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The Brooklyn Nets may have the most potent offensive duo in the NBA in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. Only one other team has two players that average over 26 points per game each, the Portland Trail Blazers with Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. However, despite all that offensive talent, the Nets are now 3-4 on the year after suffering back-to-back losses to the Hawks and Wizards.
On the daily Locked On Nets Podcast, host Doug Norrie reacts to the Nets recent losses and explains what the Nets' biggest weakness has been so far this season that may seem obvious, defense.
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Doug Norrie: In terms of the Kyrie and KD piece, they come out with all the firepower that you really want and the scoring was kind of at will for both of them, especially for Kyrie early. They're pretty efficient from the field overall. The early scoring and early rotations looked okay on the offensive end. But the theme again here is that, even early, where it looked like they could probably start pulling away they just couldn't because they can't they simply could not get any stops on the other end…
It's this theme of, we're getting all the offense we can handle and we just can't get any stops at all on the defensive end over and over and over again. The Nets starters were all plus, by the way, the bench is really kind of what let it up. That's what I kind of was seeing early. The Nets can't let these teams hang around early because when other teams have enough firepower if it gets late, the Nets could be in trouble. That's kind of what ended up happening. I was thinking this whole first half, come on, get two stops in a row, please, three stops in a row but they just really couldn't do it.
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