On January 11, Beijing time, in a NBA regular season game that just ended, the Nets fought hard for 4 quarters on the road, and finally lost to the Blazers 108-114, breaking a big cold.
In this game, Harden was absent due to a knee injury, Irving ushered in a comeback on the road, the net paper strength of the two giants is still very strong, and the Blazers, they are the lottery team in the West, and Lillard, CJ McCollum, Powell and Nance Jr. 4 main forces are absent collectively, the Nets are obviously a more optimistic side, but after the opening, the Blazers A number of role players on the court to fight and work hard, not inferior to the Nets with the double giants, in the end, they through the team efforts, joined hands to overturn the double giant Nets.
In the first quarter, the Blazers took the lead and took a 33-26 lead. In the second quarter, the Nets launched a counterattack under the leadership of Durant and Irving, and a wave of 36-22 in the single quarter achieved a counterattack. In the third quarter, the Nets performed poorly on both ends of the attack, and the Blazers blasted out a wave of 32-19 attacks, relying on the offensive climax of the third quarter, to complete the rebound again, and entered the fourth quarter with a score of 87-81.
In the last quarter of the game, Irving Durant led the team to chase points, but halfway through the quarter, Irving lost his balance in the air after being collided by Little in the process of grabbing the ball, and when he landed, in order not to step on Little, he directly took a big stride, landed on the ground, and after landing, Owen's expression was painful, and he walked back to the bench accompanied by the staff, fortunately, after checking, there was no major obstacle, which was a false alarm. After that, the two sides entered the final 6 minutes of the showdown, the Nets once chased only 4 points, but Covington and Ben McLemore hit 3 points in succession, helping the Blazers to establish a 9-point advantage again, and Durant failed to hit several singles in a row, whether it was a breakthrough or a 3-point attack, it was obvious that Durant's physical strength had been overexpended, and the shots were a little short, but Nash's final tactic was to give the ball to Durant to single, and there was no way to deal with it. In the end, the Nets chased the score to no avail, and lost the game on the road.
In this game, Durant played 41 minutes, cut 28 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and played more than 40 minutes in two consecutive games, his performance was good enough, but the fourth quarter was really a severe test of physical strength. And Irving's second game after his comeback, he also played 40 minutes, as Nash said after the last game, really gave Irving a lot of playing time. And Irving eventually contributed 22 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, and the feel has not yet returned to the best, but this performance has been very good. However, the two giants joined forces to cut 50 points, 18 rebounds and 9 assists, but still failed to help the team win the remaining opponents, quite helpless.
I have to say that this game is really a shame for the Nets, not only losing to the opponents of the remnants, but also being completely exploded at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. The offensive end has no teamwork at all, except for relying on the individual abilities of the two giants. On the defensive end, they were even more blown up by opponents who lacked a double gun in the backcourt, and the Blazers started with 5 people all scoring in double figures, and 2 people scored 20! Nash really has no way, there is no way on the offensive end, the defensive end is helpless, losing such a performance, for the Nets, it is really too undeserved, but obviously, if you do not solve the problem of the coach's coaching ability, the Nets want to win the championship, it is really too difficult.