The Brooklyn Nets started the season a bit disappointingly, not to say how bad the record was, and not many people in the eighth place in the East, who are bound to be one of the teams in the first echelon of the East. However, the Nets' goal in the new season can be much more than that, referring to their second-ranked luxury tax in the league, the championship is the only goal of the New Season for the Nets, and in terms of this goal, they still have a long way to go, at least as of now, the Nets' problem is not easy to solve, and it is too early to talk about the championship.
Nash officially announces Durant! Owen was praised, KD euphemistically blamed Harden, and the Big Three drifted apart.
The Nets currently have three major problems, namely Kyrie Irving, Steve Nash and James Harden, Irving is directly away from the season, the Nets have disappeared $35 million in salary space out of thin air, Harden seems to be affected by the new rules, it seems to be weakened by the epic level, Nash is offensive and defensive at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends have no tactics to speak of, and there are serious problems in the use of people, the Nets' Big Three only Kevin Durant is left to support.
From the Big Three to the single-core team, the Nets only took one offseason, and the player salaries and luxury taxes they need to pay for the new season have not decreased, which will also be a headache for other teams. And for Durant, the only remaining giant, Nash is a treasure.
In a recent interview, Nash announced his use of Durant for the new season and some of his playing time problems. Durant played in two previous back-to-back games. Nash said: "Yeah, I think we can get Kevin (Durant) to play back-to-back games more calmly. He's had enough breaks since he returned from an Achilles tendon injury that he's proven he can handle most of the games. Now, do I want to continue to protect him this season? Of course. However, it may not be as formulaic as it was in previous seasons.
"Of course we want to protect the core players. But judging by the early signals, the current situation is quite positive. Hopefully we can get everyone through this season with confidence. Nash added.
So far, Durant's average playing time in the new season has been controlled at 34.5 minutes per game, which is not bad, and he has not played more than 37 minutes, which is very surprising in Irving's absence, and Nash's use of the Big Three has been somewhat excessive, especially when one or two of the stars can't play, and the other stars who can play are basically playing time.
For Durant, Nash naturally has to be strictly protected, he is the only remaining superstar in the Nets' current lineup, Harden's performance is completely inconsistent with his team's highest salary, and it seems that it can only be regarded as the performance of a very mediocre team's second-in-command.
For the Nets, the strength they showed in the new season after not having Irving is regrettable, and Irving, who has not played so far, has received a lot of praise. ESPN famous basketball commentator A-Smith said that this season, the only team that can organize all healthy Warriors is the Nets, and it is the Nets that Owen returned to, and other teams are not opponents of the Warriors, including the Los Angeles Lakers.
Former NBA player and current basketball commentator Jaylen Ross said of Irving on the podcast "Jalen & Jacoby", arguing that the Nets without Irving and the Nets with Irving are two complete teams, and without Irving, the Nets would not even be able to break out of the East.
In addition, Kevin Durant talked about the team's mistakes in a recent interview, Durant said that the top players in the league will average about 4-5 mistakes per game, in order to lead the whole team, they must do this, but sometimes they do not succeed. And usually, the opposing team will take advantage of this (mistakes), he is not in the offensive and defensive transition, that is also our most vulnerable time, although every team is like this, but I hope we can reduce the mistakes.
After Durant's statement, many fans said that you directly report Harden's ID card, the current Nets average the highest number of errors per game is Harden, averaging 4.8 errors per game, just within the scope of Durant's 4-5 mistakes, and he himself averaged only 1.8 errors per game, except for Joe Harris, who had 2.0 errors per game, the rest of the Nets players did not exceed 1 error per game.
The Nets big three are very united after the 2020-2021 season, and the same is true for this year's offseason, but since the Irving thing came out, Durant began to complain continuously, Harden did not know whether it was affected by the mentality, the performance continued to be poor, in this regard, Durant also had some complaining emotions, the three from the beginning of the united will to now some gradually drifted away, and even many teams have begun to quote Irving, you can imagine how serious the Nets problem is today.