On December 15, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Nets defeated the Raptors through overtime when Harden and many others could not play. Durant played 48 minutes and 11 seconds to get a triple-double, Mills and Griffin also had excellent performances, in addition to Duke, Sharp, Edwards 3 rookies also had a good performance.
Previously, the Nets had 5 players trigger the health and safety agreement, and this time the Nets had only 8 left after Harden and Brown hit the move. With so many of the main players gone, the Nets' young players have had enough opportunities, and Wearing the Number 20 jersey, Daron Sharp is this year's rookie player, having played only 8 games before, and none of them have been more than 10 minutes, and the previous appearance was 20 days ago, and he was outside the team's normal rotation lineup.
In the second quarter of the game, Sharp appeared as the 8th person, although only 20 years old, but Sharp dared to fight, the basket fight was very active, full of vitality, the rebounding at both ends of the fight was very dominant, and Durant also specially applauded him off the field after winning the free throw. When he was replaced, the Nets' few players and coaching staff stood up and high-fived him, and the dirty and tired Sharp showed his value, and Sharp scored 7 points and 7 rebounds in 13 minutes of the game, which is his new season high.
Edwards, another first-year rookie who came off the bench from The Sharp, became the better player in the game, and the second-round show Edwards was a pitcher who had only made two shots before, shooting 3-of-6 from three-point range. This game Edwards also started from the bench, 17 points and 10 rebounds on 7-of-12 shooting, including 3 of 6 three-pointers, and Edwards scored 9 points in the crucial fourth quarter, playing 43 minutes and 41 seconds in the whole game, second only to Durant in the 48 minutes, and Durant also hugged Edwards after the game.
Duke, a bibody who had played only 2 games before, entered the starter in this game, and although the overtime and fourth quarters were nervous to shoot hesitantly, Duke was good, and several rebounds were very active, and the whole game got 10 points and 13 rebounds.
It's not easy to win games in overtime when there's a lack of major generals, especially when young players can only improve faster in this kind of glue, and Compared to Sharp, Duke and Edwards may have a better chance of reaching Nash's rotation in subsequent games.