Brooklyn dismissed: Durant backs Nash, Kyrie takes responsibility: "We'll run the team"
Brooklyn concludes a failed season after the 4-0 win over Boston.
KD supports the coach, Irving stated he would stay: "I disappointed the team".
In Philadelphia: Ambide demands more donation than Arden
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26/04/2022
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Boston celebrates victory over Brooklyn in Game 3 (from the official Celtics Twitter)
The final episode of the drama film "Brooklyn Nets Season 2021/22" that aired tonight (Monday through Tuesday) was particularly bleak, after the Boston Celtics completed a resounding sweep and ousted the team from the Big Apple already in the first round.
In doing so, the team of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, players who were in the finals and won the rings, became the unit to finish the playoffs without a single win.
For the star duo, this is the first 4-0 loss of their careers.
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First sweep of his career
As mentioned, this season of the Hunts has been far from standard.
Kyrie Irving missed dozens of games just because he refused to get vaccinated against the Corona and Kevin Durant missed several weeks due to injury.
James Harden, who opened the season as part of the trio, resented and was transferred to Philadelphia in a trade in exchange for Ben Simmons, who completed a full season without a minute of hardwood.
A connection between all these extremes led to coach Steve Nash's task of bringing the championship being almost impossible.
"Nash should be given credit for running the locker room in another unstable season," ESPN wrote, "but the coach's job is to put his players in the best position to succeed in close games and make adjustments. In that he and his team failed, they gave games 1-2 "In which they could win, slip out of their hands."
"Durant and Irving were not even the two best players in the series," ESPN continued, "Jason Taitum and Jaylen Brown were ahead of them, even Marcus Smart was better. The trade for Harden became a disaster. The situation with the Harden Bents was so bad. "It was toxic that sources around the league said it was not certain he would even appear for the games if he had stayed after the deadline. However, Simmons has not played yet. It might have been better to continue with the frustrated Harden until the end of the season."
The Celtics stars overshadowed the Nets stars.
Taitum and Durant (Photo: GettyImages, Elsa)
In the shadow of the failure, the question arose regarding Nash's future, but when Durant was asked if he believed the former coordinator was still the right man to steer the ship, he backed Kennedy: "Steve went through crazy things, moved a lot relative to his first job as head coach ".
"Do not cry over spilled milk. We have been through a lot this year, everyone in the club knows it. There is no time to feel remorse or upset, you have to find solutions to get better. Even big teams do not look at what they did, but look for ways to move forward. We know what the mistakes were. ".
While Durant has shown disappointing ability throughout the series, criticism over the course of the season has been directed mainly at Irving, whose choice not to get vaccinated has hurt the team's ability to produce chemistry.
"I felt I had let the team down when I could not play," Hagard admitted. (Simmons), but we have not seen him on the floor yet. "
Knows I'll disappoint the team, but does not intend to leave.
Irving (Photo: Reuters)
And what about next season?
Of the key players, Durant and Seth Kerry have a contract for next season and will continue, as well as Simmons and Joe Harris who will return from long-term injuries.
Patti Mills and Kyrie Irving have a player option on the contract for next season, and according to the latter's statements, he does not intend to go anywhere: "I enjoy being here. When summer comes there will be talks, but there is no chance I will leave Durant. Look ahead to what we do as a club." .
By the way, the Nets will be able to offer Irving this summer an extension to a long-term contract, in which he will be able to earn an average of $ 49 million per season.
Two rotation players who will become free agents are Bruce Brown and Nicholas Claxton, who were given many minutes during the series.
The two are unlimited free agents.
This means that the Nets will not be able to compare any offer to keep them, but they can exceed the wage ceiling to re-sign them.
Veteran players like Goran Dragic, Andre Drummond and Blake Griffin will become free while the young Kessler Edwards, Cam Thomas and Dyeron Sharp will remain.
Kyrie even said he intends to be more involved in managing the team, when it's not really clear what he meant.
"When I say I stay as a mother with Kevin, I think it really involves us running the team together," Irving said. .
"Ben Simmons needs to work both physically and mentally"
According to U.S. reports, Simmons did not sit on the bench in Game 4 because he still suffers from back problems, and in addition, he expects emotional support. Adrian Wozniacki of ESPN, "In Simmons' agent meeting with management it was felt that the player needed more mental support, he needed help to get back on the field. Mental help is something significant in the equation."
Triple Team.
Ambide (Photo: GettyImages, Tim Nwachukwu)
Ambide: Expect James Harden to be aggressive
Philadelphia already led 0: 3 over Toronto, and tonight with a 1: 3 advantage it was possible for them to close the story at home and qualify for the next round, but the determined Canadians came to Philadelphia and won 88: 103, forcing Game 6 in Toronto.
The Sixers suffered a weak west on offense, scoring just 88 points on 38 percent from the field, with 16 losses leading to the Raptors' 20 points, and a weak second quarter that allowed the visitors to climb to a safe lead.
Philadelphia's problem continues to be the thumb of Joel Ambide, who is suffering from a rupture that limits him, and in fact this injury cannot be treated without surgery, which will only happen at the end of the season.
And if that's not enough, James Harden just does not find himself.
Tonight Harden took just 11 shots and finished with 15 points, and he too knows more is expected of him.
Ambide does not hide the fact that Arden must be aggressive and active, especially when Toronto makes double guards on the dominant chin.
"I've said it all season, from the moment he got here, that he should be more aggressive, he should be himself ... it's not my job, the coach should talk to him and tell him to take more shots, especially when they keep me the way they keep me, but That really is not my job. "
Ambide, who finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds, spares no criticism.
"I was bad on offense," he said, "there is no explanation for that, I have to play with more energy, move my legs better, I just have to get better."
According to Ambide, Philly just needs to go back and do what she did in the first three games.
"Not to lose, to take a rebound, to get better on defense, it is no coincidence that we won three games in a row," he said.
Doc Rivers, the coach who has lost the most times in NBA history to a 1-3 lead in the playoff series (three times), saw the Sixers fans leave the hall before the end.
"They were tougher all evening," Rivers said of Toronto, "they were more physical, and not just in the second quarter, it was like that the whole game."
Rivers has lost seven of his last eight playoff games in which he could close out a series.
With 31 such career losses, he ranks first in this category.
In addition, Philadelphia will once again have to play without seasoning, which is not vaccinated and cannot play in Canada.
"We're not where we wanted to be," said Toronto coach Nick Ners, who knows the situation is still to his detriment, "but we'm just glad we're still playing."
Pascal Siakam concluded: "We always know how to find a way to mobilize forces, we hope it will continue."
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