Kevin Durant is not there, and the Nets sink … Tonight, they suffered a 6th loss in a row, and the latest is the most humiliating and disturbing. Certainly, Brooklyn was “back-to-back”, but Steve Nash’s players challenged the Kings who had not won for seven games.
And yet, the Nets bow (112-101), with a James Harden 4 points to 2 of 11 on shots! The All-Star fullback has been transparent, and when a reporter asks him if a crisis meeting is needed, here’s his response.
“I think that’s the end of talking!” It’s just that we have to get started, and on a regular basis. There are passages where we are very good, and others where we are really bad. We have to find a certain regularity during matches. “
“We have to find a way to get out of this collectively”
And why the Nets lack consistency in the game? “You know it as well as I do” replies James Harden. “We have to deal with a lot of different things internally, like the starting five. We haven’t had continuity yet. It’s one of those things that needs to be emphasized. There is nothing else to do but to continue, to move forward. In fact, I think it’s a whole. There’s a bit of everything… It’s clearly frustrating. It is clearly difficult. But we have to find a way out collectively. “
When we talk about ” lack of continuity“, we obviously think of Kyrie Irving. Half-time after missing the whole start of the season, he only plays away games, and that’s obviously not ideal for creating automatisms and working over time.
“I respect James’s opinion” responds Kyrie Irving. “When you’re in the midst of a losing streak, few people want to hear the same things over and over again, and clearly, I feel sorry for him. And I’m sure if you ask them, a few others think like him. But for us, it’s about being more united collectively. “
“I know that you shouldn’t be told because it will take on significant proportions”
In the end, Kyrie Irving is of the same opinion as his teammate, words are no longer enough.
“The verb ‘improve’ that we constantly use, whether here talking with you or in the locker room, can become commonplace. It’s natural for a human being to get tired of it, and from game to game, we feel like we’re walking away with moral victories if we lose. But we’re just tired of it all. So I’m in the same boat as him.”
No way to get together and talk about it? “I’ve been in a number of player meetings, and if we have a meeting like this I know not to tell you because it’s going to take on massive proportions. We guess what is happening and what is being said in the locker room. For the moment, this is not the case. Maybe, who knows ? “
For his part, Steve Nash tries to be positive.
“This ‘road trip’ was to improve us, and that was the case in the first two games and in this first half” believes the Nets coach. “We did what we asked to do. In the second half, we did not make any system in attack. Part of that has to do with fatigue, but I think our guys were very good in their heads. They remained united. “
Next opponents, the Lakers. And it promises since the two are now the two big disappointments of the season.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 36 | 36.5 | 52.0 | 37.2 | 89.4 | 0.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 29.2 |
| Kyrie Irving | 9 | 35.3 | 49.4 | 36.8 | 93.1 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 24.7 |
| James Harden | 43 | 37.0 | 41.7 | 33.8 | 86.9 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 10.1 | 4.8 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 22.9 |
| Patty Mills | 49 | 31.2 | 43.9 | 42.6 | 88.4 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 13.8 |
| Lamarcus Aldridge | 36 | 22.9 | 55.5 | 31.6 | 85.3 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 13.4 |
| Joe Harris | 14 | 29.9 | 45.2 | 46.6 | 83.3 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 11.3 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 23 | 21.5 | 63.4 | 0.0 | 54.3 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 8.9 |
| Kessler Edwards | 19 | 27.2 | 44.9 | 39.7 | 75.0 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 8.2 |
| cam thomas | 39 | 17.3 | 42.8 | 25.0 | 80.5 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 7.5 |
| Blake Griffin | 39 | 18.3 | 39.7 | 21.0 | 72.9 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 6.3 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 23 | 11.8 | 59.3 | 33.3 | 65.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 6.3 |
| Bruce Brown, Jr. | 41 | 20.7 | 47.8 | 28.6 | 78.8 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 6.1 |
| Deandre’ Bembry | 44 | 19.6 | 58.1 | 43.8 | 58.1 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 5.8 |
| David Duke | 14 | 17.5 | 37.2 | 28.0 | 82.4 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 5.6 |
| James Johnson | 35 | 18.1 | 48.1 | 27.8 | 40.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 4.9 |
| Paul Millsap | 24 | 11.2 | 37.6 | 22.2 | 70.6 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 3.4 |
| Langston Galloway | 4 | 14.6 | 38.5 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Jevon Carter | 38 | 11.2 | 31.5 | 31.1 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 2.9 |
| James Ennis | 2 | 6.8 | 28.6 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| Shaquille Harrison | 2 | 11.3 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Wenyen Gabriel | 1 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
