On December 13, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Nets relied on the 30-13 attack wave in the final quarter to finally reverse the Pistons 116-104. In this game, Durant cut a comprehensive data of 51 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, and the Nets were able to beat the opponent by 25 points when they were on the court, but in the Nets, there was another player with a higher plus-minus than Durant, this person was rookie Cameron Thomas.
Thomas played 29 minutes and 14 seconds, 13 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal on 6-of-11 shooting, and when he was on the floor, the Nets were able to net outperform their opponents by as many as 27 points, which was also the highest in the Nets.
Especially in the fourth quarter of the Nets' big reversal, Thomas became the best helper around Durant. In fact, in the last quarter of the game, Durant due to the first three quarters of the output is too high, the physical fitness has been declining, a total of only 9 shots 3, of which 2 goals are still from the last moment of the game, the point difference has been completely opened.
Thomas, on the contrary, did not perform well with just 2 of 6 shots in the first three quarters, but the final quarter was full of firepower, scoring 9 points on 4-of-5 shooting. And Thomas's 9 points, all occurred in the Nets' 22-4 offensive climax in the last quarter, with a high gold content, including 2 assists from Durant, which also shows that he and his big brother are very tacit.
It was because Thomas performed so well that throughout the fourth quarter, Nash let him play 12 minutes, and the whole game, Thomas's playing time, was also the most off the bench. Looking at the whole team, it is only lower than Durant and Mills, which is enough to show that Nash is indeed more and more trusting of him and willing to give him a chance.
Counting this game, Thomas has scored in double figures for 3 consecutive games, and now the Nets are short of manpower, Nash has publicly expressed his hope in an interview that Thomas can show his scoring ability, and even become a stand-in for Harris, from the current situation, the Nets' super newcomer has indeed not lived up to Nash's trust.