On April 13, the first round of the NBA playoffs in the East, the Nets played at home against the Cavaliers, the rules of the play-offs are a single-game setter, the Nets of the regular season are 7th against the 8th Cavaliers, and the winner between the two sides plays in the playoffs as the 7th, against the Celtics. The losing side will need to compete with the Hornets vs Hawks for the 8th place, and the first round of the playoffs will be the Heat. In this game, the Nets have the advantage, in addition to sitting at home, the personnel is relatively neat, so the outside world is more optimistic about the Nets promotion.
Early in the game, Brown was very strong, continuing the good form at the end of the regular season, and his picks and three-pointers gave the Nets a 15-9 lead. Irving and Durant do not have many shots, especially Durant, although the score is not very much for the time being, but he is very strong in one attack and one defense, nailing the capped Cavaliers to Markkanen, assisting the Zhuang Shen dunk.
It was the middle of the first quarter, when the Cavaliers' Markkanen slipped to attack, he turned and burst into flames, only to be directly hit by Durant with a nailed blood cap, which was directly overturned to the ground. Immediately after the Nets pushed back, Durant hit a hit inside the cross, Chuang Shen Drummond dunked violently, but unfortunately Chuang Shen's extra penalty did not hit.
With 4 minutes left in the first quarter, Durant's former teammate LeVert, then he counterattacked extremely quickly, hitting the ground pass between the marches, cutting in Irving flying to find a rebound basket to layup, the Nets' advantage came to 9 points, and also directly stopped the Cavaliers. Durant's perfect offense and defense X2.
I have to say that Durant's attack and defense is perfect, first in the defense through the block to help the team, and then in the counterattack of the pass to make the teammates easily eat cake, even if there are not many shots, but as long as Durant is on the court, he can help the team in any way, which is still very important.
It can be seen that the Nets are still well prepared for this game, Nash's team also took an early lead in the score, in a single game to determine the winner, the team's start is very important, and today under the leadership of Brown and Durant, the Nets still did a good job.