Earlier, the Nets away to meet the Wizards, although Durant was absent due to injury, but Irving also ushered in a return, even with Harden, Irving two backcourt double core, the Nets once in the first half to achieve a 12-point lead, but in the second half wizards launched a crazy counterattack, but in the final Dinwiddie, Kuzma successively missed three-pointers, the Nets still won 119-118. And this game veteran Aldridge also ushered in his own "high light night", this time he played 32 minutes off the bench, 15 shots 11 won 27 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, played the highest score of the season, whenever the Wizards launched a counterattack, Ade will always use his steady mid-range to help the Nets stop the bleeding in time.
Ard's outbreak is also reminiscent of another veteran, who joined the team last season and wanted to follow the Nets to chase the championship, Griffin, who was given to DNP by Nash in this game, and his main rotation position has recently been taken by first-year freshman Sharp.
Griffin, who switched from the Pistons to the Nets last season, although the average score per game has dropped sharply, he can still score 10 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists, and the shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate are as high as 49.2% and 38.3%, respectively, compared with the previous crazy iron performance in the Pistons, it is indeed like a change of person. Griffin also chose to stay with the Nets with a base salary in the offseason, and as a result, there was no successive downturns in the offense, which also allowed Nash to gradually exclude him from the main rotation list.
I believe that if it were not for the fact that the Nets multiple players triggered the health and safety agreement at that time, the team was short of manpower, Nash estimated that he would not reactivate Griffin, and Griffin, who seized the opportunity, also played an excellent performance of scoring doubles in 3 consecutive games, although the offensive end was indeed a little weak, but on the defensive end he actively fought for every ball, and even in the battle against the Raptors, he once staged a "Rodman" style flying body to save the ball, which made the Nets fans extremely moved, and it was difficult to see the hope of re-entering the main rotation. As a result, as a number of main players terminated the agreement, plus rookies such as Sharp and Edwards also seized the opportunity to play an excellent performance, Nash also let Griffin refrigerate again.
Earlier, according to relevant media reports, because Edwards and David Duke, two two-way players, can help the team, the Nets may choose to part ways with Griffin and Millsap, two veterans, so as to make room for these two rookies. Unlike Millsap, who just joined this season, Griffin and Aldridge actually came to Brooklyn last season, Griffin once sat firm in the team's starting big forward position, and Ade played well on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in the 5 games he played for the Nets, if it were not for heart reasons, he really could have helped the Nets go further last season.
In fact, these two veterans joined the Nets for the championship, and now that just one year has passed, griffin and Ade's situation is completely different, which is really regrettable. The 36-year-old Ade can average 13.7 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game this season, it seems that the older the more demon, on the contrary, Griffin, because the playing time is not fixed, averaging only 5.9 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, shooting percentage as low as 36.9%, and now in order to make room for newcomers, even direct DNP, really sad!