There are matches that are more striking than others and that you must not miss to remain sportingly credible. On the side of netthat of last night against the Bucks belonged precisely to this category.
Opposed on the national network to the 2021 champions, incidentally holders of the best record of the night before the meeting, the teammates of Kevin Durant were therefore keen to shine, just to confirm their strong rise in December.
Good news : brooklyn didn’t disappoint in front of his home crowd, winning logically and authoritatively against Milwaukee, to now post a 21-12 overall record and a 6-6 record against teams in the positive.
” It’s good for us », was judging “KD” (24 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists) afterwards. ” We respect the Bucks, we know how dominant they have been this season. We knew that everyone was watching this game, everyone was in it and saw it as more than just a regular season game, so we tried to approach it that way. […] This just testifies to a focused and concentrated team. »
The group lives well
Now on a series of eight consecutive victories, the longest in progress in the NBA (in front of the Sixers’ seven), the Nets have not ceased to seduce for several days.
Collectively rehearsed, the men of Jacques Vaughn have impressed defensively but especially offensively since the beginning of December. Relying, to do this, on an army of role players quality (Ben Simmons, Nic Claxton, Royce O’Neale, Seth Curry, TJ Warren or even Yuta Watanabe).
Icing on the cake: the usually unstable Kyrie Irving (18 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists against the Bucks) finally seems to be fully focused on basketball and all the lights are green, or almost, within the New York franchise…
” I think we just have a consistent game plan in place right now », reacted incidentally the All-Star point guard last night. ” The guys fulfill their roles. It doesn’t matter who is in the five, our group is there and we are having fun. We have fun playing a great type of basketball, doing the little things and that translates into wins. We just want to continue down this path and not let up on the accelerator. We know the season is still long, but we are in a good position and we feel good at the moment. »
In a rather open conference, and carried by a Kevin Durant – Kyrie Irving duo who has averaged nearly 56 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, the Nets could therefore play the scarecrows in the East, during the next playoffs. Provided, however, that they do not fall back into their early season failings.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 31 | 36.5 | 56.4 | 36.1 | 92.6 | 0.3 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 30.1 |
| Kyrie Irving | 22 | 36.6 | 49.0 | 33.7 | 91.7 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 26.1 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 29 | 27.7 | 73.8 | 0.0 | 45.8 | 2.6 | 6.0 | 8.6 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 11.6 |
| Royce O’Neale | 30 | 35.4 | 38.7 | 41.5 | 64.0 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 9.2 |
| Seth Curry | 21 | 21.6 | 44.6 | 40.0 | 94.4 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 8.7 |
| Joe Harris | 29 | 25.7 | 42.5 | 38.2 | 70.6 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 8.5 |
| Tj Warren | 8 | 16.7 | 55.6 | 30.0 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 8.5 |
| Ben Simmons | 22 | 27.1 | 61.7 | 0.0 | 48.6 | 0.9 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 3.6 | 8.3 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 19 | 19.1 | 56.4 | 53.4 | 69.2 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 8.1 |
| Edmond Sumner | 27 | 15.6 | 46.3 | 29.6 | 92.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.6 |
| cam thomas | 24 | 14.6 | 40.2 | 36.7 | 78.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 6.8 |
| Patty Mills | 22 | 12.1 | 46.9 | 40.9 | 91.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 5.8 |
| Markieff Morris | 19 | 11.4 | 44.3 | 48.7 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.2 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 17 | 8.9 | 51.1 | 75.0 | 70.6 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 3.6 |
| David Duke | 14 | 9.0 | 44.2 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 3.0 |
| Kessler Edwards | 13 | 5.7 | 27.3 | 18.2 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
