The NBA regular season continues, with a crucial card battle in the East, with the Nets sitting at home against the Cavaliers.
As the dark horse team in the East this season, the Cavaliers are plagued by injury problems, and this season has slipped to seventh in the East, only one win ahead of the Nets, and the team is also in a 2-game losing streak.
On the other hand, the Nets have recently won two consecutive games, and the overall momentum of the team is in full swing, and if it can beat the Cavaliers this game, it will return to the seventh position in the East.
As soon as the game began, the Nets were in full swing, establishing a double-digit lead early, while the Cavaliers were fully mute, scoring only 19 points in the first quarter, 15 points behind the Nets.
In the second quarter, the Cavaliers recovered, successfully closing the point difference to single digits, and then the two teams engaged in a tug-of-war around a 10-point difference, and at the end of the half, the Nets were still leading by 8 points.
Easy side to fight again, the Nets momentum declined seriously, the team relied heavily on Durant's performance, resulting in a dud in the second half of the third quarter, the Cavaliers took advantage of the situation to complete the counterattack, the third quarter of the war, the Cavaliers instead took a 5-point lead.
Entering the final quarter of the battle, it was Durant who stood up again, and under his leadership, the Nets re-played a smooth offensive performance, and the Cavaliers were ultimately unable to fight back, losing the game 107-118.
Throughout the game, the Cavaliers have handed over a good offensive and defensive performance, the team of 5 people scored in double figures, of which Garland bombed 31 points, 3 assists and 2 steals.
In addition, Markkanen had 17 points and 4 rebounds, Mobley 17 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, LeVert 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Lefour 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Helplessly, the Nets have Durant's unsolvable point, the whole game Durant faced the Cavaliers from beginning to end of the bag defense, hard 20 shots 11, three-pointers 6 shots 4, bombed 36 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, steals and 2 blocks of data.
Although Brown, who delivered 18 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 blocks and 1 steal, and Drummond, who had 15 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists, were equally remarkable, Durant was still the biggest contributor to the team's wins.
Durant can even be used to carry Irving and Nash forward to describe this game and the current Nets.
First look at the Nets Nash's poor tactical handling and personnel rotation, in the case of the team sitting on the league's most luxurious configuration, Nash used an 8-man rotation.
Players such as Thomas, Griffin and Duke were kicked out of rotation, which forced Durant to play more time, playing 41 minutes of madness.
If the 8-man rotation can still use the playoffs are coming, and the team needs to train in advance to prevaricate, then Durant has been encountering bag defense all season, and Nash has not come up with a solution.
Durant is indeed strong enough to ignore the bag clip in some games, and solve the problem through personal ability and feel.
But if you face a wheel war with the Raptors' strong body against the team, Durant's decline in form is foreseeable.
After all, basketball is a team sport, no player can really do 1 to 5, especially in the 7-game series, even the god of basketball Jordan can not win the championship on his own, let alone Durant, who has suffered a major injury.
What is even more helpless is that Irving, who should have played a helper role, has also frequently become a drag after the full-time return, leaving aside the off-court moths, from the full-time return to the backfield performance, Irving is not a qualified champion.
In this game, in the case of Durant's frequent encounters, Irving shot only 7 of 22 and 1 of 7 from three-point range, handing over only 18 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals.
Since entering Ramadan, the hungry Irving shooting rate has plummeted, and the overall shooting rate has fallen below 40%, leaving only 38%, which is still against the Fish Belly Rockets, the 42 points have been forced to raise the shooting rate, otherwise the data will be even more ugly.
So even after winning this game, the Nets rise to seventh in the East and lock in seventh place if they beat the Pacers in the next game.
But the hidden dangers within the team are still huge, especially the team is very likely to encounter the Bucks in the first round, if Irving can't adjust to the state.
At Nash's coaching level, durant is doubly difficult to climb over the defending champion's mountain of both offense and defense.