Kaiser, a character in League of Legends, is often referred to as Lan Kai after transforming into an Assassin form, and has the fastest burst damage in League of Legends. Passive extra Ap damage, coupled with the instant launch of the wq skill, The Kain Spike Is a matter of moments.
Coupled with his long hair and scythe-wielding style, Kain's background positioning is the God of Death (the background is also introduced), which also makes his assassin more cold-blooded and pure.
Death, scythe-wielding, league-first bursts (scoring explosives), these are all definite words that can be shared by Durant and Kain. From The City of Russia to the Golden State to the current Nets, Adu has always been the strongest scorer, the league's number one Assassin.
For Thunder general manager Presti, life is made up of beautiful memories. In 1996, he was admitted to Emerson College in the United States and held a position on the basketball team. In his junior year, he studied hard and won the Roche Scholarship, the oldest and most prestigious scholarship at an American university. After graduation, he came to work for the Spurs, and soon gained the trust of the boss Holt, and was promoted to assistant general manager, witnessing the Spurs' three championship journeys. In the summer of 2007, Presti was invited to become supersonics general manager, and three weeks later, he handed David Stern a sheet with Durant's name written on it at the draft.
The Durant he selected is the future of the team.
I am the chosen one and the only one
After the run-in of the first two seasons, the 09-10 season, Durant and his Thunder began to take off. He averaged 30.1 points per game in the league. (In the two seasons that followed, Durant was named the league's top scorer with 27.7 points and 28.0 points per game) Opponents sent their best defenders to match, only to watch Durant send the ball to the basket. Durant also made kills and cleverly created shooting fouls by breaking through, standing at the free throw line 10.2 times a night and converting it to 9.2 points with a 90.0 percent shooting percentage.
However, the Thunder, who attacked eighth in the West, encountered the defending champion Lakers, and after six games, the Thunder lost 2:4.
2012 was the first peak of Durant's Thunder career. In addition to Westbrook, Harden has also grown into a reliable firepower point, and he won the best sixth man that season.
The three-few-driven Thunder raced through the playoffs, eliminating the mavericks and Lakers from the past two seasons 4-0 and 4-1 respectively. In the Western Conference Finals with the Spurs, facing an opponent who has won 20 consecutive games (after playing the first two games), the Thunder actually lost the bid, won four consecutive games, and successfully reached the Finals. Unfortunately, facing the top three of the hot team, the only trip of the Thunder three youngsters to the Finals ended in failure.
Disappointed? Fortunately, of course, he was still young, and no one doubted that Durant would start all over again.
In the 13-14 season, Durant came back strongly, averaging 32 points per game and shooting 63.5% from the field. He scored 50+ points twice, 40+ in 14 times, and 30 points and 10 rebounds in 17 games. In addition, he scored 25+ in 41 consecutive games, breaking Jordan's record of 25+ points in 40 consecutive games set in the 1986-87 season. During his 26 consecutive absences, Durant averaged 35 points, 7.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists and shot 52.7 percent from the field, leading the Thunder to a 19-7 record with his super personal scoring ability.
With only 46 games in the entire season, He led the team to 59 wins and 23 losses, second in the West, and won his first and so far only MVP trophy.
And through these numbers and accolades, we see Durant's metamorphosis: from the beginning of the industry there was an excellent no-ball foundation, to the third season began to be unstoppable with the ball frame singles, and then at the beginning of that season, the low back was officially included in his arsenal - since then he has become one of the most threatening players on the outside. His three main offensive styles, switching offense, blocking and dismantling possessions and framed singles, are among the best in the league.
That season, with Kevin Durant at his side, Reggie Jackson's ambition to be a starting point guard was unleashed; Jeramie Lamb hit a career-high; Ibaka played the best offensive season of his career; and Perry Jones had the most glorious time in his NBA career.
On January 30, 2014, during the Thunder's game against the Heat, Durant and James aces against ace, they do not block, do not change defenses, and go head-to-head with no one around. On the one hand, it is forced to pull out, and on the other hand, it is a breakthrough jump shot. Kill each other.
The final result was unexpected, 112:95, the Thunder won on the road. More important than the victory is their selfless cooperation and chemistry in the game and Durant's leadership style, which also makes people expect more from this young Guard.
However, this season Durant still had no chance of winning the championship, they met the strongest Spurs in those years in the Western Conference Finals, and after a fierce battle, the Thunder lost 2:4, and Durant fell in the closest place to the Finals.
In the 14-15 season, Durant was plagued by injuries, playing only 27 games that season, and the Thunder eventually finished in ninth place, regrettably missing the playoffs for the first time in six years.
In the 15-16 season, Durant, who returned from injury, played in 72 regular season games, averaging 50.5% of the total shooting rate and 38.7% of the three-point shooting rate per game, efficiently cutting 28.2 points, 8.2 boards and 5.0 assists, facing the Lone Ranger in the first round, Durant although the state of ups and downs, but the 37-year-old German chariot seemed to be even more inadequate. In just 5 games, the Thunder passed the Mavericks. Facing the second-place Spurs in the West, Durant faced Leonard, who won the stats while taking the victory away.
Durant's small data wins at the same time, but also take the victory away
In the Western Conference Finals, facing last year's championship, the Warriors, who won 73 games that season, benefited from Durant's and Westbrook's rotational threats, and the Thunder unexpectedly took a 3-1 lead. But the Thunder still failed to hold on to the victory, after the G5 away loss, in the sixth game at home, Thompson shot 11 three-pointers, and the Warriors equalized on aggregate. Back in Golden State, the Warriors reversed the entire series.
Although reaching the Western Conference Finals pushed the Warriors to a desperate situation, Durant clearly failed to deliver a satisfactory answer to the playoff trip that season, and his 107 offensive efficiency, 2.0 WS (victory contribution) and 20.3 PER (efficiency value) were all career lows since the 09-10 season.
With regret and unwillingness, Durant did not choose to stay with the Thunder as in previous years, but in the offseason, despite the controversy and ridicule, joined the Warriors who had just defeated him for the championship dream in his heart.
That summer, Durant was insulted by the always polite Oklahoma people who believed durant had chosen a shortcut to get a championship ring.
This kind of behavior really can't be whitewashed, but oklahoma people may forget that six years ago, Durant abandoned to become a free agent and chose to renew his contract with the Thunder, and on the same day that James announced his departure on the national live broadcast, Durant sent a tweet: "Why does everyone want to go to the Lakers or the Heat?" I just wanted to be on my own team. And two years later, when management traded off Harden, a good friend of Adu's, he didn't complain a word. When the team's third offensive choice changed from Harden to Kevin Martin, and then to Lamb or something else, Durant never showed emotion. The Thunder often say they want to be champions, to be strong, but the truth is that they don't even pay a little luxury tax, and Presti always explains to him: "Kevin, we are a small market team. Although Durant was reluctant to say so, a series of deceptions eventually broke his heart.
He used to think he had a chance to compete for the championship, but the truth is that every year his Thunder is a little bit worse, falling in the playoffs against a team with better lineup depth.
"It seems like everything that happened was to get me out," Durant said, "especially after they [the Warriors] lost the Finals, and if they won, then I wouldn't go to the Warriors 100 percent." But after the Finals G7, I called my agent and said, 'Dude, how's Golden State?' ’”
Childhood is gone, and the killer is born
The 2016-17 season, the sweetest season between Durant and the Warriors, has some records or memories:
Durant delivered the lowest round-time and average playing time of his career — an unprecedented burden offload; his career-best true shooting percentage of 65.1 percent, behind Jordan Jr. and Gobert's two pie-eaters; and the league's best mid-range picker used three most frequently in that year, fast-attack, fixed-point and no-ball cover, and he was well-served in the Warriors' system of fast-moving and pass-cutting.
In the regular season, he's only been serious about 2 or 3 games — 40, 39 and 34 points in response to the Thunder — well, those games, he's also hippie.
The 16-17 season, for Durant and the Golden State Warriors, is the most appropriate description to use ease, and the playoffs have won 12 consecutive wins to reach the Finals, which is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow.
Next up are the old rivals, James and the Cavaliers.
In the first two games, the Warriors used home advantage to move down two consecutive cities, and the game moved to Cleveland. The g3 game is extremely fierce, the cavaliers are all soldiers, Irving's various fairy balls, playing crazy enough, once disrupted the rhythm of the warriors. The Warriors' side was a bit of a mess, all kinds of mistakes, all kinds of fouls, but it was still dragged to the decisive moment.
At the end of the game, the Warriors were still trailing by two points. As is customary, a tactic is to be developed to launch this attack under the coordinated cover of the whole team. But Durant said no, he dribbled the ball to the front court, met James's three-point shot, and the knife fell in his hand, and the Warriors reversed the score. They also won the game, 3-0.
The phrase "Death is coming" and the harvest competition has been used for the first time in a large number of headlines by major media and even social platforms.
A year later, with the same opponent, the same number of games, and even the same time and place, Durant sheathed his sickle again: He pulled up three points directly with the help of cover, the basketball was in the net, and in less than a minute, the Warriors' lead reached 6 points.
Two consecutive championships, two consecutive MVPs, relying on the Warriors platform Durant twice beat his nightmare: James. So now, is there a change of dynasty, or is Durant the first person in the league?
It doesn't seem to be.
James did not fall off the altar because of the loss in the Finals, but completed the feat of "leading the team from the East to break through from the East with a shocking performance in the case of the lack of major generals in 18 years" made him more secure the first place in the league. And Durant? Please, the Warriors are not as strong as him.
Therefore, the "Green Formula" that came out of nowhere next season has long been traced. It only reveals in the wrong time that some Warriors players have a sense of identity that Durant is just a "mercenary", but unfortunately, it makes the latter's arrogant self-esteem invisible.
Considering her outspoken heart, the 18-19 season looks like his final season with the Warriors.
It's just my spirit that's been sharpened, and the blade of the knife
Personally, I think that Durant in the 18-19 season is the strongest Durant.
The MVP season was durant's best combination of technology and body, the 18-19 season was his best physical condition after his first major injury, only missed 4 games in the regular season, his coordination, flexibility, balance, core strength, body control ability these all reached the best state of his career in this year, better than his 13-14 season.
Durant in the 2018-19 season, whether it is the regular season or the playoffs, the proportion of offense with the ball exceeds that of his 13-14 season with MVP. In the Warriors' worst year (the weakening of the role player's ability and the long-term study of the passing system), his disregard for the environment of the mid-range is increasingly important to the team. That year, Durant played one of the best mid-range performances of his career, shooting more than 50% in the three mid-range areas of 3-10 feet, 10-16 feet and 16-23 feet, and the middle distance was as strong as Dirk, Leonard and Alan Houston.
This year, Durant's mid-range achievements can be described as entering the room, and it is completely possible to join the ranks of jordan and Nowitzki in the predecessors, becoming the three mountains that cannot be avoided in the middle distance.
In the 10 playoff games before his injury, Durant averaged 35.4 points per game, delivered 1.2 steals and 1.1 blocks, along with 51.8 percent shooting and 43 percent three-point shooting — the first player in NBA history to average 35 points per game in the playoffs while unlocking 180 club achievements.
The 50 points to beat the Clippers and the 46 points against Mr. Harden, in the words of the fans, "As soon as Durant took the ball that year, I felt almost the same." ”
But unfortunately, Durant eventually failed, he completely collapsed in game 5 of the Finals, and then watched Leonard incarnate as a Terminator, give and take, and personally overthrow the Warriors' dynasty. (Counted as a dynasty, right?) ）
Durant in 19 years, personally played a heroic song.
Of course, Durant, whose contract expired that summer, did not choose to renew his contract, and he joined the Nets with his good brothers Irving and Jordan Jr. It's a very Durant approach, but given the more than a year of recovery from an Achilles tendon injury, many people are skeptical about the Nets' investment.
But he, after all, was Durant.
The pride in the bones, the mission in the depths of the heart, can not tolerate half an inch of sinking, can not bear the slightest failure.
You can say that his choices at that time were not enough grandfathers, but definitely do not question his ability.
My greatness has finally come to light
In the fifth game of the 20-21 Eastern Conference semifinals, Irving was injured, Harden risked a recurrence of injury and made a tough comeback, and Durant was alone and filled the data column with a performance of 49+17+10+3+2. The performance of brushing the presence on the individual offensive, organizational and defensive ends is undoubtedly the greatest individual performance in the playoffs of this century.
Of those 49 points, 31 came from the second half. No matter how the Bucks start, Durant can always respond.
Two days later, in the G7 of both teams, Durant once again crossed the knife, playing 53 minutes, 48 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, and the true shooting rate was 59%, which was achieved in the case of complete overdraft in overtime. A little further on, if he has enough physical strength, he can directly kill the game.
"Kevin Durant, he doesn't believe the Long Night is coming, because the torch is in his hand!"
He didn't want to lose this battle, the man who lost, lost not just a series, but the effort of the whole season and the expectations of all the fans.
But in overtime, he was really too tired and tired to have a chance to set the tone, but his exhausted body could not support his jumping shot. In the face of Holliday's single defense, Durant directly threw a three-not-stick, and after the game, he silently bowed his head in chagrin.
Blame him? In overtime, Durant did not score a point, but without his bitter support in the fourth quarter, the Nets would have collapsed long ago, and there would be no birth in overtime. It's just a pity that if Harden and Irving don't get hurt, if someone can come out and share Durant's burden in this game, the result may be different. Durant's 20-21 season is over, but he can leave with his head held high, because he has done everything he can and proved that he can get back to the top with a broken Achilles tendon.
This season, Durant's form is still hot, Irving also returned today after the farce of the beginning of the season, and the Nets, which are combined with the big three, seem to be the big hit of the championship. Meet the Warriors in the Finals? It looks like a really good joke.