Upset + upset again! The strongest team in the league is exposed, the Warriors are really accurate, and Durant is also old

The NBA regular season kicked off in the new season, and after the Nuggets won the championship last season, many teams did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to strengthen this summer. Although the Celtics have built the Big Four of Porzingis + Tatum + Jaylen Brown + Holiday as a result, the depth of the roster that the Celtics have lost will become the biggest hidden danger in the playoffs; When Lillard came to the Bucks, the Bucks lost their defense, didn't attack, and became four-like; Last season's Eastern Conference champion Heat, a wave of four consecutive defeats fell to the bottom, Butler is a year older, and the lineup is constantly thinning. On the Western side, the Clippers got Harden and also formed the Big Four, but Harden and Wei Shao had a ball conflict, and whether the Big Four could successfully run in place was a question mark. The only team that can win two games against the Nuggets in the series this summer, the Suns sent Paul and Ayton away in the offseason, and returned Allen, Beal, Nurkic and others.

Coupled with Gordon, Yuta Watanabe, Okogie, Little, Goodwin and other distinctive role players, on the basis of the framework of the Big Three around Beal + Booker + Durant, the Suns can be said to have built the most balanced and competitive lineup. But since the beginning of the preseason, the Suns have continued to have problems, first of all, Beal's back injury, resulting in him not returning to the schedule, Booker has also missed a few games due to an ankle injury before, and in the end it was Durant who took on all this, leading the team alone, playing an average of 36 minutes per game, the Suns defeated the Warriors in the opening game since the start of the season, and then lost to the Lakers and defeated the Jazz, and in the last two games, in the face of the Spurs in the new season in the West, the Suns have lost in a row! In the first game against the Spurs, Durant made a mistake at the last moment, Durant lost the ball in the face of the bag, and was finally killed by the Spurs!

In the second game against the Spurs, after Booker returned from injury, the Suns became even more vulnerable: they trailed by almost 20 points in the first quarter, and Wembanyama did not miss a shot. Although the Suns erased the disadvantage in the third quarter under the leadership of Booker and Durant, at the critical moment in the fourth quarter, Wembanyama scored 10 points in a row to help the Spurs play a 12-0 climax to lock the win! In the first game, Wembanyama scored 18 points, 8 rebounds and 4 blocks; In the second game, Wembanyama scored 38 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, and won by 21 points! Upset + upset again, the strongest heroes in the league are exposed! Durant played for the Suns this season, averaging 27.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4 assists per game, plus 4 turnovers per game, and the shooting rate was only 53%+36%, which is not particularly high. The point is that Durant is over 35 years old and still has to last an average of 36 minutes per game.

This is very reminiscent of the stage when Durant led the team alone during the Nets period, Irving made trouble, Harden has not come, Durant once played an average of nearly 38 minutes per game in a month, and finally tired and suspended for 2 months, don't forget that Durant is three years older! To put it bluntly, Durant and Booker are both the best top scorers in the league, and they are definitely trustworthy to give them the ball in the playoffs. But it doesn't make it logical to let Durant go to the regular season and start to consume the team: it's the equivalent of a cannon hitting mosquitoes. The Suns should be playing a leading role in the regular season, with the younger Booker or the newly defective Beal. However, Beal has only played one preseason game since joining the Suns, and no one knows what the specific back injury will be.

Compared to last season, Durant and Booker are under more pressure in the regular season! In the past few years, the rapid rise of the sun has been inseparable from Paul's strategy. While Paul's stats are declining, his ability to control the court, his sense of the situation, he can raise the role cap. This summer, the Suns felt Paul was getting old and cleaned it up. But after coming to the Warriors, Paul had the second spring of his career: Curry may not have imagined that he only needed to lead the starters to win; Paul may not have imagined that he only needed to bring the young bench to get the Warriors on the right track. Paul has an offensive efficiency of 115.8, a defensive efficiency of 99.0, a net efficiency of +16.8, and an average plus/minus of +10.2 per game this season!

Although Paul's statistics have dropped to an average of 9.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game, Paul's assist rate has reached 35.3%, which is much higher than the three-ball Ball and Jokic, and is still the top in the league! Warriors are so accurate! The Warriors gave up Poole to choose Paul, in fact, they believed that Kutang would chase the three brothers and add another year to Curry's championship window. Although Paul is 38 years old, he has maintained a high level of form averaging about 30 minutes per game without any problems. In other words, the Warriors have finally found the core that can work with Curry, Curry is the scorer, and Paul is the leading teammate. In Kerr's words, with Paul, he can rest assured that Curry will play less than 32 minutes. Statistics show that when Curry is not on the court this season, the Warriors' net efficiency per 100 rounds is +16.5, and when Curry is on the floor, the Warriors' net efficiency per 100 rounds is -1.

It can only be said that the Suns sent Paul away in exchange for Bill, which was a bigger adventure. Beal can't return for a day, and with the way Durant plays, he could go down at any moment. And in the past few seasons, as long as Durant is injured, it is basically 1-2 months, which is easy to form a vicious circle between the Big Three! To put it bluntly, Durant is also old, and his career is not the kind of play that can lead the team in the regular season. I hope Vogel can use Durant sparingly, and I also hope that Booker can return to the battlefield, as for Beal, it is actually difficult to be optimistic about his prospects with the Suns, the gap between him and Paul is too big, and he is just a reduced version of Lillard.