After winning a big game and ending the road trip, the Knicks, who are twelfth in the East, returned home and welcomed the challenge of the eighth-placed Nets in the East.
On the Knicks side, Mitchell Robinson is absent due to illness, and the Knicks, who have lost their strong points in the interior, can defend the home field will undoubtedly be in a bitter battle.
On the other hand, the Nets side, Seth Curry ushered in a comeback, this game the Nets back-to-back combat, whether they can take 2 consecutive wins on the road, obviously has become a major attraction of this game!
However, after 4 quarters of fighting, with the excellent performance of Barrett + Burks, the Knicks, who played at home, although in the first three quarters, once overpowered the Nets, achieved a huge advantage of as many as 21 points.
But helplessly in the final final moment, Irving + Durant + Mills ushered in an outbreak, Seth Curry hit a key three-pointer, the Nets instantly reversed the situation on the court, and the Knicks repeatedly failed to attack, only to lose the shot.
In the end, the Nets, which were fully up, also reversed the Knicks 110-98 on the road, which was worth the trip to win 2 consecutive wins, but also gave the opponent Knicks a 12-point defeat!
In this game, although the Nets once fell into a passive situation of 21 points behind in the score, fortunately, the team did not mess up, but played a team performance of 4 people scoring in double figures, completing a big reversal.
In the case of seth Curry + Bruce Brown and other main players, each performing their duties, the two major players Durant + Irving, and the play of Mills on the bench, is particularly critical!
In this game, Durant went low and high, and with only 9 points in the first half, Durant ushered in an explosion and scored 23 points, bombing a game-high 32 points, plus 10 rebounds, 11 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
Among them, in the last quarter, he scored 13 points in a single quarter, not only leading by example, leading the Nets to play a counterattack, but also almost single-handedly taking over the offensive and defensive ends of the game!
It is worth mentioning that after cutting a triple-double in this campaign, Durant has won three triple-doubles this season, equaling the record of the number of triple-doubles in a single season of his career!
In addition, as the core defender of the team, Irving's play in this game also played a crucial role.
In this campaign, Irving was well attacked and defended, starting 42 minutes and delivering 24 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals on 9-of-26 shooting.
Not only did it make a difference on the offensive end, helping the Nets to keep clinging to the score, but also on the defensive end, it disrupted the Knicks' offensive rhythm and deployment many times!
Of course, the Nets were able to reverse the Knicks in this game, and the performance of veteran Mills on the bench was also indispensable.
Mills was in full swing, coming off the bench for 22 minutes, shooting five three-pointers on 5-of-7 shooting, and contributing an efficient performance of 15 points + 2 assists + 1 steal.
And in the final quarter, he played a key play of 4 shots and 4 shots from three points, which not only provided the Nets with strong firepower and containment, but also successfully affected the trend of the game!
More importantly, after a two-game winning streak against the Knicks in this game, the Nets' regular season record has also improved to 42 wins and 38 losses, just one win away from the Cavaliers, who rank seventh in the East.
Rationally speaking, considering that the Cavaliers are in the period of 2 consecutive losses, it has to be said that the strong Nets, when the regular season has not yet ended, there is indeed a great opportunity to further improve the team ranking!
On the other hand, on the Knicks side, the team collapsed in the final quarter of this game, and finally was reversed, and the performance of the game that swallowed a 12-point defeat was obviously difficult for the home fans to accept.
After all, in the case of Barrett + Burks playing well and cutting 20+ at the same time, the sluggish performance of Fournier + Quikli in 17 shots is indeed hard to blame!
In the face of Irving + Durant, and the fiery Mills, the Knicks generals who worked hard for a whole but failed in this battle seemed to have no choice but to hate.