The Nets have lost 8 straight! On February 7, Beijing time, the Nets lost to the Nuggets 104-124 on the road, and the ranking has slipped to 7th in the East. The Nets scored 75 points in the first half and still suffered a crushing defeat, and suddenly collapsed in the second half, with a gap of too harsh on the night of the 8-game losing streak.
The Nets scored 40 points in the first quarter of the game, and at the end of the first half, the Nets scored 75 points from 53.1 percent of the shooting, including 12 of 24 three-pointers, but it was in such a hot start that the Nets still failed to end the losing streak, and suddenly collapsed in the second half, scoring only 29 points at 26.3 percent shooting in the second half, and finally ushered in a fiasco.
The Nets suddenly collapsed in the second half, the sudden loss of the team's shooting feel is the appearance, and the innate lack of frame protection ability is the key. The Nets only grabbed 17 rebounds in the entire second half but let the Nuggets grab 34 rebounds, and in the third quarter of the sudden collapse (16-31 in the single quarter), the Nets only "picked up" 5 rebounds and let the Nuggets get 19 rebounds, of which Blake Griffin, who was the Nets' starting center, played 10 minutes in the third quarter without any rebounds. Throughout the game, the Nets trailed the Nuggets 36-55 in rebounding.
Although the Nuggets have Jokic, the Nuggets this season are not a rebounding team, and so far this season, the Nuggets have averaged 43.3 rebounds per game in 53 regular season games, ranking fifth from the bottom of the 30 teams in the league, but it is in the face of such an opponent The Nets have been destroyed by the opponent in rebounding.
The inside line of rebounding is inherently insufficient, in addition to the disadvantage of rebounding, the scoring of the penalty area is also a weak rib. In this game, the Nets scored only 32 points in the box but let the Nuggets score 64 points in the box, and the Nets lost 32 points in just one goal in the box, and the Nets hit 6 more three-pointers than the Nuggets and still couldn't fill the gap in the inside scoring.
Of course, the Nets don't have Durant and Harden in this game, but the Nets' internal problems cannot be fundamentally solved even with those two superstars, not to mention that the Nuggets also have serious injury problems. I hope that the entire Team of the Nets will not use injuries to anesthetize themselves, the Nets' internal configuration is inherently insufficient, and Irving and Harden have obvious defensive flaws in the Big Three, so it is impossible for the Nets to compete for the championship!