The Brooklyn Nets hosted the Washington Wizards on Wednesday and won 113-107 to relocation above .500 for the season. This videogame was much better than the veryfirst videogame of this regular-season series and that was duetothefactthat of the Wizards being basically complete strength exterior of missingouton Rui Hachimura and Delon Wright.
Kevin Durant had 39 points (13-20 from the field) and 5 helps for the Nets and Kyrie Irving had 27 points and 5 helps. Joe Harris had his three-point shot going in this videogame as he went 4-6 from three-point land to assistance him get to 14 points.
Kristaps Porzingis had 27 points and 19 rebounds for the Wizards while Bradley Beal had 25 points 5 rebounds. Kyle Kuzma likewise had 25 points and 4 rebounds to assistance the Wizards make a videogame out of this one.
In a firmly battled contest all the method through, the Nets were able to win this duetothefactthat of how well they shot from the three-point line (42.3%) and the free-throw line (92.3%). The Wizards shot 25% from three-point land and 67.6% from the charity stripe and that appeared to be the distinction in this videogame.
Despite out-rebounding the Nets 51-35 and outscoring Brooklyn in the paint 58-32, the Wizards were notable to stop the Nets on defense. Here are the Nets’ gamer grades for this win:
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Durant did whatever he desired to do on the court in this videogame. He had anumberof events where he simply shot over whoever was securing him by utilizing his height and long arms. Durant was able to usage his manage to attack on the dribble and was able to either usage his trademarked mid-range pull-up or get to the rim to surface or draw a nasty. Durant has some problem protecting Kuzma giventhat Kuzma was able to shoot over Durant a coupleof times.
Irving had a rough time shooting the ball in the early going. He hadahardtime with his three-point shot and had some difficulty completing at the rim with the likes of Porzingis safeguarding