The NBA regular season continued, with the East facing a strong and weak confrontation, and the Nets traveled to challenge the Pistons on the road.
Due to injury and physical problems, before the start of the game, both teams had core players absent, Grant was absent due to injury, and Harden chose to take a break, which was also the first time that Harden had missed the game since the beginning of the season.
Despite Durant's single-handed leadership, the Pistons still failed to seize the opportunity, and in the case of a one-time lead, they were finally reversed and suffered 12 consecutive defeats, and the Nets won two consecutive wins to continue to sit on the throne of the first place in the East.
As soon as the game began, the Nets won the lead in the rebound, and although Corningham stopped the bleeding in time, the Nets still got a double-digit lead early as Mills and Durant worked.
Fortunately, the Pistons found a feel on the outside early, and with the firepower of the outside, at the end of the first quarter, the Pistons narrowed the point difference to single digits, but still trailed by 7 points.
In the second quarter, the Nets once again exerted their strength to expand the point difference to double digits, but as Durant came off, the Pistons quickly seized the opportunity and successfully closed the point difference in just 6 minutes, until Durant returned, the Nets stopped the decline and regained a 3-point lead at the end of the half.
Easy to fight again, the Nets rhythm began to be chaotic, constantly making mistakes, and the Pistons also continued to convert through the Nets' mistakes, easily completing the counter-overtaking.
Although Durant slashed 16 points in a single quarter, the Difficult Pistons fully blossomed, coupled with the constant mistakes of teammates next to them, and at the end of the third quarter, the Nets fell behind by 5 points.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the bad situation forced the death to come, Durant single-handedly dominated the offensive and defensive ends, directly helped the team to play a 19-1 offensive climax, and established the victory in one fell swoop, and finally the Nets defeated the Pistons 116-104.
Throughout the game, in Harden's absence, the Nets were in a huge predicament, and the core Durant chose one person to carry the burden.
Playing 42 minutes of crazy games, 16 of 31 shots, one person slashed 51 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, in addition to the number of steals, the other four statistics are the highest in the Nets.
A single-game 51 points also became the league's highest score of the season, a record that previously belonged to Curry, who scored 50 points against the Hawks.
Don't look at Durant's record-breaking is very crazy, in fact, it was all forced out by Nash and the bad situation on the court, and Durant rested for 6 minutes, and it was in those 6 minutes that the Nets were overtaken by the Fish belly pistons.
Such a poor performance also made Durant once blackface, choosing to lecture the whole team on the sidelines, and then under his leadership, the team played a wave of offensive climax and overtook the score in one fell swoop.
At this time, Durant finally showed a smile, and can only say that Durant is carrying the Nets forward, and the team has exposed too many problems.
The first is the poor use and technical and tactical ability of head coach Nash, in the case of Harden's rotation, Nash chose to rely more on Bembry and Mills, but after the team exposed the lack of organizers, Nash did not respond in the slightest.
In addition, nash still sits firmly on the fishing platform when the team exposes problems such as offensive difficulties on the field, and the only way to solve the problem is to keep Durant on the court for a long time and rely on Durant and Mills' personal attack to solve the problem.
Among them, Durant not only needs to attack, but also to defend the block, but also to block and dismantle his teammates, but also to make up defenses, but also to organize, really bitter Durant, has been playing the role of firefighter for Nash.
In addition to Nash's problems, the game also exposed the Nets' lack of a stable second organizer, and the team was very dependent on Harden's organizational ability in the absence of Irving.
It can only be said that Durant's father-and-mother style of play highlights the importance of Harden, and at the same time makes Nash, who has improved his previous wind evaluation, unable to hide.
If you rely on this way to get the first record in the East, the future of the Nets is not expected, leaving aside the injury factors caused by the huge physical exertion, the Nets, which rely solely on individual ability, are not competitive at all when facing a team-based strong team, let alone competing for the championship.