Relying on Cameron Thomas's final 1.4-second throw in overtime, the Nets narrowly beat the Spurs 121-119.
It seems that Durant is really right, and he doesn't know if he can still maintain home advantage if he continues to play like this.
Of course, for the Nets, it may be more advantageous to play away from home now, like today is home, Irving can't play.
Not disrespectful to the Spurs, but from the point of view of the record, the current Spurs are indeed not a strong team, after today's play, 15 wins and 24 losses, even the playoffs can not enter the qualifiers, probably with the Blazers at the same level.
With such Spurs playing back and forth, the Nets at this stage really have no dominance to speak of.
The main thing is that the recent Nets have been very unstable, like today, the third quarter once led to more than ten points, and then was quickly equalized in 3 minutes, into the offensive no tactics, defense can not be prevented, win or lose all depends on the state of the star play.
It feels like Nash can survive until now, Durant Harden Irving and even the Nets players here have a responsibility, and someone can always stand up.
Durant, who has been in C this season, needless to say, although there was fatigue in the second half of today, only 2 points in the 4th quarter, and only 2 points in overtime, but there were still 28 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in the game.
Clarkston also doubled his usual number of points and 14 rebounds; Harden improved today with 26 points, 12 assists and seven rebounds, and 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Really, if Harden hadn't played so well today, or Diop's luck and personal ability would have been a little stronger, the Nets would never have survived overtime, and the Spurs would have killed him in the fourth quarter.
There is also the final quasi-killer Thomas, there may be quite a few people do not know him, a brief introduction is this year's first round of the 27th show, the MVP of the Summer League.
Although he made a big achievement today, after Durant was passed out by the bag, he seized the opportunity and won the race with a very beautiful breakthrough horseback archery.
But if you really want to talk about the full score, Thomas is absolutely not passing.
To describe it in one sentence, the advantage is that I really dare to fight, and the disadvantage is that I really dare to fight.
Thomas shot 4 of 11, 0 of 3 from three points to get 11 points and 6 rebounds, just look at the data is actually fine, but on the scene is really completely undefended, all kinds of singles are also quite hot eyes, -13 plus and minus is the lowest on the team.
So I really don't know whether to say that Nash is bold in using people or coaching is all blind, if you don't open your eyes, in the end Thomas may not even be worthy of playing, to put it bluntly, even if he is killed today, he should be at the level of DNP.
However, in the end, Thomas still played 30 minutes, continued to shoot against the three-point shooting rate of the early 20% of the season, and finally scored a quasi-kill, perhaps this is the god-level prediction, advanced coaching understanding.