Durant, who returned from a serious injury with a ruptured Achilles tendon last season, also announced the return of his king with a data of 26.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.6 assists, as a famous scoring machine in the league, his performance did not drop but rose, which really made the fans feel very happy, and the Nets, which gathered Irving and Harden and the other two superstars, were regarded as the big favorite teams for the championship, but the three giants suffered from injuries during the regular season and did not get much fit time. It also made the Nets regretfully lose to the Bucks in the playoff semifinals, although the team was out, but Durant handed over a career-best 34.3 points in the playoffs last season, proving that he was still the "death god" who blocked the killing Buddha.
And this season Irving because of the reluctance to vaccinate against the new crown has not yet played a game for the Nets, coupled with Harden is also trapped in poor condition, Durant can only bear more offensive burdens, a little earlier in the Nets away game against the Pistons, due to Harden's rotation, it is also Durant's turn to lead the team for the first time in this season, and facing this Eastern Fish Belly, the Nets actually played not easy, once behind the opponent as many as 7 points, but in the second half Durant began to wake up, With their own insoluble shooting to help the Nets overcome the danger, the Nets finally reversed the opponent 116-104, and achieved a wave of two consecutive wins in the near future.
In the whole game, Durant is undoubtedly the absolute protagonist, he started 41 minutes, 16 of 31 shots (5 of 10 three-pointers), crazy cut 51 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, +25 plus-minus is also the highest of the starting Five Tigers, can be said to be the biggest contributor to the Nets to win, and these 51 points also allowEd Durant to create the highest single-game score for NBA players this season (previously 50 points for Curry). Counting this game, Durant's 50+ career numbers (7 times) have reached the 13th place in league history, and the current game is second only to Harden (23 times), Lillard (12 times), Curry (10 times) and James (9 times).
As a career average of 27.1 points per game to cut points master, Durant's career of 50+ times is only 7 times, it is indeed not unexpected, but careful analysis is not surprising, before in the Thunder, at that time, there were Westbrook, Harden, the two backcourt cores in the competition with him for the ball, although harden left Houston, but Westbrook also began to make a big package, so the outside world joked at the time, "can block KD score only Wei Less."
After switching to the Warriors, not to mention, the backcourt Curry, Klay, the splash brothers, all need a certain amount of ball rights to be able to play the corresponding strength, for the team, KD has also made great sacrifices, in the Warriors' 3 seasons, Durant's average score per game is only 25.1 points, 26.4 points and 26 points, want to get a high score of 50+, it is not easy.
This time to join the Nets, Durant scored 51 points today, the highest score is only in last season's 3 degrees 42 points, if you want to count the playoffs, it is only in the 5th game against the Bucks 49 points, if it is not Irving absent this year, Harden is not in good shape, Durant may not usher in a big storm, once again bombed a high score of 50+. According to the current situation, the Nets want to continue to consolidate their eastern dragon throne in the case of a disorganized lineup, and I am afraid that KD really needs to continue to maintain such a hot state.