On January 11, Beijing time, the Nets played away against the Blazers, and the Nets lost to the Blazers 108-114 at the end of the game. Although the Nets are missing Harden and Aldridge in this game, the Blazers are missing more players, Lillard, McCollum, Nance Jr. and others have no way to play, and this game Irving can play, so this game is undoubtedly the Nets more dominant. But after the game began, the Blazers took the lead, but soon the Nets found the form to complete the rebound, and in the second half of the game, when the Blazers also began to find the outside touch, they took the lead again, and finally the Nets lost to the Blazers without success.
In the first half of the game, the Blazers once played a good state to occupy the lead, but in the second quarter of the game when the Blazers attacked the downturn, Durant began to help the team chase points, coupled with Sharp, Irving's play Nets lead to complete the rebound, although Simmons and others played later, but the Nets can also give a response, the half game ended the Nets led by 7 points. In the third quarter, McLemore and Simmons helped the team to close the score, and Durant shot and scored at the critical moment to stabilize the situation, and then Irving scored and the Nets led by 7 points. After the timeout, the Blazers played a wave of 5-0, although Bembry scored to stop the decline, but the Back Reliance On The Covington Blazers also clenched the score, and then the two teams frequently hit the iron, and at the critical moment McLemore hit the three-point Blazers to tie the score. After the timeout, Covington hit a three-pointer to help the Blazers reverse the score, and soon Thomas hit a three-pointer to respond, and In the final stage, Little, Simmons and Zeller helped the team score, and the Nets trailed by six points at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the Nets played a wave of 4-0, followed by Watford basket score, then Irving scored on the basket, Zeller scored under the basket, then Sharp scored inside, Ellerby hit a three-pointer, then Smith grabbed a rebound and a second offensive score, Thomas scored to stop the bleeding, Durant shot to score, and the Nets trailed the Blazers by 3 points. After the timeout, Simmons broke through the layup to score, then the two teams attacked the iron, Nurkic scored under the basket, then Thomas stole a dragon to score on the basket, Nurkic scored under the basket, then Mills hit a three-pointer, Simmons threw a score, Sharp scored inside, but back Covington hit a three-pointer, Thomas hit 1 of 2 free throws, and McLemore hit a three-pointer. After the timeout, Sharp scored a layup, followed by McLemoh hitting a three-pointer, then Thomas hitting a three-pointer, and McLemoh's free throws were 1 of 2, and the Blazers won the game.
It is not easy for the Blazers to win the game, it can be said that this has a lot to do with their three-point explosion in the second half of the game, relying on such things the Blazers are successful in opening the score. And in this game, the rocket's veteran Covington is a big explosion of performance, the third quarter of the game Covington three points broke out, to the fourth quarter of the game key moment Covington three points is to help the Blazers to open the score, so this game Covington's play is very important, if not his play Blazers may be difficult to win the game. Of course, other players also performed well, among which Simmons, McLemo and Nurkic all helped the team a lot, and at the end of the game, Covington had 21 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist on 6 of 9, McLemore had 20 points and 5 rebounds, Simmons had 23 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists, and Nurkic had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists.
In this game, Irving's offensive state is average, in the fourth quarter of the game when there is an empty three-point opportunity, Irving also failed to hit, it can be said that this is still a big damage to the Nets, after all, the current Nets do not have Harden's game, this time the Nets need Irving to stand up to help the team, but in the second half of the game, Irving's help to the team is limited, and Irving got 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists at the end of the game. As for Sharp and Thomas doing their best in the game, they still did what they had to do in the game, and at the end of the game, Thomas got 21 points and 3 rebounds, and Sharp got 14 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists.
And Durant is tired in this game, after all, this game Durant is back-to-back play, and in this game Durant is still playing for a long time, more importantly, durant is still lacking help in this game, so many times the Nets need Durant to stand up to help the team score, but unfortunately Durant in the game to do their best, and finally the second in the East Nets fell down to the Blazers, the end of the game Durant got 28 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists data. After the game, Durant looked tired, and in the end Durant left the court in frustration.