On December 13, Beijing time, the Nets played away against the Pistons, and the Nets successfully defeated the Pistons 116-104 at the end of the game. Although the Nets eventually beat the Pistons by a big score, but in this game the Nets were once in a difficult situation, and at that time the Nets performed badly, and could only rely on Durant to support himself, fortunately, Durant also played well enough at this time, plus the Nets finally began to strengthen their defense in the later games, and finally the Nets finally completed the reversal and won the game, but it was really a little wrong to play so hard against a weak team like the Pistons.
In fact, the lack of Harden in this game although the Nets have a lot of impact, but in fact, the Nets still have a good performance in the half game, at least this time Mills and Aldridge still helped Durant very well, but the Nets' mistakes in the second half of the game were really uncomfortable, and in the face of such a situation, Durant opened a personal singles mode, under his leadership the Nets completed the reversal, and finally Durant fought hard for 41 minutes to win 51 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists. Durant's performance also set two new highs, of which 51 points is a new single-game scoring record for Durant during the Nets, while 51 points also set a record single-game high this season, it can be said that Durant's extreme personal performance is breathtaking.
Durant was even more outspoken after the game, to which Durant said: Harden (rotation) and Millsap (personal reasons) are not in this game, so I feel that I have to score more. Well, Durant's reason is very simple, without Harden Durant need to get more points, but in fact only after watching the game to know Durant's helplessness, because the Nets at that time performed very badly, not to mention the offensive scoring even the possession of the ball has been repeatedly wrong, so at this time Durant does not help the team to score, then the Nets really have to lose, so Durant's choice is something that must be done and is also a very helpless thing.
And seeing such a situation as the Nets, it can only be said that Nash is really too obsessed, after all, the Nets' starting flaw is lost here, the flaw in the defensive end is undoubtedly a big flaw, after all, when Brown, Clarkston and others came on, the Nets' defense is better, which is also a key to the Nets to complete the reversal, and Nash is obviously aware of such a thing, but Nash did not make a complete change, in these games Nash is in the fourth quarter of the game directly abandoned Aldridge, Although this approach has worked, but when they are in the downturn, they consume Too much Durant, so when they see here, they can only say that Aldridge really should return to the bench.
Because from now on, Aldridge back to the bench is the best choice, unlike the past, the Nets lack offensive scoring points, many times the Nets need Thomas to help the team score and stop the bleeding, but Aldridge will become different when he returns to the bench, which not only can make the Nets' bench score more, but more importantly, Claxton's coming to the starting point can make the Nets' defense better, so as to avoid the Nets from losing too many points in the defensive end. So Nash should really think about it, such too much consumption durant is really not a good thing, in these games the Nets have long had such a problem, rather than abandoning Aldridge in the fourth quarter to let Clarkston to help the team improve the defense, it is better to let Clarkston directly start to help the team, so that Aldridge can also let the Nets' bench score more points.