The NBA regular season continues, the Nets challenge the Knicks away, the last Nets won after rising to the eighth place in the East, the morale of the players is high, the Knicks have determined that they will not qualify for the playoffs, in the eyes of the fans this is a game without suspense, however, surprisingly, the first quarter of the game The Knicks played 9-2 in the middle of the quarter to complete the rebound, the Nets did not show real strength, trailing by 4 points after the first quarter, worse in the second quarter, The Nets still haven't come out of the slump Knicks seized the opportunity to play a 9-0 small climax, the point difference opened to double digits, the first half of the war, the Nets have been behind by 17 points, which all fans did not expect, is the Nets going to explode again.
In the third quarter, after the Knicks stretched the point difference to 21 points, the Nets blew the horn of counterattack, they first responded to a wave of 6-0, but then played 9-2 to chase the point difference to single digits, after three quarters the Knicks led by 10 points; in the fourth quarter, the Nets were completely activated, they did not want to burst out of the cold, played a wave of 13-1 after the counterattack, and finally after four quarters of competition, the Nets completed a 21-point reversal, to win 110-98 to refuse to burst out of the cold.
In this game, Durant was very prominent, he scored 32 points on 11-of-22 shooting, in addition to grabbing 11 rebounds and giving 11 assists, perfectly getting a triple-double, and this is also his third triple-double this season. Irving also did well, with 24 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists on 9-of-26 shooting, and after the game he also said that this season and Durant played more tacitly, we can grow better together. It is worth mentioning that the Nets are not strong defensively, according to statistics, in the past 56 games, the Nets have only 3 games to limit the opponent to 100 points, the playoffs are about to start, if the Nets can not make effective adjustments in defense, it is difficult for them to go further, or even rush out of the East.
Happily, the Nets became the fourth team in nearly 25 years to face multiple complete 20+ reversals from the same team, and in the New York derby, the Nets had a clear advantage. Although the big reversal was completed, Nash was not happy, and if it were not for Durant's insistence on playing the second half, the Nets might have a hard time completing the reversal. No one but the duo can stand up and share the pressure of the attack for them. Nash directly named two teams, and he said that Ade and Clarkston struggled in the big lineup, and in this game Ade played five minutes off the bench, grabbed only 3 rebounds without scoring, and performed very generally; Clarkston played 23 minutes and had 6 points and 7 rebounds on 4-of-8 shooting. The Nets are only stable with two role players in this game, one is Curry Jr., who scored 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting, and the other is Milton, who scored 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting.