Durant came into Monday leading the NBA in points (747) and, unfortunately for the Nets, minutes logged (922).
Kevin Durant is posting MVP-caliber numbers despite getting little help from the rest of the Nets.“It’s not ideal,” Vaughn said recently. “While we’re in the win-now mode, win today’s game, we are behind the scenes talking about what the stretch looks like beyond tomorrow, beyond the next day. So it is on our minds.”
It’s easy for Durant’s stellar campaign to get lost on the national stage due to both the Nets’ middling 13-12 mark as well as because of the red-hot starts of stars like Jayson Tatum and teams like the Celtics, to whom the Nets lost Sunday night. Sunday, the Celtics — even without top defenders Marcus Smart and Robert Williams III — played Durant more straight-up through three quarters, albeit selling out on his drives and crowding the paint. But in the fourth quarter, they pulled out the blitz, doubling Durant and giving the other Nets open looks. “That’s why the game in so interesting, right?” Vaughn said philosophically. “[The] previous years they double-teamed him.
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