Why a Sweep is the Least of the Brooklyn Nets’ Problems

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Celtics-Nets series started off as one of the more intriguing matchups in the first-round of the NBA playoffs. But after a pair of late-game meltdowns by Brooklyn, the herculean efforts of Jayson Tatum, and a blowout at home in Game 3, the Nets find themselves facing a sweep at home. We called up our Nets correspondent Nick Friedell ahead of Game 4 to get a sense of what’s at stake for Brooklyn in this series…and why a broom might not be enough to clean up this mess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:06.9	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.8	It's supercuts.
0:10.8	Kevin Durant didn't show up at all, only attempted 11 shots.
0:17.4	He was pretty much non-existent for most of the game offensively.
0:20.6	Kyrie Irvin didn't have it again.
0:23.0	You know, for the second game in a row, they looked lethargic, they looked completely outclass,
0:27.3	they looked thoroughly, thoroughly outcoached from top to bottom.
0:31.7	When you look at this game right here, it was the absence of anything that you would have
0:35.8	expected from a team with two dynamic superstars like the Brooklyn Nets.
0:40.4	They are down 03 and it's about the brooms at this particular moment in time.
0:46.7	You know, a sweep is actually a pretty gentle euphemism for what Jason Tatum and the Boston
0:52.3	Celtics are actually doing to the Brooklyn Nets in the first round of these NBA playoffs.
0:57.2	And it also feels like a broom is not going to be merely enough to clean up whatever gets
1:03.3	left behind.
1:05.1	So today, with Game 4 tonight, we call in our Nets correspondent Nick Ferdell, who has
1:10.4	been asking Brooklyn superstars the tough, necessarily uncomfortable questions all year
1:16.0	long.
1:17.0	And he explains why a lot more than just this season is on the line.
1:23.1	I'm Pablo Torre.
1:24.6	It's Monday, April 25th.
1:27.2	This is ESPN Daily.
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