Round 1, Game 2 EC Playoffs - Brooklyn(0) @ Boston(1)

Paradise · Post #341 » by **Paradise** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:55 am

KD and Kyrie were trash when they had zero adjustments to build on. We built a 15 point lead. Stop the cap.

We have never been able to sustain any leads this season with KD/Harden or KD/Kyrie in the second half of the season and it happened during the Play-In.

Stop the emotional corny **** like this is so surprising and frustrating to you all. You all have seen 83 games of this same bull with different rosters and still will run away from reality of the root of the issue.

KD in or out. Same issue. Kyrie out or in. Same issue. Harden in and out. Same issue.

So, I’m the crazy one seeing the same pattern with or without all 3 together. With all 3. With 2 or without BOTH?

I bet it will still continue with an injured and healthy Simmons too and you all will act like Ray Charles.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #342 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:56 am

MGrand15 wrote:Not sure why Kyrie isn't touching the ball at all.

KD was just embarrassing tonight. Blame Nash if you want but KD handed that game to the Celtics. So many back breaking turnovers and forced shots over double teams. I expected KD to play like an all time great. We haven't seen that for a minute this series. The guy can't even beat Teiss or Horford 1 on 1.

That's two games we should've won. I don't think you can bounce back from that in a series against a great team. I hope we can take one at home. Getting swept would be the worst. At least it'll force Tsai to clean house which this organization desperately needs.

Sweep would be the best , maybe then Tsai finally got some blood flowing to his brain

Shark · Post #343 » by **Shark** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:56 am

No need to argue over who to blame between Nash and KD/Kyrie. They're all to blame. They've all played their roles in leading this team to a 0-2 hole in this series.

Kyrie obviously did his thing in Game 1, but tonight he was **** and didn't trust his teammates just like KD didn't.

KD seems to be content running himself into the ground, all while being a massive negative for the team. He needs to look himself in a mirror and ask if he really wants to have another 2 legacy smearing games just like the first two.

And Nash. He's not changing. He should have put his foot down and told KD to rest. At least rest more during the first half. And for every little glimpse of competence that he shows he quickly reverts to the same **** "strategy" of letting KD and Kyrie be ISO stars to the detriment of the entire team.

MrDollarBills · Post #344 » by **MrDollarBills** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:56 am

OfficialRef wrote:Honestly? These games represent what the Nets have been doing all season.

Horrible coaching with high talent and no discipline. Get by with trying to play "cool" and flashy rather than principled.

Durant deserves a **** ton of blame

Agreed 100%. I have said this all season long

3pt_chucker · Post #345 » by **3pt_chucker** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:57 am

KD's ego has messed everything up. I'm not hearing anything else. Everything else is noise

Jay555 · Post #346 » by **Jay555** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:58 am

KD looks washed…

Hello Brooklyn · Post #347 » by **Hello Brooklyn** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:58 am

I'm tired of blaming coaching for everything.

Yes Nash is a bad coach. We also have Kevin Durant and Kyrie.

Kyrie didn't get a lot of shots cause Celtics were swarming him.

KD was HORRIFIC. The two worst Nets games of his career back to back. Its unbelievable.

He is ruining his own legacy by playing like this. The Celtics are good defensive team. They are also not the 04 Pistons.

If they have this game defining defense lets see what they do in a series v Giannis. I don't see it turning out the same way.

With all that being said, series isn't over. I'm not convinced Kevin Durant doesn't remind us who he is.

Win both games in Brooklyn and the momentum shifts back to us.

Plenty of great players have come back from 0-2. KD needs to put his name there with the greats.

Nets in 6.

MrDollarBills · Post #348 » by **MrDollarBills** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:58 am

A sweep would be for the best. It will force Joe Tsai to demand changes and get some actual structure in place here. KD and Kyrie have tried it their way and it is clearly not good enough to win come play off time. We need coaching, not a f*cking babysitter.

We need a reset and some actual structure here. If they don't want that, they can leave. I'm tired of it.

therealbig3 · Post #349 » by **therealbig3** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:00 am

Paradise wrote:KD and Kyrie were trash when they had zero adjustments to build on. We built a 15 point lead. Stop the cap.

We have never been able to sustain any leads this season with KD/Harden or KD/Kyrie in the second half of the season and it happened during the Play-In.

Stop the emotional corny **** like this is so surprising and frustrating to you all. You all have seen 83 games of this same bull with different rosters and still will run away from reality of the root of the issue.

KD in or out. Same issue. Kyrie out or in. Same issue. Harden in and out. Same issue.

So, I’m the crazy one seeing the same pattern with or without all 3 together. With all 3. With 2 or without BOTH?

I bet it will still continue with an injured and healthy Simmons too and you all will act like Ray Charles.

We built a 15 point lead with both of them playing poorly...and that's proof of how great they are and just further solidifies how bad Nash is?

What you're typing doesn't even make sense. We needed them to play like NBA rotation level players and not like a couple of dudes at the Y, and we would have won. You're twisting yourself in all sorts of directions to try and avoid that fact and scapegoat Nash.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #350 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:01 am

You know I’m not even upset about this loss or series

KD becoming washed and shell of himself , this is devastating, thought that we gonna be again first round playoffs fodder for next decade , this sucks big time

It was another Pierce/KG experiment that didn’t pan out

MrDollarBills · Post #351 » by **MrDollarBills** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:01 am

Hello Brooklyn wrote:I'm tired of blaming coaching for everything.

Yes Nash is a bad coach. We also have Kevin Durant and Kyrie.

Kyrie didn't get a lot of shots cause Celtics were swarming him.

KD was HORRIFIC. The two worst Nets games of his career back to back. Its unbelievable.

He is ruining his own legacy by playing like this. The Celtics are good defensive team. They are also not the 04 Pistons.

If they have this game defining defense lets see what they do in a series v Giannis. I don't see it turning out the same way.

With all that being said, series isn't over. I'm not convinced Kevin Durant doesn't remind us who he is.

Win both games in Brooklyn and the momentum shifts back to us.

Plenty of great players have come back from 0-2. KD needs to put his name there with the greats.

Nets in 6.

KD can't even get by Al Horford.

You're in denial. I think that Durant has physically hit the wall due to overuse. I have been sounding the alarm that KD has been averaging 40+ mins since mid March

This is the end result.

TheNetsFan · Post #352 » by **TheNetsFan** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:02 am

I am not blaming Nash. I don't think there's any coach in the league that could successfully get KD to give the ball up in the 4th quarter.

Every player other than KD and Kyrie shot 50% or better, but nobody got a touch down the stretch. The ball doesn't move. Role players will not want to stick around for this. KD, especially as he gets older, needs to allow others to create.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #353 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:03 am

3pt_chucker wrote:KD's ego has messed everything up. I'm not hearing anything else. Everything else is noise

Yes that’s the truth 100%

MrDollarBills · Post #354 » by **MrDollarBills** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:04 am

therealbig3 wrote:
Paradise wrote:KD and Kyrie were trash when they had zero adjustments to build on. We built a 15 point lead. Stop the cap.

We have never been able to sustain any leads this season with KD/Harden or KD/Kyrie in the second half of the season and it happened during the Play-In.

Stop the emotional corny **** like this is so surprising and frustrating to you all. You all have seen 83 games of this same bull with different rosters and still will run away from reality of the root of the issue.

KD in or out. Same issue. Kyrie out or in. Same issue. Harden in and out. Same issue.

So, I’m the crazy one seeing the same pattern with or without all 3 together. With all 3. With 2 or without BOTH?

I bet it will still continue with an injured and healthy Simmons too and you all will act like Ray Charles.

We built a 15 point lead with both of them playing poorly...and that's proof of how great they are and just further solidifies how bad Nash is?

What you're typing doesn't even make sense. We needed them to play like NBA rotation level players and not like a couple of dudes at the Y, and we would have won. You're twisting yourself in all sorts of directions to try and avoid that fact and scapegoat Nash.

Nash made adjustments but it looks like Udoka was betting that what got the Nets off to a hot start in Q1 wasn't sustainable and he was right. Letting Dragic and Brown go off while KD and Kyrie get handcuffed seems like a winning strategy to me by a good coach.

However, you can't blame Nash for how awful KD was an how unengaged Kyrie was tonight. Kyrie played tonight like it was Friday afternoon at a day job

MrDollarBills · Post #355 » by **MrDollarBills** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:06 am

TheNetsFan wrote:I am not blaming Nash. I don't think there's any coach in the league that could successfully get KD to give the ball up in the 4th quarter.

Every player other than KD and Kyrie shot 50% or better, but nobody got a touch down the stretch. The ball doesn't move. Role players will not want to stick around for this. KD, especially as he gets older, needs to allow others to create.

Same.

Nash made his adjustments on both ends. The roleplayers showed up. Meanwhile, KD was having a meltdown and Kyrie was in lala land

This is why Harden bailed.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #356 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:06 am

Who would’ve want to stay for this ?, if im Bruce Brown im getting paid somewhere else and ride to the sunset
Same for Seth , Dragic , Dre , they were all amazing and deserve to get paid elsewhere

mtylerjr · Post #357 » by **mtylerjr** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:09 am

Im pretty sure Kyrie has covid

Netaman · Post #358 » by **Netaman** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:16 am

KD turned into a pumpkin overnight and he doesn't know what to do. That's why he's playing 40 mpg. Nash and the role players did what they were supposed to. They created a lead.

Kyrie and KD couldn't do their part and they couldn't recognize that the team had a shot to win if they just didn't force things.

OfficialRef · Post #359 » by **OfficialRef** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:19 am

For all his faults, its too bad the duo ran Harden out of Brooklyn.

The talent is there but these two don't want to play team ball. As bad as harden played at least he passed consistently and definitely would have edged the Celtics.

Marvin Martian · Post #360 » by **Marvin Martian** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:33 am

I was against the Harden trade when it happened and now we are paying the price. KD cannot run an offense. He makes bad passes and he dribble way to high allowing BOS to poke the ball out for easy steals.

None of the pieces we got in return will fix the problem

Maybe KD wakes up and the Nets win game 3 and 4, but I am pessimistic about winning the series because of this.