In the NBA regular season, the Nets challenged the Pistons away, and Harden was absent from the round in this game, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and sitting on the sidelines. Durant single-core led the team to fight with the opponent, although the strength is better, but after the first quarter of the lead, the Nets in the second quarter by the opponent stubborn counterattack, and finally with Durant's half of 22 points and 4 assists performance, to lead 60-57 into the second half, and after the start of the third quarter, Durant consecutive offensive hands to help the Nets lead 66-61, but then the game suddenly changed, the Pistons in 57 seconds were robbed 3 times, was hit by a wave of 9-0 climax stopped.
With 9:09 left in the third quarter, Pistons junior Saben Lee hit a 3-pointer to chase the score to 64-66, but then, the game changed suddenly, and the Pistons suddenly strengthened their defense and caused nets to make consecutive mistakes. First Durant was robbed, Saben Lee counter-attacked the layup, then Mills was robbed, Saben Lee hit a counterattack, and then Bembry also sent a mistake, Cunningham counter-attacked the layup to rewrite the score to 70-66, and there were 8 minutes and 12 seconds left in the third quarter. In less than a minute, the Nets were collectively lost, and the Pistons were fully out of the momentum, continuously using high-pressure defense to force the Nets to make mistakes and play a defensive counterattack, directly turning the situation around.
During this time, Nash watched the players on the field being continuously robbed to fight back against the score, but he was indifferent and did not call a timeout in time, waiting until the other side had achieved 3 consecutive counterattacks before remembering to call a timeout. It has to be said that Nash once had a sluggish reaction, which made the other side completely demoralize. After the timeout returned, the Pistons crowd tasted the sweetness of high-intensity defense, more and more active on the court, Casey decisively sent multiple people to block Durant, bound to completely contain the Nets' top scorer, but Durant also played, he continued to attack the hit, almost single-handedly, carrying the confused teammates hard forward. After the third quarter, the Nets trailed by five points at 86-91, and the scene was already at a disadvantage.
Throughout the third quarter, Durant not only had to stand up on the offensive end, making offensive and passing choices after advancing with the ball alone from the backcourt, but also restricting the other party at the defensive end, constantly running to the basket to make up for defense, because the defense of other teammates really did not dare to compliment, the Pistons This eastern fish belly has played a multi-point blossom, and everyone dares to attack with confidence. After the third quarter, Durant shot 13 of 22 and exploded 38 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, and both ends of the attack and defense were broken, but unfortunately failed to help the team take the lead.
Obviously, the Nets need more people to stand up and share Durant's offensive pressure in the fourth quarter, and better limit opponents on the defensive end, otherwise, the Nets in this game are likely to replicate the embarrassment of Harden's previous loss to the Rockets.