Watanabe, who has fallen into difficulty for fouls, has only 6 minutes to play
A game in which the Nets entered the home of the Bulls. Yuta Watanabe got into trouble with 4 fouls in 4 minutes, and when he scored only 1 goal without a successful field goal, the Nets were unable to improve their defense until the end and lost 112-121, breaking their streak to 12.
Yuta Watanabe, sent on from the second quarter when he was 7 points behind (33-40), didn’t get caught up in the pump feint in the match with Demar DeRozan and raised both hands to deliver a hard shot. As soon as there was contact, he suddenly fired two shots.
However, in the ensuing offense, he made a perfect cut, received the ball in the paint, dodged a shot block, and set up an easy dunk for Ben Simmons heading in. Also, he showed devoted play that doesn’t appear in the numbers, like jumping on the offensive rebound and chipping it to make it my ball, but DeRozan again invited a foul shot.
A little more than two minutes into the match he was called for a second individual foul, but the bench decided to continue playing. Then, he removed the mark with a cut play, calmly dodged the first scorer from the fake shot, acquired a foul shot, scored a free throw and recorded his first score. However, soon after, he came to help and raised his hands to avoid a shot in front of goal, but a foul was called for physical contact. It was his third personal foul in 3 minutes and 15 seconds, and he was forced off the bench.
With 2 minutes and 49 seconds remaining in the 3rd quarter, the turn came when he trailed by 5 points, but Watanabe was completely inactive on the day. When he returned to defense unable to decide even as he aggressively shot a 45-degree 3-point shot from the right, the whistle blew with a play flying over Patrick Williams’ dunk block. Although he spread his hands and appealed no foul, the decision was not reversed and the fourth foul was called 30 seconds after he appeared. After that, when he received a corner in a small scene of the shot clock, he was hit by a hard shot from the drive and became a ball in the air.
The Nets, who could not use Watanabe in the final lineup, came close to a possession several times, but were unable to correct their defense until the end and lost. Watanabe, who got into trouble for fouls, scored a goal in just six minutes of the game and could not fully demonstrate his characteristics.
