According to the history of the wild, Lev Tolstoy was only married at the age of 34, and the cave flower candle night great writer took out his long-cherished diary to show the 19-year-old bride. Tolstoy saw this as a completely honest and open move, but to the young bride it was a completely "superfluous and disgusting" act, as the diary details Toon's extensive previous experiences of fighting, homicide, robbery, adultery, seduction, and the Nets' performance in the first round of the Game in April 2022.
After three games, Durant's description of the game was no different from Toon's little bride, "Disgusting, disgusting." The illusion created by the playoffs and some previous games was completely shattered, the "best duo in history" was beaten to 0-3 in the playoffs, and the Nets had only one hand left to grasp the edge of the cliff, and the back of this hand was still stepping on the heel of Tatum's 15 cm thin heel green high heel, ten fingers connected to the heart, and the back of the hand was the same, which was a drill heart pain. They only had a school bag on their backs that looked like a parachute bag and could not ensure their safe landing. For the little time left before falling into the abyss, of course they would wonder why all this was.
Almost 11 months ago, also in the first round, the Nets faced the same Green Kai, when the rankings of the two teams just dropped from this year, the Nets were no. 2 in the East, and Green Kai was no. 7. At that time, Green Kagren Brown was not injured, and next to Tatum and Smart, standing were Fournier and Kemba Walker, and the starting inside line was Tristan Thompson. Fourniers everyone remembers, Durant took two fingers to compare his length, "Whoever of us is up to Fournier, go up and fight." "Describe the French as a picture of a man of his own.
This round of the series nets swept the green Kai 4-1 gentleman, and then 11 months passed, and when the two sides came to this stage again, the situation was turned upside down.
On the Green Kai side, first the Nets' assistant coach Uduka came to Green Kai as the manager, and then the defensive force of the regular season, by the end of the season they were already the league's first defensive efficiency, Jaylen Brown was back, Horford was back, Theis was back, Smart became the defender who was elected the best defensive player, but he may not even be the best defensive player on the team, Robert Williams is standing there.
Compared with Lu Kai, who eventually finished no. 2 in the East, the experience of the 7th Nets in the East climbing out of the playoffs is much more dramatic this year. Too many people have written too many Nets, and Irving and Harden have created enough traffic and fees for us. The Nets didn't even hesitate much about letting Harden go, they sent Harden, what did they get? A mentally ill man with a back strain, eating $40 million worth of empty pay on the bench, a white-looking Mills, and a happy base salary center Drummond who will live better than V in a fast attack.
Later, they also cut James Johnson in order to keep the youngster Edwards, which is insignificant compared to their sending Harden away. Eleven months ago, when the Big Three got up from Tatum and patted their butts away after five games, Owen analyzed why: "The three best scorers in history are on one team, which is very special. ”
Durant has 4 leading scorers and Harden has 3, 2.33 leading scorers per capita, so they are indeed the best three scorers in history, a unique combination of firepower in history. In the series that crushed Green Kai, Durant averaged 33 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3 assists per game, Irving averaged 25 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, notice what Harden played, his stat column was 27.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, shooting 55.6% from the field and 47.5% from three-point range.
But that was 11 months ago, and if we take into account Harden's subsequent leg strain and comeback, consider his mood as a former asthmatic in a locker room full of sage burning smoke, consider that the two big guys around him already have rings in their hands but he doesn't, considering that the three men's desire for a championship is clearly not the same, Harden's departure may already be doomed, he said: "I'm tired of playing like a rocket again." ”
The truth is that Harden is no longer the Rockets' self, and he will no longer have the Rockets environment around him. Two bosses or three bosses, take me to the clouds to take me to the championship, this may be Harden's real mentality, he has long been ready to be a giant's deputy, but people are not ready to use the deputy angle to look at this Harden.
So letting go of such a Harden seems to be an acceptable thing again.
Maybe the team's general manager Max could have slowed down and let Harden stay and at least try it out this year. But as a manager, more importantly, he simply can't afford harden's risk of jumping out of the player option this summer, which is equivalent to throwing Jarrett Allen, Le Vere, Prince, Kuruc and 3 unprotected first-round picks and 4 unprotected first-round swaps into the water.
Among the trades that could be made in the market at that time, Max chose the one that may be most beneficial to the team's future, but that was only based on the maximum stop loss after risk analysis. We've made it clear before when describing the future of the Clippers and Nuggets that we should never try to embrace what hasn't yet been realized, and more importantly, focus on everything we can grasp in the present.
Everything the Nets can grasp at the moment, or the question that can be traced back, why they have come to this point, will be a very complex but clear and recognizable question.
The first to bear the brunt of this, of course, is Durant. In the past three games lost, Durant has scored a total of 19 goals and made 17 mistakes in the sports battle, while in the past two games, Durant has only scored 10 teams and made 11 mistakes, specifically, Durant was 0 of 11 in the second half of the second game, and Durant did not even have one shot in the last 11 minutes of the second half of the third game. Owen said Durant was the first teammate besides himself who fully believed he could shoot in the last minute, and he may have missed a little premise that there had to be a last minute first.
After 0-3, Durant said he thought too much and sounded like he could do it all without thinking. But the truth is that he was ruled by Tatum, who has been defending Durant the most time in the series, defending for 27 minutes on three-court basis, during which Durant shot 2-of-15 and 0-of-4 from three-point range. If you remember, last year,the Bucks defended Durant's effect, alphabet brother every game to bathe in incense, the mouth of the words, in his description, Durant is basically the universe's first master for five thousand years. The 2021 Bucks are good, they finally won the championship, but they don't have everything that Green Kai has today, they still like to squat pits with a big center, and they almost gave up everything except under the basket.
And now this green Kai, their inner rotation, Horford, Thes, Gway and Fireline comeback Rowe, are all excellent elasticity of the inside player, come to the bag or delay a hand and then rotate back to the defense has no problem, which means that Durant is difficult to find the team's big man to block and dismantle, and looking down to find a small man to block and dismantle, Green Kai can change the players who have Jaylen, Smart or Xiao bai, back and forth, no one is Fournier, it is very uncomfortable.
On the one hand, Durant must be entangled with Tatum like two meat worms for half a day before asking for a ball, on the other hand, even if the ball just turns around and pulls away, Durant must beware of Mills or Curry Jr.'s ghostly running position, bringing smart such a cruel role behind him and then extending his small hand.
At this time, Durant certainly has reason to miss Harden, because Harden is not only another historical scorer in Irving's mouth, or another player with particularly good skills in the mouth of the media, the Nets have lost not only Harden's 25 points and 10 free throws, but more importantly, even if Harden can't send these scoring data, he can still send 10 assists, at least he can still interpret the defense, and send the ball to Durant or other teammates at the most appropriate time, and the final result, at least Durant can be more than now." Without thinking, "just let go of the punch yourself."
Unfortunately, Irving, who was supposed to take over the job, didn't do that well, or that Irving was never a game-keeper at that level, and in his most successful career, the other James around him never stopped at scoring.
As far as the Current Nets are concerned, Irving and Durant are two separate individuals that have been separated, and Green Kai's defensive resources determine that it is difficult to make contact between the two, and the shuang cake blocking and dismantling has never appeared on the court like Duku's blocking, because even if there is a similar blocking, no matter who holds the ball, the defensive intensity of the face after receiving the cover does not decrease in any way, and it becomes meaningless.
In other words, Irving and Durant face the same defensive dilemma, they can pass the ball, but they are not two James-level passers, and when the problem returns to the control court, you have to turn your eyes to the Nets' bench, they do have a top control player, wearing a very different fancy clothes, wearing pompous colored glasses sitting there smiling, a picture of the highest underground glasses lady in the sky - Simmons is just neurotic, but he is not stupid, His smile was so sincere because he knew the Nets did have his place.
But the Nets can't count on him anymore, and he will play 15 minutes on the fourth return and then follow the team to talk about the season. And the other characters who can play outside of Simmons should not be blamed at all, they have played well enough, if it were not for their play, not Bruce Brown's average of 18 points per game, not Curry Jr.'s 50% three-point shooting rate, not Dragic's old man talking about juvenile madness, the Nets would not have won in the past three games.
The Nets are not the Nuggets, they are not pressed to the ground by the Warriors repeatedly rubbed, they only lost to a confused kill in the first game, they led by 14 points in the second game, they were in the third game, the two cores shot 12 of 28, adding up to 7 points less than Tatum, in the final half of the quarter, there is still a way to force the point difference to only 4 points.
But the Nets are not the Pistons of 2004, they have been giants from the beginning, they have never been a monolithic complete machine, and the role players playing in the series now seems more like a trap, all that is gained is just given to them by Green Kai, and it is impossible to decide the game.
So, should Nash be blamed for not giving the Nets a system that makes the two giants more comfortable? Indeed, during the game, we can occasionally see the Nets' four outside linemen skillfully passing the ball to the inside line to let Zhuang Shen back play a single Roey's exquisite tactics. To be able to seriously sacrifice this tactic in the game, Nash can hardly blame it, but if we look at it comprehensively, it is difficult for us to blame Nash Shaozhi and Vaughn for being unscrupulous, because at the beginning of the team's inception, Irving said that "our team is too smart to need a coach", Durant also made it very clear after leaving the Warriors, Kerr's set of tactics is not very useful in the playoffs, and winning in the playoffs depends on the skills of the players.
Having said all that, is it a little too much to blame Nash?
Durant averaged 22 points per game with 36.5 percent shooting in these three playoff games this year, but you have to know that he has played 29 series in the previous 10 years, averaging 29.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4 assists per game, shooting 47.8 percent from the field, and you can certainly say that Durant is not the Durant of the past, but I have another statistic for your reference, Durant is 38-10 in the Warriors' playoffs, with a winning percentage of 79.2%, and in the Thunder and nets, it is 57-49, the winning rate is 53.8%. This can explain some problems, no matter where, there are always people who will completely take the strength of the platform as their own strength, and it may also be that the stronger the person, the easier it is to have a similar illusion, do you think that Cat San has reached 100,000+ in Yang Kan's reading, is it because he really has the strength of 100,000+?
Durant chose the platform for the 73-win Warriors, he became part of the strength of the platform of cosmic warriors, and when he pulled himself away, both sides tried to prove themselves that in the basketball world, whether the superstar's personal skills are more decisive or the appropriate tactical system is more important. In China, every high school student who has studied politics will laugh at this problem, is this not a dialectical and unified point problem? When people understand things, they must see both the common side of things and the opposite side of things, that is, they must take the high plane of adhering to the height of all-round development as the premise and organically unify the two in order to achieve the purpose of harmonious development of the two.
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After three consecutive losses, Durant said: "There is no point in making any more speeches now." All we have to do is move on to the next game. Nash and Irving have gone further than Durant, and they have made statements similar to the season summary.
Nash said: "Irving was fasting, and Durant averaged 40 minutes in multiple consecutive games after six or seven weeks of absence. They're too tired. ”
It sounds like there's some other special force that drives Nash to let Durant play 40 minutes straight, and Nash has a reason, if Durant doesn't play like that, we won't even have the playoffs.
Irving remained honest, saying "I don't want to say any more clichés", and he attributed the team's poor performance to a resounding cross-examination:
"How can you make up for the run-in time from October to now?"
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When Irving urged everyone not to rematch the game the first year, Durant did not speak, probably because he himself did not play due to injury. The following year, when Owen was saying goodbye for "black life" and "personal reasons," Durant didn't speak, perhaps because he was black himself. When Irving missed the game because he didn't want to get vaccinated, Durant still didn't speak, probably because Irving was his buddy.
Now that Owen is blaming the crux of the problem on "running into time" and it's All Durant is being sprayed, I don't know who can speak for him.
The summer of 2022 is destined to be long for Durant and the Nets. By the start of next season, Durant will turn 34, and until then, he still has the ability to turn this summer into a cool summer day, otherwise he may have a hard time telling the story he tried to tell when he left the Warriors.
Owen has said he's going to play with Durant for 22 years. And I personally have only one piece of advice I can give Durant, which is about the same as Irving played for 22 years.