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Nets let only thing that can beat them happen in Friday's loss to Celtics

Top to bottom, the Brooklyn Nets are a better team than the Boston Celtics. That's undisputable. Better star power, better supporting cast, and a better chance of winning the Eastern Conference.
However, they were bested in Game 3 due to one major disadvantage they have in this series. Coaching. Steve Nash is coaching in his first playoff series and it showed. Meanwhile, Brad Stevens kept things simple and put the ball in his best player's hands time and time again. Jayson Tatum went for 50 points, something he's done multiple times throughout his career. Nash waited far too long to force action away from Tatum on defense. The Nets constantly switched, which left Kyrie Irving on an island against Tatum and the results were predictable. If Nash and company are hoping to avoid a dogfight in Game 4, they'll need to adjust their coverage schemes against Tatum. Perhaps losing this game will expose some of the ways teams will attack them if they advance later in the playoffs and force them to face adversity before taking on the Eastern Conference heavyweights.

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  1. Over on Netsdaily.com, I commented that I put this one on Nash. When he saw that Claxton and Griffin were getting outplayed on the boards by Thompson, he should've put DeAndre Jordan in. He will need Jordan in upcoming series to be physical with Antetokounmpo and/or Embiid, so, with Green out, this was the perfect time to get him some PT.

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