Durant: “I feel like the season was derailed by my injury”

This has not been an easy season for the Nets. The failed project with Harden, Durant’s injury and Kyrie’s non-vaccination limited Nash’s, who seem to be starting to take off.

Durant talks about the problems of this season and the main focus: “To be honest, I feel like our season was derailed by my injury. So I don’t think we weren’t a good basketball team. It’s like there’s not a lot of continuity with me and Kyrie out of the lineup., That is what it is. When we’re all on the track together, I like what we got”, pointed out the player.

After the return of KD, the arrival of Simmons, who has not yet played, Curry and Drummond, and the possibility of having Kyrie again, gave a facelift to some Nets who lived on a roller coaster. Who knows where they would be if Irving, who has had stellar nights recently, had been available from the start of the season.

Steve Nash is optimistic and sees the near future with good eyes: “I don’t know if many teams apart from ours last year have been in this position before where we’ve played a handful or more of games all together and managed to get into the playoffs. But we cannot diminish our belief, our attitude; we fight every day to be a little better… If we get negative or think that this is too much or that the world is against us, this is not going to be productive. Y I think all of us are enjoying the challenge”, pointed out the Brooklyn coach.

If the current standings hold, the Nets would have to win two of their remaining four games to make it into the playoff hunt. Durant is not worried about opponents, he fully trusts his team and his abilities. “Who cares? I don’t care who we play. I don’t care that we’re in the tie. You just have to throw the ball up, to see what happens. That’s all you can control. It’s too stressful to think that we’re trying to dodge a team. We’ll see what happens”, commented the “7” of the Nets.

Irving, who was initially not going to count for the team, joined the ranks in away games after an outbreak of Covid-19 that left the Brooklyn practically without troops. After his good performance, he got back into dynamics, despite the fact that he could not play in New York due to sanitary measures.

Kyrie has made an assessment of the team of the season: “The reason we are so confident is that we’ve been to many different stages on different teams. We have been able to learn how to bring out the best in peopleand how people bring out the best in usIrving concluded.