Beijing time on April 24, the Nets returned home against the Green Army, this is the third game of the first round of the series, but the Nets did not seize the opportunity of home advantage, and finally failed to defeat the green army in better shape, after this game, the Nets' dual core Durant and Irving were praised by the fan media on the hot search, especially Durant's performance is rushed to the first place in the National Hot Search, for Durant's play, the media have expressed their incomprehension.
First of all, in the third game against the Green Army, Durant only had 16 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, and even the team's bench score efficiency, while his opponent Tatum scored 39 points efficiently, and the gap between the two sides was very obvious. According to statistics, since the Nets entered the playoffs, Durant has only averaged 22 points per game, which does not seem to be very bad, but these 22 points are based on a very large number of shots, Durant's actual shooting rate is 36.5%, as the league's top scorer does not even have a 40% shooting rate is really ugly. Before this season, Durant could get the playoff data averaging 29.5 points per game to rank third in history, only lower than Jordan's first and Iverson's second, shooting rate as high as 47.8%, it can be seen that Durant's shooting rate fell by 10 percentage points, averaging 7 points less per game, it is difficult to believe that Durant can decline so much in a season.
After the game, the media interviewed Durant, and in the face of the interview, Durant said that the speech was useless. 'We know what's going on, I don't think it's useful to speak or whatever, at this point in the season we know how it's going, we're down 0:3 but we have games to play next Tuesday and we have to play hard. Although Durant's words are more pertinent, it also shows that the Nets are no longer convinced that they can complete the counterattack. Compared with Durant's speech, it is worth recalling the words expressed by James after being 3:2 by the same Green Army, James constantly encouraged his teammates in the backward situation, and finally carried the team to complete the counterattack as a nuclear new identity, which is the temperament shown by the team leader, which may be the reason why Durant is always just the core and not the leader.
Nets coach Nash's remarks seemed inappropriate compared to Durant's statement, saying in an interview: "I don't think Durant has to burst, we have a good shooting percentage and we've been passing the ball." "To be honest, as a coach, to be able to say such a thing when your team is led 0-3, it is nothing more than two possibilities, either really confident in your own players and tactics, or you have no choice but to let it develop, and it is clear that Nash is more like the latter. Durant's shooting percentage in the game has been miserable, he was forced to pass, but the game still did not improve, for the Nets if not let Durant and Irving play a crushing performance in the individual singles, with the team as a whole to fight against the green army of all the people is really no chance of winning.