Daily News | Forget Ben Simmons and fret about the Nets | Marcus Hayes
Anyone associated with Simmons’ smugness since he’d been drafted first overall in 2016 couldn’t help but hope he’d get his comeuppance Thursday night.
That wasn’t because Doc Rivers got outcoached, or because the Sixers were over-excited, or even because Harden missed 14 of 17 field goals . Harden wasn’t horrible, exactly. Also, the Nets rolled because Durant remains the best offensive player on the planet, as he has been for a decade. Finally, when Irving is fresh and engaged, he’s as good as any guard alive. The Nets have depth, and experience, and maturity. They also know how to win, and how stars align.
Meanwhile, Joel Embiid has never advanced past the second round. Harden has been to just one championship game, which was a decade ago, and he rode Durant to that finals with the Thunder as a bench player. It’s been 12 years since Rivers made it to the Finals, and that was two teams ago.The rest of the league will take notice.The Nets surrendered perimeter jumpers to Tyrese Maxey, one-on-one chances to Tobias Harris, and anything Matisse Thybulle wanted. It worked.
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