The NBA regular season continued, in a focus battle, the Brooklyn Nets rushed to the indiana Pacers on the road, this game Irving finally made his debut of the season, the Last combination of the Nets Big Three had to go back to the first game against the Bucks in the Eastern Conference semifinals last season. In recent games, the two teams are not in very good shape, the Nets have suffered 3 consecutive losses, and the Pacers have suffered 5 consecutive losses, so this game is very eager for both sides to win, after all, everyone wants to end the recent decline with a win. After the final four quarters of fierce fighting between the two teams, the Nets won the game 129-121, finally ending a three-game losing streak.
The Pacers scored in double figures, Stephenson and Sabonis combined to cut 62 points, unfortunately they still lost the game, of which Sabonis cut a triple-double of 32 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, Stephenson cut 30 points and 5 assists, Sykes got 18 points and 5 assists, Turner 14 points, 4 rebounds and 5 blocks, washington 10 points and 3 rebounds. On the Nets side, Durant exploded with 39 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, Irving had 22 points, three rebounds, four assists and three steals, Harden had 18 points, five rebounds and six assists, Aldridge had 13 points, and Clarkston and Bembri each had 12 points.
After the first quarter began, the two sides played very glue, biting each other,but in the second half of the quarter, Stephenson suddenly broke out to cut 20 points to help the Pacers take the lead, and the Pacers came back in the second quarter to continue to expand the lead, the Nets side of the defense was useless, and the Nets trailed by 13 points at halftime. In the third quarter, the Pacers continued to march all the way, the point difference became wider and wider, and at the critical moment, Irving led the team to play several waves of offensive climaxes to narrow the point difference to single digits, and the Nets Three in the last quarter made a force to lock in the victory after a wave of 17:5 attack.
The arrival of Irving in this game has brought the Nets a strong ability to attack the key ball and break through Irving's omnipotence. In an offense, Irving was forced to defend with the ball outside the three-point line, at this time Durant took a step forward to ask Irving for the ball, but Owen signaled Durant to retreat, and Adu did so, and Harden on the other side was also signaling Irving to pass the ball to his teammates in the bottom corner, but Irving did not give, he first used a sudden change of direction to shake off the defense, then came to an emergency stop, and then pulled out the jump shot, facing Irving's attack so quickly, directly turned into 5 opponents plus 4 teammates A total of 9 people watched Irving play alone.