The NBA regular season continued, with an internal rivalry in the East, with the Nets sitting at home to host the Wizards.
The two teams only met once a week ago, when the Nets lost by one point to the Wizards, but after completing a 5-for-2 trade, the Nets recovered, not only getting rid of an 11-game losing streak, but also getting a valuable two-game winning streak.
On the Other hand, the Wizards, on the other hand, lost to the Pacers before the game started, and both teams desperately needed to win this game.
With Irving still unable to play due to home games, and Durant still in injury, the Nets continue to be led by new signings Cescuri and Chuang Shen.
As soon as the game began, the Nets continued their hot state, Cescurry and Mills hit three points in succession, and the Wizards did not want to show weakness, and began to make articles on the inside line, and the anti-guest took the lead to get the advantage.
But since then, the Nets role players have stepped forward to solve the problem, the Miracle Thomas Jr. continued the offensive state, successively impacting the inside line to create damage, and Carter also felt hot, which gave the Nets a 2-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Nets Mills continued to be in form, scoring three points on the outside, but suffering from the Wizards' internal advantage is too huge, coupled with the serious physical consumption after back-to-back combat, zhuang Shen's confrontation ability has declined significantly.
This made the Nets suffer a big loss on the inside, and the Wizards also frequently hit the inside line to achieve a reversal of the score, but the team Mills felt hot outside the hand, and for most of the second quarter, it helped the team maintain a slight lead.
Until the first 3 minutes of the midfield, the Nets were completely muted, and the Wizards also built on the interior offense, once again completed the score reversal, and entered the halftime with a four-point lead.
The Nets still can't open the situation on the offensive end, and the new signing Sescuri, who has performed magically in the first two games, was completely recognized by the other side and received the same defensive treatment as his brother Stephen Curry.
This made Sescuri unable to get the opportunity to make an easy shot, and could only survive in the cracks, shooting difficult three points many times, but he was not his brother.
Fortunately, Brown stepped forward, and as he hit the inside line in succession, he finally gave Cescuri a chance to make an easy shot, he also hit two three-pointers in a row, plus Ard and Thomas stormed, and the Nets successfully filled the gap at the end of the third quarter.
In the final quarter, the Nets were once again dumbfounded, and when Sescuiri could not get an easy shot and could not form an offensive threat, all of the Nets' offensive routines were interrupted.
The Wizards played steadily around the inside line, coupled with the repeated impacts of the Wizards Hachimura and Smith, the Nets finally could not resist, and the point difference was stretched to double digits.
After that, the Nets tried to catch up with Ader and Thomas, but the Wizards always had someone to stand up and respond, and finally the Nets lost to the Wizards at home 103-117, missing three consecutive wins.
Throughout the game, the Wizards, who only ranked 11th in the East before the game, still showed the true color of the dark horse at the beginning of the season, and blossomed more on the offensive end.
Even though Kuzma and Pop were dumb, the two scored only 12 points in total, but the rest of the team performed well, and seven of them scored in double figures.
Among them, Yamura 20 points, Keyspert 16 points and 2 steals, Neto 12 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Bryant 12 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks, Avdia 13 points and 8 rebounds, Smith 15 points and 6 assists, Gill 12 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.
On the other hand, the Nets, in the absence of the three cores Durant, Irving and Ben Simmons, the team has to some extent continued the fiery state of the first two games.
However, the two new signings, Cescuuri and Drummond, are indeed not stars, and after a brief outbreak of two games, the overall contribution has declined seriously in the face of targeted defense.
Curry had 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Chuang Shen had 6 points and 9 rebounds.
But in the midst of the defeat, the Nets also had 3 highlights, namely The Wizards Thomas, Mills and the overall atmosphere of the team.
The former played 28 minutes, 7-of-17 (3-of-9 from three-point range and 3-of-4 from the free throw line) and had 20 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal.
It was its 10th single-game 20+ of the season, making it the most rookie in Nets history with 20 games in a single game since Brooke Lopez in 2008-09.
Mills played 30 minutes, shooting 8-of-14 from the field and 5-of-7 from three-point range, with 22 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.
As a result, he has reached 186 three-point shooting this season, surpassing Joe Harris's 183 and ranking fourth in team history.
In addition, the Nets' internal atmosphere after the completion of the transaction is obviously good, despite losing the game, the role players have played their due characteristics, and after the return of Durant and Simmons, this Nets team is still worth looking forward to.