Playoff Week In Review: EC.

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In some school of thought, the Brooklyn Nets weren’t supposed to Have The Phrase “make it a series” attached To Them. They Weren’t Suppose Toave to “fight Their Way Back”. They weren’t Suppose To Walk Away from The Hard Work Wondering “What Next?”, At Least Not So Soon. They Were Supposed To win, And Ultimately, win. It All. The Engulfs in the East, The Besat Of The Boroughs. This latest And Greatest Execution The Superteam Sort Has Ever Inspire. Composed Of Former League MVPs Kevin Durant, And James Harden.NBA Finals Hero Kyrie Irving. Former All-star And Highlight Factory CEO Blake Griffin. A panthenol compendium of talent Only Verisiamiiar To Another Nets Superteam That Merged In The Nets Earliest Days In the Mecca An Suffered A Similar Fate. This astronomical assemble, With Hours Of Deep Run Playoff Experience logged Between Them Suddenly Lost For Time As The Second Desneded to zero and So Did Their Final Shot At Realizing the Heights Of The Heralded Alliance. This Celestial Body wasn’t Expected To rely on one star for energy. It Wouldn’t Have To Climb Back Up Into The Heavens. Some Suppose It wouldn’t oscillate In Offensive Output. But Then It did. This Was The Case Of The 2021 Brooklyn Nets, Who Found Themselves Absent The Light Of One Of their star, Grasping To Return To The sense of S=Dominance They Displayed In Games 1 & 2 Relying on The Radiant Of One Star To Rocket Them Their. Conceptualized in 2010. Formalized In 2019. Manifested in 2020-2021. Gone in 60(53) Minutes (of game Time). The Difference Between Millimeters And Milliseconds. A Reminder That Capitalism, The Means Of The This Team’s Creation, Is Only Subject To Time, Talent And Human Insubstantiality.

“ Injuries Killed Us This Year for Sure.”- Nets Guard Bruce Brown.

On Saturday The Milwaukee Bucks Entered The Borough, The Barclays Center. A building They Hadn't Won A Game In Since January 2020. New York Would Play the stage As It Has So Many Times Before, For So Many Moments Before, For A Monumental Meeting In ThWorldld of Basketball. They are The Bucks, One mOre Time This Post Season Would Face The Nets For The Final Time In Sparring Of Second Round on road To Championship. This Was A Game Seven. Only The Second Of This Postseason. There have been 135 Game 7s in NBA history, Present Playoffs Not Included, 78.5 percent of them won by the home team. The Clippers Only Underscored This Point When They Disposed Of The Mavs In The First Round. The Bucks are 0-7 all-time when playing Game 7 on the road. The Nets, are 34-8 at home this season, including 6-0 so far in the postseason. The Last team to win A Game Seven On the Road, would Be The Portland Trailblazers In 2019 Over The Denver Nuggets In the Western Conference Semi-finals. Bucks 1b Star Kris MMiddletonStruggle Out east In Brooklyn His Best Bout Being a 25 point 8 / 22 36.4 Field Goal Outing In a Game 5 Loss. Kevin Durant, who Insist that Brooklyn’s Success Not narrowly About Him, “I know I can’t win a ballgame by myself.”, Is Entering god-shinobi Level Play In the Barclays Center, going for 49 points, 17 rebounds, and 10 assists to Give The Nets to a 3-2 series lead. PSpeakingOf: Before Game 7 & Lets Trek Back To The Penultimate Games That serve As the Setup. Game 5. The Nets lost games 3 and 4 Their Only second serving of back-to-back losses in Milwaukee on The Season. After They (The Nets) had Outclass the Offensively Challenged BucksByby In-GameGame 2. The Bucks Did As They Vowed. Protecting Home Court In Games 3 And 4 and Forwarded Their Message Of Defense that Was lost Pending To sender In Game 2 But Arrived In Game 3. Game 5 Would Mark the return Of all Star Guard James harden Who Had MisAllAlll But A Minute Of The First 4 Games Of the Series WithHamstringing But remained Limited In His return To Play. Kevin Durant Would Log all 48 Minutes Of Game Play Theresultss being thatGaudyy AbovementionedStatelinee. The Nets were withouKyrieie Irving, Missing The first Game Of WhaWouldld Precede the ReRemainingGamesof The Series. Down One Kryrie, .25 James Harden The CCabarrusDog that served as Imagery For The Nets Appear to Be On Brink Of Tartarus. No worries The Nets Have Jeff Green. Durants Teammate and draft Mate od The 2007 Sonics Draft Class Joined The Nets In the Offseason To Fill Out The The roster Around Durant Irving at The Time(Harden Came in January after Requesting A Trade) Adding Volume and To The Forward Position Weaning Behind Duarnat And Joe Harris. Green made seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points for the Nets, Blake Griffin added 17 points. The Nets Were Down A Double-Digit Deficit Midway Through The Third Quarter But An Inciderary Kevin who scored 31 of his 49 in the second half, 20 points in the 4th to lift the Nets Passed the Bucks 114-108. Bucks Guard Kris Middleton Went 1-6 for In The fourth, 1-4 from three finishing the half with eleven of his 25. Giannis had his third straight 30pointst 10 rebound game. DuranPerformancence was “historic”, “MasterfuEfficiencyncy and Set The Nets In Place To Close Ous ThSerieses In Game 6. Middleton would Answer The Toll For The Bucks To Save The Series. Reminiscent Of Game Minus The Ineffeicncy The Bucks Play A 90’s Style Of Ball. Making Their Mark In The Painted and Mid-range area. Lead By Kris Middleton who had 38 points. This would Align with The Formula That Won The Bucks Game four. The Bucks shot just 7 of 33 from 3-point range in game 6 but made up for it by winning the fast break, points in the paint,s, And TurnoveDifferentialal. 104-89Squaring T series is In Games, blow, outs, And Impressive Performances. Now Where Were We, right, Game 7. Fitting That A Series Of Two Even matcTeamssams Should need An Extra QAR r and Moment Of Stillness to Decide Who move Forward Into The ECF. Anticipating An Offensive Onslaught, “I’ve got to keep the ball in my hands a little bit more,” said Kevin Durant.TTheBucks Briefed And Prepare For Kevin Durant As Best they Could. ‘Force Him To Take Tough Shots.’ The Best Defensive Strategy Devised To Counter the Two Finals MVP This Kevin Durant, Has YYieldAll But The Same Conclusions. Durant has been Forced To Take Tough Shots For More Than a Decade of his career And He Makes Them With regularity.

Kevin Durant Acknowledge That He didn’t want To Play Hero, only a team could propel the Nets To The Top, Especially with KKyrieUnavailable, But He Would Have To. James Hardens Had His Best game Of She series Scoriring the 22 Points 9 rebounds and 9 assists but Was Still WoeEfficientfecint Going Five For 17 from the field. Harden LNoticeableticable ExploElusivenesslusivness He Displayed In YearHoustonIn Houston. No Worries Durant Would Pick Up The Slack narrowly Missing 50 points On The game. He finished With 49 points Scoring 10 Down the Stretch In The Fourth Quarter Before Going Cold, Posting An “0-for” In OT After Narrowly winning The Game In regulation Time On a shot That Separated The A 2 point field Goal By An Inch of a Three-Point Field Goal. Ultimately The Durants Efforts Prove futile. The Bucks Won Game 7 In OT. 115-111. TheNets Enteringertering The Offseason. Filled With Questions At The Substrata Of Their Roster. The Bucks Move On To The East Final, Second Time In Three Years. They Facel the Winner Of The Other Game 7 In the east, hawks, And Sixers.

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Resilienteslinet Always Win. After Game 3, a Hawks Loss. The weather and Winds that Flew Atlanta Ahead Into Philly Began To Pan Down On Them. The Sixers regained Command Over The Channels Of current in games 2 & 3 And As the Winds Of favor Widenedn Around. Them the intensity At The Center, Joel Embiid Began To Move Far More Forceful In Game 4, The Hawks Mounted wings Like Eagles and Soared Past The Sixers in game 5 Then In Game 6 They Hit The Ground d Once More. Now They Are Running Into Game 7. The Sixers, The expected Dominators in this Sixer Have Often Appeared To Be Fighting To Stave of the winds of time and The Vulture Circing Has The Hawk Descend To Dive In for The Kill. Before Game 7 ToReviewets Review. Game 4. The Hawks were Looking to Bounce Back After A Woeful Shooting. Shooting In Atlanta In Game 3. But In Game 4 the defense would Make The Difference. Hawks Fowrd Jon Collins Make OSme Crucial Contest As The Hawks RA double AdoDeficitigit Deficit To Win Game 4 103-CenterixersCenterr Joel Embiid Still Managing The effects Of hIs Knee Injury had 17, and 21 rebounds Noticbaky Going Cold In the Second Half, 0-12 In Field Goforth The fourth Quarter. Despite Being Down By as PointsAs 18 points The HTrae Led By Trae Young who 25 and 18 assist Rally Late To secure a 99-94 lead with less than two minutes remaining. Young Scored Atlantas Final six Points A Floater And A Pair Of FreetAssistingell As Asisiting Or scoring The Final Fifteen Then the Fourth. The Sixers Managed. A challenged Young’s Scoring Successfully. On His Scoring drive, The Sixers StraddledHimm To A distressing 8-26 shooting. The Sixers In Turn Have struggled to find offense firepower when Embiid Is Not In the game. Tobias harris Added 20 Point The Ninth Time He Noitched The Number This Postseason. Seth Curry Added 17. The Sixers Slump At the Three-Point Line finishing 11-27. Game 5 Back In Phhily Series tied. The Hawks Would Once Again need To Mount A Comeback, This One Would be Historic, For Atlanta To Sustain The Glide of the Series. The struggles that straddled in Game 5 were Straddled By A 26 point Deficit. Lead By Joel Embiid, On Que Rebound from His Struggles in Game 4 Early. Finishing 8-8 In the first Quarter On Embiid Had 39 on The Game. Hawks Guard Trae Young answer The Call With ten Points Of His Own In The First But The Hawks Still Found Themselves Down in The deep, By 14 At Quarters. End. The Game Would Begin For Atlanta in the Fourth. WhennThe Team Charged A 40 Quarter On The Sixers Will Relegating The Sixers To 19 Points. The Sixers trio HowBen Simmons, How finished The Game 4-14, Seth Curry Who had 36, And Joel Embiid Were The Only Players To Attempt A Field Goal In The Fourth To The tune Of 5-1, 0-4 from the tee. The Hawks were down 24 with less than two minutes to go in the Quarter. In Seemingly Miraculously Fashion, They Emerge From The C e In Philly with a 109-106 victory to take a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 in Atlanta, The Sixers Eliminations of Elimination. We'll be back here for game 7,'' Rivers said. ''I believe that.'' First The Sixers Would Have To prove That In Game 6. Having Now games Back-to-Back games on Big Lead Going Sixers Were Going to Need More than JoelAveraging who is Averaging 30 Points And 13 rebound s On the Series. They Got It, Once again In the Shooting Prowess Of Seth Curry Who shot 6-for-9 from 3, and finished with 26. Tobias Harris Was Back In Line With his Averages He Scored 24. Tyrese Maxey, from That School In The Blue Grass State, t provided 16 points off the bench, In A 104 -99 Victory To Stave off Elimination. The Bench AHd has Been A Point of Contention in Philly Through five games, the Sixers have been outscored by 32 points (20.6 per 100 possessions) in Embiid’s 58 minutes on the bench, Per, NBA.com. Embiid Had 22 Points On The Night And Logged An Astounding 38 Mins With Torn Cartilage In His Knee. Hawks Guard Trae Young Lead All Scorers With 36 Points. The Hawks Were The Team Nursing A Lead Into the Second Half Has They Sought To Stifle Doc Rivers Vow. The Sixers Opened The Second Half On A 14-0 Run And Seized A 80-76 Lead Heading into The Fourth. The Birds Of Bankhead Had One More Comeback In Them, Squeezing the Lead down To 1 Before regulation Had Past.

Game 7 is Saturday night.

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