On December 15, Beijing time, the Nets played at home against the Raptors, and the Nets led the Raptors 66-56 at the end of the half. In this game, the Nets have missed Harden, Aldridge, Brown and other players due to safety protocol problems, and such a thing is very unfavorable for the Nets. After the game began, the Raptors played a good state, fortunately, the Nets also have a lot of players to stand up to help Durant, so the Nets took the lead at the end of the first quarter of the game, and the Nets played more than a number of people in the second quarter to gradually occupy the lead on the court, and the Nets led by 10 points at the end of the half game.
In the first quarter, VanVleet hit a three-pointer, then Clarkston scored inside, then Siakam and Barnes also helped the team continue to score, Duke scored, and then relied on Durant and the Mills Nets to successfully tie the score, Barnes shot and scored after Clarkston scored inside, Boucher completed the dunk inside line, Griffin made 1 of 2 free throws, Clarkston dunked, and the Nets led by 1 point. After the timeout, VanVleet hit a three-pointer, Trent made 1-of-2 free throws, Durant made 2-of-2 free throws, Siakam scored on a shot, Duke scored a dunk on the inside, and in the next game the two teams attacked each other, and Clarkston scored a basket after the Nets trailed by 2 points. After the timeout, Champaigny continued to help the team score, and after Thomas and Edwards responded, Clarkston completed the dunk and the Nets led by one point at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Duke scored on a layup, Edwards also hit a three-pointer, Flynn hit a three-pointer to stop bleeding, Then Sharp hit the board to score, Mills hit a three-pointer, and in the following game VanVleet hit a three-pointer to stop the bleeding, Sharp scored a basket, and the Raptors trailed by 8 points. After the timeout Thomas scored on a layup, Durant and others continued to help the team score, while Siakam and others scored to stop the bleeding, Yuta Watanabe scored a free throw, and then Siakam continued to help the team score, the Raptors also chased the score to only 5 points, after the timeout Mills hit a three-pointer, Griffin made 2 of 2 free throws, Barnes made 2 free throws, Trent hit a three-pointer, Edwards scored a basket, Trent also hit a three-pointer in the final moment, and the Raptors trailed by 10 points at the end of the half.
In the first half of the game, Siakam actually played a good state, which is also the key to the Raptors taking the lead in the first quarter of the game, but the second quarter of the Raptors are not in good shape, the Nets in the case of multi-person play is gradually pulled apart, in fact, this game for the Raptors should be an opportunity, after all, the Nets this game is missing a lot of main players, so the Raptors are expected to win the game, but in this game the Nets are multiplayers, which makes the Raptors into passivity. In the first half of the game, when the Raptors were in difficulty, Siakam stood up to help the team to catch up with the score, so in the first half of the game, Siakam also tried his best, and at the end of the half, Siakam got 12 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist.
Although the Nets are missing a lot of players in this game, but in the first half of the game, the Nets have a lot of players stand up, of which the two rookies Sharpe and Edwards are even more explosive in the game, of which Sharpe showed his aggression on the court, many times to grab rebounds to complete the attack is to help the Nets expand the lead, and Edwards also grasped when he got a three-point shooting opportunity, so in this case the Nets are leading, and the two rookies are also meritorious, At the end of the half, Edwards had 8 points and 7 rebounds on 3-of-5 shooting, and Sharp had 5 points and 7 rebounds on 2-of-2 shooting. Durant also seemed very relaxed in the game with multiple players playing, and at the end of the half, Durant had 15 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists on 5 of 12 shots.