The NBA regular season continues, the East ushered in a strong and weak confrontation, and the Nets sat at home to face the Raptors.
Although the Raptors are the weaker side of the hard game, the team has been in excellent shape lately, winning four of the last five games, and the last game was a national soldier, with nine people scoring in double figures to win the Kings.
Among them, rookie Barnes stated to hand over 16 points, 4 rebounds and 5 blocks, and the strange soldier Yuta Watanabe also handed over 12 points and 10 rebounds, which is also the embodiment of the Raptors' overall playing style, the ceiling is not high, but it is very united, and there are many scoring points.
On the other hand, the Nets, the team's recent state of mind has picked up, the last game Harden off, Durant single core led the team, a person bombarded 51 points, plus 7 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, helping the team to get 2 consecutive wins and sit at the top of the Eastern Conference.
In addition, Mills' play has been stable, but the rest of the team has been able to contribute less, and the team is extremely dependent on Durant.
Coupled with the shortcomings of the coaching staff Nash, the victory or defeat of this game still depends on Durant's state, because Harden, Ade and other 7 people are absent due to the new crown protection process.
As soon as the game began, VanVleet hit three points to help the Raptors rebound, and since then the Nets' Durant, Mills and Clarkston have been working hard to catch up with the score.
During the period, the Nets counterattacked several times, and were chased back by the Raptors again, until the end of the first quarter, the Nets successfully attacked the frame with two consecutive attacks, and the rebound took a 1-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Nets continued the fiery state at the end of the first quarter, quickly pulling the point difference to double digits, and then the two teams began to pull around the 10-point difference, until the end of the half, the Nets still maintained a 10-point lead.
Yi Bian fought again, the game suddenly changed, the Raptors set off an offensive climax, not only quickly erased the double-digit point difference, but also overtook the score at the end of the third quarter, with a 9-point lead into the final quarter of the competition.
In the final quarter of the scramble, the Nets quickly filled the point difference and established a 6-point lead, but unfortunately, the team failed to maintain the advantage, and was dragged into overtime by the Raptors in the final moments.
The two teams continued to play in overtime, and it was not until the raptors finally scored a three-point deflection and the Nets narrowly won 131-129.
Because Harden, Ader and other 7 people were forced to be absent because of the trigger safety regulations, Durant had to carry the team forward.
In the whole game, Durant played 48 minutes, 12 of 29 shots, and one man slashed a large triple-double with 34 points, 13 boards and 11 assists, making him the first player in The Nets' history to cut 50+ and triple-doubles in two consecutive games.
In addition, Mills's performance was remarkable, becoming the team's miracle soldier in this game, scoring 30 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, including a single-man 16 points in the final quarter.
Despite mills and Durant's remarkable performances, Durant's playing time is still worrying, and Durant has been an iron man in the past 8 games.
Playing 48, 41, 38, 41, 38, 38, 41 and 45 minutes in eight games, he averaged second in the league in season playing time, behind VanVleet in the opposing lineup.
The long playing time necessarily means a higher risk of injury, and in overtime, the live camera captured Durant shaking his hands at one point, which is a person's extreme tired performance.
If Nash could still argue with his record and lineup before this game, then after this game, it's time for Nash to wake up.
In the absence of Harden, Ader and other 7 people to trigger the safety regulations, Nash had to use veteran Griffin, as well as Edwards, Duke, Sharp and other young people, but also forced to reuse Clarkston, the nets were blessed.
Veteran Griffin proved how much he loved the sport with his actions, playing a flying save in the game, delivering 13 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, in addition to a group of young people also showed their talent and hard work, grabbed a large number of frontcourt rebounds, including 6 Duke, Edwards 4, Sharp 4, Claxton 3.
It is the vitality and enthusiasm of this group of young people, as well as the fight of veteran Griffin, that has made Durant's efforts not in vain, and also let the outside world see the Nets' deep rotation lineup and another possibility.
Nash, as Nets head coach, should wake up to the fact that the team doesn't have enough rotations and Griffin isn't embarrassed.
It's just that the coaching staff hasn't found a niche for the players, and they've worked hard enough to deserve Nash giving them some chances and playing time, rather than keeping Durant on the court all the time.