Before the start of this season's NBA regular season, the Lakers and the Nets will meet in the division finals, which once became the expectation of many fans, but the performance of these two teams undoubtedly disappointed the fans, the Lakers could not even get the top ten in the West, early missed the playoffs, the Nets are in a better position, but also need to compete for a playoff seat through the playoffs, in the penultimate regular season of the season, the Nets, who are temporarily ranked eighth in the East, encountered the Seventh Cavaliers. For both sides, this battle is a real card battle, if the Nets can win the victory to overtake the opponent to rise to the seventh place, so as to occupy the home advantage in the playoffs, after the game began, the Nets took the initiative under the leadership of Durant, the god of death, once extended their lead to 17 points, but the Cavaliers under garland's leadership issued a strong counterattack, once in the final quarter of the score to overtake, but the Nets with the God of Death sitting on the key ball ability is stronger, In the end, they also narrowly defeated the Cavaliers 118-107, winning a three-game winning streak!
The Cavaliers were able to reach the top eight in the East this season, and even once broke into the top four, inseparable from the team's large lineup and the excellent performance of core player Garland, in this game, although allen and Wade's two main internal players hung high free cards, but the Cavaliers still under the leadership of Tanhualang Mobley, occupying a certain advantage in the internal confrontation, Mobley and Markkanen jointly cut 34 points and 11 rebounds, allowing the Cavaliers to score 16 points in the interior scoring.
Garland became the most threatening player on the offensive end of the team. In the 40.5 minutes of his appearance, he hit 15 goals on 24 shots, including 3 of 6 shots, and one person scored a team-high 31 points, but as a core guard, Garland's performance in the offensive aspect of tandem teams was far from his season average, and only gave 3 assists in the whole game.
Irving's performance after his comeback this season once amazed the fans, but now in the fasting period of Irving, personal performance ups and downs, this campaign against the old owner Irving personally poor, 22 shots only hit 7 goals, three-point shots are only 7 shots 1 performance, only got 18 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, his performance did not meet expectations is also the reason why the Nets once faced a reversal situation.
However, the Nets also have Durant, the god of death, this game Durant played 41.1 minutes, the number of shots is not as many as Irving's 20 times, but he is very efficient to contribute 36 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks of comprehensive personal data, it can be said that a person carried the team on his shoulders to victory.
After winning this game, the Nets rose to seventh in the East, and judging by the team's strength, it is very likely that they will win their first playoff game to lock up a playoff spot, when they will encounter the Bucks in the first round, who eliminated the Nets in seven games last season