Williamson makes a strong comeback after a 1-year hiatus! Led the Pelicans to overtake the Nets by 22 points, Durant's lone wood is difficult to support the lineup

2022-10-20 14:05

Williamson makes a strong comeback after a 1-year hiatus! Led the Pelicans to overtake the Nets by 22 points, Durant's lone wood is difficult to support the lineup


The 2022-2023 NBA regular season officially kicked off today. The Brooklyn Nets defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 108-103 at home.


Williamson's first-half hits


The visiting team's 2019 No. 1 pick in this game, Zion Williamson, finally made his debut after a season out of an ankle injury and became the most powerful threat in the home team's penalty area.


In this game, Williamson scored 25 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists in 30 minutes of playing. 25-year-old forward Brandon Ingraham also contributed 28 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. The 31-year-old Veteran guard C.J. McCollum also had 21 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.


In the first half, Williamson attacked the inside line, causing the Nets' defense to be in a hurry, and then continued to chase and play a wave of offense leading by 9 points. The strength of the rotation was simply no match for the efficient offense led by Williamson and Ingraham for the Pelicans, who were knocked down one after another to expand the score into double figures. Although the Nets' Durant led his team and general Kyrie Irving to counterattack and chase points, they were still behind 50-58 in the first half.


Williamson makes a strong comeback after a 1-year hiatus! Led the Pelicans to overtake the Nets by 22 points, Durant's lone wood is difficult to support the lineup

Durant fights alone, and his teammates are all down


The most outstanding performance of the Nets is none other than Durant. But in this game, he was the only one who scored 32 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 4 blocks in 32 minutes, while the giant partner Irving only scored 15 points in this game. 2 rebounds and 5 assists, sluggish outside shooting three-pointers did nothing.


In addition, the giant Ben Simmons, who was highly expected by the Nets, was even more surprising. Under the strong attack of his opponent Williamson, he also led 6 technical fouls to leave the court early and only scored 4 points in 23 minutes. , 5 rebounds and 5 assists. It can be seen that the performance of the giant teammates made Durant unable to support himself for a moment and could not relax.


In the second half, Williamson counterattacked the Nets defense


When the two sides fought until the second half, Williamson's offensive firepower was more prosperous, and he continued to use his size advantage to attack the Nets' inside defense, and scored 8 points for dunks and jumpers to stop the opponent. However, the Nets are still full of loopholes on the offensive and defensive end. Not only the offensive end was quickly suppressed by the Pelicans, causing the home team to make mistakes and stealing points. Even the defensive end was also returned to the offensive state of Ingraham and Firepower. The exuberant Williamson frequently captured, and then the Pelicans widened the gap to a large score of 20 points. In the end, the Nets fell behind by 22 points and lost the Pelicans in the regular season opener.


With today's battle, only Durant has maintained the performance of the Big Three of the Nets. With the performance of the Nets in this game, fans are quite worried about the situation of the Nets in the next regular season.