“They didn’t have good defensive fundamentals in January…I don’t think they’re gonna have them in April” Brian Windhorst believes Brooklyn Nets could struggle in the playoffs because of their lacklustre defence
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The Brooklyn Nets, behind Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, beat the hapless Detroit Pistons to everything except guarantee themselves of a spot in the play-in competition. Brooklyn may be excluded from the play-in assuming they lose their last six games while their cross-city matches, the New York Knicks, run the table.
On the off chance that the Brooklyn Nets truly do get into the postseason by means of the play-in, no team will be too eager to even think about confronting a solid KD and Kyrie Irving. In the last couple of games, the Nets’ geniuses have reminded the NBA exactly the way that strong their team can be when both are playing their best.
Brian Windhorst explains why Brooklyn Nets will have a tough time in playoffs
Veteran basketball examiner Brian Windhorst, in any case, doesn’t see the Brooklyn Nets diving deep into the end of the season games:
“They just don’t have good defensive fundamentals. They didn’t have good defensive fundamentals in January, they don’t have them in March, I don’t think they’re gonna have them in April. If this was another year, if this was 2015 or 16, back in those years with the Cavs, with LeBron, who didn’t have to stretch before game till the conference finals and the East had some not so good teams, I would feel like, ‘Yeah, I could see this.’”
Brooklyn’s uncouth safeguard was clear in their success over the Detroit Pistons, who are positioned 28th in hostile rating. The Pistons likewise played without their driving scorer Jerami Grant yet dropped 123 points on the Nets’ safeguard before their home fans.
Windhorst kept on expounding on his point:
“But it’s not just the Nets’ defense that’s worrisome. It’s the quality of the opposition that they’re gonna have to beat…But I just can’t get behind believing that they can win three playoff series defending this manner.”
The offense figures to deal with its own the length of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant are accessible. Brooklyn possesses the eighth best hostile rating in the NBA to a great extent because of their two super skilled scorers. Their guard, be that as it may, is another story.
The Brooklyn Nets’ guard is the specific inverse of their offense. Brooklyn’s cautious rating of 112.5 is the eighth most horrendously awful in the association. In the event that they can’t stop the draining against a disagreeably awkward team, they will make some intense memories containing more strong teams like the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics. Will we see the Nets finally be able to finally answer their critics by uplifting their game on the defensive end? Remains to be seen.
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