With the end of the Nets and the Green Army's g4, the Nets were eventually swept out by the Green Army, in fact, as early as the first three games, the Nets were eliminated has become a foregone conclusion, no team in history can complete the reversal at 0:3, and in the fourth game, Durant changed his previous reluctance to shoot, the whole game shot 31 times, but only scored 39 points.
Looking back at the first three games of the series, it is not an exaggeration to say that durant was the worst game of his playoff career, and even the worst game of his entire basketball career was definitely ranked. Durant scored 23 points in his first game against the Green Army, but don't forget that he actually made 24 shots, fell to the freezing point of efficiency on the offensive end, became a black hole in the team on the defensive end, and finally gave Tatum a chance to kill in the change of defense. The kill also dealt a big blow to the Nets, seriously affecting the next game.
In the second game, the Green Army wrapped up its entire game, and it was obvious that even if the first game was not good, the Green Army did not dare to underestimate Durant. Durant scored 20 free throws, but the offensive efficiency was still ugly 17 shots and only hit 4 of them. In the third game, everyone was waiting for Durant's "return of death", but he was still trapped in the green army's defense, and could only give up the ball, and the number of shots and free throws dropped badly. In the last game, although Durant tried to change the dilemma of the first three games, he once again played inefficient points, and finally the Nets lost all four games.
Durant's performance is not qualified from the data point of view, and the only data he meets the standard is the time to play. But stacking time alone is not the way superstars play, and durant has a 48.6% jump shot shooting rate in the regular season, which is very scary, and among all the players who shot 300 jump shots, Durant has the highest shooting rate, even surpassing the popular DeRozan. But entering the playoffs, Durant seems to have lost the ability to shoot in sports battles, and in the second game of the series, Durant shot 0 of 9 all by free throws. Such a huge regular playoff gap is almost impossible, so Durant's problem is not only in himself and related to the team.
After entering the playoffs, in order to keep up with the stronger defensive rhythm of the playoffs, Nash changed the defensive strategy, replacing the regular season's defensive play with a change of defense, which can allow the Nets with insufficient depth of the lineup to maintain pressure at the defensive end, but the shortcomings are also very obvious Frequent changes will consume Durant's physical strength, and it has to be said that Durant's physical strength has dropped significantly after the major injury. So the more he spends on the defensive end, the less firepower he has on the offensive end.
At the same time, on the side of the Green Army, durant was almost eaten, they saw that Irving was difficult to carry the flag, they chose to stick to Durant, in the series Tatum basically spent 80% of the time staring at Durant, Tatum faster than Durant defense is also very skilled, coupled with the same small forward alignment to Durant caused a lot of psychological pressure, we can see in the game facing Tatum's defense Durant constantly blinking, his heart has been shaken, the pressure began to make his technology deformed. After the single defense achieved results, the Green Army took advantage of the victory to chase Durant with a lot of pack treatment, further squeezing his shooting space.
On the whole, the reason why Durant performed so badly in this round of the series, in addition to his own state has declined to a certain extent, is inseparable from the tactics of the two teams, especially the Green Army's bag clip tactics, which limit Durant on the field and psychologically. This series will be the worst game of his career. He became the boss at the Nets, and the Green Army gave Durant the boss of the team, but it was clear that Durant himself was not ready to truly become a leader.