If you have to say that the superstar level of the team's core, Durant is the lowest?
Durant has always been regarded as a playoff tough guy and the god of death, so everyone is more tolerant of his regular season leadership. In the past two years, Durant first played eighth in the East with Irving, shaved his head in the first round against the No. 1 seed Celtics, and then forced the Big Three with Booker and Beal to play eighth in the West, and was shaved again against the No. 1 seed in the first round.
And due to a large number of absences in the regular season, the team lacks technical and tactical training, and the combination between players has not been fixed and lacks tacit understanding, so the team's discipline is loose and the execution is extremely poor. In the playoffs between the Nets and the Suns, Durant asked for the ball in the high post in the half of the court, and then the team played around, and there was no space at all.
Why does Durant, as an elite shooter, always have space problems on his team? Why did the Nets' Big Three become a soft egg Harris? Because Durant always asks for the ball in the high post, and the threatening round that can be passed is Harris, who finds the three-point line and stands in one step.
Durant was the core, the Thunder entered the Finals and won the MVP, the top four in the regular season for three consecutive years, the Nets also had a hard performance against the Bucks, and Irving's ban brought the Nets to the top six (although he left the team later), and the most important thing is that Durant led the team to never miss the playoffs at the beginning, and I don't know why it was the worst in history
Durant's Thunder configuration is basically grown up with rookies, and it was not a giant from the beginning, Durant and the rookies grew together and finally entered the Finals, which shows that Durant is a talented core, better than most, you think about Davis Zion Beal
Let's put it this way, Duncan Kobe is too thick by Curry, James is relatively thin, but scattered, Durant has roots, roots are in Golden State, unless he goes back to Golden State to compensate Curry, shrink honestly, otherwise he will always be tongue-in, Durant is really not suitable to be the boss, he does lack leadership temperament, only in the two years when the Warriors were mercenaries to get the honor, and in addition to this, he always lacks a breath in the most difficult situation in the playoffs