The NBA's first round of playoff rivalry continues, with the East leading up to a battle of focus as the Nets head to the greens on the road.
As a title favorite at the beginning of the season, the Nets' experience this season has been full of twists and turns, Harden's departure, Harris's reimbursement, and Simmons's delay in returning, which has made the Nets look down on the outside world, but they still reached the playoffs and have the hope of welcoming Simmons back in G3.
The Green Army this season is low and high, the team played the league's top offensive and defensive performance after the All-Star, balanced attack and defense is the team's biggest kill, but also let the outside world is very optimistic about the Green Army to win this round of the series.
The first quarter of the game, the two teams scored many draws, the point difference has been maintained in one round, the first quarter of the battle, the home of the Green Army only 1 point ahead.
This situation continued into the second quarter, the score of the two teams has been tightly clenched, the lead has been changing hands, although the Green Army, which plays at home, has led most of the time, but the Nets have repeatedly bitten the score under Irving's leadership.
The point difference remained within five points, and the Nets used Mills' three-pointer to complete the rebound at the end of the quarter, but Smart's two points allowed the two teams to enter the half-time with a 61 draw.
Yi Bian fought again, and at the beginning of the festival, the Green Army forced the Nets to make mistakes one after another by increasing the number of pushes, playing a wave of performance, and pulling the point difference to double digits in one breath.
Watching the Green Army fighting at home completely exert its momentum, the shouts of the fans at the scene almost overturned the roof.
Irving stepped up again, sending the ball into the basket again and again to help the Nets stabilize the situation, but after three quarters, the Nets were still 11 points behind.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, it was Irving who stepped forward, and the inside and outside shots helped the team to chase the point difference, and at one point held a 5-point lead.
The two teams then got into a fight, and in the final minute, Irving once again hit a big heart three-pointer to help the team take a three-point lead.
As a result, Nash actually gave his opponent a quick two-point opportunity at the crucial moment, and then Durant missed a three-pointer on the offensive end, and also missed the fast-moving Tatum, who turned to the basket to complete the kill, helping the Green Army to beat the Nets 115-114, winning the series opening and rewriting the big score to 1-0.
Data:
Green Army four-man double-double: Tatum 31 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, Jaylen 23 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals, Smart 20 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, Horford 20 points and 15 rebounds;
Nets four-man double-double: Irving 39 points, five rebounds, six assists, four steals, Durant 23 points, four rebounds and three assists, Claxton 13 points and eight rebounds, Dragic 14 points and five rebounds.
Throughout the game, the two teams staged an extreme "team basketball" and "individual basketball" confrontation, and ended with Tatum completing the first playoff game of the season.
The Nets have been playing the ultimate in individual basketball, and Irving has also delivered a convincing performance against the old owner, playing 42 minutes, shooting 12-of-20, and bombing down 39 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 1 block.
In the final quarter, Irving shot 7-of-9, 4-of-5 from three-point range, and had 18 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, nearly knocking over the Green Army on the road.
Helplessly, Irving, who continued the magical performance of the whole field, could not wait for the moment when Durant "came to death", but at the critical moment, Durant was physically insufficient, missing Tatum, who completed the kill.
As the team's big boss, Durant must be responsible for this loss, but this is also the result of the green army team's defense, the green army faced the two giants of the Nets, adopted a tight and loose strategy, Durant did face a more stringent defense.
The Green Army constantly uses wheel war to consume Durant, and every shot must face a bag and a strong confrontation, in the face of such a strategy, Nash did not give the slightest response, KD also seemed very anxious.
As a big boss of a team and a strong contender for the league's active first man, Durant's performance in this game was disappointing.
Shooting 9-of-24 from the field, he had 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and in the face of the Green Army's almost crazy pressing, Durant failed to hold back and made 6 mistakes.
However, even if Durant performed so badly, Nash's offensive and defensive strategy was completely crushed, and the Nets lost 1 point on the road, which means that this series will be a hard battle, the Nets have every hope of completing the black seven, and the winning Green Army still can't have a little slack.