Nets Highlights: Durant won four consecutive games with Griffin 34+11+8 and Griffin 17+9
1 minute and 55 seconds before the end of the game, the Nets and Philadelphia drew 103, and the game entered the bayonet fighting stage.
Kevin Durant's ferocity is awakened in this moment of life and death, and Death wields his scythe and begins the harvest race.
Durant dribbled the ball like a point guard into the front, facing Tobias Harris, and Durant pulled up a three-pointer. Harris pounced on the interference and did not leave any room for Durant to land, Durant was knocked to his knees, but the ball still responded to the basket, 3+1! Durant's magical goal ignited the Barclays Center.
In the next round, Durant and Blake Griffin blocked, and Philadelphia chose to pinch Durant. Although Griffin had shot 0-of-4 from three-point range before, Durant still chose to trust his teammates, passing the ball to Griffin in the most reasonable way, and Griffin hit a three-point shot on the flank to give the Nets an instant six-point lead.
35.2 seconds before the end of the game, Durant faced philadelphia multi-person chase and interception to complete the breakthrough, and completed the shot with Joel Embiid's long arm, and the Nets locked in the victory.
With two shots and one pass, Durant harvested the game with a gorgeous three-hit combo. Throughout the game, Durant exploded with 34 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, and the Nets beat Philadelphia 114-105 at home to win four straight games. Since James Harden's truce, the Nets have won all three games.
For a time, the comment of "Durant is the strongest in the world" swept the twitter, and after the game, Durant's teammate Clarkston sent the "GOAT" (the strongest in history) comment to the big brother.
Nearly a week, the Nets are going through the toughest time of the season. Harden, LaMarcus Aldridge, James Johnson and other 7 triggered health and safety agreements can not play, the Nets can only urgently raise three rookies from the G League subordinate teams, and also signed Galloway with difficult exceptions. From the book lineup, the Nets are unfamiliar, and they don't even have a guard who can organize.
As a last resort, Durant can only go on top, and the point guard version of Durant is online.
In the past, there have always been doubts that Durant is a super scorer, but he is more of a core scorer in the team system than the core of Harden, Luka Doncic and LeBron James. Even though Durant can average 5+ assists per game and occasionally play a triple-double, he is still more regarded as a scorer.
Durant doesn't agree with this statement at all. Durant has said before that if the whole game is in his hands, he can also play a shoulder-to-shoulder performance. Including Nets coach Nash and Warriors coach Kerr have also said that Durant is fully capable of attacking and picking a shoulder, and any team can build an offensive system around him with him as the core of the ball. However, because Durant only plays such games occasionally, he is still more regarded as a pure scorer.
In the past week, Durant has made the world realize that he is indeed capable of playing the big core of the ball, even if there are only four rookies, a temporary worker, and a player who has fallen out of the rotation before, Durant can still maintain a fierce personal offensive firepower while guiding the firepower of the role players around him.
Many times, Durant is responsible for holding the ball through half. Falling into the position war, Durant either high block to attract the bag clip, or fall low to catch the ball to attract the bag clip, his height, vision allows him to send a pass after containing at least two people to defend, this style of play is very similar to the James of the Cavaliers era.
In the last 3 games, Durant's assists are 9, 11 and 8, and in these 3 games, he averaged 39.7 points plus 10.3 rebounds and 9.3 assists per game, which is a quasi-triple-double, and what is more terrifying is that Durant also maintains a shooting rate of nearly 50%. In the past, it was said that Durant always lacked physical fitness and made too many mistakes when he attacked and picked a shoulder, but in the last 3 games, he averaged more than 40 minutes per game, but he did not have the problem of lack of physical fitness at key moments, nor did he become the king of mistakes.
"Durant is the kind of player who fits perfectly for all offensive styles," Nash once said, "and you want to execute singles tactics, and Durant can singles." You want him to go around the cover and play without the ball, he can do it. You want him to perform the blocking, and he can do it. ”
It's time to get a new lease on Durant's ability to lead the team in a single core, taking the data from the last two seasons as an example:
Last season, when Durant led the team himself, Harden and Kyrie Irving were not present, and he scored 35.1 points per 36 minutes in 286 minutes, shooting 69.1% from the field. When the Big Three were on the floor at the same time, Durant scored just 24.6 points per 36 minutes in 202 minutes, and the effective shooting percentage fell to 55.8%.
When Durant and Irving were on the floor at the same time and Harden was not there, Durant scored 27.6 points per 36 minutes in 570 minutes, shooting 57.6 percent from the field. When Durant and Harden were on the floor at the same time and Irving was not, Durant scored 32.4 points per 36 minutes in 99 minutes, shooting 62.9% effectively.
Obviously, Durant's efficiency and production are not high when the Big Three are on the court at the same time, his ball usage rate is only 29%, and the ball is still in the hands of Irving and Harden. And when Durant led the team himself, his use of the ball reached 34%.
This season, Irving has not played, and when Durant led the team alone, he slashed 32.5 points plus 9.3 rebounds and 8.4 assists per 36 minutes, and the Nets won 9.5 points per 36 minutes. When Harden was on the floor, Durant had 27.4 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per 36 minutes, not to mention the data shrinking, and the Nets' net win score per 36 minutes also fell to 2.5 points.
Unlike last season, Durant's personal offensive efficiency did decline when he led the team, and the effective shooting rate dropped by 5%, but his single-core teaming effect did not change, and the Nets performed extremely well when he led the team alone.
The Athletic invited nearly 120 former NBA players to do a questionnaire before the start of the season, and more than 40% of them believed that Durant was the strongest person in the league today, and "Alphabet Brother" Antetokounmpo, LeBron James and Stephen Curry all ranked behind Durant.
So far this season, if you combine personal data, efficiency, and record rankings, Durant is indeed the best performer. Antetokounmpo and James have average record, with the former recently quarantined and the latter suffering from injuries and declining attendance. Curry averaged high points per game, but his shooting percentage was a career low (not counting the season in which he only played five games in 2019-20), and his three-point shooting rate fell below 40% for the first time. Like Jokic, his attendance declined due to injury, and the team's record was not ideal.
This season's MVP battle has basically become a competition between Durant and Curry, although Curry has a superior team record, he has just become the three-point king of history and is in the lead in the MVP competition. However, Durant's personal data is exploding, and his Nets are now firmly in the first place in the East, and the recent story-filled schedule can add some weight to his battle for MVP.
If Durant and Curry can stay healthy through the season, it could be the most competitive MVP battle in recent years.