NBA Eastern Focus Battle, the Nets home to meet the back-to-back game of the Raptors, Harden, Aldridge and other Nets players triggered a safety agreement can not play, the Nets can play only 8 players, the lack of soldiers will face the lack of people, the two teams contributed a confrontational visual war for the fans, the two teams have 6 players score more than 20 points, three players score more than 30 points, Durant and Mills jointly cut 64 points, after overtime, the Nets withstood the Raptors' offense and struggled to win the game. While winning three consecutive wins, end the Raptors' winning streak.
At the beginning of the first quarter, the Raptors did not decline in state because of back-to-back games, VanVleet raised his hand in three points, opening the curtain for the two teams to attack, Barnes, Siakam also attacked strongly, Clark strong dunked for the Nets to score, Durant, Mills three-pointers also returned, the first quarter of the Nets led by 1 point, the whole team scored 33 points. In the second quarter, the Nets did not lose their feel, the bench was equally strong, Mills, Duke, Edwards all opened the inside and outside lines, VanVleet for the Raptors to stabilize the situation, the two teams gave up defense, the whole line launched an offensive game, but compared to the Nets' offense, the Raptors' mistakes increased, resulting in them in the score has been in the left side, with durant and Mills erupted again, the Nets led 10 points into the third quarter.
In the third quarter, the two sides opened a three-point war, the Raptors have Trent, VanVleet, Boucher, and the Nets have Durant, three points like rain, but the Nets have always maintained the lead in the scene, and then the Nets offense has problems, the Raptors seized the opportunity, played a wave of 24-5 offensive climax, in one fell swoop, Durant three points Nets to withstand the pressure, because there is no defense, the Raptors more from the offensive inside, the three quarters of the war, the Raptors led 9 points into the final quarter, the first three quarters of the Raptors team got to reach 100 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Nets team felt back to feel again, Edwards and Mills frequently won on the inside and outside, especially rookie Edwards, scored 7 consecutive points, the Nets played an 18-8 counterattack climax, the Nets countered the score, the Raptors were also not soft, many three-point returns, Mills alone carried the team's offense, scored 8 points in a row The Nets stabilized the advantage, but at the critical moment the Nets felt slipped again, Mills equalized, the Raptors had problems with the last attack, the two sides drew into overtime, in overtime, Siakam maintained a lead for the Raptors, Durant used a steady mid-range shooting to score six consecutive points to rebound again, Mills had a more flowing three-point performance, although VanVleet also had three points into the account, but Barnes failed to score three points, the game lost suspense, and the Nets won smoothly.
The Nets can win the game completely by the overall atmosphere, up and down the same heart, although this is an ordinary regular season game, but in the face of the absence of a number of core players, the Nets did not because of panic, the hard work of the marginal players gave the team enough help, but also brought confidence to the team, Griffin re-appeared active, Duke rebounded in front of the court is admirable, rookie Edwards is not soft, Mills three points are to save the team from water and fire. Durant played 48 minutes, got the second big triple-double of the Nets career, and although he failed to lead the team to a direct victory in the fourth quarter, he also showed his ability in overtime, ending the game with 6 points.
Mills 7 three-pointers, plus or minus the highest 15 in the game, scored 30 points became the key to the team to stabilize the situation, especially in the fourth quarter, when the Raptors played the advantage, Mills carried the team forward, the strongest "thigh" is deserved, Durant fulfilled Nash's promise, played full 48 minutes, got 34 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists of strong data, 48 minutes is Durant's longest game in 7 years, triple-double data is Durant's second time to join the Nets, Isn't this Kind of Durant worthy of fans' liking?
Durant was very excited after the game: I can't explain how I feel, we were 7 out, I didn't know I was going to play in this game before the game, but the opponent still didn't crush us, I'm proud of this team, and I'm proud of the performance of these young players.