Defeated the other night against a Sixers team yet deprived of James Harden, Joël Embiid and Tyrese Maxey, to the delight of their many detractors on the web, the Nets again faced a team deprived of its best players, this night north of the US-Canada border.
Without Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet and even Scottie Barnes, the Raptors were effectively no match for the Nets determined not to commit the sin of pride a second time in a row (112-98).
“We do this job to win games”breath Kyrie Irving New York Post. “We take this victory, especially after the defeat the other night and the reaction on the internet that we should be ashamed, which is true. We wanted to make sure we paid attention to all the details. We answered well. »
Carried by the 29 points of their leader, including 19 in the third quarter alone, the Nets precisely made the difference on the return from the locker room, with a Ben Simmons growing in legs to 14 points, 6 assists and 3 steals. Whether Kevin Durant was relatively discreet offensively, with only 12 points at 5/10 on shots, the superstar winger also participated in his team’s defensive effort with 3 blocks in particular.
“Guys have to take responsibility”
“We released the pressure and we played at the opponent’s level”, resumes Markieff Morris. ” [Toronto] is obviously a good team but they have a lot of injured players. We had already made this mistake [mardi] evening and we corrected the situation well. »
Still in the negative balance sheet, with 9 wins for 10 losses, the Nets are still far from being a finished product. They recently took stock internally, and it obviously paid off against the Raptors. But it will take more to really move up the rankings, when facing the leaders of the conference.
“Honestly, I think it’s human nature. There was no Harden, no Embiid, no Maxey. We all have a role to play with the cards we are given. We had all our players but we didn’t play as if we had aces. philosopher Jacques Vaughn. ” Our video session was very open, because the scenarios we discussed, we want them to continue on the ground. We really tried to get the guys to talk, to be demanding of each other and to communicate better on the pitch. It’s a huge part of our defensive progression. The guys have to take responsibility on that side of the field. »
It will be necessary to confirm this revival in Indianapolis before capitalizing on a series of seven straight games at home.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 18 | 36.7 | 53.5 | 32.9 | 91.9 | 0.3 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 29.8 |
| Kyrie Irving | 10 | 36.6 | 46.0 | 28.4 | 93.2 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 25.2 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 17 | 26.4 | 72.0 | 0.0 | 38.1 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 8.1 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 11.5 |
| Royce O’Neale | 18 | 35.6 | 39.5 | 42.6 | 71.4 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 10.1 |
| Seth Curry | 9 | 21.9 | 41.1 | 34.1 | 88.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 9.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 13 | 28.1 | 59.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.1 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 8.2 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 14 | 18.2 | 60.9 | 57.1 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 8.1 |
| Joe Harris | 16 | 26.4 | 38.8 | 35.7 | 55.6 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 8.1 |
| Edmond Sumner | 15 | 15.9 | 44.8 | 29.4 | 96.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 7.9 |
| cam thomas | 13 | 16.1 | 38.2 | 35.3 | 80.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 7.4 |
| Patty Mills | 18 | 11.5 | 42.6 | 38.5 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.9 |
| David Duke | 11 | 8.7 | 48.5 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 3.2 |
| Markieff Morris | 10 | 9.8 | 37.0 | 42.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 13 | 8.2 | 44.4 | 50.0 | 66.7 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.5 |
| Kessler Edwards | 9 | 3.6 | 30.0 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
