The NBA regular season continues, with the East facing a derby battle, with the Knicks sitting at home to meet the Nets.
As a big dark horse team last season, the Knicks have been beaten back to their original state this season, the core Randall has been questioned, and even the fans on the scene have booed him more than once, resulting in frequent trade rumors, but recently Randle's state has picked up, and the Knicks have won and lost in the past 10 games.
On the other hand, the Nets, as a big favorite for the championship, the Nets have been in poor form recently, due to Irving's physical fitness and Ramadan problems, the personal state has declined seriously, and the team's record has also been affected to a certain extent.
As soon as the game began, the Nets showed their determination to win, on the one hand, the team still had the opportunity to surpass the Cavaliers to rise to the seventh place in the East, on the other hand, the Nets urgently needed to establish their own team culture and fan circle in the local area.
As a result, the Nets made a perfect 5-0 start early and took the lead for much of the first quarter.
Until the end of the quarter, the team suddenly muted, the Knicks played four consecutive rounds, but with a 4-point lead to end the first quarter of the battle.
In the second quarter, the Nets continued to mute, and the Knicks took advantage of the situation to pull the point difference to double digits.
At one point in the middle of the quarter, the Nets forced the point difference to single digits, but the team felt too bad, and was already 17 points behind by halftime.
Easy side to fight again, the point difference was further widened to 21 points at the beginning of the quarter, after which the Nets finally began to exert strength, under the leadership of Durant's personal offense, the Nets blossomed inside and outside, constantly narrowing the point gap.
While the Knicks still maintained a decent offensive momentum, by the end of the third quarter, the Nets had narrowed the point difference to just 10 points.
Entering the final quarter, Durant took over the game, winning three-pointers in succession, plus Mills and Irving also found the outside touch, and the Nets completed the rebound at the beginning of the quarter.
After that, the Knicks briefly regained the advantage, but Durant had entered an unstoppable state, and finally the Nets beat the Knicks 110-98.
With this 21-point comeback, the Nets won a valuable two-game winning streak, with just one win left for the Seventh-place Cavaliers, with two rounds left in the regular season, with a perfect chance of taking home-court advantage in the playoffs.
Compared to the home advantage of the play-offs, Durant also used his performance in the second half to prove to everyone that when he was healthy, he was already the level of the first person in active service.
Durant played 42 minutes in the game, shooting 11-of-22 and hitting a triple-double of 32 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and 2 blocks.
Durant's dominance on the court is even more impressive than the icy stats, especially in the second half.
Faced with the huge disadvantage of the team trailing by 21 points, Durant first came up with an inexplicable move on the offensive end, and exploded 23 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists in the second half.
Then, at the crucial moment of the final quarter, he showed an amazing defensive ability, which can be described as an offensive and defensive grasp, and dragged the Nets out of the big mud pit with his own strength, and then threw the Knicks to the ground.
This is also the third time this season that Durant has cut a triple-double, equaling the number of career triple-doubles in a single season, and the 15th triple-double of his career, and the first 30+ triple-doubles in the history of the Nets against the Knicks.
Durant's proud performance also completely conquered the Knicks home audience, and when Durant made a free throw, the MVP's voice sounded on the scene.
After the game, Durant laughed and teased: "When I came to New York, a lot of Knicks fans sprayed themselves on the Internet, but the reality is two different things, New York fans have split, this game has a lot of Nets fans." 」 ”
In the case of Durant's successive killing moves, Owen naturally did not hide it, and constantly showed his fame skills in the game.
Especially at the beginning of the Nets' toughest second and third quarters, when the team was struggling and panting, Irving continued to help the team maintain the situation with his superb singles skills.
Although Irving had no sense of three-pointers, he played 42 minutes, shooting 9-of-26, and handed over 24 points, 8 boards, 7 assists and 3 blocks.