On February 7, Beijing time, the Nets played against the Nuggets, and the Nets lost to the Nuggets 104-124 at the end of the game. The Nets are missing Harden and Claxton in this game, and now the Nets have suffered 7 consecutive defeats, coupled with the Nets' trade rumors of Harden, which makes the Nets unstable, so even if it is facing a strong team like the Nuggets, Irving needs to find a way to lead the team to win. In the first half of the game, the Nets were still able to play with the Nuggets, but in the third quarter, the Nets directly collapsed and were pulled apart, and finally the Nets were unable to return to the sky and suffered 8 consecutive losses.
In the first quarter, the Nuggets started 9-2, after which Mills and others helped the team chase points, and Gordon and Barton responded to help the Nuggets take a 5-point lead. After the timeout, Irving and Griffin helped the team to tighten the score, and in the next game, the two teams attacked each other, Jokic led the team to maintain a slight lead, but Brown played the Nets by only 2 points. After the timeout, Thomas and Brown helped the team to equalize the score, and Cousins hit a three-pointer at the key moment, but then Brown and Thomas hit three points to complete the rebound, and Hyland chased the point, and the Nets led by one point at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter of the game, Irving and Mills helped the team expand the lead, and the Next game The Nuggets tried to chase points, but this time the Nets played a slight lead, although the Nuggets tried to chase points, but the Nets defended in this game, Irving, Griffin scored after the Nets led to 6 points. After the timeout, Jokic helped the team chase points, but Griffin continued to maintain the form to help the Nets maintain the lead, and the next two teams played fiercely, and then Jokic led the team to complete the counter-overtaking, but Irving scored 5 consecutive points to help the team tighten the score, and the Nets trailed by 1 point at the end of the half.
In the third quarter, Irving helped the team score, but then the Nets attacked the dud, allowing the Nuggets to play a wave of 12-2, followed by Johnson hitting a three-pointer to stop the bleeding, then Gordon and Barton hit three-pointers, and Gordon dunked and the Nuggets led by 16 points. After the suspension, the Nets could not stop the decline, the Nuggets relied on Jokic multiplayer to continue to expand the lead, mills hit a three-pointer at the key moment to stop the bleeding, and then Irving scored consecutive points to help the team chase the points, Hyland shot and scored, and the Nets trailed by 16 points at the end of the third quarter. The two teams were in disarray in the fourth quarter, with the Nuggets still maintaining a big lead, and the Nets trailed by 13 points after Thomas scored. After the timeout, Mills hit a three-pointer, Barton and Gordon helped the team stabilize the situation, coupled with Morris's play, the Nuggets once again led to 18 points, and then the Nets surrendered to replace the main player, and finally the Nuggets won the game.
This game Nuggets directly broke the Nets in the second half of the game, Jokic played more easily in the game, after all, the Nets have a limited impact on Jokic, and there are more people outside Jokic who stand up to help the team, two of which will gordon and Barton have excellent performances in the game, the two in the previous game have a good play, the fourth quarter of the game When the Nuggets chased the score, Barton and Gordon's play once again helped the team to open up the score, so the Nuggets won Gordon and Barton is also a meritorious, At the end of the game, Gordon and Barton had 38 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists, and Jokic had 27 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals.
As for the Nets in the first half of the game is a good state, they also played more actively on the defensive end, coupled with Griffin's multi-person play, so this is the key to the Nets in the first half of the game to bite the score, but in the second half of the game the Nets are in a slump, Griffin can not score here, not to say, other players can not stand up to help the team, so the Nets directly collapsed in the second half of the game. In this game, Irving was in average shape, and only one section broke out in the game, in the second quarter of the game, Irving got 14 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists on 6 of 9, while the rest of the time Irving was sluggish, and at the end of the game, Irving had 27 points, 5 rebounds and 11 assists on 10 of 26.
At the same time, the Nets lost this game after there is bad news, the Nets' recent losing streak has made them fall to the sixth position in the East, the gap between the Raptors and the Nets in the seventh place in the East at this time is very small, and now after the Nets lose this game, they are more than the Raptors who have fallen to the seventh position in the East, and then the Nets will face teams such as the Wizards and the Heat, when the Nets will stop their decline is really difficult to say, more importantly, the nets have fallen to the play-off area.