Two posters are already known for the playoffs, and both are in the East since we know since last night that the Sixers will face the Nets in the first round. A great performance for Brooklyn since the franchise lost Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving during the season, but also changed coaches very quickly. On arrival, the mayonnaise still took around Jacque Vaughn, and the New York public discovered Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson, and had confirmation that Spencer Dinwiddie and Nic Claxton are more than just role players.
Winner of the Magic, Brooklyn will therefore challenge Joel Embiid and his teammates, and the happiest of all is Mikal Bridges since he will play “at home” against the team that had drafted him and for whom his mother worked!
Mikal Bridges plays at home
“It’s just the playoffs. It’s time to focus and step it up a notch, whoever the opponent is,” reacted Bridges. “Obviously I’m back home and I’ve often played in this hall. But I will have the same energy, the same aggressiveness, whatever team we face. So there really isn’t any extra motivation. I just go home, and a lot of friends and family members can come, which will be easier for them. »
This isn’t the first time the Nets and Sixers have faced each other in the playoffs, and the last series was a stormy one. It was 2019, and we remember Joel Embiid infuriating the Nets after elbowing Jarrett Allen. Only Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris are still there, and the Brooklyn guard assures that things have changed in four years.
A notable absentee: Ben Simmons
“We have asserted ourselves since… At the time when we were a young team looking for its marks” he remembers. “We have a lot of guys who already know who we are in the NBA. We try to find our way on a collective level, whereas at the time, we had more players who were trying to find their way on an individual level. There was a good atmosphere with guys who had a great mindset, but at the same time we were still wide-eyed and didn’t necessarily know what it was all about. Today in this team there are guys who have already been to the NBA finals, to the conference finals… They have experience and even if they respect Philly, there is no fear or what whatever else. »
If the presence of Ben Simmons would have added spice to this series, Dinwiddie ensures that we cannot yet speak of a rivalry between the Nets and the Sixers.
“I think we would have to have more success in the long term to talk about Philly as a real rival… But we had a few standout clashes when I was there. There’s been a few fights between Nic and Embiid, Embiid’s nudge on Jarrett, stuff like that. I would say it’s still too early. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 39 | 36.0 | 55.9 | 37.6 | 93.4 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 29.7 |
| Mikal Bridges | 25 | 35.4 | 48.4 | 39.6 | 90.0 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 27.4 |
| Kyrie Irving | 40 | 36.9 | 48.6 | 37.4 | 88.3 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 27.1 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 25 | 35.3 | 41.2 | 30.1 | 79.3 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 8.9 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 16.9 |
| Cameron Johnson | 24 | 30.8 | 46.9 | 37.5 | 84.5 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 16.5 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 75 | 29.8 | 70.6 | 0.0 | 53.7 | 2.4 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 12.6 |
| cam thomas | 56 | 16.2 | 43.3 | 36.0 | 86.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 10.0 |
| Tj Warren | 26 | 18.9 | 51.0 | 33.3 | 81.8 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.5 |
| Seth Curry | 60 | 19.9 | 46.0 | 39.9 | 92.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 9.1 |
| Royce O’Neale | 75 | 31.8 | 38.9 | 39.2 | 72.5 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 8.9 |
| Joe Harris | 73 | 20.7 | 45.9 | 42.9 | 60.0 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 7.6 |
| Edmond Sumner | 52 | 14.1 | 46.1 | 35.6 | 92.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.3 |
| Dorian Finney Smith | 25 | 28.0 | 34.9 | 30.5 | 78.9 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 7.2 |
| Ben Simmons | 42 | 26.3 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 43.9 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 6.9 |
| Patty Mills | 39 | 13.6 | 41.9 | 37.6 | 91.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 6.0 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 56 | 15.9 | 49.8 | 45.3 | 73.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 46 | 11.2 | 54.6 | 54.5 | 61.5 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 4.7 |
| Dru Smith | 8 | 8.1 | 50.0 | 30.8 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.9 |
| Markieff Morris | 27 | 10.6 | 40.2 | 40.8 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| David Duke | 21 | 8.6 | 46.0 | 12.5 | 63.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.1 |
| Kessler Edwards | 14 | 5.7 | 25.0 | 16.7 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Nerlens Noel | 3 | 14.4 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
| Moses Brown | 2 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
