If in the West the Los Angeles Lakes collapse, on the other side the negative protagonists are the Brooklyn Nets. The New Yorkers are in tenth place in their Conference and, if it weren’t for the Play-In tournament, they would be out of the Playoffs today. A season that leaves the whole team unsatisfied and that has become dangerously complicated with the injury of Kevin Durant.
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The number 7 of the Nets suffered a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee in mid-January. The injury kept him out for a month and a half and, with Kyrie Irving on alternate regimes, the results of the franchise plummeted. Without KD, they have arrived 5 wins so i 17 defeats. Durant himself is firmly convinced that his heavy injury has complicated everything:
“To be honest, I think our season got derailed due to my injury. So I don’t look at it like we’re a bad basketball team. There wasn’t much continuity between me and Kyrie [Irving] in quintet, that’s all. When we are all together on the pitch I appreciate what we have. “
In any case thealawho spoke after today’s training, is not worried about the ranking and the next opponent at the Play-In:
“Who cares? Who we will play with, we will play with. I don’t care who we play against. I don’t care that we’re at Play-In. We just have to get the ball up and see what happens. This is the only thing you can control. It’s too stressful to think about dodging a team, taking sides. We will see what happens. “
Kevin Durantin addition, he expressed himself on how the team should approach the Playoffs:
“We have kids who love to play basketball since they were seven, eight. In whatever situation we find ourselves, whether it is the Play-In, whether it is losing a few games, we have to work and enjoy the moment because we are kids who like to play basketball. Each day matters, the next it matters. You can talk about expectations and where you see this team on paper, but every day counts. Do you want to be champion? Every second on the pitch counts, not just when you face a good team or playoffs. I believe that becoming a champion lies in habits, in the work ethic, in the care you have for the game. Many champions haven’t won a ring, but they approach it in this way. This is what I think about how the team should approach the season. “
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