Yesterday, Kevin Durant was 34 years old.
I am a veteran.
Of course, he can still score. Last season, he could still score 29.9 points of the third highest in his average career. 20% of the attacks per game were one-on-one with the ball, 1.1 points per round.
In 2019, Durant questioned the dynamic attack of the Golden State Warriors and said that more one-on-one attacks should be used.
“The dynamic attack of Warriors is only useful to a certain extent. We can rely on this in the first two rounds of the playoffs, and the second two rounds will have to be more one-on-one.”
Subtly, after saying this, Durant had no chance to play in the second two rounds of the playoffs.
In the past summer, Warriors also proved:
Whether there are Durant-level one-on-one players in the first two rounds of the playoffs or not, they can still win.
So what is the relationship between holding the ball and winning the championship?
More subtly:
Durant was not keen on holding the ball once.
In the third grade of 2009-10 season, Durant became the youngest scoring king in history, averaging 30.1 points. But in the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers lost 2-4. Durant averaged 25 points in 21 shots in that series, with a hit rate of 35% and a three-point rate of 29%. He made 22 mistakes in six games, mainly scoring 10 free throws per game. Close the end of the First World War 23 shot 5.
Against his Metta World Peace words are very poisonous:
“Their team is very good at setting up a cover wall!”
At that time, Durant relied on long legs, big strides, high shots, and the basket of God, as well as his agile ball-free walking.
But if you play with the ball and the opposite side has the ability to catch him and not let him start, he will be terrible. In Metta World Peace 2010, he was entangled in this way.
In the next year’s Western final against Dallas, Dirk scored an average of 32 points in the shooting rate of 56%, Durant scored an average of 28 points in the shooting rate of 43%.
Dirk’s signature body is GOLDEN ROOSTER independent, and Ibaka can’t prevent it; Dallas can use Marion, a smaller size, to wrap Durant’s lower plate.
In 2012, Durant’s second scoring king, the Western semi-final rake Lakers. Durant made great progress in pulling the ball in the noodle basket that year, and he was able to destroy Ci Shiping for revenge and reach the finals.
Then in 2012, the Thunder finals lost to the hot.
The series is well known:
Durant Field average 31 points hit rate 55% Real hit rate 65%. On the opposite side, the average hit rate of LeBlanc is 47%, and the real hit rate is 56%. On the score, Durant also won.
But the hot simple 4-1 killed Thunder.
Everyone who has seen that series must have an impression:
The overall influence of LeBlanc completely controlled the game. Especially in the last three games, his back organization played Sofo Loza and Harden retreat, which was also regarded as an old revenge that his back was controlled by Kidd and even Barya the previous year.
In turn, Durant is “scoring very high, but the influence is not reflected.
In that year, the influence of the ball holding organization on the game was stronger than that of Durant.
Speaking of holding the ball……
There used to be a joke that the only one who could defend Durant was weishao.
Then, look at the data.
In the 2008-09 season, rookie New Year Wei gave Durant 115 assists, the 22nd scoring assist combination of the league.
Next year, 214, the league’s fourth. Durant is the king of scoring.
Next year, 279, league first. Durant is the king of scoring.
Next year, 171, the league’s third. Durant is the king of scoring.
Next year, 214, the second in the alliance. Durant scored second only to melon.
In the next two seasons, Wei Shao and Durant were injured one after another.
2015-16 season, 255, league first. Durant’s last season in thunder.
Durant has four scorers in total, and three of them are fed by Wei Shao.
Year after year, Wei shao→ Durant are all the leading investment groups in the alliance.
After leaving weishao, Durant had no scoring king.
Weishao’s vision before 2015 was not wide, and he could not find other teammates; But looking for Durant, it was really accurate to find one. In fact, in 2012, Wei Shao and Harden helped hold the ball, Durant scored with confidence, and Thunder reached the finals.
What if the ball holding of Wei Shao and Harden is missing?
In the 2012-13 season, Durant averaged 28 points in the regular season and hit 51%. Thunder lost to the grizzly bear in the second round of the playoffs because of Wei Shao’s injury. Durant averaged 29 points and 42 percent in the entire series, while the real hit rate was 53 percent.
He was entangled by 193cm Tony Allen.
Next year, Durant’s MVP season. Wei was less injured that year, and the most usual way of Thunder was to split the high gear of Durant and Ibaka. Durant’s ball holding ability was completely developed that year.
Durant scored an average of 30 points and hit 44 percent in the series that defeated the grizzly bear. After passing the Clippers, the Clippers once tried a strange gesture: Paul went to the opposite Durant.
Always dealing with Durant, they used Ci Shiping, Marion, Allen, and even Paul to tie his lower plate with a small man to limit his holding ball. All opponents understand. Even he was so entangled in the MVP season.
In the playoffs last season, Tatum matched Durant, making him hit 37 percent.
Probably, when Durant wants to be the host of the team, the playoffs are often not so smooth.
Durant’s own style of play and the changes he has experienced are probably:
Durant’s rookie year three-pointer 205 shot 59, of which only 4 did not eat assists.
In the second grade, 5 out of 97 three-point goals did not eat assists.
In the third grade, 29 out of 128 three-point goals didn’t eat assists.
In the 2012-13 season, 28 out of 139 three-point goals did not eat assists.
In the 2013-14 season, Durant scored 192 out of 491 3-point shots, and there were up to 85 uneaten assists.
In the last season of Thunder, he received 64 percent of the three-point assists and 52 percent of the two-point assists.
More and more balls are held.
In the last season of Thunder, Durant cut receive the ball games out of 3.6 each game-3.6 games per game in curry, which won 73 in that year.
Next year, the two are in the same team. Curry 3.4, Durant 2.9.
Next year, Curry 4, Durant 2.1.
Next year, Curry 4.8, Durant 2.1.
— At a glance: Curry is walking more without the ball, Durant is playing more with the ball.
In the two seasons of the net, Durant cut out the ball every game: 2.1 and 3.0. No ball is less and less, and more and more balls are held.
Curry has cut out no ball four times a game in the past two years-he has been using his gravity to make no ball move.
We have also seen the performance of Warriors and the Internet in the past two years.
We all know that Durant’s playoff game is killing God in the past two years from 2016 to 18. That’s why he questioned the dynamic attack system of warriors and thought it would be more one-on-one in the playoffs.
However, integrating Durant’s entire career:
The real hit rate of the regular season is 62%, and that of the playoffs is 60%.
Curry regular season 62% playoffs 61%, off topic, Curry playoffs only one year Real hit rate is lower than 59%, is his first playoff in 2013.
LeBron regular season 59%, playoffs 58%.
Jordan regular season 57%, playoffs 57%.
Dirk 58% and 58%.
Harden 61% and 59%.
Yorkich 62% and 61%.
Durant’s career is only three years in the playoffs, and the real hit rate in the playoffs is higher than that in the regular season:
2012, 2017, and 2019. In 2012, the team’s hosts were weishao and harden.
In 2017 and 2019, he had Curry and the whole Warrior system behind him.
Probably, this is the case:
When Durant was the first scoring king, he was quite keen on taking the position without the ball; But the later his career, the more he wanted to hold the ball and play by himself.
When the team has a player to share the task of holding the ball for him, Durant will be able to play a career masterpiece, such as entering the finals in 2012, such as winning the championship in 2017.
But when he took the right to hold the ball himself, the team did not go too far.
After winning the two champions in 2017 and 2018, Durant felt that the chuanche system could not play the playoffs, so he should hold the ball one by one.
But Cole said a quip:
“I think the 2016-17 season, the season Kevin just came, is our real peak; We attack well every year, but that year, we combined the team’s system well with his outstanding one-on-one, which was the peak of our attack.”
In Durant’s regular season that year, 16% of the attacks were one-on-one with the ball, and 26% in the playoffs.
But as we all know, Durant will hold more goals in the playoffs of the 2017-18 season next year. The result is that the playoff game in 2017 averaged 29 points hit 56 percent, and the next year averaged 29 points hit 49 percent.
In 2018, Cole once criticized the team’s transfer ball without naming.
A year later, Durant said, “after the two rounds of the playoffs, there will be more one-on-one”.
In other words, what is the reason for making a scoring king who once had no ball to take the place outstanding, become a person who is keen to hold the ball one-on-one?
In the autumn of 2012, LeBlanc, Ritz-Carlton in Phoenix, said something to SI:
“I know someone is trying to take my place. He is in Oklahoma. He tried to go in my direction.”
From entering to 2012, Durant’s average assists were 2.4, 2.8, 2.8, 2.7, 3.5-this year he won the third scoring king and lost to Brown in the finals. In that series, he scored and won the whole series, but the whole series was dominated by the control of the system.
Next year, Durant assists 4.6, 5.5, 4.1, 5, 4.8, 5.4……
But the passing error also changed from 91 in the previous year to 119, 123, 133……
More balls.
It seems that this is it.
Durant’s strength is the almost unique combination of figure + movement + basket in basketball history. Relying on this, he had already won three scores before he was 24 years old.
However, after losing to LeBlanc in the 2012 finals, he began to ask for more rights to hold the ball and tried to lead the attack more.
But when you look back at him at the age of 34, you will find:
The examples of 2012, 2017 and 2018 all prove that Durant can win when he is satisfied with being a scoring Arrow, “combining the team’s system with his outstanding one-on-one.
However, when he tried to hold the ball in a big bag, the situation seemed not so wonderful.
Jordan had an average of 8 assists in the season, and less than 4 assists in the last championship.
Curry has a season with an average of 8.5 assists in the past two years, with an average of 6 assists in the past two years. It’s not that they don’t pass the ball, but they basically reduce the ball holding to help the team system operate.
In the two years when Stockton lost his assistant, jazz entered the 1997 and 1998 finals, a truth.
Durant was a born scorer, trying to do the work of the organizer.
This was good, and it was definitely not a bad thing to be comprehensive. But his talent is not organized.
His vision can’t let him see all his teammates at any time and can’t support him as an excellent organizer.
Finally, “the first two rounds were played by the system, and the second two rounds were played by one-on-one”. From a player who was willing to actively walk without the ball, he became keen on holding the ball.
Many of his people came here like this.
Where is the origin?
As mentioned above, LeBlanc had already said in 2012 that he knew Durant wanted to take his own route.
In 2013, Durant himself said:
“I have been second child all my life. The second best player in high school, the second in the draft conference, the second in the MVP vote three times, and the second in the finals (referred to as 2012). I am tired of being the second.”
And:
“I don’t look at other people’s videos very much, but I look at LeBlanc’s data sheet, and I want to see how many scoring rebounds he has helped…… Yogueta took 30 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists. I can tell you how he got it and what kind of basket he threw.”
Now looking back at the finals of 2012 ten years ago, maybe when LeBlanc won the championship with his ball holding-the last two 25 assists in the finals-Durant, who had already won three scores at that time, he has decided his later style of play-and his own destiny ten years later?
