Durant’s first Sun show was extremely relaxed. Despite the limit of playing time, he still easily scored 23 points, helping Suns 105-91 easily win Wasps.
Although the strength varies greatly, this is Durant’s first scene in the sun, which has attracted much attention. After watching it, Trey young sighed, “Durant is really in the Suns.”
This sentence can be interpreted in a variety of ways: first, Durant finally left the East, is it relieved or lost? Second, Durant finally went to the West. He couldn’t believe it was true until he really put on the Sun jersey. Third, in the West, who can really defend Durant?
Durant’s first show, opposite to him, was Hayward, which was obviously much shorter in size. His first shot was a jump shot on the free throw line, facing Hayward’s basket. His second shot came from okogi’s front rebound after the dunk failed. Booker grabbed the hand and gave it to Paul, while Paul gave it to Durant who followed him conveniently, facing the unexpected center Mark Williams, Durant easily transported several layups and wiped the board with his left hand.
This is Durant’s first goal on behalf of the Suns, with 26686 points in his career. How long will he play here? How many points will you get in the Suns shirt? Will he still be here at the end of his career? These problems depend on whether there is civil defense in the West.
Owen and Durant reinvested in the West, suddenly changing the pattern of the West, especially Durant teamed up with Paul and Booker, which greatly increased the chances of the Suns winning the championship. Without mentioning Paul and Elton, the power of dub alone is unimaginable horror.
After playing the Hornets, he lost three goals reimbursed for the season on the opposite side. His strength had fallen to the end. Durant only played 26 minutes 50 seconds, shot 10 out of 15, and only fined one ball, which can be described as have a try. Hayward, who was opposite to him, was badly injured and the size was short. Ubrey, who was in the substitute link, had nothing to do with him.
When Paul gave the ball to Durant for the second time, he only faced Hayward. There was no one around him for three meters, but he hesitated, returned the ball to Paul, and poured it to Booker on the other side, let him and ubray one-on-one.
After the game, Durant admitted that before the first show came, there was a kind of inexplicable tension in his heart: after all, it was a new environment and a new teammate, fearing that he could not play well and could not integrate with his teammates. Therefore, Durant did not attack fiercely. After the first section, he played less than 6 minutes and scored 5 points in 2 out of 4. In addition to scoring easily, he also built the hat of the young center of the other side, and scored for his brother-in-law in the low position.
Coach Monty intended Durant to start the first belt rotation group in the second quarter. The four people around him were substitutes, namely Payne, brother-in-law, Wayne Wright and center Landale. In the face of wasp’s joint defense, Durant easily threw the second three-pointer in this game without being watched.
Next, the wasp changed the area to keep an eye on him. On the basis of joint defense, it only needed one single stop. The wasp was relieve a garrison by the substitute center Richard, Durant rose up and hit two points with his textbook jump shot. Then he and his teammates returned to the back court. Durant stood in front of the defense and directly prevented the wasp into a 24-second violation. When Paul and Elton came back, Durant’s defense became Dennis Smith. Looking at his short opponent, Durant scored two points again. In the second section, Durant 4 scored 7 points in 3.
Durant, Booker and Elton scored 12 points in the whole first half. From such fire distribution, we can see ease and modesty. Once Booker picked Paul up to pass the ball, and he looked towards the weak side, looking for something-obviously, he was looking at Durant.
Interestingly, Durant played for 6 minutes and always put himself on the weak side without balls. He stood idly by and passed the ball to his hand. He also transferred away and had no desire to attack. It was Booker. When he saw Durant didn’t cooperate, he attacked boldly. In this section, Booker scored 17 points in 6 out of 10, while Durant only shot once, scoring 2 points.
But in the fourth quarter, Durant was slightly Released. 4 out of 6 scored 9 points, and Booker scored 8 points for 5 shots.
Monty controlled Durant’s playing time according to the requirements of the team doctor, which should not exceed 30 minutes. The next few opponents, the bull and the Thunder were not strong. The Mavericks would compete with Owen, which was a tough battle against the king.
Hayward, ubray, and Dennis Smith, who have been protected by hornets, are not the same size as Durant, but young green hair Jones is OK. He is 211 tall and has strong athletic ability, durant was prevented in the fourth quarter. But in the face of this young sophomore, Durant jumped up and fell into the ground. Kay Jones made Durant hit 2+1.
Booker and Durant joined hands, and the horror was like Owen and his partner. In the first battle, because Durant was very modest, Booker scored 37 points in 15 of 26, and the opponent did not dare to attack. This was Durant’s hidden role. On the other hand, the opponent did not dare to attack Durant, and he could ignore most defenders in the league.
Durant is proficient in everything the 18 martial arts, but what kills most is middle distance jump shot. In today’s basketball trend, the middle distance jumper has been abandoned by many coaches because big data in the last five seasons show that the average score of each output of the middle distance jumper is 0.84 points, the average score of each shot is 1.08 points, and the average score of each shot within three seconds is 1.17 points. In this way, middle distance is an inefficient means.
But Durant is different. This season, he has an average output of 1.24 points per shot in the middle distance jump, which is 50% higher than the league average and more efficient than Thompson’s three points per shot. And beside him, there are two middle distance jumper Masters Booker and Paul — in the past five years, only four NBA players have scored more than 1,000 two-point jump shots, Durant, Booker, paul and drozan. Now, the top three are coming together.
The difficulty of preventing Durant lies in that the defenders must combine defense techniques with height and size. They are not good enough and have to grow tall. So, who else in the West can stand in front of Durant in the playoffs?
In the Nuggets, Durant’s defense should be Dunk King Gordon, 203 tall and very strong. Now he has Codeville Pope around him to deal with Booker, so Durant is Gordon. It can be said that against Durant and Booker at the same time, the Nuggets have the best conditions.
The grizzly bear is also strong in defense, especially on the outside line. It is usually Dillon Brooks who prevents strikers, and Bain will defend Booker. But Dillon is only 201 tall, and the size is seriously insufficient. Adams and JJJ are tall but move too slowly. Tillman is athletic but easy to fall. Durant should be more sure to deal with grizzly bears.
The King is a fast force, but there are not enough Masters 3 and 4 in the defense. The newcomer Kegan Murray has arms but is not tall enough. Barnes and Murray are 203, the remaining Davis is too short and Lyles is too slow. In short, the king had no choice to deal with Durant.
The Warriors were even more short of people. After using Looney to deal with Elton, Durant could only give it to his old friend to pursue his dream. If Durant takes the rotation group, he can only be handed over to cuminga.
It seems that the Clippers will not be fixed with a certain person to entangle Durant, but arrange Xiao Mo, George and Leonard to take turns to defend, and the effect will not be very good.
The Mavericks’s lineup is no longer defensive, nor can they find a match with Durant. Maybe Luca can only play in person. It was in the Timberwolves, the younger brother of Mike Daniels, Jayden, who was tall and athletic enough.
As for the Lakers, Durant is no other than Puge. Don’t argue with him.
How far the Suns can go has a lot to do with the performance of these opponents, but it seems that they will perform very well. There should be only one or two. Who will they be?