Did Durant play the "Big Three" to death? The Green formula may be true

The famous Dream Chaser-Green formula: Before you came, we were already champions. Then the formula took on a new meaning: after you go, we're still the champions. The most embarrassing thing is Durant, because whether he comes or not, the Warriors have always been the champion. His two championships really seem to have come by scratch.

Putting aside the matter of Durant and the Warriors, the Suns have always had high hopes this season, Durant, Booker, Beal, any of them have easily cut 30+ levels, plus Nurkic and Gordon are ruthless characters, the Suns seem to have only one possibility if they don't win the championship: they don't want to win the championship.

However, talking on paper and doing it with real knives and guns are completely different things. The Suns once played a seven-game winning streak, but the recent slump can no longer be hidden, with a 14-15 record, and even fallen out of the play-in zone. Durant has expressed his frustration with the team, frustrated with the lack of help and the team's roster matching.

Beal's injury is a real problem. One of the giants with an annual salary of 46.74 million, but only played 6 games. Just after his comeback, he twisted his ankle again, and his fragile physique was really speechless.

But it would be inaccurate to say that the problem is with Bill. Which team in the NBA has been completely healthy for a season without any injuries? Take the Suns' Christmas opponent as an example, the Mavericks recently gave up an Irving. Did Doncic hit 50+15 and lead the team to victory?

So is it possible that the problem is not with Beal, but with Durant? To be precise, is the Big Three model not a good team building model? For basketball, the outcome of a game largely depends on a group of the most elite players, so for superstar players, everyone's attitude is only one word: grab! Two giants are not enough, then grab three. The success of the Celtics' Big Three in 2008, and later the success of the Heat's Gianwibo Big Three, made the Big Three the standard for championships, as if they couldn't play without three big names.

The giants are also more willing to play together. For example, the Nets Big Three of Durant, Harden, and Irving, the Suns Big Four of Durant, Paul, Booker, and Ayton, and the Suns Big Three of Durant, Booker, and Beal. Hey, why is there always Durant?

If it weren't for Brother Alphabet's kick, the Nets did have a chance to compete for a championship, but the problem is that Durant didn't win the championship. In the world of success and defeat, people don't care whose little brother is injured.

One of the biggest flaws of the Big Three model is that salaries are too high. If it's all at the 30% starting salary, the Big Three will basically block the salary cap of the whole team. According to the NBA's strict salary management system, all kinds of exceptions can only be used to complete the supplement of other players. Of course, the number of exceptions will not be very high, and the number of players that can be recruited is relatively limited.

Looking at the Suns' roster this season, apart from the Big Three, only Nurkic has a salary of more than 10 million. Excluding Aaron and Little, the others are basically those who are shaken with the basic salary. Okogie, Yuta Watanabe, Damion Lee, Ibanks, etc., do you expect these base-salary players to bring anything?

If Beal hadn't been injured, the Suns wouldn't have been the bears they are now. But Beal's injury is equivalent to losing more than 30% of the team's combat strength. If Booker is injured again, more than 50% of his combat power will be lost, and Durant alone will really not be able to hold on. And Durant is still 35 years old.

The result of superstitious multi-giants is either that they can't play together, or they can't afford to hurt. In conclusion, the cost of trial and error is very high. At this time, you have to think that Durant is quite lucky, because he joined the Warriors and rubbed two championships and two FMVPs. Think about it, if he didn't go to the Warriors back then, is it possible that the Warriors can still win the championship, and Durant has achieved nothing so far?