The Nets have performed a lot better of late. Now they’ll face the league’s finest.
Using an NBA-high four-game successful streak, with six wins in a row at dwelling, the Nets will put that on the road Sunday towards the visiting Celtics. White-hot Boston is 18-5, the runaway chief for one of the best document in basketball.
“Yeah, we’ve obtained to be strong, you realize? We are able to’t make errors ourselves, as a result of they capitalize on it,” Kevin Durant stated. “So we’ve simply obtained to be strong, be able to play. I’m enthusiastic about it.”
The Nets (13-11) have been mired simply thirteenth place within the Japanese Convention a month in the past, however they’ve climbed to sixth — simply proportion factors behind No. 5 Indiana and a half-game behind fourth-place Atlanta.
However they must play a extra full sport towards Boston than they did Friday, after they ran out to a 36-point cushion towards the Raptors earlier than shedding focus and having to carry on within the last levels.
“Properly, we don’t need the top of the sport to go much like what we had [Friday]. It became a little bit little bit of an All-Star sport on the finish, simply loads of straightforward baskets that Toronto was getting,” Kyrie Irving stated. “Only for us to be a great staff, we simply obtained to play for a full 48 minutes.”
Guard David Duke Jr. (G-League, two-way), guard/ahead Ben Simmons (left higher lateral calf pressure), guard Edmond Sumner (proper glute contusion), ahead Yuta Watanabe (proper hamstring pressure) and rookie guard Alondes Williams (G-League, two-way) all will probably be out for the Nets on Sunday.
Simmons will miss a 3rd straight sport with the pressure, after a swollen knee price him a complete of 5 earlier this season. He's anticipated to be evaluated once more after Sunday. Watanabe will miss his eighth consecutive sport.
Sumner suffered the glute harm on a fall through the win Friday over Toronto.
Boston guard Marcus Good is questionable for Sunday with a left hip contusion.
Durant entered Saturday main the league in factors (716) and minutes, whereas Nic Claxton was tops in area aim proportion (72.8 %) and Watanabe was finest in 3-point taking pictures (57.1 %).
Joe Harris seems to be shaking out of his malaise. He has averaged 16.0 factors in his final three video games, after mustering simply 2.5 per sport in his prior 4.
The Nets are within the midst of a seven-game homestand, their longest since 2009-10. They’ll enter Sunday 4-0 on the homestand.
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