{"id":380360,"date":"2021-12-13T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-give-james-harden-night-off-after-recent-heavy-workload\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:44:57","slug":"nets-give-james-harden-night-off-after-recent-heavy-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-give-james-harden-night-off-after-recent-heavy-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets give James Harden night off after recent heavy workload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Nets give James Harden night off after recent heavy workload<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s win in Detroit was the first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> James Harden has missed this season. The veteran star is logging 36.2 minutes, and averaged over 40 in the first three games of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, prompting coach Steve Nash to finally rest him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, he was open to it. He had a heavy stretch of games and we\u2019re gonna try to steal some games for these guys here and there. And fortunately, he was open enough for [this] to be the night,\u201d Nash said. \u201cSo we\u2019ll miss him [Sunday] but it\u2019s important and it pays this forward hopefully to the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nets shot just 38.5 percent in the first half, and had 10 turnovers in the third quarter. It took a Herculean 51-point effort from Kevin Durant for them to pull out a win.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"James Harden cheers his teammates on Sunday night in Detroit.\" class=\"wp-image-20466408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>James Harden cheers on his teammates Sunday night in Detroit.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was Durant\u2019s eighth career 50-plus point game, and his first for the Nets. It also surpassed Stephen Curry\u2019s 50-point outing for the highest-scoring game in the league this season. Curry is arguably Durant\u2019s stiffest competition for MVP.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Durant was fined $25,000 for his interaction with a fan Friday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>The Nets improved to 11-3 away from Barclays Center, the best road record in the league. It\u2019s the first time in franchise history they have ever been eight games over .500 on the road.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Cam Thomas had a strong night with 13 points off the bench on 6-for-11 shooting. He was especially effective on the court, and after being a minus-22 Wednesday in Houston, the rookie followed up his plus-16 against the Hawks with Sunday\u2019s game and career-high plus-27.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-CamThomas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Cam Thomas goes to the basket as Josh Jackson defends Sunday night in Detroit.\" class=\"wp-image-20466427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-CamThomas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-CamThomas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-CamThomas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-CamThomas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cam Thomas goes to the basket as Josh Jackson defends Sunday night in Detroit.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was good. He was a little more aggressive. He got some looks. He pulled up on the break for 3, for 2. Got to his spot, was confident. That\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d Nash said. \u201cWhen he makes good decisions when to get to his spot, when to shoot and he\u2019s confident, he\u2019s a very good scorer.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Nic Claxton had just two points and two rebounds, but was stellar defensively and was a plus-19 in 23 minutes. He played the entire fourth quarter and was a plus-17 in the final period, with his conditioning \u2014 which the Nets readily admit is an issue \u2014 slowly and steadily improving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s trending in the right direction. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019d say he\u2019s there yet, but I\u2019d say he\u2019s definitely improving,\u201d Nash said. \u201cThat\u2019s a positive sign. If he continues to trend in that direction, [that\u2019s big].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about how much you play: It\u2019s about how hard and effective you play in the minutes you play. He can get to a place where his stretches don\u2019t decline the longer they go. But he\u2019s able to continue to perform throughout those stretches; that\u2019s probably the next step. Then we\u2019ll see about rotations and matchups and when he\u2019s needed for longer stretches and can he handle that.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Paul Millsap , who missed the game for personal reasons, is expected to rejoin the team Monday.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The veteran star is logging 36.2 minutes, and averaged over 40 in the first three games of the trip, prompting coach Steve Nash to finally rest him. \u201cYeah, he was open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Nets-JamesHarden.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[121637,70487,64001,60955,95316],"class_list":["post-380360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-13-21","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-james-harden","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nic-claxton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}