The Brooklyn Nets, who were considered very promising to impact the championship at the beginning of the season, are now playing a disappointing 0-4 record, swept out by the Celtics, and Durant, who is known as the second man in the NBA, has also been pushed to the forefront, especially Durant's offensive crotch performance in the entire series is to make everyone no longer see him as the league's insoluble offensive killer, and he has also withdrawn from the competition ranks of the league's best three players. However, Durant is not the main person responsible for the Nets' defeat, and the team's management and Nash's puzzling platooning are the main responsibility.
The Brooklyn Nets' lineup structure this season is that there are more defensive players and a lack of forward players, but the general age of defenders is older, such as Dragic, Mills, Curry Jr. and others can be said to be veterans. Under such circumstances, the Management of the Nets still chose to cut off the only two weighty forward players on the team, Johnson and Bembry, which eventually led to Durant alone in the entire playoffs to withstand the attacks of Brown and Tatum, and how can Durant, who is too much defensively consumed, ensure an efficient offense.
Then there is the team coach Nash, the Nets in the face of the Celtic lineup is visible to the naked eye height and body size has a significant gap, but on this issue Nash seems to be a blind eye, and Nash also came to the opposite direction, often in the final quarter of the game at the key moments sent to the suicide five, Durant, Irving, Curry Jr., Mills, Dragic and Celtic to compete, then the ending will naturally not be a good result.
To say that the Nets in the whole series of the biggest surprise is Bruce Brown, in several games he has achieved the highest score in the team, Brown is not only a player who can organize good defense, and his style of playing is very similar to the Warriors' Green, if Nash borrowed from the original Durant and Green's partnership, maybe the Nets will not be the situation today. Durant was not originally the big core of the ball, but it turned out that Nash let him carry the ball to organize, but to put Brown in charge of the end, this kind of upside-down play is definitely to curb Durant's play.
There is also that Nash's use of personnel is not decisive and flexible enough, after the first playoff game, he knows that the lineup is facing five players of similar height, and in the second game, he still chooses to use Zhuang Shen, an interior player who has almost no ability to change defenses and moves slowly, if he uses the combination of Griffin and Clarkston earlier, he will not be caught by the Green Army and has been targeted.
For Durant, it can only be said that he did something he was not good at in the whole series, and more importantly, Nash let Durant do something strange to him and also devastated his original most murderous offensive performance, and the loss of the Brooklyn Nets was inevitable.