February 7, Beijing time/ news
Waking up, the Nets were another fiasco, the 20-point away defeat to the Nuggets suffered the longest 8 consecutive losses of the season, the record became 29 wins and 24 losses and thus fell to the seventh place in the East, once ranked first in the East, but after 8 consecutive losses fell out of the top six in the East, fell to the Eastern Conference playoff competition area, without Durant and Harden, Irving really could not move the Nets, the ability to lead the team was too poor.
In this game, Durant and Harden continued to truce due to injury, Irving once again single-handedly led the team, Griffin showed well in the first half, the Nets and Nuggets played difficult to solve, but in the second half of the nets suddenly collapsed in the third quarter, the single quarter 16-31 lost 15 points, in the last quarter Irving led the team to play for a while, helpless to chase points hopelessly, coupled with the point difference is too large, give up the game in advance, and finally the Nets 104-124 defeat nuggets 20 points.
Irving played 41 minutes, shooting 10-of-26 and 3-of-9 from three-point range, with 27 points, 11 assists, five rebounds, three blocks and one steal, while Nuggets core Jokic scored 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
The Nets have not won one game in a five-game away trip in the West, falling out of the top six in the East after 29 wins and 24 losses after 8 consecutive losses, ranking seventh in the East, leading only 1.5 wins over the Hornets in the ninth place in the East, according to statistics, no team in NBA history has won the championship after 8 consecutive defeats.
Who can save the Nets? Probably only Durant, since Durant's injury, the Nets have won 2 and lost 9 and suffered 8 consecutive defeats (the league's longest losing streak), which is enough to reflect Durant's influence on the Nets, in other words, without Durant, the Nets are like two teams.
Speaking about eight consecutive defeats after the game, Nash acknowledged that after the All-Star Game, their ranking may still be in the playoff position; Nash also said that Harden and Clarkston are on the daily injury list, and Ade has a good chance of not playing the next game.
The next game the Nets will return home, Durant and Irving can not play, Harden can play is also unknown, injury-ridden Nets may suffer 9 consecutive losses.