The NBA regular season ended a focus battle, the Lone Rangers lost to the Hornets, missed the 21-point comeback, they went from 21 points behind, a wave of flow directly narrowed the gap to 1 point, helpless is unable to achieve a comeback, and finally lost. Irving did not perform well in this game, he shot 6 of 16, 1 of 8 from three-point range was very embarrassing, Irving scored 18 points, 9 boards, 7 assists, 1 block and 1 block, with a plus-minus of -10.
It is worth mentioning that this is Irving's "Ramadan debut", as a devout believer, Irving lasted from March 23 to April 22, during which he could not eat from 3:00-16:00 every day, which has a clear impact on extremely expensive NBA athletes, which can be seen from today's game Irving's sluggish performance and consecutive key shots in the final quarter.
Owen has also been criticized by the outside world as a black sheep, just look at the expression of Cuban on the sidelines and the ranking of the Lone Ranger. In this game against the Hornets, the owner of the lone rangers on the sidelines, Cuban had a very ugly expression, after all, the team's recent sluggish performance is indeed very disappointing. The most important thing is that at such a critical time of the season, the Lone Ranger suffered a wave of three consecutive losses, directly from the top eight in the West, fell out of the play-off rankings, and can only rank 11th in the West, and even sees no hope of rebound.
Irving was previously considered a special person because of not vaccinating, controversial remarks on social media, Ramadan, etc., including during the Nets period, also known as a "demon", who miserably killed Cai Chongxin, who invested a lot and was determined to impact the NBA championship, teammate Durant and others. Now coming to the Lone Ranger, many people at that time expected Irving and Doncic to join forces to impact the championship, but they did not expect that they would now fall out of the play-offs, and even whether they could participate in the playoffs became a big suspense.
At the same time, the cooperation between Irving and Doncic is not good, although the two are NBA's top stars and All-Star starters, but after joining together, the offense is not 1+1=2, and the defense is a mess, resulting in Irving and Doncic teaming up to play the game, the lone ranger loses more than the less.
Now the crisis of the Lone Ranger is really coming, there are not many games left in the regular season, and once the losing streak continues, not to mention the championship and playoffs, and even the play-off tickets are hanging in the balance, so they need to give it their all.