On January 11, Beijing time, the Blazers played at home against the Nets, this game Irving and Durant played, Harden and Aldridge were absent, the team lineup is still incomplete. Against the Trail Blazers, who have not played well this season, the Nets' performance in this campaign is not ideal. The team trailed the Blazers by 7 points in the first quarter, and in the second quarter, the team exploded a wave of 36-22 offense, surpassing the Blazers by 7 points. But in the third quarter, the Nets were hit by the Blazers in a wave of 32-19 offense, and the single quarter again lost 13 points, and the third quarter ended, and the Nets trailed the Blazers by 6 points. In the final quarter, the Nets tried to narrow the point gap, once narrowing the score gap to less than 3 points, but the Blazers quickly widened the point difference, and at the critical moment, the Nets were unable to catch up with the point difference, and the game lost suspense. In the end, the Blazers defeated the Nets 114-108 to win the game.
This game the Blazers can win the Nets, is absolutely upset, because the Blazers this season's performance is very bad, the team is deficient in many aspects, and the team Lillard, CJ and Powell these three scorers are absent, the team used the residual team, most of them are role players, the overall strength compared to the Nets, to be at an absolute disadvantage. In this case, the Blazers were able to win the Nets, which was unexpected.
The Blazers started all five in double figures in this game, of which young simmons continued his hot state, he got a comprehensive stat of 23 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists, while Covington also had 21 points, McLemo 20 points, Nurkic 14 points and 8 rebounds, the whole team played well, which is the main reason why they can lead the Nets most of the time. In the end, they also relied on a better overall performance, and the team successfully defeated the Nets at home to win two consecutive games.
On the Nets side, although players such as Harden and Aldridge are absent in this campaign, they have two major stars, Durant and Irving, and they must have an advantage in the strength of the lineup. Unfortunately, apart from Durant and Irving, the other players in this game did not perform well, and did not give the team much help in the game, and the performance of Bembry, Clarkston, Duke and Mills in this campaign was not ideal, they were not able to play at the level they should have, which also led to Durant and Irving not being able to get enough help, and the team eventually lost on the road.
In this campaign, Durant scored 28 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, and Irving also had 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, the performance of these two players in this game was good enough, but unfortunately, it was difficult to fight with two fists and four hands, and the two stars did not win the game in the case of a brilliant performance, and they still lost to the Blazers on the road and did not win consecutively.
In the past period of time, the Nets' performance has been very unsatisfactory, the team in the past 7 games, only achieved a record of 2 wins and 5 losses, compared to the beginning of the season, in the past period of time the Nets fell into a trough, the team's competitiveness in the game has declined, the intensity at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is not ideal, which has also led to their recent performance is very bad. For now, for the Nets to get out of their current predicament, the team needs to improve in many ways, and the team needs to find a way to win.