Nets 114-106 Jazz!
Although it looked like the Nets had won by only eight points, when Durant pulled in that three-pointer at 6:09 in the fourth quarter, the Nets led the Jazz, who were fourth in the West, and completely sealed the victory.
Today is the Nets' sixth game in the last seven games, and the only one they lost was killed by Dinwiddie.
There's only one reason the Nets can win this way — Kevin Durant. Playing Jazz today, Durant is again a 37+9+8 luxury quasi-triple-double.
So his march stats: averaging 30.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game, shooting 55%/42%/92% of the three shots, respectively.
In the post-match press conference, Nash said: "You know, Durant is important to us, but if I don't put him on the court for so long, how can I show his importance? ”
The reporters in the audience looked at Durant's 38 minutes of playing time today, and then looked at Nash, who were impressed by his wit and resounded with endless applause.
1. Durant YYDS
The yyds here are talking about "forever dripping gods", not "forever dick", although Durant's unique temperament is closer to the latter, but you don't think about it.
There's a statistic: Durant has returned from the All-Star to nine games now, and with the exception of the first game with the Heat, who had only 4 assists, none of the 8 games since then has had less than 6 assists.
Averaged 7.75 per game!
If a striker averages more than 5 assists per game, we can call him an organizational striker. And now Durant, I am afraid that he is not only organizing the forward but marching towards the big core of holding the ball, which may be the most comfortable stage of his career scoring and organizational freedom.
In simple terms, Durant has evolved again, and there are two reasons for this evolution:
First, Harden's departure and Irving's inability to play at home have too much spare ball possession, even if Dragic and Curry Jr. help share, Durant is still the one who has the most ball rights;
Second, Durant stands out at home to the Nets, and opponents will naturally come to wrap him up, so durant has to read the defense and pass the ball to his teammates. With Durant's ball quotient, passing, whether it is the number of assists or the ability to read defense, it goes up naturally.
The same goes for playing jazz today, and the watershed of the game is in the third quarter. The Jazz changed their defensive strategy, and when Durant launched the block, Gobert defended the three-point line, and he chose to help his teammates defend Durant.
Durant looked at it, Gobert was out, and the basket was definitely empty.
So either pass to the basket himself, or first pass to the teammate whose outside line is empty, and the outside teammate is second passed to Clarkston under the basket.
Clarkston scored 15 points, 11 from the third quarter, and those 11 from five athletic goals all scored under the basket.
Durant had three direct assists in the quarter, all of them for Clarkston, with at least two indirect assists, one for Clarkston and the other for the weak side Edwards to shoot three-pointers.
This is Durant's power in passing to drive his teammates, which is much more natural and smooth than before, and he can instantly know where the ball should go when he hits it.
As for scoring, it's probably the easiest thing in the world for Durant.
First of all, there was no one on the Jazz front who could defend him, O'Neill was short, Guy and Bojan were slow and short, and the latter had not yet played.
In fact, not only against Durant, the Jazz against any of the top forwards, they can not defend.
At the same time, they also have a Gobert on the inside line, durant can not defend single-handedly, and can not start to block and dismantle. You pinch Durant's pass, you change defenses or recycle, Durant can shoot all over the Jazz's face.
So Durant was mostly passing in the first half of the third quarter, and when the Jazz didn't dare to pinch him, he started instantly.
Facing the white side of two consecutive three-pointers, playing Guy a mid-range dry pull, and then causing Guy to foul on three points, 2 minutes of understatement 11 points, a single quarter of easy writing 15 points, the whole audience laughed and laughed 37 points.
Nash: I'm sorry, but Durant can really do whatever he wants.
Second, a strong team of quality inspectors
The Jazz are in a situation where he looks pretty good, and it's not a problem to abuse the dish, but when it comes to a really strong team, he really can't do it.
Generally such a team, we call it a strong team quality inspector, is not a strong team and jazz two strokes, everything understands.
Why did jazz fall into such an embarrassing situation?
First, the stars are not good enough, Mitchell and Gobert are good all-star players, but to really step up the steps of superstardom, neither of them is talented enough.
Gobert's defensive players do not mention that Mitchell's height and ability to read games are the ceilings that constrain him from rising. He also scored 30 points today, but 9 of 23 shots, Durant 23 shots 15 of 37 points, the high judgment.
Second, their magic ball play is an extremely sharp double-edged sword.
If three points are accurate, it hurts people; once three points are not accurate, it becomes hurting oneself. And the magic ball play makes them better predicted, and opponents only need to pile all the defenses outside the three-point line and under the basket.
Third, even if it is a magic ball, the Jazz's offense is too focused on the outside.
This led to Gobert becoming a pure cover wall, doing only three things on the pitch: defending, turning back and covering.
Gobert is indeed a defensive player, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need to score, doesn't need to be on the pitch.
Today, Gobert only made 5 shots and grabbed 4 rebounds, and the mood was obviously not right. Interestingly, since Gobert's comeback on Feb. 15, he has lost almost all of the games he shot less than six times.
There were only two exceptions: one was the open swinger, and the Jazz only used half-time to solve the problem; the other was yesterday's game against the Knicks, and Gobert only made 3 shots but 12 free throws.
The shark had already confided in the hearts of all the giants: "I only know one thing: you have to let a big dog take care of your home, you have to give it big bones to eat, you have to feed it." You can't let it sit and fart. ”
Basketball games are not video games, athletes are people with emotions, just look at the last few games of Wei Shao.
This Jazz has reached the eve of falling apart.
The Nets are 38-34 and seventh in the East; jazz are 45-27 and fourth in the West.
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