The NBA regular season continues, with the East and West ushering in a strong and weak dialogue, and the Nets are at home to meet the Blazers.
After a brief runaway, the Blazers have recently fallen sharply back, and after suffering two consecutive defeats, the team has fallen to 12th place in the West, and the team's injury problem is extremely serious, and only 8 players can play in this game.
On the other hand, the Nets, despite the same injuries and part-time players, but the team has been in good shape recently, Durant and Irving have cut high scores, but Irving's identity as a part-time player has obviously affected the overall competitiveness of the Nets, Durant is also forced to take on more responsibilities, and his physical fitness will be the key to determining the trend of the game.
As soon as the game began, Durant showed his fiery form, scoring two points for the Nets first.
The Blazers also responded quickly, with the two teams playing back and forth in the first half of the quarter, drawing the score multiple times and constantly exchanging leads.
It wasn't until the last 4 minutes that the Nets role players gradually opened up the score, but the advantage did not last long, and the Blazers successfully narrowed the point difference to 1 point with a counterattack at the end of the quarter.
In the second quarter, the Blazers continued the fiery state of the last quarter of the first quarter, quickly completing the rebound while also establishing a lead.
Although the Nets quickly responded after that, the two teams once again fell into a fight, but the momentum is clearly in the hands of the Blazers, don't look at the Blazers are plagued by injuries, only 8 people on the team can play, but all the players are full of momentum.
Coupled with the Nets' poor hand, the point difference was gradually pulled away by the Blazers, and by the end of the half, the team was already 13 points behind.
Yi Bian fought again, and the Blazers continued their fiery state, pulling the point difference to as much as 18 points at the beginning of the festival.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Nets finally began to fight back, and under durant's leadership, the Nets set off a wave of counterattacks on the outside line, hitting three-pointers in succession, and the point difference was smoothly forced to close to single digits.
Although the Blazers have since regained their advantage, Durant has clearly found the feel, coupled with Dragic's tandem, and the precise end of Curry Jr., at the end of the third quarter, the Nets successfully equalized the score.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the Nets role players continued to exert their strength, while the Blazers, their own rotation players were only 8, the game has been very tense and intense, dragged to the fourth quarter of the state decline significantly, the beginning of the section fell into a dud.
This allowed the Nets to pull the point difference to double digits in one fell swoop, but the tenacious Blazers did not give up and forced the point difference back to just 3 points.
Fortunately, the Nets' role player status has been played, Clarkston completed a key layup, successfully killed the game, and finally the Nets defeated the Blazers 128-123, completed an 18-point reversal, and rejected a big upset.
Throughout the game, the Nets have played well from core players to role players.
Among them, Durant played 38 minutes, 11 of 15 shots, and bombed down the data of 38 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, but also made 8 mistakes in the face of the bag strategy.
In addition, Cescuri became a surpriser, shooting 9-of-14 from the field, handing over 27 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and Brown and Drummond each scored 17 points.
Even so, it is difficult to hide the problems caused by Irving's absence, the Nets are almost reversed at key moments, opponents can unscrupulously pack Durant, other players simply can't handle the ball, and KD has made 8 consecutive mistakes.
If Irving were on the floor, the Nets' ability to handle the ball in key moments would be completely different, and opponents would not be able to hold KD all the time.
This is also the problem that the Nets have been facing since the beginning of the season, and it can only be said that Irving should not pit Durant anymore, and grasp the vaccination, otherwise in the playoffs, facing a team with a height and arm length like the Raptors, the Nets will be very difficult to win, and the bag strategy is a problem that the team cannot solve.