After encountering a cold counterattack by the Portland Trail Blazers, the championship-winning favorite team, the Nets, finally found the field in the process of challenging the Eastern Conference hegemonic Bulls on the road. The Big Three, which the Nets are proud of, have once again ushered in a fit, and that seems to have changed, and the superstar players who are not on the overburden management team seem to be one step closer to the championship. However, they did not stop there, but returned home to accept the challenge of the Russian City Thunder. It is worth affirming that from the current lineup and record of the two teams, the Thunder must be the losing side.
But things are not as simple as we think, Durant, who has been overloaded for a long time, Irving, who returned to the home court, is not allowed to play, and Harden, who leads the team alone, has not helped the team to gain a lot of advantage. At the beginning of the game, the away Thunder took the lead in entering the state, Alexander played the first quarter of 12 minutes of play time, sent 16 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, Dolt also had 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist data contribution, and helped the team play a 38-26 single quarter score to gain a 12-point lead.
Entering the second quarter of the showdown, the Thunder team that achieved a noisy victory can still follow the trend and continue to widen the point difference between the two teams. Dort continued to threaten, and the second quarter sent another nine points, effectively helping the team to play a 32-25 score. At the end of the first half of the game, the Thunder have scored 70-51, leading the Nets by a crucial 19 points! Successively given the lead by opponents, the Nets, who were easy to fight again, finally began to fight back. In the third quarter, came forward from the bench, came forward, shooting 4 of 6 in a single quarter, sending 10 points and 1 steal, and David Duke also contributed 8 points and 4 rebounds.
With the continuous efforts of the team's bench players, the Nets actually played a 32-30 single-quarter score, chasing back the 2 points behind in the first half. By the time it came to the crucial final quarter showdown, the point difference between the two sides had been narrowed to 17 points, and Harden, who led the team alone, still had great difficulties in achieving a big reversal in the final quarter. In fact, in the regular showdown in the fourth quarter, the Thunder did not give the Nets a chance to counterattack, but played a 30-26 score with a bang, and achieved the feat of an upset counterattack with a score of 130-109.
In this game, Harden, who led the team in a single core, did not play his original Rocket state, only 7 of 22 shots in the game, and sent 26 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists. At the same time, the scoring contributions of other starters on the team are generally not high, and although Cameron Thomas was able to hand over 21 points and 3 rebounds in the course of 33 minutes off the bench, it still failed to effectively alleviate the overall scoring pressure of the team. Of course, the reason why the Nets will suffer a 21-point defeat is to mention the hot state of the Thunder.
They hit 20 three-pointers in a single game, and five players scored to double digits, including Alexander even in the 35 minutes of playing, with an efficient output of 11 of 18 shots, a game-high score of 33 points, and a quasi-triple-double of 10 rebounds and 9 assists. There was also losing draft Dort, who hit 6 three-pointers in a single game and sent out 27 points and 2 assists. In the face of the Thunder side of the players sent explosive data one after another, the Nets did not usher in the big three, what to fight with them? It is worth saying that after losing this game, the Nets' record has also become 26-15, allowing the Heat to reap the benefits and maintain a three-game winning streak and smoothly reach the second place in the East!