In a not necessarily accommodating loss tonight once morest Orlando, the new Nets’ flagship attacking trio – made up of Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Spencer Dinwiddie – exceeded the number of minutes played together by Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. In just a month and a half.
365 minutes. This is the combined playing time of Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and James Harden with the Nets. In a year of living together in Brooklyn. Since that night, they have been beaten by the trio Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Spencer Dinwiddie. Who took them less than a month and a half to break this record. It is to say the lack of regularity of the ex-stars of Brooklyn.
Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, and Spencer Dinwiddie have played more minutes together on the Brooklyn Nets than Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden ????
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Of course, the statistics make you smile. To even make fun? On first reading, probably yes. With a little more analysis, one wonders how several years of project, sports reconstruction and sacrifices of the workforce might give birth to 365 minutes of play. Frankly. Nor will we redo history, you know it only too well. COVID, sores, extra-sporting affairs… Nothing was really optimal during the New York pseudo-idyll of the three thieves.
And now a fresh band, willing to play though not everything is perfect. Want our opinion? The Nets have every interest in keeping this group and adding an interesting name to it. The summer is likely to be tough on the side of Brooklyn, because the list of attractive players is very long and many teams are likely to knock. This group just needs a leader to make it a winning machine. Collectively? It’s already in tune, not a word that exceeds the other. And that is often the key to a recipe that works in the NBA. Better than an assemblage of stars in fleeting playtime together.
Source : Doug Norrie via Clutch Points
