James Harden Explains Why the Nets Don’t Talk About their Brutal Playoff Loss

The Brooklyn Nets barely lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in overtime in Game 7 of the second round of the playoffs. It was a pretty brutal loss.  Nets superstar James Harden has a perfectly good reason why they don’t talk about it, because they weren’t at “full strength.” Harden said with the team healthy going into this coming season, their focus is on a championship in 2022.

“We don’t talk about it,” Harden said. “We had Kevin Durant healthy, and I’m not even close to that healthy, Kyrie doesn’t play. There’s a lot. There’s nothing we can say.

“Now, if a team beats us and we’re at full strength, then that’s when we have to go to the drawing board to kind of figure out what, you know, what we’re doing. But we can’t really talk about this past postseason.”

“There’s nothing that we can can talk about because it’s like, a team didn’t beat us at full strength,” Harden said. “So there’s nothing that we can kind of discuss.”

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James Harden and the Nets aren't sweating their narrow playoff loss to the Bucks.

"If a team beats us and we're at full strength, then that's when we have to go to the drawing board to kind of figure out what we're doing."https://t.co/z1MounI45V

— Scott Davis (@WScottDavis) August 18, 2021

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Harden added: “I’m sure Kevin and Ky are the same way. Our main focus is this upcoming season, doing whatever it takes to stay healthy.”

If the Brooklyn Big 3 are healthy and clicking, not sure anyone will be able to beat them. That being said, getting them on the same page and fully healthy for an entire season is going to be difficult.

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