Lyou Brooklyn Nets become all-rounders in the summer of 2019 with the signings of Kevin Durant (injured throughout his first season in New York) and Kyrie Irving. In January 2021 they made the bank jump by getting the transfer of James Harden. And in March they became a super team with the additions of Blake Griffin Y LaMarcus Aldridge. The rival to beat in an NBA that trembled just to see his lineup before each game.
Then the injuries began to arrive and the Aldridge’s premature withdrawal, but the Nets continued to win in the regular season, showing that in addition to stars they had a squad to try to conquer the ring. However, when facing the harshness of the playoffs the fortress has staggered and cast doubt on its favoritism to the ring.
Antetokounmpo and Middleton find the antidote against Durant and force the ‘Game 7’
Especially in the part that touches the depth of a team without Irving in which Durant continues to lead with superhuman performances and in which Harden acts as a squire, weighed down by physical discomfort, fulfilling his role to perfection. And the rest? Little or nothing.
Especially the pieces of a bench that begins to be residual in the schemes of a Steve Nash that he will have to give one more turn to his approaches to try to stop Middleton and Antetokounmpo and not to leave his two stars so alone in offensive production, in need of greater collaboration from a Griffin barely offering offensive solutions, from a Joe Harris falln and of a bench that barely contributed 15 points among the nine players that the Canadian coach used in the sixth game. Too little for a super team aiming to win the ring.
The Bucks shot with pride to hold on to the tie in a game in which they unleashed the Nets with their speed in the defense-offense transition. A weapon that allowed them not to need a great success in the exterior shot as shown the poor 21% (seven of 33 shots of three) that accumulated from the triple.
Another player who did not have his night from beyond the arc was the veteran Jeff Green. The Nets player came to make an extraordinary fifth game with seven eight from the triple. Quite the opposite happened in the sixth meeting in which he signed just two of nine on field goals and only made one of the four triples he tried.
With all the focus on Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo Khris Middleton He took the opportunity to fly under the radar and score a real game to enter the history of the NBA. The eaves is the first player to finish a playoff game with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, five steals and five triples scored.
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