Barely enough time to discover the last updates concerning the All-Star Game that a simple click on the NBA League Pass put us directly in a PLS. At first we just wanted to see how the Nets B were doing against Boston, and in the end we found ourselves face down in front of a 28-2 in favor of the Celtics. A game over after six minutes, that one they had never done to us before.
Patty Mills at the lead, Bruce Brown and Kessler Edwards in the wings and the duo Blake Griffin / De’Andre Bembry to play elbows. With such a starting five, we will say that the Nets were not really the favorites of this game against Boston, Celtics who are also getting back to their best since a few weeks. No Kevin Durant (injured), no Kyrie Irving (Yellow Vests protest in Perpignan), no James Harden (KFC in Philadelphia) but still some “leaders” in the roster and, especially, young people who must continue to take advantage of the opportunity to show themselves. We think first of Cam Thomas, but we also think of David Duke Jr. or Day’Ron Sharpe or Kessler Edwards, not really the 2050 Hall Of Fame roster but not the U20s from La Ricamarie in 42 either. In short A relative interest in this game, interest very quickly transformed into a huge WTF, under the eyes of a Nets audience that had probably never seen that.
14-0 in four minutes and then 17-2 thanks to hometown hero Blake Griffin, Jaylen Brown has already scored his ten and missed nothing. Al Horford is greening up, Jayson Tatum is getting in on the act, and Jaylen isn’t slowing down, and after seven minutes of play the score is as ubiquitous as shameful for the Nets. 28-2 Boston, TWENTY-EIGHT TO TWO, and Steve Nash’s players within an inch of raging to get back to play at the Play, we would have been too for less. With four minutes to go, Brooklyn is still stuck at two small points, the saviors James Johnson, Jevon Carter then Cam Thomas pass a 11-0 necessary not to sink in the most total shame but Grant Williams and Dennis Schroder close out the first quarter – and the game altogether – to give C’s a 19-point lead after twelve minutes. Nothing interesting to tell afterwards, except that the return of the starters will be only one more clue to assert loud and clear that tonight the starters… sucked, as shown by the incredible +/- of the starters, Patty Mills and Bruce Brown in particular. A game to forget as soon as possible for the Nets, a ninth consecutive defeat as logical as catastrophic in the content as in the formand a trade deadline that could be agitated in the coming hours around the case of James Harden. It remains a basketball game, a simple basketball game, but a few months ago Brooklyn fans probably did not expect this.
Celtics win 126-91 thanks to this crazy start, everyone joined the party and no Ime Udoka player played more than 30 minutes. There are nights like that when everything smiles, and it’s much easier when the victim gives the stick to be beaten.
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