On January 8, Beijing time, the Bucks defeated the Nets 121-109. This game is the East strong battle, the Nets East second, bucks East third, did not expect this is a Bucks crushing innings, the first half of the lead of 11 points, the third quarter after the lead of 18 points, this season the Bucks led into the final quarter 21 wins and 0 losses, and the 18-point lead in hand is difficult to be overturned, and finally the letter brother only played 5 minutes in the last quarter and left work.
In this game, alphabet brother 27 minutes, 11 of 17, 5 of 5 three-pointers, 7 of 10 free throws, 31 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds, shooting 64.7%, 40% of three-point shooting, and 72.4% of the real shooting rate is extremely terrifying. In contrast, Durant's 37 minutes, 10 of 19, 3 of 3 three-pointers, 8 of 8 free throws, 29 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, shooting 52.6% is indeed inferior, MVP battle letter brother won the data and game.
After the game, Kevin Durant received a verbal rebuke because the Nets had a record of 8-0 when facing the top four in the East and West sections, and the Nets were criticized as the league's first "pseudo-strong team". Are the Nets with two peak MVPs + one top scorer Irving a pseudo-strong team? That's how the record was, which caused Durant to suffer along with it. Durant's super Ewing's night also swallowed mileage sadness.
On the evening of January 7, the NBA officially updated the MVP list, alphabet brother first, Durant second, Jokic third, Curry fifth, DeRozan sixth, James seventh, Paul eighth, Gobert ninth, Morant tenth. But durant's MVP probability at the BBR dropped to third after this game.
Feeling like a strong team in the top four of the division, this makes Durant's MVP probability continue to decline, and he once competed with Curry at the beginning of the season, and now both of them are overtaken by Alphabet Brother and Jokic, Durant is third, Curry is fourth.
One statistic sets off Durant's sadness even more. Durant vs Bucks scored 19 points in the first half and the rest of the Nets scored 17 points, and Durant scored more than other starters in four games this season, second only to Curry in five games. In other words, James Harden, the former scoring champion + MVP, can not share Durant's worries.
Durant is the scoring champion this season, but the rest of the team has not helped him much, especially Harden God has a ghost game of 5 games, so KD's MVP will be gone.
Text/Yan Xiaobai