Traveling to Washington on Monday night, the Nets did what they do particularly well lately: beat up the smaller teams. Behind Kevin Durant’s 30 points and Kyrie Irving’s 24 points, the Brooklyn franchise won its 8th game out of the last 9 played. There is progress.
It seems very far away, this period of late October.
Well, remember when every Nets game was nationally debated, when Steve Nash was in charge, and when Brooklyn started the season with 6 losses in 8 games. It was a crisis, on and off the field, and we wondered how Sean Marks was going to get us out of the mud with his liner.
Six weeks later, here we are.
The Nets beat the Wizards tonight (112-100), and Brooklyn has its sights set on the Eastern Conference podium.
In retro, the Sixers, Raptors, Pacers, Hawks, Knicks and company. With the campaign kicking off in the worst possible conditions, Kyrie and his pals may be going into Christmas with the best possible gift, that is to say a great collective momentum, a rise in the rankings and a promising outlook for 2023. Who might have said that a month ago?
This Monday, it was therefore Kyle Kyzma and his clique who took the price, by a team from Brooklyn who tended to put on the show at home.
It’s too too smooth, it’s so soft, we shouldn’t have that ball in hand.pic.twitter.com/CMkQbrPf1w
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) December 13, 2022
Last time it was Kevin Durant who made Daniel Gafford dance, this time it was Kyrie who handed out the sauces.
Lifting the Washington crowd with his unusually smooth moves, between crossovers, left-handed finishes and foul shots, Irving was – as they say over there – in his bag.
The leader was able to count on a lethal KD who likes to return to his region, but also on a very versatile Yuta Watanabe, especially in defense. The good entry of TJ Warren (13 points off the bench) has also been good, and we did not have to be scared to leave the capital with a victory. This is the 8th in 9 games for the Nets, apart from their logical faux pas once morest Boston it’s a no-fault for Joe Harris and his gang.
What is worth noting? It’s that these Nets will be able to punctuate their recent good form with two games in Toronto and Detroit, before returning home with 2 monumental posters at home: Golden State, then Milwaukee on Christmas Eve. Knowing that the sequence will be in Cleveland then Atlanta, as much to say that the end of the year 2022 will be to be watched very closely for KD and his buddies who are right now exactly where they need to be.
At the top of the Eastern Conference, far from the tabloids, and close to a collective basketball.
We enjoy, we enjoy, before it changes in a few weeks…
