This morning “Brooklyn” played against “Cleveland Cavaliers”, one of the outsiders of Eastern Conference, on Barclays Arena. In the second quarter, the hosts defeated their opponent 35:12 thanks to brilliant play of Blatche, Johnson and Humphries. The basketball players of “Nets” managed to keep this advantage and celebrated the fourth victory in regular championship – 114:101. The main formula of Avery Johnson is team play which worked this time too. Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez earned 26, 25 and 23 points. Tornike Shengelia, Georgian forward of “Brooklyn”, played only for the last 30 seconds of the 4th quarter. Of course, he could not show up himself.
Brooklyn – Cleveland 114:101 (29:30, 35:12, 21:33, 29:26)
Brooklyn: Williams (26), Bogans, Johnson (25), Humphries (12), Lopez (23); Blatche (13), Watson (7), Evans (2), Shengelia, Childress (2), Stackhouse (4)
Cleveland: Irving (34), Waiters (8), Varejao (35+18), Thompson (14), Gee (4); Leuer (4), Gibson, Sloan (2), Samuels, Casspi (4)
Giorgi Barbakadze
