The Sun beat the Clippers 4-1 to advance, and today’s 50 points in the third quarter are extremely brilliant:

Booker scored 25 points and Durant scored 13 points. The two led the big counterattack.

The Clippers caught up to the end, but the decisive moment-there were more than 2 minutes left. The ships were 2 points behind, and weishao fought back and threw in the basket. Booker also got his 47th point after chasing and jumping; after that, Durant pulled the 4-point basic lock game with a counterattack and layup, and the game would be over if Wei Shao failed again.

Booker scored 47 points in the second playoff game-the last time was the first round of eliminating the Lakers two years ago.

Plus today’s first round of elimination of clippers, “Booker, first round, Los Angeles, elimination, 47″…… Okay.

The TNT live studio also said that this was the sixth game 40 + of Booker’s solar career playoffs, surpassing Barkley.

Barkley: “What?”

Shark: Congratulations Devon, you have surpassed a big ass!”

Booker scored 37 points and 6 assists per 24 free throws in the first round, with a real hit rate of 70% and a usage rate of 29%.

Durant scored 28 points and 6 assists in 17 free throws and 9 free throws in the first round, with a real hit rate of 68% and a usage rate of 23%.

Booker played very well and could compete for the most brilliant performance of the Sun Young Pioneer Team History series together with Nash’s revenge Dallas in 2005 and Barkley’s fierce hit on rookie Weber in 1994.

But this is also rare: Durant is not the team’s scoring champion in a series.

In the fourth quarter of today, when the sun took a big lead, Durant basically didn’t receive the ball for about 7 minutes.

Durant’s playoff usage over the years, with a minimum of 28% and 23% in this series.

Durant’s career has never shot less than 18 in playoff games over the years-the lowest was in the Warriors in 2016-17, and he shot 18 baskets in 36 minutes per game. Durant played 43 minutes per game in this series, but only threw 17 baskets……

In other words, Durant was not the team’s chief attacker in a series?

There are also.

The last time he was healthy and the shooting usage rate in the series was not the first in the team, but the 2018 finals.

The last time was to play Spurs in the 2017 Western finals.

Before that, it was thunder career: 2016 hit Spurs, 2014 hit the grizzly bear; It is worth mentioning: 2012 Thunder Finals hit hot, previously played Spurs and Dallas, weishao had more rights than him: at that time, Thunder played pure talent ball, weishao was still rampaging blindly, and the team had to rely on the rhythm of Harden town stadium…… Time is far away.

But in the double backcourt of the Sun, Paul and Booker are obviously not the player of weishao in 2012.

It is said that the sun threw the family away bridges for Durant, and there was no possibility that coach Monty did not want to give Durant the tactics and Paul and Booker did not want to give Durant the ball.

After today’s game, coach Monty said Booker’s prestige in the third quarter, “when he played this state, we would not specifically call tactics.”

When looking at Booker’s interview and talking about Durant, I understood a little:

“When he stands there, he generates gravity, opening up space for everyone; I hate to let him stand in the corner to see, but other teams will not empty him.”

So it turns out……

The first four games of the Clippers series in 2023:

When Booker was present, Durant hit 64%; When Booker was away, Durant 78%……

Whether Booker is present or not has no influence on Durant, how to fight or how to fight.

When Durant was present, Paul’s real hit rate was 46%, while in absence, 33%.

When Booker and Durant are in the same field, the real hit rate is 70%; When different fields are in the same field, the hit rate is 50%.

The playoff sample is too small, and it is more interesting to watch the regular season:

During the regular season, when Durant was away, Booker hit 68 percent; When Durant was around, Booker hit 79 percent.

Gravity?

The third game between the sun and the Clippers, Booker 45 points, the fourth quarter is like this:

Before Durant played, Booker made a 15-foot pitch and a three-point pitch.

After Durant played, Booker made 5 of 6 shots in the penalty area in the last half-the Clippers placed a small ball array, Durant opened the space again and the penalty area was empty.

Gravity?

In the third quarter of today, Booker scored 25 points out of 10 and Durant scored 13 points out of 4 out of 6.

Specific play: Durant pulled the air arch top, Booker faced Powell’s breakthrough, Gordon watched him wipe his body, no block, just stretched his left hand to touch the air, to avoid Booker passing to Durant.

Booker shot far behind the backboard.

Durant blocked Wei Shao, Booker fought back successfully, and then Paul Long passed to Booker to fight back and lay down the basket.

Durant hollowed out at the left bottom corner. Booker called the horn position double cover, one to get rid of the CIC.

Then two catch-up shots were shot, and then fengshui ball passed through the pinch shot, 95 to 86.

Durant pulled out Mann at the left bottom corner and Booker directly broke into the empty restricted area to dunk.

So, is Booker and the Sun team using Durant’s gravity?

Of course, in addition to using Durant’s gravity, there may be another reason for Booker to play the main role.

In the third quarter of today, Durant cut out to get rid of Gordon and broke through the loss in the face of zubatz: this is his only shot in the penalty area in this section.

After that, facing Wei Shao and Gordon, Durant made a strong vote of two arch top death, and won one; Called Elton cover, one-on-one Gordon, freethrow line hit three points, and the Sun surpassed

At the end of the third quarter, Booker was attacked, Durant followed the long pass bottom angle to shoot 100 to 86; In the third quarter pressure tail, Durant faced Batum and shot in archery on horseback.

Durant’s 13 points in the third quarter basically come from peripheral jump shots.

Booker made 8 out of 9 shots in the basket today, and 12 out of 17 shots in the penalty area.

Durant shot 4 in the basket and 7 in the penalty area-he can enter the basket, but not so often.

Today, he only threw two baskets in the fourth quarter: One was that the attack ran out, the ball was in his hand, and the other was a backward shooting ending; The other was that the last minute was only 2 points ahead, he followed up with a layup lock.

Durant cast the first 55%+40%+90% shooting season in NBA history in this season’s regular season, with no dead angle of horror efficiency.

In every second-point shot he holds the ball, the league has the most-only DeRozan can compare with him slightly-at the same time, the hit rate is 60%, and the fault is ahead of other Chinese investment Masters:

48% of drozan, 45% of Ingram, 52% of Booker, 51% of Leonard.

Yes, Durant is the overwhelming coach this season.

But he shot 83 goals in the basket in 47 games this season-320 goals in 81 games in his MVP season.

His number of internal shots is at the same level as ollinick, dorsun mu and Croal.

More intuitive comparison:

In the first season of warriors, Durant launched 215, dunk 135, jump shot 934 in 45%, effective hit rate of 53%.

In the last season of warriors, Durant launched 195, dunk 143, jump shot 1280, hit 47%, effective hit 53%.

This season Durant layup 79, dunk 40, jump shot 803, 53%, effective hit rate 59%.

That is to say, although Durant can still score 29 points on average with unprecedented efficiency, he is shooting with perfection, make up for the other things he lost-he could still reach the end of the basket, but it took too much effort, especially now the whole league is mixing his lower plate with a small man (this is still the head of Paul and Tony Allen in 2014); For him, China investment is more labor-saving than aggressive.

In this way, it can be understood:

This method of the Sun-using Durant’s gravity to make Booker free to attack, give Durant strength to play the key round-it is wise for a 34-year-old striker who has played 137 games on and off in the past four years.

In 2017, Curry’s gravity allowed Durant to attack freely.

In 2023, Durant’s gravity allowed Booker to attack freely.

-Coach Monty calculated like this, probably?