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The Brooklyn Nets aggravated their bad moment in their visit to the Golden 1 Center. The New York team suffered its sixth straight loss in a 112-101 loss to the Kings, who snapped their seven-game losing streak on their way home from a five-game trip to the East. Californians, who seek not to get too hung up on the fight for the play-in, they met again with a triumph that allows them to continue dreaming of the postseason, since they took advantage of the fact that Nash’s men failed to work at all to impose themselves on them.
Those from Brooklyn continue without Durant, although for practical purposes it could be said that none of their superstars were present on the parquet this morning. Both Kyrie Irving and, above all, James Harden, offered versions far removed from their best level, which ended up costing theirs dearly and continues to raise some doubts regarding the project.
The point guard, who was 5/15 in the shot, could not go over 14 points, but the one who really suffered to score was La Barba. Harden, despite contributing 12 assists, lost 6 balls and stayed at 2/11 in the shot, which made him finish the match with only 4 goals in the 37 minutes he had. This is the first time in his career that the shooting guard has scored so little playing more than 25 minutes, and we will see if what happened this morning prompts him to recover his best version.
“There’s nothing to worry about,” Harden said when asked about the team’s losing streak. “Right now we don’t have the entire squad available and it shows. We’re trying to test which systems work best for us, which pieces fit together and which don’t. Hopefully, after the break we can all be back together and start moving in the right direction.”
Before the bad night of the visiting stars, Nic Claxton finished as the best of his 23 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks in what was one of the best games of his career. James Johnson, meanwhile, scored 18 points off the bench, but both were unable to compensate for the bad night of those who should have been the team’s references.
The Kings, who still don’t have De’Aaron Fox, didn’t find any of their men particularly inspired either, but they all managed to do their bit to end up adding the win. Up to seven players finished in double figures, and among them the most outstanding was Harrison Barnes, who reached 19 points, followed by 18 from Davion Mitchell and Buddy Hield. Tyrese Haliburton finished with 12, but managed to add 11 assists and carry out several important actions in a fourth quarter, in which his team confirmed the victory with a 29-15 run.
“I think we’ve done a great job defensively,” Gentry said. «It has value to be able to leave a team at 101 points. I especially liked the level of activity that we offered in the last quarter”.
(Cover photo: Thearon W. Henderson
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