The NBA regular season continues, and the Warriors, who are second in the West, have a strong dialogue with the Fifth Nets in the East, but this game is quite difficult for the Nets, and they have recently suffered from injuries, and many players on the team, including Durant, have been absent due to injuries, which is also the root cause of their three consecutive losses and falling out of the top four. Before the game, they ushered in a new problem, the Nets officially announced that Harden was suspicious of playing because of a right hand strain, and head coach Nash confirmed that Harden was absent from this game, so that the Nets became Irving's single core team in this game. The Warriors' side of Green is still absent, Wise has not played so far this season, and the Warriors have won five straight games by beating the Nets in the final moments of the game.
Warriors starters: Curry, Klay, Wiggins, Potter, Looney
Nets starters: Irving, Mills, Bembry, Clarkston, Edwards
The game began with the Nets taking the lead, with Edwards hitting a three-pointer from the outside, Clarkston scoring five straight points, and Clay hitting three-pointers from the outside with two free throws to start with the Warriors trailing 7-11. The Warriors found a feel on the offensive end to respond with a 14-4 surge to overtake the Nets by six points. Johnson broke through the basket dunk to play 2+1 to stop the nets from bleeding, Wiggins responded directly with three points, and Poole also had the Warriors pull the score apart in three points, and the warriors led the Nets by 11 points at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter began to change the style of the game, the Nets blossomed more points, Irving, Bembry, Mills, Griffin all scored into the account, after the outside hit consecutive hits, the Nets played a wave of 23-8 shockwave, the score reversed. The Warriors were forced to call a timeout, Poole rushed to the basket to create a foul free throw hit for the Warriors to break the deadlock, the two teams fell into a glue, the score alternately rose, at the critical moment Wiggins, Porter hit three three-pointers after the Warriors regained the lead.
At the beginning of the second half, Curry and Wiggins hit three-pointers outside the line, the Warriors once again played a small climax to extend the lead to nearly 20 points, Mills hit a jump shot, Wiggins made a layup, and Irving hit the Warriors' 72-56 Nets with three points. Irving stepped up and shot consecutive shots to lead the Nets to start counterattacking to chase the point difference to single digits, Irving scored 5 consecutive points Johnson, Brown inside the third quarter end of the point difference is only 2 points. In the last quarter, the two teams were stuck in a stalemate, the two sides came and went to draw the score many times, and at the critical moment of the game, Klay jumped a shot to score 4 consecutive points, the Warriors led by 3 points, and the Nets fouled the Warriors continuously stood on the free throw line, and finally the Warriors won the game.
The Nets did not feel ideal at the beginning of this game, especially in the first quarter of the game, 7 shots outside the three-point line only hit 1 or the opening goal, 22 shots only hit 7 goals, and the first quarter only scored 20 points, which can also be seen that the Nets have problems on the offensive end. As the game progressed, the Nets gradually warmed up, and they also played a smooth offense, once surpassing the score. But then he was overtaken by his opponent again. Then has been in a state of chasing points, in the third quarter of the game, the Warriors offense power off Irving offensive end began to force a single quarter to get 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals to lead the Nets to chase the point difference to only 2 points, the final tug-of-war in the final key moment of the Nets did not seize the opportunity, and finally regretted losing, Irving cut 32 + 7 + 7 + 3.
Wiggins's first quarter was hot, and in this case, his teammates also passed the ball to Wiggins, and he scored 14 points, 6 of 6 of 9 three-pointers in the first quarter of the game, 2 of 3 of 3, 14 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 assists and 2 blocks, and also staged a powerful performance from the wing to the basket to make up for the dunks. However, the splash brothers Curry and Thompson did not feel good in this game, and the two of them combined 2 of 13 at the end of the half, and the feel was completely absent. The third quarter power-out lead was also narrowed to two points in the lead, and Curry hit consecutive free throws at key moments in the final quarter, and Klay hit a three-point shot when the two teams were 1 point apart, and the Warriors beat their opponents to win five straight. Wiggins had 24 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks in the game.