On January 14, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Thunder challenged the Nets away. Before the game, the Nets were not in good shape, the first position in the East was taken by the Bulls, the game, Durant was on leave, Irving could not play the home game, only Harden single-core team was left, but it still had an advantage in overall strength, and it was still a home game. Surprisingly, the first quarter of the Thunder on the main back to play 16-2, 11-2 two waves of offensive small climax, the first quarter of the net win of 12 points, the next three quarters of the Nets have been in the chase mode, although there are several times to narrow the point difference to single digits, but the key moment Thunder have someone to stand up, the last quarter of the dispute, the Thunder once again played a 19-6 offensive climax to lock the win, after 4 quarters of competition, the final Thunder 130-109 victory over the Nets burst out of the big cold. After the game, the Nets had fallen to third in the East and were overtaken by the Heat. Although the Thunder are still in 14th place at the bottom of the West, pulling down the strong eastern teams on the road has undoubtedly increased the confidence of the players.
In this battle, although Harden got 26 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, but the efficiency is not high, only 7 of 22 shots, 3 of 11 three-point shots, shooting less than 30%, not only Harden, the Nets the whole team feel is not good, the shooting rate is only 41%, and the three-point shooting rate is as low as 22%. For the Nets, Irving's problem should be solved as soon as possible, and only the big three can burst out the maximum energy. According to statistics, when the Big Three were on the court at the same time, the Nets achieved a record of 13 wins and 3 losses. And the record of the single-core team is not ideal, whether it is Durant, or Harden. It is worth mentioning that after the game, Harden won the number of three-point iron to reach 4456, tied with Ray Allen to become the first in history, Curry is the number of imports, and Harden's number of iron, this is the gap, what is worse, Harden will soon break this record, become the real first person in history, the time is in the next game.
The Thunder can be upset, mainly because every player has a good feel, the team shot 51% from the field, and the three-point shooting rate reached 44%. Of course, the best performer is Alexander, who shot 11 of 18 from the field, 2 of 5 from three-point range, 9 of 10 from the free throw line, cut down a quasi-triple-double of 33 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists, and his personal plus-minus was as high as +30, becoming the brightest star in the game. After the game, Alexander also did not shy away from saying that he was the leader of the team! It is worth mentioning that he turned his words sharply to express his gratitude to Paul, who he believed that paul's help had a great influence on the improvement of his ability. Gold shines everywhere, and after leaving the Thunder to join the Suns, Paul also became the leader of the team and built a winning culture, as Curry said, Paul will become very competitive with the team. Unfortunately, as a 36-year-old veteran, he has not yet won the championship, and fans hope that he can finally achieve his wish.