NBA Twitter reacts to the Nets’ thrilling victory over the Blazers
The Brooklyn Nets won a nail-bitter against the Trail Blazers on Thursday night, and offseason acquisition Royce O’Neale sealed the game with a final second tip-in in Portland.
Superstar Kevin Durant shot the lights out for the Nets scoring an impressive 35 points. As a team, the Nets shot more than 10 percent better than the Damian Lillard-led Blazers.
Brooklyn’s playmaking was the key difference in the victory, as Brooklyn dished 10 more assists than Portland. Ben Simmons produced his best stat line of the season so far, recording 15 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists.
Sharpshooter Joe Harris seemed to be back in form tonight, hitting half of his shots from behind the arch.
ROYCE O'NEALE CLUTCH
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 18, 2022
Royce O’Neale beautiful box score:
11 points
11 rebounds
11 assists
1 block
1 three
1 game winner pic.twitter.com/0IfVyED2US— StatMuse (@statmuse) November 18, 2022
That's 16 straight games with at least 25 points to start the season for Kevin Durant 😤
The mark matches Michael Jordan for the 5th longest streak to start the season (1988-89) pic.twitter.com/ewxtodiGmG
— Nets Videos (@SNYNets) November 18, 2022
27 points through three quarters for @KDTrey5 🪣 pic.twitter.com/6Tg6XbQKEp
— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) November 18, 2022
BEN SIMMONS, FOLKS pic.twitter.com/nAPc914TIo
— Nets Videos (@SNYNets) November 18, 2022
NETS WIN pic.twitter.com/Ep8eWJKOnk
— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) November 18, 2022
Nets 10PM start times should be illegal
— Doug Norrie (@DougNorrie) November 17, 2022
Kd called Royce O’Neale a used car salesman and he saves the Brooklyn Nets with a game winning tip in.
The Basketball Gods don’t like ugly 🤣🤣🤣
— 73-9 and THEY LIED (@CuffsTheLegend) November 18, 2022
Yuta Watanabe is third in the NBA in 3PT% (51.7%) 🔥#NetsWorld pic.twitter.com/L4yhYmCrVi
— Nets Nation (@NetsNationCP) November 18, 2022
Moving on up 📈
Kevin Durant becomes the 19th player to reach 26,000 career points 👏 pic.twitter.com/kDcZnyXa45
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) November 18, 2022
The Nets have to be very encouraged with what they saw from Ben Simmons. And Watanabe looks like a key part of the rotation.
— Robin Lundberg (@robinlundberg) November 18, 2022
KD on Ben Simmons' performance (15/13/7) & 4th quarter free throws:
"He shot them like he was confident. Ran back down court like he knew it was going in. He did it all for us tonight. I'm excited for him. This is the type of game we all needed to see."pic.twitter.com/7V8OEvjYvK
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) November 18, 2022
