With six wins in a row and ten in the last eleven games, everything has been going well in Brooklyn for almost a month. However, the last two successes were snatched after making a comeback.
Facing the Raptors, then the Pistons, Kevin Durant and his band were 18 and 19 points behind before winning. It’s a lot, especially against a Canadian team in the tough right now, and against Detroit, one of the worst teams in the league.
It is therefore a bad habit that will have to be quickly eliminated. “It’s a challenge for us”concedes Royce O’Neale for the New York Post. “We have to raise our level of play. We can’t lack energy or concentration. We have to set the tone from the start. »
Durant showed it against the Pistons with 26 points in the third quarter: if the Nets want it, they can dominate these opponents without waiting to be on the ropes.
“It’s the same group that starts the matches which then achieves big third quarters and puts us back in the matches”, observes Jacques Vaughn. “So it’s a question of concentration. You have to be focused, be ready. We don’t want to find ourselves in a hole like in the last two matches, with more than ten points behind, because we may not come back. They managed to do it in these two meetings, but we don’t want to be in this situation too often. »
Especially since the level of the Nets’ opponents will increase with the Warriors (who have just taken a slap in the face in New York), the Bucks, the Cavaliers and the Hawks on the program in the next seven days.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 30 | 36.7 | 56.5 | 36.2 | 92.4 | 0.3 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 30.4 |
| 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 | 28 | 27.8 | 74.0 | 0.0 | 44.4 | 2.6 | 6.1 | 8.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 11.6 |
| Royce O’Neale | 29 | 35.7 | 37.8 | 40.5 | 64.0 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 9.0 |
| Seth Curry | 20 | 21.7 | 43.7 | 40.2 | 93.3 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 8.6 |
| Joe Harris | 28 | 25.9 | 41.5 | 37.1 | 70.6 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 8.4 |
| Ben Simmons | 21 | 27.5 | 61.1 | 0.0 | 51.4 | 0.9 | 5.8 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 8.2 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 18 | 19.1 | 56.3 | 52.7 | 69.2 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 8.1 |
| Tj Warren | 7 | 16.0 | 56.8 | 14.3 | 83.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 8.0 |
| Edmond Sumner | 26 | 15.2 | 45.4 | 29.4 | 91.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.2 |
| cam thomas | 23 | 14.8 | 39.5 | 34.5 | 78.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 6.9 |
| Patty Mills | 21 | 12.0 | 44.0 | 38.1 | 91.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 5.5 |
| Markieff Morris | 18 | 11.4 | 42.9 | 45.7 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| 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 |
