On February 7, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued to unfold, and the Nets challenged the Nuggets away. Harden is still absent in this game, and Irving leads the team alone. In the first half, the Nets' offensive state was hot, and the two teams were caught in a tug-of-war, and the Nuggets led by 1 point after half-time; but in the second half, the Nets suddenly collapsed, with 16 points in one section and 13 points in the first quarter, and the opponent completely opened the point difference. In the end, the Nets lost 104-124 to the Nuggets, suffering an eight-game losing streak.
This time Harden was unable to play, and Nash adjusted the starting lineup again, Irving, Mills, Edwards, James Johnson and Griffin. After the game began, the Nets were still in a very good state, with 40 points in a single quarter, the team also occupied the initiative on the court, and the offensive state of the two sides in the second quarter was still hot, and the score has not been opened. But in the second half, the Nets completely collapsed, only 16 points in a single quarter, the Nuggets bombed 31 points, the nets still felt sluggish in the last quarter, the point difference was further widened, the game also lost suspense early, and the Nets lost the game again.
The first half exploded with 75 points, but only 29 in the second half, and the Collapse of the Nets was directly incomprehensible. This is not the first time that the Nets have seen this situation, and many games have suddenly fallen into a scoring drought, allowing opponents to pull apart points and then lose games. Among them, on the one hand, a number of main players are absent, but more importantly, the temporary adjustment of the head coach, Nash after the game has once again become the focus, and there are still many people calling on him to hurry up.
Irving's performance in this game is not very good, although he has a double-double stat of 27 points and 11 assists, but the feel is not very good, 10 of 26 shooting, 3 of 9 three-pointers. In fact, Irving still played very actively on the field, and also sent 3 blocks, but the gap with the opponent is still a bit large. This time, Irving's Griffin scored 19 points, Mills 14 points, Thomas on the bench 20 points, and Brown 10 points. The most critical thing is that the interior line is exploded, the rebound is 36-55 behind, and the interior line scores 32-64 behind.
After losing to the Nuggets, the Nets have suffered an eight-game losing streak, and one more bad news has officially arrived. That is, the Nets have fallen to seventh in the East and come to the play-off area, a result that was really not expected. Before Durant was injured, the Nets were still in the first place in the East, but they did not expect to fall to seventh in the blink of an eye. In the 11 games since Durant's injury, the Nets have only won 2 and lost 9; after Irving's return, he has played in 12 games, with 4 wins and 8 losses.