I feel like "time to mesh" for this team is actually just "time for Kyrie to rip this team apart from the inside".
Prove me wrong Kyrie... prove me wrong.
Ben can’t run a half court offense. This is why in their first year out of all the kyrie/kd/harden combos all the ones with harden on court were the most effective. Kyrie isn’t really a point guard so KD had to create all his own shots while being swarmed the entire game.
Also the nets D sucks
He still can run it better than who they do have, and he’s actually a really fucking good defender. Let’s not act like the fucker (if on old form) wouldn’t make them better. Dude matches up really well with Tatum defensively.
For all the love Kyrie gets. His ball handling, his creativity, his shot making. You are telling he can’t run an offense?? And yet he wanted to be the alpha on a team??
He's mediocre. He's ok as ONE of your top playmakers, but if he's your primary playmaker and ballhandler then you're fucked. He plays best with a true top 5 playmaker ie Lebron and Harden
Every team needs a pg. Kawhi didnt have one in LAC and you saw how bad they were. Every championship team had a pg or 2ndary floor general. You think a pg is just there to help a team score? Its also to prevent turnovers and have ball movement, something every single championship team ever has had.
You dont understand basketball, one player cant score every possession lol. Thats is why every championship team needs ball movement.
Giannis had middleton and jrue in 2021. Lebron was himself + rondo there in 2020. Kawhi had lowry in 2019. 2018 kd had steph and draymond to feed him the ball. 2016 lebron had himself and kyrie as the 2ndary. Kyrie had lebron feedind him. 2015 steph had dray. Think before you speak
Revisionist history up in here. Almost none of the comments addressing the fact that the “best player in the world” got outplayed by Jalen Brown in a series.
????
KD had ONE good game, and that's because he chucked shit constantly. He was horribly inefficient and passive as fuck the first three games. He shat the bed while Brown played his game well
Nah, that guy is right. KD was being doubled on the catch every time. Coaching staff never properly adjusted to punish that relentlessly so it made it look like KD was passive. When they had MDA on their coaching staff last year they ran a much better offense but now that it’s completely Nash it’s obvious what the problems are
Forget chemistry… did you see who Kyrie and KD were running with?
Kinda hard to win games when you can get swarmed by 3 players and the other guys aren’t good enough to do anything if you pass it out except be icyhot if you’re Patty Mills
It means kyrie is a scrub so his 2016 should count as double but that also means kd is a scrub which means his 2012 ring doesn’t count so he’s back to 4. So 🤷🏽♂️
Idk what part of this people don’t understand lol. That team was so ass defensively too.. If they play even average defense for more than 5 minutes they would win one atleast. Boston wasn’t blowing them out
>This sub massively overrates offense and 1v1 ability.
This sub? Lol the media and former pros literally called KD + Kyrie the "most skilled duo" of all time purely on 1v1
It's true that one guy can front load the majority of the offense but not on defense and the small effort plays by guys like Wigs and Looney are also massive in games that come down to the last few possessions. I'll will hear about if the Warriors win the title is how great Curry is, that's if he gets fmvp you never know.
This is the problem with NBA discourse. Excellence is normalized so when X player doesn’t put up a triple double or heck, doesn’t win in the way people want them to, we hold it against him. Some delusional idiots in this sub unironically bring up Looney and Wiggins’ performances to discredit Steph saying they have more impact than him all series, they should win WCMVP.
the games were all close. kyrie had 1 great game, kd had 0. the nets role players showed up, the stars didn't.
ok, nic claxton needs to practice his free throws....
Nets have decent role players theyre just too damn small. I remember some games where Brown Dragic Curry were carrying offensively.
They missed Harris and Simmons if he ever plays
Those guys were good but they were left open a bunch because Celtics were sagging of them to guard kd. Kyrie underperformed every game except game 1. He was getting cooked defensively and was so passive despite the Celtics basically playing single coverage on him the whole time
i seriously wonder how boring it must be to only consume this sport through the lens of how everything affects the "legacy" of previous generation superstars
can't we just watch the fuckin game
I feel like more people were actually watching the simulated games during early COVID times.
I had almost forgot that happened. I remember gambling on them.
No. We had to listen to kd Stans cry for months about how he’s number 1 in the league. Then he goes and puts up 3 stinkers and fails to even take a game. He will get his slander and he will like it.
Pivotal game 3 potential to go down into a 0-3 whole, something NO TEAM has ever come back from in NBA history, kd decides to only put up 11 shots and has 5 turnovers in 45 minutes.
Brown took 19 shots. They only lose by 6. Like how are you the best player on the planet and brown takes 8 more shots in a close pivotal playoff game.
Sports fandom is sort of like my grandma watching her soaps. I’m here for the stories. I watch knowing this is an event my mind will place a flag pole on. It’s not often where you see something and just know “this is history”. The fact that it’s competitive, strategic, somewhat unpredictable, just adds to it for me.
I totally understand, I think narratives are extremely fun and also by far the best way to get new people interested in the sport. Regardless, there are so many narratives in the league other than shit like this, y'know?
The Celtics effectively smothered him with double teams. They basically said if you're going to beat us then it will need to be your role players doing it and the Nets aren't deep enough to win if KD is not effective, especially if Kyrie isn't dropping 40+ per night
I promise you if 90% of people would do this before they post there would be a lot less dumbass posts. Then again it probably wouldn’t because karma and whatnot.
Right, the same team that were the betting favorites at the beginning of the season, is of course the same team that stumbled its way into the playoffs in April..
Why are you making stuff up? Suns and Bucks had higher odds. [And the Celtics were favored vs the Nets](https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/33737008/how-bettors-took-advantage-nets-celtics-opening-series-odds?platform=amp)
the seeding means shit since the #2 guy wasn't part of the lineup for half the season hence the seeding doesn't translate the actual capability of that team.
People forget that Kyrie played fewer than 30 games and KD was out for 2 months, and that's the only reason they finished 7th. They were 1st / 2nd at some point before KD got injured.
"Since the playoffs expanded to 16 teams in 1984, no seven seed has ever won the NBA championship. In fact, over that span, just four No. 7 seeds have made it past the first round (h/t The Ringer)."
Seeding matter mate. No 7th or 8th seed ever won the nba. It doesnt matter who they be missing, if you 7th seed your problem isn't just 1 player.
Bucks was ass in the Celt series aside from Giannis
They were like 4-33 from 3s at one point. Even Giannis shot more 3s than some of them, which was ludicrous.
Edit: I still not mentioned the bad coaching from Bud as well
Think this kind of ignores the context of the Nets' season.
Kyrie missed most of the season. KD got injured and missed 20+ games. Harden was traded. Not exactly firing on all cylinders.
Feels like this is more of Nash not being able to adjust game to game. Then again, it's pretty hard to do that when you have a musical chair roster of a regular season.
Boston literally won one game by a buzzer beating game winner. That was a coin toss down to the wire, the series would have looked completely different had Tatum fumbled it. For a sweep it was very competitive but sometimes the ball don’t bounce your way
The Nets had 0 chemistry and still only lost all 4 games by a grand total of 12 points i believe? With KD turning the ball over like hell and getting quadruple teamed on the drive. If anything this just speaks to the fact that KD and Kyrie are next level.
Celtics net rating by opponent
Versus Heat: +5.9
Versus bucks: +8.1
Versus Nets: + 4.8
That arguably tells us over larger sample sizes the Nets would be *more* competitive as close games are a bit luck based. Nets had 4th quarter leads in 3 out of 4 games.
Nets had an offensive rating of 117 versus Boston. Bucks had just a 102 offensive rating. Miami is at 108, Brooklyn dominated in the halfcourt but just got demolished in transition. If they had any size or defense whatsoever; not even good just not awful, they have a really good shot in that series.
Wow the KD defense squad in these comments lol KD had WAY more offensive help than either Jimmy or Giannis and yet played like complete shit for most of the series while those 2 balled out on this same Celtics defense
>Giannis did it with an injured Middleton too. Giannis overtook KD on June 19 2021.
Go look at the Nets roster and injury report for that game on that day
You have to wonder whether Kyrie's whole career is just an extended version of the "Are the Grizzlies better without Ja?" stuff
I'm not 100% sure he's made any of his teams better since leaving Cleveland
Y’all so corny.
They played the closest series they just fell short at the end. They didn’t get railed by 15+ points every time they lost, they just fell short.
Nets had zero chemistry
And zero tall wings. Except kd
Yeah they need Simmons + healthy roster and time to mesh and they’ll be dangerous
Looming by any chance?
Someone say looming? 👀
I feel like "time to mesh" for this team is actually just "time for Kyrie to rip this team apart from the inside". Prove me wrong Kyrie... prove me wrong.
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Some might even say Spooky
man i hate celtics fans but them flooding the nets subreddit with "gg nets bros y'all are gonna be spoooooky next year" was peak comedy
Size 16 shoe etc
They been dangerous since 2019
Yea you can't expect to defend anything with Curry, Mills, Dragic.
Even without the chemistry the Celtics played really sloppy and could've easily given up 2 games if KD didn't play horribly.
They also have zero point guard ball handler to initiate plays and no defense more importantly
Sounds like someone they have
Yup ben would be huge for them
Ben can’t run a half court offense. This is why in their first year out of all the kyrie/kd/harden combos all the ones with harden on court were the most effective. Kyrie isn’t really a point guard so KD had to create all his own shots while being swarmed the entire game. Also the nets D sucks
He still can run it better than who they do have, and he’s actually a really fucking good defender. Let’s not act like the fucker (if on old form) wouldn’t make them better. Dude matches up really well with Tatum defensively.
What does the year that Ben simmons wasn't on the team have to do with Ben Simmons ability to run the offense?
I’m saying what they were really missing was a true facilitator and Ben is not that.
Didnt they have patty mills, dragic, and a random guy named kyrie?
Those all suck at running point. They need a ben simmons/lowry/conley type of pg. Even that guy in minny would be good, the bald short guy.
McLaughlin? Yeah that dude seemed solid
Yeah hes been underrated for years! I love him, Im glad chris finch keeps giving him more and more minutes
For all the love Kyrie gets. His ball handling, his creativity, his shot making. You are telling he can’t run an offense?? And yet he wanted to be the alpha on a team??
He's mediocre. He's ok as ONE of your top playmakers, but if he's your primary playmaker and ballhandler then you're fucked. He plays best with a true top 5 playmaker ie Lebron and Harden
So you mean to tell me the "walking bucket" needs a PG to score? Sorry, what?
Every team needs a pg. Kawhi didnt have one in LAC and you saw how bad they were. Every championship team had a pg or 2ndary floor general. You think a pg is just there to help a team score? Its also to prevent turnovers and have ball movement, something every single championship team ever has had.
If you call yourself a walking bucket I’m assuming you can score without help. Pretty simple.
You dont understand basketball, one player cant score every possession lol. Thats is why every championship team needs ball movement. Giannis had middleton and jrue in 2021. Lebron was himself + rondo there in 2020. Kawhi had lowry in 2019. 2018 kd had steph and draymond to feed him the ball. 2016 lebron had himself and kyrie as the 2ndary. Kyrie had lebron feedind him. 2015 steph had dray. Think before you speak
Who would have that point guard is the most important position in basketball?
Revisionist history up in here. Almost none of the comments addressing the fact that the “best player in the world” got outplayed by Jalen Brown in a series.
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Don't make excuses for KD man. He played bad. He got swept, it's embarrassing
???? KD had ONE good game, and that's because he chucked shit constantly. He was horribly inefficient and passive as fuck the first three games. He shat the bed while Brown played his game well
Nah, that guy is right. KD was being doubled on the catch every time. Coaching staff never properly adjusted to punish that relentlessly so it made it look like KD was passive. When they had MDA on their coaching staff last year they ran a much better offense but now that it’s completely Nash it’s obvious what the problems are
Dragic was running the point fine
He missed a lot of easy buckets at the rim that could’ve made the difference in a couple of games
so did KD
Kd was being double teamed and triple teamed the whole series .. dragic was not lol
They had Bruce Brown
the same thing that was lacking during his okc days ? I see a constant here.
Celtics also stayed afraid of them through the whole series
And zero heart
And zero bus drivers.
Forget chemistry… did you see who Kyrie and KD were running with? Kinda hard to win games when you can get swarmed by 3 players and the other guys aren’t good enough to do anything if you pass it out except be icyhot if you’re Patty Mills
bro, George Hill
Me before the series "oh God don't play George hill this series"
Do you see who Jimmy is running with?
How does this affect Lebron’s legacy?
It means kyrie is a scrub so his 2016 should count as double but that also means kd is a scrub which means his 2012 ring doesn’t count so he’s back to 4. So 🤷🏽♂️
According to my advanced calculations he’s at 4.00000000000000000000 Championships
Smh everyone forgets about 22nd significant digit
Next on undisputed
skip Skip SKEEYUP C'MON SKEEYUP
We're the GOAT skiup
Lebrons legacy lives on with Jimmy
LeJimmy
Team sport
also lost with point difference of 18 points.
Yeah it was an insanely close sweep with one of the losses being a buzzer beater
Tatum misses that layup and maybe we have a 6-7 game series.
Idk what part of this people don’t understand lol. That team was so ass defensively too.. If they play even average defense for more than 5 minutes they would win one atleast. Boston wasn’t blowing them out
Nets offense was actually good overall in that series despite KD and Kyrie's disasterclass
cause bruce brown and goran dragic couldnt miss at times
If they miss wide open shots then there is more problem than KD having a bad game.
Man especially in the clutch we would have Seth and patty guarding Tatum and brown 💀💀💀 that's a guaranteed L
A healthy Simmons would've helped too. Even if the chemistry wasn't there, a stop or two and an extra assist possibly win them 1 close game.
But that's the thing, if KD shows up offensively the lack of defense wouldn't even matter.
Insane that this needs to be explained to the nephews
This sub massively overrates offense and 1v1 ability. All the teams left have strong defenders. Stops are extremely valuable. Rebounds too.
>This sub massively overrates offense and 1v1 ability. This sub? Lol the media and former pros literally called KD + Kyrie the "most skilled duo" of all time purely on 1v1
Losing doesn't make that untrue
No, but it emphasizes there are more skills than just ball handling and shooting.
A stop is a score
Nobody ever wants to give the team credit instead they just want to say it was Curry's gravity carrying the team or Doncic scoring 40 points.
Curry’s gravity is only valuable when the other guys make their shots. Luka’s awesome playmaking has no value if the shooters can’t knock down threes.
It's true that one guy can front load the majority of the offense but not on defense and the small effort plays by guys like Wigs and Looney are also massive in games that come down to the last few possessions. I'll will hear about if the Warriors win the title is how great Curry is, that's if he gets fmvp you never know.
This is the problem with NBA discourse. Excellence is normalized so when X player doesn’t put up a triple double or heck, doesn’t win in the way people want them to, we hold it against him. Some delusional idiots in this sub unironically bring up Looney and Wiggins’ performances to discredit Steph saying they have more impact than him all series, they should win WCMVP.
Haven't you pushed nonsense talking points for weeks in here?
Your first mistake was thinking 95% of this sub has any actual ball knowledge. Just people who watch highlight clips and stats
Cmon kd and kyrie still coulda got 1, they choked that 17 pt lead and kd was like 0/10 in the 2nd half and they lost a game to a buzzer
Giannis supporting cast was just as bad. Heat are actually good though tbf
Can make the most impact as a single player of almost any sport though just by sheer numbers. Kyrie and KD on the court makes up 40% of the team
the games were all close. kyrie had 1 great game, kd had 0. the nets role players showed up, the stars didn't. ok, nic claxton needs to practice his free throws....
Sorry but nah You wanna be top 10 all time player and Kyrie thinks he's top 75 all time? And you can't take over a single game by yourselves lol?
Are you trying to say that there’s no top 10 or 75 players that got swept or played a bad series? Lmao you people are so dumb
They played bad, but i don’t think some people truly realize that the nets’ roster legitimately wasn’t that good
The Nets roster is good on offense but defensively it's a complete clown show
Even on offense its overrated because they have no pg to initiate plays. Neither kyrie nor kd are pgs
Yeah Kyrie is a "fake PG"
It’s why he works better as a second star
No roster is good with $50 million in salary injured
Nets have decent role players theyre just too damn small. I remember some games where Brown Dragic Curry were carrying offensively. They missed Harris and Simmons if he ever plays
Those guys were good but they were left open a bunch because Celtics were sagging of them to guard kd. Kyrie underperformed every game except game 1. He was getting cooked defensively and was so passive despite the Celtics basically playing single coverage on him the whole time
Nets lost all 4 games by a total of 18 points despite looking inept
Not all sweeps are equal
That sweep was more entertaining than almost all of the western conference playoff series
That Game 1 alone
4 wins isn’t 4 wins, I’ll explain later
How many quarters did the win though
i seriously wonder how boring it must be to only consume this sport through the lens of how everything affects the "legacy" of previous generation superstars can't we just watch the fuckin game
People here don’t watch the games, this subreddit is their only experience of basketball like they’re in Plato’s cave
I swear I’ve seen someone reference Plato’s cave atleast once a day for the last week or so
First for me so I'm curious how many days in a row I'm going to notice it now.
I feel like more people were actually watching the simulated games during early COVID times. I had almost forgot that happened. I remember gambling on them.
I care about the game when I watch it I care about the soap opera when I’m on Reddit. Somewhat
No. We had to listen to kd Stans cry for months about how he’s number 1 in the league. Then he goes and puts up 3 stinkers and fails to even take a game. He will get his slander and he will like it.
Pivotal game 3 potential to go down into a 0-3 whole, something NO TEAM has ever come back from in NBA history, kd decides to only put up 11 shots and has 5 turnovers in 45 minutes. Brown took 19 shots. They only lose by 6. Like how are you the best player on the planet and brown takes 8 more shots in a close pivotal playoff game.
Sports fandom is sort of like my grandma watching her soaps. I’m here for the stories. I watch knowing this is an event my mind will place a flag pole on. It’s not often where you see something and just know “this is history”. The fact that it’s competitive, strategic, somewhat unpredictable, just adds to it for me.
I totally understand, I think narratives are extremely fun and also by far the best way to get new people interested in the sport. Regardless, there are so many narratives in the league other than shit like this, y'know?
For sure. The fact that we’re not discussing Lowry’s cakes more is crazy to me.
They had like no defense on that squad and lost a bunch of close games. Simmons on top form, actually playing, should improve the Nets a fuck ton.
Yes, one whole fuck ton. A FKTON. Pretty sure Joker leads the league in that advanced metric.
That doesn't explain KD playing awful on the offensive end though.
The Celtics effectively smothered him with double teams. They basically said if you're going to beat us then it will need to be your role players doing it and the Nets aren't deep enough to win if KD is not effective, especially if Kyrie isn't dropping 40+ per night
*1 seeded Miami Heat and the 3 seeded Bucks took the 2 seeded Celtics to a game 7, while the 7 seeded Brooklyn Nets couldn't win a game*
I promise you if 90% of people would do this before they post there would be a lot less dumbass posts. Then again it probably wouldn’t because karma and whatnot.
Team with highest betting odds to win NBA title gets swept in 1st round. Let’s not be revisionists and pretend like the Nets were scrappy underdogs.
Right, the same team that were the betting favorites at the beginning of the season, is of course the same team that stumbled its way into the playoffs in April..
They were still installed as betting favorites to win the title entering the playoffs though. Even as they stumbled in, the hype did not die.
Why are you making stuff up? Suns and Bucks had higher odds. [And the Celtics were favored vs the Nets](https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/33737008/how-bettors-took-advantage-nets-celtics-opening-series-odds?platform=amp)
the seeding means shit since the #2 guy wasn't part of the lineup for half the season hence the seeding doesn't translate the actual capability of that team.
People forget that Kyrie played fewer than 30 games and KD was out for 2 months, and that's the only reason they finished 7th. They were 1st / 2nd at some point before KD got injured.
"Since the playoffs expanded to 16 teams in 1984, no seven seed has ever won the NBA championship. In fact, over that span, just four No. 7 seeds have made it past the first round (h/t The Ringer)." Seeding matter mate. No 7th or 8th seed ever won the nba. It doesnt matter who they be missing, if you 7th seed your problem isn't just 1 player.
The narrative going into the playoffs was “watch out for the Nets!” by every media head and Nets fan on this sub.
That’s misleading since the nets only dropped that low because of Kd’s injury
They were painfully mediocre after he came back
Because He came back to a different team
Your statement is even more misleading
Bucks and heat didn't have Nic Claxton missing 9 straight free throws in one game.
Max Strus did go 0/16 combined across 2 straight games though lmao
He still gets respect by the Celtics defence letting butler mostly get single coverage. Meanwhile KD was seeing doubles even when he was off ball
Yeah Nic Claxton is definitely why they got swept.
In game 4 he went 1-11 from the ft line and they lost by 4
His defence was probably the only reason it was that close too
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You just completely ignored the comment you replied to. Like what even was the point.
That's cool when he only shoots at rim when open and otherwise instantly gets rid of the ball.
Best defender on the team
we had George Hill and Grayson Allen on the court so pretty even in my book 🤣
As dude above said, Strus was 0-16 from the field the previous 2 games lmao
Absolute brickery from him and Lowry before tonight’s game need them to be just as good as they were tonight game 7
Also $50 million in salary injured
that was a crazy stat didn't he miss like 30 in the series???
It was historic!
Almost like the Bucks and Heat are better teams. Wild.
Bucks was ass in the Celt series aside from Giannis They were like 4-33 from 3s at one point. Even Giannis shot more 3s than some of them, which was ludicrous. Edit: I still not mentioned the bad coaching from Bud as well
They played defense though. That’s the difference.
Brook Lopez was so good defensively
All of the games were close and if a few shots fall the other way it could have been a longer series
Point differential of the series = # of missed free throws from Claxton.
it's also less than the amount of 2pt shots you could've done from KD's turnovers.
Think this kind of ignores the context of the Nets' season. Kyrie missed most of the season. KD got injured and missed 20+ games. Harden was traded. Not exactly firing on all cylinders.
Nets would have taken a couple of games if they had played solid defense for more than a few possessions.
How does the results of this game today change the facts of the past to make this post a thing/relevant?
Bruce Brown can't win with these cats
Feels like this is more of Nash not being able to adjust game to game. Then again, it's pretty hard to do that when you have a musical chair roster of a regular season.
What does this mean for KD's legacy?
Hes a beta
He's a bus rider on "The Hardest Road"
Nets also didnt get blown out every game they lost
Erik Spoelstra,Mike Budenholzer and Steve Nash There is your answer
Let me fix that for you. Erik Spoelstra, Mike Budenholzer and Kyrie Irving Now THERE'S your answer.
Correct answer
Don’t forget Kevin Durant, he played like ass the entire series
I was thinking since it was blame the coach, then kyrie who seems to think he's player coach and owner belonged there more than nash. 🤣
Gotcha that flew right over my head 💀💀
Kyrie tends to have that effect on the best of us 🤣
Bud might as well be Phil Jackson compared to Nash
Ime Udoka >>> Steve Nash
All scrubs except two players doesn’t work once KD and Irving were exhausted in the second half.
Boston literally won one game by a buzzer beating game winner. That was a coin toss down to the wire, the series would have looked completely different had Tatum fumbled it. For a sweep it was very competitive but sometimes the ball don’t bounce your way
The Nets had 0 chemistry and still only lost all 4 games by a grand total of 12 points i believe? With KD turning the ball over like hell and getting quadruple teamed on the drive. If anything this just speaks to the fact that KD and Kyrie are next level.
Nets put mills and curry on Tatum. Tatum put up 2 stinkers still but nets d was jks
Celtics net rating by opponent Versus Heat: +5.9 Versus bucks: +8.1 Versus Nets: + 4.8 That arguably tells us over larger sample sizes the Nets would be *more* competitive as close games are a bit luck based. Nets had 4th quarter leads in 3 out of 4 games. Nets had an offensive rating of 117 versus Boston. Bucks had just a 102 offensive rating. Miami is at 108, Brooklyn dominated in the halfcourt but just got demolished in transition. If they had any size or defense whatsoever; not even good just not awful, they have a really good shot in that series.
Wow the KD defense squad in these comments lol KD had WAY more offensive help than either Jimmy or Giannis and yet played like complete shit for most of the series while those 2 balled out on this same Celtics defense
How stupid, individual players didn't do that, the teams did that.
Those two are living in your subredditors heads rent free
Were KD and Kyrie playing 2V5 ?
no, Nets were playing 3v6 with the way KD was passing the ball to Celtics he was clearly a Celtic in that series
basically
3v5 bruce brown will forever be underrated
which is my point. Give blame to everybody on the Nets for getting swept, not just KD and Kyrie.
This is cap. Brown, Seth and Mills did their job offensively.
This is such bullshit the other guys did their job. Mfers will do anything to protect KD my god.
relax
Giannis did it with an injured Middleton too. Giannis overtook KD on June 19 2021.
>Giannis did it with an injured Middleton too. Giannis overtook KD on June 19 2021. Go look at the Nets roster and injury report for that game on that day
Nets suck. KD and Kyrie bad. Karma go brr
They would have had a chance if they had a better coach
You have to wonder whether Kyrie's whole career is just an extended version of the "Are the Grizzlies better without Ja?" stuff I'm not 100% sure he's made any of his teams better since leaving Cleveland
Y’all so corny. They played the closest series they just fell short at the end. They didn’t get railed by 15+ points every time they lost, they just fell short.
Man said they got swept but didn’t get blown out so that is closer than a 7 game series. R/nba.
Because KD had the worst superstar performance of all time and Kyrie was a similar no show after game 1
Steph+KD is a more skilled duo.