On February 17, Beijing time, today, the Brook Nets went to the road to challenge the New York Knicks, which was a derby battle in the same city. Before the game, the Nets were eighth in the East and the Knicks were twelfth in the East. From the ranking point of view, the Nets have a slight advantage, but because Harden left, Irving did not play this time, and the strength of the Nets was greatly reduced. In the first quarter, the home Knicks did not give their opponents any chances, and under Randall's leadership, the Knicks ended the game with a 20-point advantage, a score of 38-18.
Entering the second quarter, the Nets' offense still did not have much improvement, the Knicks bench stood up, Randle also continued to play, halftime, the Nets 44-65 behind the opponent 21 points. Easy side to fight again, the Nets began to fight back under the leadership of two new signings Curry Jr. and Zhuang Shen, Randle's side of the offense had problems, the first four shots of the quarter only hit 1 goal, the Nets in the first 6 minutes to narrow the score to 9 points. Subsequently, Zhuang Shen successfully shot himself to make up for the dunk, and soon, Zhuang Shen assisted Brown's two-handed dunk on the offensive end, and Fournier stood up at this time and stabilized the situation under the basket.
After that, Ader blossomed in mid-range, but Quakely's three-point rain on the outside line, Mills did not hesitate to let go of a three-pointer, Randle went to the free throw line in a row, just 30 seconds later, Quakely hit a bottom corner drift three-pointer, the third quarter ended, the Nets 73-87 trailed the opponent by 14 points. In the final quarter, Quakely and Robinson scored 4 points in a row, Thomas stopped bleeding from mid-range, Ader walked up to the free throw line and then took Johnson's pass and took 2 more points, but Quickley felt hot, and there were 2 points in the strong throw, and Thomas looked back at the month and hit 2 points again.
In the decisive moment, Thomas, Curry Jr. and Ade scored in succession, the Nets completed the rebound, the last 16 seconds left in the game, Thomas went far away with three points to kill the game, and in the end, the Nets reversed the Knicks 111-106. After this game, the Nets won two consecutive games with a record of 31 wins and 27 losses, continuing to rank eighth in the East, while the Knicks suffered three consecutive losses with a record of 25 wins and 34 losses, continuing to rank twelfth in the East. In this campaign, Zhuang Shen performed bravely, let people see the familiar rebounding king of the past, he played 22 minutes, 5 of 11, bombed 11 points and 19 rebounds, plus or minus +4.
Curry Jr. played 7 of 14, scored 20 points and 6 assists, once again played the role of a divine soldier, his plus-minus +27 all-time first, rookie Thomas became the hero of the team reversal, he came off the bench for 30 minutes, 9 of 21, contributed 21 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Aldridge 7 of 14, with 18 points and 10 rebounds. On the Knicks side, Randall had 31 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, Fournier 16 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Quickley 18 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Walker 9 points and 3 assists, Grimes 8 points and 2 rebounds, gibson 6 points and 8 rebounds.