The NBA regular season continues, with the East and West ushering in a strong dialogue, and the Nets are at home to meet the Jazz.
The Nets have gone high and low this season, part-time Irving and frequent injury problems, causing the Big Three to fall apart after only one and a half seasons of cooperation, Harden chose to switch to the 76ers, but this did not affect the competitiveness of the Nets, the team still has a luxurious roster, and KD, the core of the always trustworthy.
On the other hand, on the Jazz side, although the team has performed steadily and ranked fourth in the West, the team is still an old problem of not being able to do so, and it is still difficult to launch a substantial impact on the championship this season.
Before the game began, the Nets' injury condition was still very serious, and because it was at home, Irving had no way to play.
In addition, new signing Ben Simmons continues to be absent due to a back injury, and Harris, Aldridge and Drummond are also unable to play due to injury problems.
Even so, the Nets still opened the situation early under durant's leadership, and formed a confrontation situation with the Jazz, but the team's 5 main players were absent, and the firepower of the connection section was obviously insufficient, and the Jazz team took a 3-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two teams have found a feel on the outside line and began to play a new wave of bombardment battles, after which the Jazz team used the advantage of the inside line to play the performance of the inside and outside blossoms, directly pulling the score.
But Durant took charge of the game at the end of the quarter, and a wave of streams helped the Nets recover the point difference and enter the halftime with a two-point advantage.
Easy to fight again, Durant's state is further improved, in the offensive end can be described as giving and taking, constantly using the "stick singles" to challenge the Jazz's defensive bottom line, the point difference was quickly pulled open by the Nets to double digits, the three quarters of the war, the Nets expanded the advantage to 16 points.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the Jazz showed good resilience and began to play steadily, making a fuss around the advantages of the interior line, and constantly approaching the score.
On the other hand, the Nets, because Cescuiri also suffered an ankle sprain in the game and withdrew from the game, the team made a series of mistakes at the beginning of the festival, and there were various mistakes.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Durant once again stood up, facing the Jazz's layers of defense, hard to hit unreasonable jump shots in succession, while assisting Clarkston to play consecutively, the game also lost suspense, and finally the Nets beat the Jazz 114-106, won a valuable two-game winning streak, and saved the eighth position in the East.
Throughout the game, Durant is naturally the nets to win the biggest contributor, in the absence of the 5 core rotations, Sesculi suffered injuries in the game, Durant forced the team to win the game, the whole performance can be called "death descended".
Durant played 38 minutes, shooting 15-of-23, 4-of-7 three-pointers, and 3 free throws, easily scoring 37 points plus 9 boards, 8 assists and 1 break.
This brings Durant's career total to 25,213 points, successfully surpassing NBA star Jerry West (25,192 points) to 22nd place in history, in front of Reggie Miller, with a career regular season total of 25,279 points, and is expected to be surpassed by Durant soon.
In addition to Durant, Clarkston and Brown's performances are also remarkable, giving Durant rare support in the face of extreme manpower shortage.
Clarkston played 27 minutes, shooting 7 of 8 from the field and 1 of 1 from the free throw line, scoring 15 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
Brown, who was once abandoned by Nash, has maintained high efficiency after receiving the team rotation, making 7 of 14 in this game, 7 of 9 from the free throw line, contributing 22 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal.
After winning this difficult victory, head coach Nash also revealed the Nets' killing move after the game, that is, the team's defensive ability.
Nash said he was most satisfied with the team's defense, and the whole team played excellent defense throughout the night, only letting the opponent score 24 points in the third quarter.
It was precisely with this defense and Durant's inability to solve on the offensive end that the Nets became a team that the first half of the team was reluctant to encounter in the first round.