The NBA regular season continues, the East ushers in a strong and weak dialogue, and the Magic sit at home to meet the Nets.
As it is an away game, this is one of the few games that Irving can play in the remaining regular season, and the Nets have been in good shape recently, winning a wave of 3 consecutive wins under Durant's leadership, which also gives the Nets an absolute advantage in hard power.
On the other hand, the Magic team has been completely ruined this season, although the internal young people have performed well, the team has scored many points, but the overall combat strength is limited, and it is only in the bottom of the East with 15 wins and 51 losses before the game.
As soon as the game began, the Nets showed their determination to win, because Irving did not play many games during the remaining regular season, and the team was currently only one win ahead of the Hawks behind him, and needed to accumulate as much advantage as possible while Irving was on the floor.
Under the leadership of Durant, Brown and Irving, the Nets were mainly counter-attackers, establishing a lead early, and then the Magic team blossomed inside and outside the line, playing back and forth with the Nets, but the point difference was gradually pulled to double digits.
Although the Magic once forced the point difference to single digits in the middle of the quarter, the Nets blossomed in full bloom, and Irving was unstoppable, and the Nets exploded 48 points in a single quarter, establishing a huge 18-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Nets continued the hot state of the first quarter, and under the leadership of Irving, they quickly expanded the point difference to more than 20 points.
The Magic are already doing their best to score, but the scoring efficiency is far less efficient than the Nets, and Irving is in the middle of nowhere on the offensive end, and the inside and outside shots are in full bloom, helping the Nets quickly expand the point difference to nearly 30 points.
At the end of the quarter, the Magic still tried to resist, but Irving's state did not have the slightest performance to fall back, coupled with the power of Players such as Durant and Drummond, the Nets had no intention of closing, leading by 30 points at the end of the half.
Easy to fight again, the young Magic team has not given up, coupled with the Nets' leading advantage is also somewhat huge, the point difference was forced by the Magic team to within 30 points, but never entered within 20 points, because the Magic team can not limit Irving at all.
Since then, the Nets have further exerted their strength, the point difference has been pulled back to 25 points, and the game has lost suspense early, and everyone is looking forward to how many points Irving will finally score.
The Magic also clearly know this, and the multiplayer bag does not let Irving shoot, even if the other Players of the Nets score easily, it does not let Irving break the record on himself.
Even if the Magic deliberately set up a defensive position, but still can not stop the entry into the state of Irving, in the fourth quarter, Irving continued the offensive state, consecutive shots, personal score locked at 60 points.
As Irving broke the record, the Nets also closed the scoring, but the Nets role players still attacked aggressively on the offensive end.
The gap was quickly stretched beyond 30 points, followed by another 40 points, and the Nets eventually beat the Magic by 42 points at 150-108, winning a valuable four-game winning streak.
Throughout the game, Irving was naturally the only attraction in this one-sided game, and the whole game showed a dominant level of offensive performance from the beginning to the end.
Played 35 minutes, 20 of 31 shots, 8 of 12 three-pointers, 41 points at half-time, and an exaggerated stat of 60 points, 6 boards, 4 assists, 4 breaks and 1 cap.
This made Irving the second player to cut 60+ this season, and set a new career single-game scoring record with the Nets' history, with Durant scoring 53 points in the last game, making the two the first teammates in NBA history to score 50+ points back-to-back.
It can only be said that after Harden forced the palace to leave the team, it obviously stimulated Irving and Durant, and the two no longer hid it, but showed cards to everyone and gave full play to their offensive capabilities.
After all, when Harden was there, there was still a certain amount of ball distribution between the three-point scorers, and after Harden left, the team could only rely on two people, in the past week, Irving first exploded 50 points against the Hornets, then Durant scored 53 points against the Knicks, and Irving handed over 60 points in this game.
I don't know if Harden, seeing Irving and KD's performances, regrets forcing the palace to leave the Nets instead of patiently waiting for the two to return.