After three straight wins, the Brooklyn Nets finally moved to seventh place in the East, showing off their title-winning favourites during the sprint of the regular season. We admit that the Nets did hit a low in the middle of the season, losing their original competitiveness, but who can deny Durant and Irving's personal abilities? As the season's regular season showdowns draw to a close, Durant continues to show off his playoff death attributes, and Irving can accept more than 40 minutes of playing time in a single game.
As Nash said, the playoffs will be a new starting point, a real stage for teams to show their strengths. And this game, the Nets, who returned home, ushered in the challenge of the Indiana Pacers. In contrast, the stronger Nets should have won the game by hand. At the beginning of the game, things also went very smoothly, and the Nets, who played at home, quickly gained a big lead. Irving was in high form in the first quarter, shooting 5-of-6 from the field and delivering 10 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.
Durant played 12 minutes of the first quarter, and although he sent a poor shooting rate of 5 shots and 0, he had a comprehensive statistic of 2 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal, leading the rest of the team to play a state of blooming everywhere. After a quarter of 41-29, the Nets took a 12-point lead. The Nets, who entered the second quarter of the showdown and took a lead in the score, were able to follow the trend and continue to further widen the point difference between the two teams. Durant, who did not feel good about shooting, changed the way he scored, got 6 free throw opportunities in the second quarter, and could also deliver 8 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists. At the same time, starting center Zhuang Shen can also show his might, shooting 100% of the way out of 5 from 5 and delivering 12 points and 5 rebounds.
With the continuous efforts of the players on the team, the Nets played another 35-31 score to take a four-point lead. As the first half of the game went by, the gap between the two teams widened to 16 points, and the Nets clearly had a better chance of winning the game. But after Yibian fought again, the Pacers, who were in a backward state, still did not compromise on this. In the third quarter of the competition, led by Brisette with 9 points and 3 rebounds in the single quarter, the Pacers sent a 34-27 single-quarter score to recover the seven points behind in the first half and narrow the point difference to 9 points.
But in the final quarter of the tiebreaker, the Nets did not let the opponent succeed, but with Irving's 100% shooting rate of 5 of 5 shots in a single quarter, 13 points, 3 rebounds and 1 steal, they rejected the opponent's reversal. In the end, the fourth quarter was over, and the Nets won the game with a score of 134-126. Looking back at the game, the Nets scored double digits by 6 players in this game, and 4 of them scored at least 20 points! Durant once again showed his playoff death attributes, handing over a luxurious triple-double of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 16 assists, including a career-high in assists.
Irving also did not have a soft heart, playing nearly 40 minutes in a single game, with an efficient shooting rate of 15 of 20 shots, a game-high score of 35 points, as well as 7 rebounds and 5 assists. There is also the team's starting center Drummond also played the peak of the technical level, only 20 minutes, sent a luxurious double-double of 20 points and 13 rebounds. After winning the game, the Nets also officially locked the throne of the seventh place in the East, and played against the Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs, and the winner will enter the playoffs directly as the seventh in the East in advance!