It would be a war of attrition from there, an environment ripe for P.J.
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But the degenerative effects of the time-crunched 72-game season, after the shortest offseason in history, leveled the playing field.įirst, Harden re-injured his hamstring in Game 1, but the series turned when Kyrie Irving sprained his ankle in Game 4, turning the attention of the Bucks’ many-headed defensive monster onto Durant alone. Offenses are tearing up defenses across the league, and the Nets have a historic amount of offense scorers are baiting referees with such regularity that the NBA is toying with rule changes, and the Nets have James Harden, who got to the line 10 times on Saturday while playing on one leg and while shooting reigns, the Bucks are led by a superstar who lacks shooting touch. The moment has a way of meeting great teams, and the Bucks, after going down 2-0 in the series, didn’t look like they were built for it. The conditions certainly helped the Bucks, too. Durant finished with 48 points, the most ever in a Game 7, but after playing all 53 minutes, he air-balled his final shot of the game and the Bucks escaped in overtime, sending them to the Eastern Conference finals.
The plan worked, but it’s hard to make grand pronouncements about a series that came down to Durant’s shoe size if his fourth-quarter buzzer-beater was just an inch behind the 3-point line, we never would have found out that he was on his last legs. So good, it should come with a spoiler alert