On January 2, Beijing time, the NBA regular season ushered in a focus showdown, the Nets home to meet the Clippers, the whole game of the two teams are tight on the score, the Nets once led by 13 points in the final quarter, but the tenacious Clippers completed the counterattack, and finally 120-116 narrowly defeated the Nets, bursting a big cold, Harden's 30+ big triple double, and Durant's 28 points into an empty slash.
The Nets are 23-10 and rank second in the East, the same record as the First Bulls, Durant, Ade and others have recently returned, and the Nets' employment shortage has been alleviated. The Clippers recently missed major generals and are provisionally no. 6 in the West, and the two teams have just met before, when the Nets won a 16-point victory under Harden.
Harden and Durant led the team in a duo, and the Clippers started better, their outside feel was good, at one point they led by 9 points, and the Nets chased points at the end of the quarter and overtook one point in the first quarter. In the second quarter, neither team hit a high percentage, staged an iron war, always clinging to the score, the Halftime Nets led by 4 points, Durant scored 16 points at halftime, and Harden scored 8 points on only 2-of-10 shooting.
Easy side to fight again, the Clippers can still bite the score in the beginning stage, the Nets gradually exerted their strength in the middle of this quarter, Harden ushered in a big explosion in this quarter, bombed 16 points in a single quarter, almost completed a triple-double in the third quarter (only 1 rebound), Durant and Mills also felt good, but the Clippers' outside line was also good, biting the score, and the Nets only led by 7 points at the end of the third quarter.
As soon as the final showdown came up, Harden completed a triple-double, and the tenacious Clippers clenched the score, and the Nets could not open the point difference. In the middle of the quarter, the Nets played a small climax to take a 12-point lead, but the Clippers did not give up, playing a wave of 15-3, stunned to equalize, the game only had less than 3 minutes left. Winslow scored on a layup, the Clippers completed the comeback, Mann hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, and the Clippers led by four points, leaving the Nets 23 seconds to go. The Nets were unable to return to the sky, eventually losing to the Clippers, suffering their first losing streak this season.
The Clippers played a classic game, completing a reversal with a 13-point trail in the final quarter, with six players in the team scoring in double figures, Bledsoe cut 27 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, Mann 19 points, Reggie 17 points, and substitute Winslow and Ennis also scored in double figures.
Harden shot 9-of-22 from the field, 13-of-15 from the free throw line, and exploded a triple-double of 34 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists, scoring more than 30 points in four consecutive games, after the omnipotent Harden returned. Durant had 28 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, and the two scored 62 points together, but they could not lead the team to win, and the Nets' record became 23-11, and the first Bulls opened a ball gap.