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

[Prokorov]

I'm not going to kill Kyrie. Guys have off nights. He's fasting. He was clearly lethargic & his shot was not falling. He did move the ball on most occasions. KD was playing faster paced Harden iso ball. After KD checked in up 5 with 9:47 left, role players (anybody other thank KD & Kyrie), only took 2 shots over the next 6 minutes & one of those was after an offensive rebound. After that 6 minute stretch we were down 7.

We have to hold serve on our home court now. There could be pressure to activate Ben for Game 3, which could buy us some transition baskets, but I don't think it will solve the iso-woes. This team won't take the next step forward until KD accepts that he needs help.

I'm really not mad at Kyrie. The team wasted his superhuman effort in game 1. KD needed to answer the call tonight and he played like garbage

You should be. We all know a healthy Nets team is a top 3 seed and doesn't play BOS in the 1st round. This is a conference finals matchup being played in the 1st round.

I am not mad that we're down 2-0; I am mad that we are down 2-0 in the 1st round. Getting eliminated here makes this season a failure and there is only one person to blame for that.

why are you mad? you are not a nets fan and are the biggest nets troll on this board

[Prokorov]

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good breakdown here. i expect nash to make 0 of these adjustments

This is an indictment of this entire coaching staff. Udoka took Nash to coaching school with his strategy on both ends.

The team was completely unprepared and clearly had zero understanding of the opposing personnel. This is on top of individual sloppy play from several players.

It starts with Durant. He has got to get rid of the ball once he sees the double coming. I don't care if Boston ignores Bruce Brown. Durant needs to find him quickly and not try to put the ball on the floor against two lengthy defenders. Brown has proven that he will make the correct read once he gets the ball in the the middle of the floor.

Also, I'm glad the individual effort was called out here. Seems like more than a few guys had regular season energy in this game.

"Took Nash to coaching school" but the Nets only lost by 1pt and KD was horrendous...

The Nets game plan was solid. No surprises Udoka knows was prepared for KD since he was the coach last season. He was the defensive coordinator for the Nets for a reason...

It's not Nash's fault KD started pressing when he missed shots or he had trouble scoring vs Al Horford on switches...

We lost by 1 in a game where we were up 4 with under 40 seconds to play. a game we should have won by 10+.

KD wasnt awful, Nash was. when a team forces your player into a situation where they struggle in, its on you to adjust or prevent it. he just kept letting it happen.

its like in foodball running the ball up the middle 10 times in a row when the defense has all 11 guys down at the line of scrimmage.

[ArksNetsSince99]

I'm not going to kill Kyrie. Guys have off nights. He's fasting. He was clearly lethargic & his shot was not falling. He did move the ball on most occasions. KD was playing faster paced Harden iso ball. After KD checked in up 5 with 9:47 left, role players (anybody other thank KD & Kyrie), only took 2 shots over the next 6 minutes & one of those was after an offensive rebound. After that 6 minute stretch we were down 7.

We have to hold serve on our home court now. There could be pressure to activate Ben for Game 3, which could buy us some transition baskets, but I don't think it will solve the iso-woes. This team won't take the next step forward until KD accepts that he needs help.

I don’t blame Kyrie a bit , he got amazing game 1 and off game 2 ,but he wasn’t turning ball over like his life depend on it ( KD did)
We all knew what we got with Kai even before he got here ( sometimes head case, sometimes unreliable)

What we didn’t know that we was getting below high school lvl HC

That KD have no balls and will believe this trash that he can win a championship playing 48 minutes a night on regular basis ( yes I believe if Kd sign off on Trash at any point during the season trash would’ve been sacked and season saved )

Switch Popovich with Nash and yes this is a championship team , PoP would’ve never allowed KD to take ball out of Dragic or Simmons hands when he clearly struggled

Thats what we got for letting KD and Nash run this asylum

[Prokorov]

We again, like said before need to expand our rotation to guys like Blake or LMA WITH Clax.

Horrible coaching. **** adjustments. Just another Scottie brooks.

What adjustment is there for KD missing wide open shots or making disgusting passes and turnovers??

pretty simple.

Dont have KD bring it up like a PointGuard and try and beat a trapping double team? Dont run plays that are super easy to double team (like mid baseline or foul line extended post ups).? Dont run pick and roll with KD as the ball handler unless its to force a switch/mismatch? Run KD off of pin downs where he can catch and attack? Kick the ball out to the passer and get a repost 1-2 times early in the possession to make them work instead of just allowing the double in the post to happen?

KD is a turnover prone passer. ive screamed this since day 1. putting him in situations where he needs to split double teams and make thread the needle or cross court passes vs. the league sbest defense makes ZERO sense

[Prokorov]

We again, like said before need to expand our rotation to guys like Blake or LMA WITH Clax.

Horrible coaching. **** adjustments. Just another Scottie brooks.

Scott may have not been the better player but definitely a better coach- and that’s saying a lot.

Brooks is a bad coach.
Nash is unqualified and incompetant.

its apples and oranges. We'd be 1-1 or up 2-0 with Brooks

[ArksNetsSince99]

This is an indictment of this entire coaching staff. Udoka took Nash to coaching school with his strategy on both ends.

The team was completely unprepared and clearly had zero understanding of the opposing personnel. This is on top of individual sloppy play from several players.

It starts with Durant. He has got to get rid of the ball once he sees the double coming. I don't care if Boston ignores Bruce Brown. Durant needs to find him quickly and not try to put the ball on the floor against two lengthy defenders. Brown has proven that he will make the correct read once he gets the ball in the the middle of the floor.

Also, I'm glad the individual effort was called out here. Seems like more than a few guys had regular season energy in this game.

"Took Nash to coaching school" but the Nets only lost by 1pt and KD was horrendous...

The Nets game plan was solid. No surprises Udoka knows was prepared for KD since he was the coach last season. He was the defensive coordinator for the Nets for a reason...

It's not Nash's fault KD started pressing when he missed shots or he had trouble scoring vs Al Horford on switches...

We lost by 1 in a game where we were up 4 with under 40 seconds to play. a game we should have won by 10+.

KD wasnt awful, Nash was. when a team forces your player into a situation where they struggle in, its on you to adjust or prevent it. he just kept letting it happen.

its like in foodball running the ball up the middle 10 times in a row when the defense has all 11 guys down at the line of scrimmage.

KD wasn’t awful?

KD was a DOG POOP , below awful , in scale 1-10 he didn’t deserve 0.5

Watch the game , not a stat line

[Prokorov]

I hate this **** man. Durant and Kyrie have ruined this team.

They made this team relevant and a contender overnight.

Marks/Nash ruined this team.

[Prokorov]

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.

I dont get why people are suprised. this was the most predictable thing ever. I SCREAMED it all year. KD vs doubles/traps is a turnover machine and some coach is going to see it and exploit it in the playoffs.

it was an absolute certainty this was going to happen. its why i said on page 1, there is 0 chance that KD doesnt have a similar game tonight...

I expect nothing different from KD other then maybe making a couple more shots. ...4-7 turnovers is whats going to happen if nash doesnt adjust, and nash wont adjust.

it will happen EVERY game of this series. We can still win if we just go away from KD. dont run everything through him. but we wont, we will keep jamming a square peg in a round hole.

[Marvin Martian]

I'm really not mad at Kyrie. The team wasted his superhuman effort in game 1. KD needed to answer the call tonight and he played like garbage

You should be. We all know a healthy Nets team is a top 3 seed and doesn't play BOS in the 1st round. This is a conference finals matchup being played in the 1st round.

I am not mad that we're down 2-0; I am mad that we are down 2-0 in the 1st round. Getting eliminated here makes this season a failure and there is only one person to blame for that.

why are you mad? you are not a nets fan and are the biggest nets troll on this board

You are basing this on what? Because you don't like my opinions? I know you have defended Kyrie and his antics, all of which has lead this team to a 2-0 hole in the 1st round, so I am not the one trolling here.

[Prokorov]

What we didn’t know that we was getting below high school lvl HC

We did know this. it was obvious. its been glaring all year.

[Prokorov]

"Took Nash to coaching school" but the Nets only lost by 1pt and KD was horrendous...

The Nets game plan was solid. No surprises Udoka knows was prepared for KD since he was the coach last season. He was the defensive coordinator for the Nets for a reason...

It's not Nash's fault KD started pressing when he missed shots or he had trouble scoring vs Al Horford on switches...

We lost by 1 in a game where we were up 4 with under 40 seconds to play. a game we should have won by 10+.

KD wasnt awful, Nash was. when a team forces your player into a situation where they struggle in, its on you to adjust or prevent it. he just kept letting it happen.

its like in foodball running the ball up the middle 10 times in a row when the defense has all 11 guys down at the line of scrimmage.

KD wasn’t awful?

KD was a DOG POOP , below awful , in scale 1-10 he didn’t deserve 0.5

Watch the game , not a stat line

He wasnt. he wasnt even bad.... if you ask a fish to climb a tree, its going to be laughably unsucessful... that is what nash is asking of KD by having him try and beat traps and doubles every possession, it is an enormous weakness of durants and it was no secret or suprise it was a weakness.

If we adjusted KD would have been fine both games.

[Prokorov]

Also... another thing that just drives me insane.

our opponent goes on a huge run. we finally call a timeout.. and... come back with the exact same lineup.

why? how?

[Prokorov]

You should be. We all know a healthy Nets team is a top 3 seed and doesn't play BOS in the 1st round. This is a conference finals matchup being played in the 1st round.

I am not mad that we're down 2-0; I am mad that we are down 2-0 in the 1st round. Getting eliminated here makes this season a failure and there is only one person to blame for that.

why are you mad? you are not a nets fan and are the biggest nets troll on this board

You are basing this on what? Because you don't like my opinions? I know you have defended Kyrie and his antics, all of which has lead this team to a 2-0 hole in the 1st round, so I am not the one trolling here.

Nash is why we are in this hole. im here to root for the nets. you are here to troll kyrie. you are not a nets fan. period.

[Paradise]

why are you mad? you are not a nets fan and are the biggest nets troll on this board

You are basing this on what? Because you don't like my opinions? I know you have defended Kyrie and his antics, all of which has lead this team to a 2-0 hole in the 1st round, so I am not the one trolling here.

Nash is why we are in this hole. im here to root for the nets. you are here to troll kyrie. you are not a nets fan. period.

Thank You.

Not sure when we got soft as a fan base to allow some troll to come in here and disrespect posters who’s been here for decades.

Know your place.

[MrDollarBills]

KD has been bad but Nash is definitely not helping. We don't run any off ball action to free KD up at all. Same with Kyrie.

Udoka is playing 4D chess right now while Nash is playing Connect 4

[NetsJets]

The 4 guard lineup is getting demolished it would be one thing if it was working.

[Marvin Martian]

why are you mad? you are not a nets fan and are the biggest nets troll on this board

You are basing this on what? Because you don't like my opinions? I know you have defended Kyrie and his antics, all of which has lead this team to a 2-0 hole in the 1st round, so I am not the one trolling here.

Nash is why we are in this hole. im here to root for the nets. you are here to troll kyrie. you are not a nets fan. period.

Nash is not a good coach, but I have seen bad and mediocre coaches win championships all the time.....when they have a full squad. Bud is a terrible coach and he just won the chip last year. Blaming Nash is deflecting from the real problem.

You don't get to determine who is a Nets fan and who isn't. People can express their fandom any way they want. They are not obligated to support all of your takes or back maniacs like Ky.

[Hello Brooklyn]

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.

KD didn't magically just become bad after being incredible all season.

He hasn't adjusted to the coverages. And is playing bad.

If KD had even played average the last two games we are up 2-0.

The question is can KD get it together.

If he can we have a chance to even up the series.

Going up 2-0 is not a death sentences.

I've seen too many great players come back from it.

[Hello Brooklyn]

Middleton has a sprained MCL. There is a huge opportunity now to win the 2nd round.

We have to find a way to beat the Celtics.

[CalamityX12]

I saw parts of the first half and 3rd Q but lost it during the 4th. When I got back to watching, what was once a 17 pt lead earlier or a consistent 8-10 pt lead from the spots I was able to catch the game, we're down 6 under 3 to play....

completely flabbergasted and frustrated about it. How is it that we were doing so well to lead through the whole game almost to **** allow that meltdown to happen?

I'm playing catchup with comments and posts, seems like the iso ball killed us, Durant was trash, relucting to give the ball to someone else, and as usual Nash hurts us as a coach with zero changes.

How were the subs? any different from gm 1?