The loss to the Clippers on the road by nearly 30 points is to put it mildly, the Suns may be like this this season, and from the lineup to the coach, the Suns basically don't work. The Clippers can be seen as a mirror of the Suns, they have scorers (George Leonard Harden), playmakers (Harden), top superstars, the final players in crunch time (Leonard), and defensive gates (George Leonard). In addition to the scorer, the organizer and defender, the Suns do not have it, and the Suns do not have these jobs, will the Suns hand over these jobs to those base-salary players? When Vogel discharges Durant to play center, with the lineup of Booker, Beal, Gordon, and Allen, it can basically be said that Vogel is completely out of line.
The most embarrassing person for the Suns right now is obviously Durant. Booker is still young, 27 years old, and has a good chance of winning the championship in the future. Bill, on the contrary, has been this virtuous throughout his career, has long been labeled as a garbage contract, and is not a superstar in history, if it weren't for the Suns, almost no one would discuss it. On the other hand, Durant, not only has he been wildly criticized, questioned, and ridiculed, but also looking back on his previous choice decisions, as well as future direction opportunities, Durant's situation can be said to be catastrophic. Frankly speaking, this Suns team has no chance to compete for the championship, which is nothing bad to admit, and Durant came to the Suns under pressure, he is here to compete for the championship, but it is obvious that staying in Phoenix, Durant is unlikely to have a chance to compete for the championship.
Many people want Durant to go, but will Durant really go? To be honest, no one knows. Because no one thought that Durant would leave the Nets, the Nets were Durant's team at that time, he led the team to fight the Bucks for 7 games, and he was already a god, the Nets' failure, more problems were blamed on Irving, and even Harden was scolded as a deserter. And considering that the Nets treated Durant to the fullest and used the maximum salary to make him recover from his injury, Durant should not leave anyway, and even if he is rotten in the Nets and has no championship, he can win the respect of the public. But under this premise, Durant did not resist the pressure of the Warriors to win the championship again, and chose to apply for a trade directly to Tsai Chongxin, and the designated next home was the Suns, who had just reached the finals.
"Playing only for the Finals team" was another label Durant was labeled at the time. It is conceivable what kind of infamy Durant, who joined the Suns, beared. But in fact, many people know that even if they win the championship in the Suns and get the FMVP, what is the difference between this and Durant's experience in the Warriors? After all, the Suns are Booker's team, which is always controversial, which is why people ridicule Durant and don't understand Durant. What's more, now in the Suns, Durant doesn't even seem to have a chance to compete for the championship, and has become a laughing stock, which seems to have become a sure thing.
To put it mildly, Durant's career was ruined by himself. Let's take a look at Durant's situation, can he leave the Suns? Rationally, this is okay, because Durant still has a big market, and once he applies for a trade, more than half of the teams will still call the Suns. But the reality is that once the Suns decide to give up Durant, they are basically rebuilding, even if they don't rebuild, the Suns will ask for a lot of chips, all kinds of first-round picks are definitely indispensable, and they also need a bunch of instant power, so what is the difference between this and Durant joining the Suns before? In order to get Durant, the Suns sent all the first-round picks, and also sent away Bridges and Johnson, who are defensive giants on the front line.
As a result, after Durant comes, the Suns will not be the original Suns, and if he leaves the Suns now, the next team will not be the original team, and the strength will definitely be greatly weakened. What about Durant staying in the Suns? Now everyone has seen the situation, the team lineup is deformed, it is difficult to change in a short period of time, there is no first-round pick to reinforce, and the coaching staff and the lineup are incompatible, which is basically a waste of time. Another way is to go back to a "team of his own" as a free agent as he left the Warriors.
This plan is still unrealistic, because Durant has 3 years left on his contract, even if he jumps out in the last year, when he returns to free agency again, Durant is 37 years old, not everyone is James, and what kind of state Durant will be in at that time, and what the injury situation will be, are all questions. The most important thing is whether there will be superstars as strong as Irving at the beginning who are willing to start a business with Durant and regard him as the boss, which is really hard to say. To put it bluntly, Durant's current situation is that he can't stay, he can't leave, it's useless to leave, the situation is very bad, it's almost difficult to touch the championship trophy in his career, and it's his own choice to cause all this.