On February 3, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season is in full swing. In today's focus battle, the Nets took on the Kings on the road, and before this game, the Nets had suffered a five-game losing streak to finish 6th in the East with 29-21 losses.
In today's game, Harden, who recently suffered a hand injury, started again, but his form was not very good. In the first quarter, Harden gave three assists to his teammates, but he did not feel anything at all, not scoring a point on 0-of-3 shooting, and these three shots were outside the three-point line, mid-range and under the basket.
In the second quarter, Harden spent more time resting off the court, but he still had a hard time scoring after he returned. It wasn't until the end of the quarter that Harden finally hit a shot to avoid the embarrassment of not scoring a single point at the end of the half. At the end of the first half, Harden had 2 points, 2 rebounds and 6 assists on 1-of-5 shooting.
Before the game began, Nets coach Nash talked about Harden's hand injury, saying that Harden had felt much better today, so he would arrange for him to play. Today's game is also Harden's back-to-back play, in yesterday's loss to the Suns, Harden only scored 22 points on 6-of-19 shooting, but gave 10 assists.
Fortunately, thanks to the excellent performance of Irving and others, the Nets led the Kings 62:54 at the end of the half, Irving scored 12 points, Mills scored 11 points, Clarkston had 17 points and 5 rebounds, Thomas who came off the bench scored 6 points, and Johnson also scored 6 points.