On January 20, the Nets challenged the Wizards on the road, although they had super offensive efficiency in the first half, but in the fourth quarter, the Wizards used Harrell and Kuzma's three-pointers to chase the point difference to only one point, and finally with the Wizards' consecutive three-point misses, the Nets narrowly beat the Wizards 119:118.
In the fourth quarter, the Wizards were able to close the score, one reason is that the Wizards' three-point projection feels better, and another reason is that the referee encourages confrontation. Harden was fouled by the Wizards' defenders when he broke through, the Wizards challenged the penalty, and in the case of an obvious hitter, the referee said that the Wizards challenged successfully, and then the ball was given to the Wizards.
Then Harden broke through again, Beal cut the ball on the defensive end, and the result was cut to Harden's hand, the referee still gave the ball to the Wizards through video playback, and two consecutive unreasonable penalties let the Wizards see the hope of chasing points, and also gave the Wizards the opportunity to chase points.
On the other side, Wizards Avdia pushed His hand to Mills on offense and then hit a three-point shot from outside the three-point line, an offense that had a noticeable push, but the referee ignored Avdia's push and didn't say anything. The goal not only brought the Wizards nearly three points, but also drove the Momentum of the Wizards, only because of the consecutive three-point misses in the final moments, the Wizards lost the game by one point.
There was also an offensive round, the Nets shot from the outside, and in the case of the ball touching the basket and the trajectory of the movement changed, the referee awarded the Nets a 24-second offensive offense violation, and then gave the ball to the Wizards, three consecutive waves of ball rights conversions made the Nets lose three offensive opportunities, and the Wizards took the opportunity to get three scoring opportunities.
The Nets had only eight players to rotate in this game, nash had four timeouts left with five minutes left in the game, and with the Wizards chasing points in a row, Nash still held the timeout steadily, without the idea of laying out tactics, but leaving the players to solve the problem. Thanks to Aldridge's consecutive singles, Irving also had a wonderful breakthrough to score, otherwise the Nets could have been reversed by the Wizards.