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Am I the only one who thought it wouldn’t work? Any team needs a good big man to make a run in the playoffs. I bet if u were to replace any of those guys for a good big man,then they would have made it way further
@@stancegang7334 wym excuses? he just said what they shouldve done in order to win, they had the potential but impatience, inuries and ego got in the way
@@leonardofabbri7930 Pierce and KG were old asf. Honestly I think Deron is overrated. That Nets team let the 2013-14 Raptors take them to 7 games (Lowry and DeRozan were nowhere near their respective peaks and the rest of that team's starting lineup and bench was mid). And 2020-21 was a different story and they should've never fired Jacque Vaughn and shouldn't have traded for Harden and kept their depth and role players instead while letting Kyrie and Durant carry the load offensively instead of having 3 offensive ball dominant players in the same starting lineup
Funnily enough, even though these 3 are very ball dominant. They played so well together and were fairly unselfish (when they were all on the court) cause they just wanted to win. But injuries (in 2021) and Covid and ego (in 2022) screwed this team up
The axiom "defense wins championships" cannot be nullified by adding more guys great at isolation offense. Kyrie and Harden are cones, and KD can't defend strong opponents without fouling. In other words, poor roster construction no one should've expected to work.
In 2021 they were top 3 in defense in the Bucks series and by the time the playoffs ended they were 4th in defense for the 2021 playoffs, despite being bad defensively in the regular season. When Steve Nash got fired and Jacque Vaughn became HC, they got better defensively as well.
Yup, they missed the playoffs with AD, Russ and Lebron and were on pace to miss the playoffs again until Russ was traded. The Nets made the playoffs every year.
@@smoothsavage2870 you forgot Carmelo as scoring punch from the bench. That was, despite all the arguments about him, his whole career, his game and that moment of his career in all its pros and cons, an added value to me. I mean, 13-14 PPG with 35-40% from 3s with no need to monopolize offense and mainly acting as spot up shooter. He was that type of player, a resource (if well assembled in a right roster/chemistry/context) anyway.
Bro this team had so much potential. But when you think about it, you have controversial Outspoken Kyrie, Selfish James Harden, and Injury Prone Kevin Durant. Not surprised it failed. Great video! Hoping my content will be as good one day!
Super teams weren't made to win championships . It's always the chemistry , assets , and adapting styles of sacrifices. That makes it a problem to never trade a superstar for draft picks , and players to waste their years .
Three biggest stars couldn’t stop a traffic cone. Super teams will only be successful if they are defensive focused. There’s only 1 ball so you get diminishing returns by having great offensive players but you get multiplicative returns if you have great defenders
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te most people think ball is a 1on1 sport that happens to have other people on the court. It’s why they will unironically say the top 3 players are Jordan, Kobe, Iverson. All high usage shooters. They don’t value team play so they miss all of play making and defense.
@@willemcenter8649 That's why normies overrate Stephen Curry who would've been seen as just a role player had he not played in Steve Kerr's system or had he played in any other era of basketball, and why guys who have such high efficient scoring while not scoring crazy PPG like LBJ get hated on so much by casuals and old heads so much, and I don't even like LBJ... You better explain to how come guys like MJ, Kobe, TMac, etc. don't have crazy win percentages (Win/Loss Record) while guys like Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Tim Duncan, Larry Bird, etc. do? What's with that? Why do Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman have way higher Win Percentages than MJ while MJ played fewer games than them? Why is that?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te exactly. Bulk scoring is all they care about. I overall like Steph and he’s achieved a lot but you’re right to note that coaching and support meant a huge deal. People putting him above Magic sometimes lately is maddening and based solely on his scoring.
@@willemcenter8649 3 Point Shooting is all that Curry really excells at, so that just makes him a role-player at best. He's okay-good at typical PG fundamentals, but he's not amazing at it unlike Steve Nash, another great PG 3pt Shoot who was actually able to carry his garbage teams to the playoffs, unlike Curry. Steph certainly benefitted from being drafted into a young superteam and playing in an era of basketball that panders towards ISO, spacing and pure finesse where you're forced to respect your opponents' layups and screens, and playing under Steve Kerr's system that panders to his style of play while most of the other players just rebound, play actual defense and keep passing the ball to Steph. Without those things, Steph's nothing. Just pay attention to what happened to him back in 2021... So who are the true best Top 10-15 All Time NBA Players? How come?
OK. But it's called "Biggest Superteam Failure in NBA History," not "Why the Brooklyn Nets Superteam Failed." The point of the video is to document how it formed and what it actually achieved, not specifically why it flopped.
@@danboing3864 it’s not the biggest super team failure in nba history. Not even close. Only causal would think that. Nets did worse in 2014. Lakers did worse with Dwight Kobe and nash. Injuries aren’t considered failure, they’re apart of the game.
@calebford6318 That's great! You also completely missed the point of my comment. I never said it was the biggest, that's the name of the video. Read my comment and try again.
James really wanted to go to the Sixers under Morey. COVID impacted a lot of what this team was unable to accomplish and when they traded for Ben Simmons it killed everything. I wish they would’ve stuck it out bc none of them are really in a better position now.
F*ck Harden for being impatient and bailing... Those 3 should have had a 4-5 year run together, but only resulted in 1.5 seasons (1 playoff appearance), that got ruined by injuries. Funny part is Kyrie is currently in the best situation. Harden will get his numbers and rot away in LA, while KD and the Suns are heading for a divorce by next Summer. Excited for the future as a Nets fan, but still very sad and unfortunate how this played out
This team I really think the nets quit on it to early for the amount of money and pieces they gave up for this squad you would’ve thought they would’ve gave them some time to build chemistry
During their final season together just before the all-star break, the Nets went on winning streak up until Kevin Durant got injured in a game against the Sixers. I think Joel Embiid landed on one of Durant's legs by accident. That Brooklyn Nets Team was formidable. KD that year did some amazing things with the Nets in 2021 playoffs. If Durant managed to step back an inch further beyond the 3-point line against the Bucks at the end of that game-7, the Nets would have secured a championship that year. Almost most of the stars on that team had some type of injury. I praised Durant that year for balling. Despite losing to the Bucks in that game-7, KD carried that Nets team on his back. I was disappointed in James Harden's physical conditioning that year.
No, it was against the Miami Heat. Jimmy Butler was taking a fadeaway jumpshot and landed into KD's leg coming down. The first time the season prior was Bruce Brown recklessly running to defend someone on the opposing team and fell into KD's leg in the process.
This is was the nail in the coffin and destroyed “The Big Three “ narrative. No more just putting 3-4 superstars on a team and expecting a championship! That ship has sailed. 🚢
Only because of injuries. Otherwise they'd have destroyed the league and gone down as one of the best teams ever. KD almost beat the title winning Bucks by himself in 2021 ffs he was that good.
@@alexescutia4805 dude it went 7 games. Kyrie played three of those games and Harden played one healthy game and then after Kyrie went down he came back and played on one leg. And they still went to overtime in game 7. Give KD the credit bro 🤦♂️
None of them can play defense. Every superteam that saw success had players who can actually play defense. The Net's superteam were so bad at defense every team just runs thru them and they can only win if they explode on offense, and that is rarely allowed by any competent team, specially in the playoffs.
This is a lie if you actually WATCHED them smh. What was their defensive rating in 2021? Do you know it? What was their defensive rating under Jacque Vaughn? Do you know it? I somehow doubt you know it for either.
so nets had no picks, managed to assemble a superteam, sold out on the team and completely lost all significant assets and now again they have a bunch of picks. well done gm.
Their roster was not constructed well. They had no depth, they traded an all-star level center to acquire another ball dominant guard, and replaced that young center with an old guy who couldn't play and injuries exposed their lack of depth. They also fired the coach that built the culture that enticed KD and Kyrie to go there and brought in a guy who had no relationship with the veterans and had no coaching experience. Depth, solid roster construction where everyone plays their roles, and 2-way versatile wings are whats needed to win, not a team of superstars who all need the ball to succeed, and whose roles don't compliment each other, who dont play defense, and who all get injured.
Thats the thing though, they actually did complement each other. As the video pointed out, they had one of the best offense in the playoffs when all 3 played together. The team did show glimpses of greatness. It was really bad circumstances that caused this team to fall apart with the vaccine situation, and the organisations inability to hold kyrie accountable.
@@markysng And now Kyrie has his act together with the Mavs. It's crazy. But to be fair it really seemed like the Nets owner Joe Tsai didnt like him. Mark Cuban took Kyrie in and seems like he could care less about the stuff Joe Tsai did, so long as the Mavs are winning.
For many years, all the talk about the first round picks that Brooklyn Nets gave up turned into Damian Lillard, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. But then again, if Brooklyn Nets had kept those picks instead of trading them away, would they have used the same picks to draft the same 3 players? Most probably they would have drafted someone else that would be draft busts or at best mediocre players. Just think about it.
How’s is this a sports channel but only covers the NBA? I love the NBA videos but if you’re called Nonstop Sports then you have to cover more than the NBA.
It's almost like every team KD and Harden have gone to develops locker room and attitude problems leading to underperforming. Kyrie's tweet wasn't antisemitic
The Nets without Harden would've been great, same with Suns, they didn't need Beal, they would've been fine without him. KD and his idea of building a superteam with three superstar has failed miserably, besides GSW.
If you search “super” teams or heavy contenders that collapsed in the recent years, you will get names like KD, Kyrie and Harden. If you search for superstars who have volatile personalities, you’d get KD, Kyrie and Harden. And then you decide to put these stars together. Injuries are one thing, but with these star’s personalities, no wonder it didn’t work out.
Deron Williams didn't "decline", he literally forgot how to play basketball overnight. I don't know if the Monstars stole his powers or what, but it's the sharpest drop I've ever seen in sports history.
