Kevin Durant's single-season average of assists per game in the playoffs this season shows the change he has made for the team, but many people think that his high assists are exchanged for high turnovers; however, he has set a career high in two playoffs, do you know anything but assists?
From the 39 points scored in the last playoff game of the season, it can be seen that Durant's super scoring ability is still there, he just wants to use the pass to mobilize the state of his teammates first in order to prepare for the subsequent playoffs, but unfortunately, his teammates failed Durant, and the Nets not only failed to qualify but also became the only team to be swept out in the first round of the playoffs this season. Durant averaged 6.3 assists per game in this playoff, the nets player who averaged the most assists per game in this playoff.
Durant, who averaged 29.9 points per game in the regular season with 51.8 percent shooting and 38.3 percent three-point shooting, averaged 26.3 points per game in the playoffs this time, but it is a bit of a gap compared to the 29.4 points he averaged in 155 playoff games so far in his NBA career, which is also the first time since the first playoff game of his career that Durant has averaged less than 28.0 points per playoff game in a single season. But how many people can average 26+ points per game in a single season in the playoffs?
Another piece of evidence that Durant's scoring ability is still strong is that he has averaged 9.5 free throws per game in this playoff, ranking third among all players this season so far, behind Alphabet Brother and Joel Embiid, two of the two interior players of the year, and 4.0 more free throws per game than kyrie Irving, the second-placed net, and the most free throws per game in a single playoff since 2013, 1.1 more than in last season's playoffs.
The more free throws he gets is due to Durant's super ability to make fouls. Although Durant's average of 5.8 fouls per game in the regular season this season is far from the 8.8 fouls of alphabet brothers ranked first in the league, Durant's average of 9.3 fouls per game in this playoff is the most of all players in the league, 1.0 more than Alphabet Brother! It was also the first time in Durant's NBA career that he had averaged more than 8.2 fouls per game in a single-season playoff.
Durant's two career-highs in this playoff season, in addition to assists and fouls, show that Durant's offensive lethality is still there. Although the Nets are looked down on next season due to salary pressure, as long as Durant is healthy, the Nets still have a chance to rush out of the East and even win the championship!