I think that bench players couldn't take an active involvement in the game because Durant and Irving made half of the total amount of shots. Sure, Kyrie had a good performance with 53 percent, but he doesn't like to share the ball with teammates at all.

This is the first time Nets trio played together and despite their double overtime loss I think they looked good enough. They just need more time playing together and in play-offs they will be in better shape. They need to improve their defensive side.

On a note for Cavs, Sexton's career high was impressive. He's talented but I don't see any excitement in Cavs. Cavs will probably finish in mid tier places in play-offs. No chance to be a contender, no chance to tank and rebuild.

Ok so there is the problem now, Harden was just in the background and let Durant and Irving do the scoring, but if Kyrie doesn't want to share then the team will have a big problem. And they fell short despite high scoring from the three of them. Don't want to sound negative, but Nets will have a lot of talking to do with this lost against the Cavs. They also have to play defense as well and not allowing their opponents to have easy look at give them all the time to shoot the 3.

The big 3 played an average of 49 minutes, while the bench only played a very limited minutes. I understand it's too long because of the OT but even if this game does not reach into OT, still the big 3 are playing a lot of minutes and that is very much prone to injury knowing Durant just came from a serious injury and Irving has been too prone to injury.

I'm sure there's a major adjustment next game.

Generally meaning it happen in most of the teams that has a big 3?

I'm sorry but I don't seem see it with the Warriors (big 3), Cavaliers (big 3), Heat (big 3), and Celtics (big 3).
These teams are so consistent, they don's struggle, so the word generally does not really apply to these, maybe some teams, like the Nets.

Let us not make that loss a big deal, it's just one game and we know that Nets will bounce back. Because of that lose, we did not notice how good Durant was, man, he is back to his 100% and that is something to be happy, especially for the nets fans.

https://clutchpoints.com/nets-news-kevin-durants-statement-after-loss-should-excite-brooklyn-fans/

https://twitter.com/Alex__Schiffer/status/1352095045894066176

I'm not suggesting that Big 3's mostly fail. What I'm saying is, that it takes time for 3 superstars to coordinate well together. All 3 are used to having the ball with them most of the time and making clutch plays. When you put 3 of them together, it generally takes time for them to be able to adapt and play efficiently around the other stars in the team. Especially all 3 of them play similar positions. All can PG/SG at their will.

You are not alone. 
I bet there's a lot who added Nets -10.5 to their parlay and just lose everything.
But, those who made a parlay with player stats only might have a big win right now.
All player stats reached the roof with 2 OT's.

I agree. Way different especially GSW.
They are a pure team and looking at stats back then, the heart of the team was really Draymond which is not an offensive player.
Kerr focused mostly on defense to avoid Curry being attacked a lot of time. Their championships proved it was a success.

The bench did look awful. There’s a huge drop off from player 5 to player 6. The offense looked terrible too. They constantly had to rely on 1 on 1 situations and while they’re good enough to make that work, it isn’t going to be reliable enough in the playoffs. Luckily they have plenty of time to try and put an offense together, but last night wasn’t close to it. Kyrie especially looked out of place and determined to do it alone. He failed.

It's just one of those night where player can't miss, these things happen, but Sexton is pretty decent player overall who can score and Nets simply didn't take him seriously and that's the result of that attitude. Then again, whole Cavs team was on a shooting spree last night, you won't see  worst offensive team in the league shooting 20/40  for three often.


Yeah offense did look better with Durant and Harden, now with Kyrie back they will have to adjust again. If we base it on the last game, Harden already tried as I don't remember last time he didn't score in the first quarter at all, he was kinda reserved. I do think that they will eventually figure things out as those three player have so much offensive potential that it would be a shame if that don't happen.