(The original text was published on October 31, and the author is Shaun Powell on NBA’s official website. The content of the article does not represent the translator’s point of view)
The atmosphere is harmonious, full of hope and clear goals. This is what basketable nets looked like in people’s eyes three years ago. However, the changes that have taken place now are like the past 30 years, so that people can’t help asking again, why did Durant choose to leave the warrior for basketable nets?
All right, let’s back the time to the autumn of 2019. The Soraka-gathered basketable Nets opened the training camp before the new season, which is completely different from the previous list of dim stars. This time everything looks so perfect. From Durant and Owen’s mouth, it sounds the same. Both of them left the original stronger team as free agents. They put down their rhetoric and want to grow together, bringing basketable Nets to a new level.
What else could happen?
Now listen to what Durant and Owen said at that time and compare the current situation of basketable nets. Besides being funny, I feel painful.
Durant explained why he was more optimistic about basketable nets and said: “The style of this team is very attractive to me. Basketable nets has some good line-up puzzles and a creative management team.”
(Durant applied for a deal this summer, questioning the team’s lineup list, focusing on accusing general manager Sean Max and head coach Nash.)
Durant continued: “I have done a lot of research on coach Atkinson on the tubing. I really like his coaching method, and I was attracted soon.”
(Atkinson, a concise and comprehensive person, only made a coach for one season before being defected by basketable Nets stars.)
When talking about the decision to form a team with Durant, Owen said: “It was 04:16 in the morning, and Durant and little Jordan sat together to discuss the future, the opportunity before us was unprecedented in our career, so we discussed in detail the future planning, investment in each other and the investment we want to make in Brooklyn. Therefore, it is meaningful to form a team, and the existing outstanding players in the basket net will also make this easier.”
The situation has changed and something has happened. It is not that everything has become better after basketable nets, but that a team eager to compete for the championship is now in a painful position in the eastern countdown. The current record of the new season is only 1 win and 5 losses, and there are still a lot of messy things to deal with inside and outside the game, which are very easy to be distracted.
Basketable nets of the problems can be attributed to the problems exposed after the super star’s power was too large, and an almost crazy management desperately wanted to save the situation; A devalued Ben Simmons, his confidence in shooting seemed to have been completely defeated; Nash, a coach who was criticized and might indeed have insufficient ability; A point guard with the idea of “unrestrained, the skills and fancy fengshui ball are top-level.
Of course, basketable nets can reverse all these comments, just need to improve their ranking. At the same time, it can also prove Durant and Owen’s top talents. Both of them scored more than 30 points, and still have the ability to control the game. But at this moment? Quote one of the famous words that the former basketable Nets player Michelle Ray Richardson once said in New York: The ship is going to sink!
Is it possible that the peak moment of basketable nets will always be Durant’s retreat in downtown when he played the Bucks in the playoffs a few years ago? Because since then, almost everything has been holding back their lofty ideals.
Two years ago, basketable nets bought James Harden with some promising young players (Lewell, jarert-Allen), the arrival of the former MVP player only raised the hope of becoming a potential dynasty basketable nets. But Harden soon began to feel depressed about this team and wanted to leave and join 76 people, while 76 people were only willing to take Simmons as a bargaining chip.
Mention this…… Do you still remember those videos posted on social media this summer? In the video, Simmons hit a series of three-pointers in training, but now he still hasn’t got rid of the stigma that the outside world cast on his outside. So far this season, Simmons has only one three-point attempt and failed to hit. Moreover, when the defense gave him enough space to play, he failed to score double. At present, the average score is only 6.2 points, and 4.3 fouls are sent at the same time.
Don’t forget, although Simmons was never a pitcher, his average score in his career before this season was 16 points. As a three-time All-Star player, none of the six games played for basketable nets could have influence on both sides of attack and defense. Therefore, some reasonable questions are raised, such as how Simmons can adapt to the basketable nets competition? And whether he is still worried about the poor performance of the 76-man and Eagle playoff series two years ago, which was criticized by the outside world?
Owen was caught by the microphone on the field in the game of losing to the Bucks last basketable nets, asking Simmons to shoot. Owen said in an interview after the game that the move was in support of Simmons and rebuked the public for giving Simmons “a chance”. However, this kind of support of Owen has a warning meaning:
“We hope Simmons can play offensive in every round. We hope he can give out assists in every round. We hope he can rebound and do everything we know he has the ability to do. But at present, he must make himself confident and feel good about himself. The reality is that we need to conduct team experiments every night until we find the right combination.”
Owen knew how to remain confident. He played well at the beginning of the season and maintained his position as one of the top ten players in the league. Of course, the topic of Owen now is not about confidence. Last week, Owen released a dynamic on social media, ostensibly supporting a documentary regarded as anti-Semitism. NBA took an abnormal operation to condemn hate speech, but did not explain why it was condemned and who issued hate speech in the first place.
But everyone with social media accounts knows who NBA refers.
Since joining basketable nets, this is Owen’s problem. He succeeded in diverting people’s attention from his outstanding competition ability as always, and adopted social, medical and political positions that he believed were radical and meaningful. However, Owen’s team and NBA League will think that he is irresponsible at best, and it is absolutely ignorant to choose reckless behavior under bad circumstances. Owen only followed the ideas in his mind. Whenever the outside world counterattacks him, his behavior and attitude will be more provocative and stronger.
This is the main reason why basketable nets refused to renew his contract with Owen this summer. Obviously, people also have serious doubts about the future of basketable nets after the contract expires next summer. If basketable nets didn’t make a deal, Owen left as a free agent, basketable Nets won’t get any return, and Durant after 35 lost another important teammate, the former MVP star will definitely apply for the transaction again.
After losing to the Pacers at home, basketable nets suffered a four-game defeat. After the game, the players expressed their dissatisfaction in the internal meeting. Simmons called the meeting “Frank”. Durant described the atmosphere of the meeting as “gloomy” because basketable Nets couldn’t deceive himself and anyone else. From all aspects, the performance at the beginning of the basketable Nets season was disastrous.
Nash, even after experiencing the most painful defeat, will appear in public to accept criticism. He said: “We must look at ourselves from the bottom of our hearts to see what we really want to do and what we want to achieve. Do you want to give up when you encounter some difficulties at the beginning, or stick to building something. At the beginning of the season, we had a lot of very pleasant time. After losing some games, our mentality became very unstable. We have not seen the spirit of competition and the determination to achieve our goals. If we do not solve these problems, the situation will not improve.”
If this situation continues, Nash may lose his job next season and even finish class this season. However, the struggle of basketable nets can also be attributed to the mystery of Simmons’s state, the injuries of Seth Curry and Joe Harris, and the lack of a high-quality big player or basket guard. In basketable nets, the opponent scored 121.6 points per hundred rounds, and this defensive performance was at the bottom of the league.
The next basketable nets schedule will be easier, which may be helpful. Tomorrow I will meet the walkers again, followed by wizards, Wasps, Kings…… And the Lakers-the identical twins team in the west of basketable nets.
The NBA season has experienced ups and downs, and painful emotions can be reversed into sweetness within a few days. Especially for a team with Durant and Owen, yesterday’s mood may have a very short shelf life.
Because of this, Durant would say: “We still have a lot of games to play next.”
Indeed, but we can also recall what Owen said, long before he chose the controversial position, long before Simmons and Nash arrived, even before Durant and Owen sweated in the first layup tennis togs, you may frown involuntarily when hearing this sentence.
Owen in 2019 once said: “We want to end our career together. We want to be a team to achieve this goal together. Which team is more suitable than basketable nets?” The basketable nets at that time seemed to have a bright future, far less complicated than now.
Original: Shaun Powell
Compile: Li Taibai
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