The Brooklyn Nets paid a see to the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on Monday and came away with a convincing 112-100 success. The Nets now lead the regular-season series 3-0.
For the Nets, Kevin Durant had 30 points and 9 rebounds while Kyrie Irving had 24 points and 5 helps. TJ Warren had 12 points off the bench and Joe Harris had 11 points.
For the Wizards, Will Barton had 22 points and 7 helps off the bench while Kyle Kuzma had 20 points and 7 rebounds. Kristaps Porzingis had 20 points and 3 rebounds (before leaving the videogame with back tightness) and Jordan Goodwin had 11 points.
This was a convincing win for the Nets as they led for much of the videogame behind the play of Durant and Irving. Nic Claxton got into nasty problem in the veryfirst half attempting to guard Porzingis and with Claxton out of the videogame, the Wizards were able to attack the rim with excellent success. The Nets lost the rebounding fight to the Wizards 44-41 and that’s what kept Washington in the videogame for as long as they did.
Brooklyn included 7 obstructs to their resume as the finest shot-blocking group in the NBA and that was unexpected provided that Claxton did not play his typical minutes duetothefactthat of nasty difficulty. The Nets took benefit of scoring in shift and attempting to rating in the paint whenever possible.
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Durant got anywhere he desired to get to on the flooring. Throughout this season, he has constantly been effective with his touches and this videogame was no various. Durant was doing whatever from making mid-range jumpers to getting to the free-throw line to even striking 3’s at an effective clip. Eventually, the Wizards altered up their protections of Durant by doubling him and Durant did a excellent task of finding the open male in that circumstance.
Irving did a excellent task of striking hard shots all videogame long. The Wizards were attempting to pressure Irving’s dribble and took that as a possibility to get to the rim or to develop area for his range of pull-up jumpshots. Irving hadahardtime shooting the 3 ball