The NBA regular season continued, the Blazers challenged the Nets away, at home against a team in the Western Conference, this is the best time for the Nets to save the winning rate, but the game did not show a one-sided situation, the first quarter of the game was difficult to solve, and the two sides played a big offensive war, a total of 67 points, the first quarter ended the Nets only led by 1 point; in the second quarter, the Blazers took the lead in the state, played a 22-9 point difference, the Nets narrowed the point difference under the leadership of Thomas and Zhuang Shen, and the first half ended. The Nets trailed by 13 points. In the third quarter, Durant stepped forward and led a 9-0 counterattack, however, the Blazers played very tough, the third quarter ended, the two sides fought into a draw; in the fourth quarter, the Nets played a 10-0 small climax in the game to open the point difference, but the Blazers did not give up, rose to catch up and bite the score, the key moment Clarkston dunk locked the win for the team, the two sides fought through four quarters, and in the end, the Nets beat the Blazers 128-123
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Durant played well in this game, scoring 38 points in 15 shots, he scored 15 free throws and hit 14 shots, in addition to grabbing 6 rebounds and giving 6 assists, the famous commentator Perkins said that KD is the first player in the league to attack. Curry Jr.'s performance is remarkable, scoring 27 points on 7-of-11 three-pointers, becoming the player who scores second only to Durant, and after the game, he also said that he is trying to maintain aggressiveness and make Durant play more relaxed as much as possible. In addition, Drummond had 17 points and 9 rebounds, Brown had 17 points and 7 rebounds, and Thomas also had 11 points, all of which became Durant's most powerful helpers. On the Blazers side, the best performer was rookie Williams, who scored 24 points on 10-of-19 shooting, which was very efficient, and Hart also scored 25 points.
Although he beat the Blazers, Nash was not satisfied with the team's performance, and he said after the game that the team only played half a good game, and it was really lucky to win the game in such a state. In addition, he said that we had a total of 21 turnovers, obviously taking the game too simple and not taking the opponent as the same thing, in other words, it was too light. Indeed, the Nets can only finish eighth in the East with 37 wins and 34 losses after winning the game, and there is no play-off area to struggle. As Curry Jr. said, our whole team is ready to play the play-offs. The Nets and sixth-placed Cavaliers are still 3.5 wins away, and if they don't want to play play-offs, they have to keep winning. Theoretically, there are still a chance, and there are 10 games left in the regular season. Do you think the Nets will play the playoffs?