Although the Brooklyn Nets unexpectedly lost to the Washington Wizards, who are at the bottom of the league, in the last round, all Nets fans are still full of confidence in the team's upcoming games.

"Accident!" It was the unanimous understanding of all Nets fans, but what happened next surprised everyone.

The Brooklyn Nets first lost 89-90 at home to the Sacramento Kings, ranked 23rd in the league.

Next, they lost 85-99 to the Philadelphia 76ers, ranked 22nd in the league, and once again "unexpectedly" suffered three consecutive defeats.

Fans can't believe why the same team can defeat the top two "giants" in the league such as the Clippers and Thunder, and also lose to the Wizards, Kings, and 76ers at the bottom of the league.

In these three consecutive losses, the Nets have failed to score 90 points, and the Nets have fallen into a lackluster situation on the offensive end without warning.

Gao Dazhuang, who previously averaged 27 points per game and ranked fourth in the league's scoring list, only scored 18 points, 14 points, and 17 points in these three games, and there was no performance of "super scorers", which made many media and experts shout for the arrival of the tall and strong "rookie wall".

And in these three games, although the Nets failed to let the opponent score more than 100 points defensively, the Nets lost to the teams ranked 22nd, 23rd or even 30th in the league, and these teams were not strong in attack.

All of these "recent developments" with the Nets came after Lopez's return, and fans couldn't imagine why an All-Star-caliber center who averaged 19.4 points, 6.9 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 1.7 blocks per game came back to join the team. The team's combat power will not rise but fall, is it really incompatible with Lopez?

For this reason, the official forum of the Brooklyn Nets suddenly became the most "lively" place in the league, and a large number of experts and fans joined the discussion.

If it was a matter of luck to be killed by the Kings inside Cousins and lose to the Kings by one point, the Nets' 14-point defeat to the 76ers on the road really made people see the problems of the Nets.

Against the 76ers, Johnson's Nets continued to have old problems, a porous defense, and a terrible three-point shot, so it was no surprise that they lost.

The three-point shot has always been Johnson's main offensive weapon in charge, but at the Wells Fargo Arena, home of the 76ers, the Nets felt cold from beyond the three-point line. The team made just 2 of 22 three-pointers. The two players who made the three-pointers were Tall and Wallace, and they each made one.

For the first time in the past 10 years, the Nets have made at least 22 three-pointers and hit no more than two of them.

Inconsistencies in three-point shooting have always been a weakness for the Nets. The Nets as a whole don't have a three-point shooter in the truest sense of the word. The player with the most three-point shots and hits on the team turned out to be tall and strong who joined the Nets halfway through.

Actually, pre-season. In order to solve the three-point shooting problem, the Nets have signed players such as Stark House, Marshawn Brooks, Mirza Telitovic, etc., but the problem has not been solved. The best performer was Stackhouse, who averaged only 1.3 per game and 39.5 percent shooting.

If the Nets can have a more consistent performance from beyond the three-point line, and if they have a consistent shooter to support them, then the opponent will not dare to easily take a trap on Gao Dazhuang and Lopez, which will make the Nets' offense more threatening.

But it is precisely because of the lack of strong support from the outside that the Nets have suffered more defensive pressure on the inside, Lopez has frequently become the target of the opponent's contraction, and Lopez, who lacks passing vision, has frequent mistakes, and he has as many as 7 turnovers in the whole game.

In addition to the three-point shot, another reason the Nets lost was defense.

Since Lopez's return, the Nets' on-court height has increased, but the Nets' defense has deteriorated.

In the three-game losing streak, the Nets' interior line was almost unguarded on the court, and their defense became the object of constant ridicule by ESPN, TNT and other commentators on live TV.

Although Lopez went toe-to-toe with Cousins in the final minute of the fourth quarter against the Kings, the loss to the 76ers proved that his defense was a flash in the pan that day.

At the critical moment of chasing points in the fourth quarter of the game against the 76ers, the Nets' defense was still loose, and the most obvious scene was three minutes before the end.

After Gao Dazhuang and Brooks missed three-pointers one after another, the Nets, who were seven points behind, did not choose foul tactics, they wanted to hold on once and then look for an opportunity to fight back.

However, the Nets did not mark at all when they retreated, leaving a big road in their defense, and as a result, Holliday quickly cut to a dunk, which also ended the Nets' hopes of a comeback.

Even in the return defense, Gao Dazhuang and Lopez collided, and the two had a slight verbal altercation over this.

Seeing this ball, TNT commentator O'Neal was very angry and couldn't help but say "SHIT, you deserve it, the Nets deserve to lose today."

Fans who are familiar with the Nets know that O'Neal actually loves the Nets very much, and he also admires Tall and Strong, and he even calls himself the first fan of Tall and Strong.

The so-called "love is deep, pain is cut", seeing the Nets defending so badly and losing because they didn't defend, this naturally made O'Neal quite disappointed, and he burst into foul language.

The players and coaches are responsible for the team's loss, and of course, the tall and strong as the core player is inseparable, although the performance of the tall and strong may not be as embarrassing as the data.

Maybe it's because he feels a little bad when he shoots lately, but he doesn't shoot too much in the middle and long range in the game against the 76ers, but chooses to break through and attack more, and as a result, people have more opportunities to enjoy Gao Dazhuang's performance.

In the game, Gao Dazhuang not only had a pull-up layup after the baseline breakthrough, but also a reflexive dunk after the breakthrough. His performance also made the 76ers fans who watched the game exclaim.

As a guest on TNT's broadcast, O'Neill also commented after seeing the energetic performance of Tall Strong: "Tall and strong breakthroughs are always very threatening".

In the face of the 76ers' defense, Gao Dazhuang actually showed his composure, his breakthrough almost made the opponent incomprehensible, and several of the difficult moves had a chance to make it to the top 10.

However, it is difficult to convert Gao Dazhuang's breakthrough into scoring, due to the lack of strength from the outside, the 76ers targeted and strengthened the encirclement of Gao Dazhuang in the second half, and Lopez under the basket not only failed to form a good cover for Gao Dazhuang, but even in several breakthroughs, Lopez's position even caused Gao Dazhuang's unprovoked mistakes.

After his teammates threw away the tall and strong pass after another. They could only watch the score be slowly pulled apart. In the end, he swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat.

After a series of mistakes by the team, the problem of the "rookie wall" also began to plague Gao Dazhuang, and although Gao Dazhuang did not want to admit it, he had to deal with interviews with reporters about the issue.

The term "rookie wall" refers to rookies when they enter the NBA. Usually there is no state for a certain period of time. It's like there's an invisible wall in front of you blocking the way forward.

Because every year at the beginning of the season. The rookies all seem to be getting more and more active, jumping higher and running faster. Unfortunately, however, the NBA is a marathon event, not a sprint event.

Starting with training camp, rookies spend a month training twice a day, seven or eight preseason games, and then 82 games on the long road of a dozen back-to-back games and endless days of flying, staying in hotels and riding buses.

Eventually, when both physical and mental strength began to break down a little - the "rookie wall" came.

"Yes, I'm tired, sometimes I feel like I'm walking in quicksand, and to be honest, today I feel like someone

"However, the coach told me to cheer up and step over the obstacles, because I have been walking in the mud for a long time."

Gao Dazhuang can't avoid this problem, and he must bear most of the responsibility for the team's loss, because people are used to seeing him as a leader, and they are used to him scoring 30 points or more, but the recent continuous "weakness" has made Gao Dazhuang have to admit that he is troubled by the "rookie wall".

"My first priority is to try to keep his head above water, to tell him that the rookie wall is just a fictitious thing," Nets coach Johnson said encouragingly after the game, "I believe all these limitations are ideas that we set and are rooted in our own consciousness, and you talk about the rookie wall a lot, but I often say to Tall Zhuang, I don't want to hear this at all, I don't want to talk about it, I don't even want to talk nonsense about it, you should start getting this whole rookie wall concept out of your head."

As a "wall-hitter" passer, the 76ers' core Holliday, who played well in the last game, warned the tall and strong and other rookies at a press conference: "You have to take care of your body, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest, you have to keep training, stay in good shape, and that will help you get through this period more smoothly."

After the Brooklyn Nets lost to the Washington Wizards, Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers in a row, the tall and strong "No. 1 fan" and "big shark" O'Neal couldn't sit still, and he posted seven messages in a row on Twitter, expressing some of his thoughts about the current Nets.

In the opinion of "Big Shark" O'Neal, the Nets star is tall and strong, and he has made an MVP-level start, but he should take on more responsibility as a team leader.

"I've gotten tired of criticizing the Nets' coaches these days, but the players need to take the main blame for the Nets' problems right now." O'Neal kicked off criticism of the Nets with this sentence.

"Lopez should stop complaining and start really getting into the offensive end" O'Neal first said about the team's starting center, "Lopez is an All-Star level center, he shouldn't play so weak, he should play at a 20+10 level, especially in defensive rebounding, he can't let players shorter than him take rebounds away from him again and again."

"Tall and strong is going through an MVP-caliber season," O'Neal then said of the team's core tall and strong, "but the team needs him to be a better leader now, he needs to get more points and get enough assists to really help the Nets, he has to get over the rookie wall, he has to bring his teammates together, so that's what a leader should do."

"Wallace should stop talking big now and focus on improving the team's defense, Brooks needs to improve his shooting options, Humphries has to play passionately" After saying that the two cores of the team, O'Neal turned the finger to the role players.

"The Nets' interior big men have to get up and no longer let the opponent easily steal offensive rebounds, and the outside players have to speed up their replays and limit the opponent's fast break," O'Neal talked about the team's overall problems.

"Johnson has to teach his players how to block, how to defend pick-and-roll, how to switch defenses" Although he said at the beginning that he would no longer blame the coach, but in the end Coach Johnson did not escape O'Neal's criticism, "His main task is to make every player in the Nets have a clear position."

In the end, O'Neal uttered the most important sentence: "In addition to the above, the most important thing is that every player on the Nets team should have fun on the court, not let fans complain about each other after seeing the loss" (to be continued......

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