The NBA regular season continues, with the East facing a battle of focus, with the Heat sitting at home to meet the Nets.
With the Nets in eighth place in the East and the Heat in the East before the game, the two teams have the possibility of meeting in the first round of the playoffs, so the outside world regards this confrontation as a preview of the potential encounter between the two teams.
However, the situation of the two teams before the game was very different, the Nets finally survived, determined that Irving would return to the game full-time, and the Heat broke out infighting, so the record seemed that the Heat had an absolute advantage, but in terms of immediate combat strength and status, the Nets were far ahead.
As soon as the game began, Cescuiri, who returned from injury, hit a three-pointer to help the Nets come out on top.
The Heat, who played at home, responded quickly, blossoming inside and out to complete the rebound, and firmly dominated, until the end of the section, the Nets continued to eat into the point difference, and with Durant's free throws, at the end of the first quarter, established a two-point lead.
In the second quarter, the two teams briefly pulled at the beginning of the quarter, and then the Nets quickly pulled the point difference to double digits in the middle of the quarter, and then a shot was out of control, the Heat were dumb, the Nets were more blooming, and the half was already 21 points ahead.
The Nets continued to exert their strength, while the Heat remained in a dudy state, with the point difference stretched to 30 in the middle of the third quarter.
The two teams then tugged back and forth around a 30-point gap, and with Oladipo's whistle-pressed three-pointer, the Heat narrowed the gap to 28 points at the end of the first three quarters.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the suspense of the game has not been much, the Nets almost all the bench lineup to play, the Nets also took advantage of the situation to force the point difference to within 20 points, but due to the two teams of point difference is too large, the Heat still lost to the Nets 95-110 regret.
Throughout the game, the Nets not only won a big win, but also broke out in full force, finally getting rid of relying on Irving and Durant alone, and the whole team scored in double figures.
Among them, Irving shot 4 of 11 and only had 11 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, and Durant shot 7 of 14 and easily cut 23 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.
In addition, Curry, who returned from injury, was very efficient, shooting 5 of 6 from three-point range, shooting 17 points and 1 steal, Drummond 13 points, 11 rebounds and 2 steals, and Clarkston 10 points and 6 rebounds.
In contrast, the Heat, the whole team scored four people in double figures, including Adebayo 14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, Lowry 12 points, Hiro 13 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, and Strus 13 points and 3 assists.
Butler, who was in conflict with the team's head coach and team soul Haslem, played 25 minutes in the whole game, only 2 of 9 shots, and only handed over 7 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, which was obviously inconsistent with the core positioning of the team.
This made the Heat suffer four consecutive losses, the team record fell to 47-28, because the third-place Bucks also lost the game, the Nets gave Harden a big gift in disguise, and the 76ers became the big winner directly lying down to win and rise to the first place in the East.
It's also a testament to the chaos in the East, starting with four teams in the top half, with the Heat being the worst, having recently suffered four consecutive defeats, giving up the first place in the East and leading the third-place Bucks by just 0.5 wins.
The 76ers are temporarily in first place in the East with a win-percentage advantage of two games in the minor games, and as Irving confirms a full-time return, he also plays the role of the strongest spoiler, and the teams in the top half clearly do not want to occupy the second place.
Then there is the fifth Bulls and the sixth Cavaliers, the two teams completed the card battle, the Bulls defeated the Cavaliers, successfully opened the distance at the same time, so that the Cavaliers were overtaken by the Raptors behind them, falling to the seventh place in the East, which is naturally a huge bad news for the Cavaliers, not only the team directly lost the qualification to enter the playoffs, but also faced the Nets in the playoffs.