knows, the two singles we usually trust the most have become the problem itself.
The Green Army directly studied the basic problems of Irving and Durant, and then concentrated these problems to attack, and the Nets were completely self-defeating. Did the Green Army play well? Not necessarily, but the Nets played too badly.
The Celtics broke the Nets' powerful theory, and also ruthlessly lifted the veil of Durant and Irving, allowing people to judge the strength and weakness of their own. Historically they were used to doing these things, and now they have succeeded once again.
Durant's explosiveness and singles style of problems, as well as Irving's increasingly inky singles, the problem that the middle shot also needs space, have been exposed again and again. Durant couldn't find a good shooting rhythm at all, couldn't find a good dribbling rhythm, and only left the original chicken rib skill - passing.
When the gap between reality and ideals is ruthlessly exposed to Durant's eyes again and again, Durant has to admit, has to face, has to adjust, but history will not give him the opportunity and the reaction he should have. Because they were not prepared for this, they had not thought of how to deal with the Green Army, or the Green Army was not in their eyes at all.
In their eyes, there is only the sea of stars and the great future, how can they suddenly fold the sand here?
What to do? What to do? Everyone says that I am "Du Death" and "Du Tarantula", what should I do if I lose here?
In fact, if the Nets are lucky enough to win the first game, the problem will be reduced a lot, this sense of confidence will not be broken, everything is still the Nets theoretically stronger argument, Durant and others are still arrogant. But the loss of luck is often the inevitable of low strength, durant is clearly studied in the second game, and Durant can't find a way to crack it in the third game.
Why can't I find a way to crack it?
In addition to Durant being seen through (being blocked by Tatum, being caught in a foul to engage in mentality), it is also because the Nets do not have any off-board moves and cannot create any "accidents" on the court.
The Nets play too gently, in a single way, and in too disciplined, so we see that Griffin, who has been in the lineup for a long time, has made some changes when he is used. I'm sure that Griffin's scramble for the ball and trying to defend the outside line is something that no one else can do, so the amount of losses the Nets is like scrambling for the ball, which is probably shocking.
Griffin's performance after playing, slapped the Nets in the face: such a hard-working player, why not let him come up and play a wave of energy? Did Jeff Green and Griffin last season also play a lot of saves in many games (such as against the Bucks)?
Why can't such a tough guy get the chance to play?
The problem is similar to howard's problem with the Lakers.
So why did the Nets crash? We have come to a conclusion, precisely because they have no evil men, no tough guys, and they have never practiced the right ideas.
The crepe temperament and vicious playoff fighting environment of the whole team have too many out of place. Compared with James, Kobe, and Jordan, does Durant lack a domineering spirit, a fierceness, and a solipsism?
Then it can be understood that if the Nets want to win the championship, they also need to give Durant a bad guy, a tough guy and a coping point. Today's lineup is absolutely impossible.