Beal has been injured this season, Booker has been on and off again, Durant is once again leading the team single-handedly, and this time it is the defending champion Nuggets.
It is commonplace for Durant to lead the team with a single core, the professionalism is not to say, and the personal data is extremely good, but it is difficult for Durant to lead the team with a single core to bring victory to the Suns. Counting the loss against the Nuggets, Durant has lost 5 of the 8 games led by the team this season, which is indeed a slap in the face of Durant. Durant has the heart to win, which everyone can see, but the problem is that today's Durant is no longer the Durant who can turn on the Grim Reaper mode all over the court.
Durant's battle against the Nuggets is a good example, at the beginning of the game, Durant's personal firepower output was very fierce, and he led the team to wrestle with the Nuggets with his own strength, showing his own scoring means, and even contributed a variety of fairy balls, although the Nuggets were also very fierce, but the Nuggets led by Durant withstood the Nuggets' firepower output in the first three quarters, and in the final quarter of the tiebreaker, Durant's personal offense began to be dumb, and the decline in physical strength obviously affected its offensive efficiency.
Durant began to play iron continuously in the last quarter, and the offensive efficiency continued to decline, Durant became helpless in the face of the Nuggets' defense, and Durant could not score any more goals that could be scored, which made the Nuggets easily take away the victory. Durant began to drop the chain at the end of the quarter, this kind of thing has happened more than once, Durant's physical problems are very serious, and it is unknown whether the return of Beal and Booker can improve Durant's problems, if not, the Suns will be ruined.
Durant also set a personal milestone in this game, successfully ranking among the top 10 in the NBA's all-time scoring list, which is also a big achievement. For Durant, these achievements don't seem to have much significance, he cares more about competing for the championship, otherwise he won't join the team, and he still chooses a team that has not won a championship to join. However, there can only be one championship in a season, and Durant can't seem to afford to delay any season.
Finally, I have to talk about Vogel's coach, as a defensive coach and a coach who led the team to win the championship, his use of Durant is obviously worse, but Vogel doesn't seem to have a way, the Suns' situation is similar to the original Lakers, Beal and Mustard are constantly injured, Vogel wants to win, then he can only use Durant, Vogel has almost no use of any protection for Durant, if he is injured, he can only regret it.