[Lowlight] KD saunters up to midcourt and a 8-second violation is called
I feel like you can clip this whole second half as a low light
Like him Bricking three 3s in a row
Durant isn’t a 1st option anymore on a serious team
His ballhandling and playmaking is way too easily schemed against he should be 2nd option
He’s always needed a dominant point guard with him, even with Westbrooks flaws at least he could set up teammates and Durant.
Yeah it’s a shame he butted heads with CP3 and led the charge to swap CP3 for Beal cause that would’ve been the perfect PG for him.
Wasn’t CP3 cooked at that point?
CP3 as usual got inured
I mean he was pretty much done by then, started only 18 games for the Warriors
could be good with someone like Booker…
Westbrook, Steph, Kyrie, Harden, Booker, CP3.
The guy has played with basically half of the top 10 PG’s of all time.
He isn’t a first option but man he could still be an amazing second or third still
Bro I swear you posted this like ten times today
He’s kind of like Lebron. Lebron can still do a lot of shit if you give him that no 1 or 2nd option on the team but it really doesn’t impact winning anymore. Same thing i noticed with KD.
Hard disagree. Swap LeBron on this Rockets team and they’re way better.
Yeah, LeBron is objectively a much better playmaker. Some people with extreme recency bias might dispute that because he doesn’t get the ball that much anymore what with Luka and AR but it’s true. KD has always been a much better shooter but the playmaking is a lot worse.
That 4th quarter was atrocious basketball.
By both teams tbf
Proper cellar dwellar shit
Every time he was doubled; he gave a turnover
Checked the full clip to be sure and yeah, that was full 9 seconds. They grab the rebound at 5:01 and KD has still not crossed half court at 4:52.
Team with KD really cant score on the fucking lakers lmao shits depressing
Playoffs preview, this shit is fire (kill me)
Like 4 points by each team in 8 minutes
Nobody: give me 7 games of this
Lakers have no athleticism, Rockets have no playmaking. Perfect matchup
Our most athletic player in the team is the oldest one LMFAO
I low-key think it’s smart. He’s been such a difference maker for the Lakers by just having a motor and being able to defend.
Smart is hyper athletic on the defensive end but you never see him doing alley-oop dunks and etc. Only LeBron does that in this team, not even Ayton (who’s like the tallest guy) does it as regularly as LeBron does
Seeing that 40 year old man fly is definitely crazy. Those short bursts he still looks like a top 5 most athletic guy in the league for a few seconds
I could not believe that full dive for the ball he did at the end of the Nuggets game. That wasn’t even normal for a young NBA player to dive like that, that was a running back trying to get a touch down dive onto hardwood. Of course he rolled around afterward, but I’d probably be in pain for a week and I’m nearly a decade younger than Lebron.
But you’d rather have functional in-game athleticism provided by smart for the entire playing time rather than the occasional rim rocker by the LeGeriatric
Nobody normal prefers Smart over LeBron in any capacity buddy
Hit a big 3 down the stretch each of the last two games
What about Adou?
Well, he ain’t playing lol
Freaky athletic but spends most of his time on south bay
Definitely the most athletic player on the team (maybe slightly below Bron) but he’s a project
lol this is like the one team I think the lakers could beat in the first round
KD is having the worst game of his life right now. It’s amazing to watch.
Like, he has to be point shaving.
nah this is wat he looked like against the celtics in the playoffs a couple years ago, they realized they could hard double him and he’s bad at handling that pressure and even if he gets a pass off the rest of the team cant dont shit
“Can’t don’t shit” is my new favorite phrase
Thats all teams have to do in the playoffs. Just double kd and let the other guys try and beat you lol
KD BBIQ is not as high as I thought
He just backs up in a straight line when he’s doubled with his big ass shoes that’s a turnover
that’s why he’s a mercenary. he’s never been very good at playmaking or elevating his teammates.
I said this in a thread last week and got shit for it. Someone argued he makes other better just by “gravity”
I mean he does have it. Unfortunately gravity don’t mean shit when you can’t pass out of the trap
Well, he does, but he also needs someone who knows how to use that. Obviously Westbrook and Kyrie could. The Warriors system was it’s own thing, it was like the Steph/Klay/Drayomond Warriors + KD, rather than him being fully integrated imo
Phoenix, I felt like that first half season he did, they actually had some more balance so the rest of the team kind of used his gravity but then it all imploded the next season.
And now Houston, they just don’t have many guards, they don’t have creator/playmakers, and they don’t have a good offensive coach that can design a system to take advantage of KD’s gravity. But, I agree overall that he doesn’t necessarily make his teammates better, he just sucks in a lot of attention and gravity that gives his teammates freedom to attack the defense better and he acts as a release valve for when plays break down and you just need a bucket to bail you out. There’s a lot of mental security knowing that if you can’t crack the defense, just give it to KD and let him get to work with the remainder of the shot clock, get out of the way, and try again next time.
This is very well-put.
He’s a fine playmaker. He got triple doubles on the Warriors.
Dude I could have averaged 10 assists per game on those Warriors teams. You’re kicking passes out to Steph Curry and Peak Klay.
I’m sure there were plenty of times too where Draymond and others had the hockey assist, using KD as the connecting pass to get the ball to the scorer, but it was really set up by someone else.
He was fine on the Nets too in 2021, and averaged a high number of assists while getting doubled, with little help, so this is just hate
He’s always kinda struggled with pressure and playmaking
He can make basic reads but not advanced ones and isn’t gonna make an insane pass off of pressure most of the time
Just “hoop” bro
Even when he was in OKC, he’d just stand at the 3pt line with his hand up calling for the ball with his defender inside of his jersey. It drove me crazy.
Bro just stands at the top of the key dribbling and does nothing 🤣 like wtf
whats the opposite of clutch
Crotch?
Yeah that really was one of the crotchest plays I’ve seen this year
Choke
JR Smith
I know he had the infamous play but he was pretty clutch when he hit b2b threes in game 7
Crutch
Quiet quitting tbh.
automatic (transmission)
Choke.
Jordan Love
Lamar Jackson
Hey! He knocked out the cowgirls
LeBron
Nah it’s Patrick Ewing
KD playin like he hit the penjamin at halftime
Getoffmydickerson gonna somehow gonna find a way to blame this on jabari and segun
If anyone else did this, you know he is calling them regarded
Someone find Jabari Smith’s burner. I want to hear to retribution.
Lakers fucking clamped him. 2 assists 7 TO’s.
8 second violation, backcourt violation. Point-KD should not be a thing.
Houston coulda really used Sengun this game (obvious).
Believe it or not, a weird amount of Rockets fans think Sengun is one of the biggest issues in the team. I get it, he has been bad, but the lack of point guards has been the obvious issue.
JJ Reddick doing his X-O thing. Fully committed to the tactic.
These two teams are playing the worst 4th quarter of this season.
Its painful that it took this long for either coach to call a timeout
Tbh lakers are just missing shots. Rockets on the other hand
KD moving like Professor Farnsworth on Futurama.
Good news everyone!
I just love 8 second violations, so hawt!
wasting 8 seconds of your possession in the backcourt.. what is coaching anymore 😭😭😭
He got the ball with like 19, maybe 20 seconds on the clock what the hell happened to the previous 4
yeah I wish the clip was 5 or 6 seconds longer I wanna see what led up to this
It’s a long rebound, the passed to KD. Honestly it was semi-questionably quick whistle.
Like it was not 8 “full” seconds on a stopwatch.
interesting to watch this lowlight and blame the coach
Coach should have been screaming
Forgot to cut the gummy in half during half time
Somebody gave him the penjamin at the half
This is so KD 😭
4th Quarter was probably the worst I’ve ever seen from Durant not gonna lie, do wonder how much his teammates not being positioned properly played into some of the turnovers.
Whoever gets Houston in the first round is lucky asf
Bro had TWO points in the 2nd half, by the way.
Trash time 2pt
Sheppard can probably be a spark plug off the bench, but he is not a starting point guard in the league. The rockets know this but have no one else to help this team facilitate the offense apart from Sengun.
That Van Vleet injury was a much bigger deal than it seemed, and then they just never tried improving their PG rotation.
I was fuming like, Come on Lakers! Houston is trying to give us the wins with all these turnovers. But we can’t make shit. lol
Dude still struggles while getting doubled, we not moved by the hesi pull-ups no mo.
LeBron looks gassed.
stop giving Kevin Durant the ball!!!
we need a reel of all the turnovers there were some real funny ones. shoutout to marcus smart for that dive at the end was almost the cherry on top
Durcant stunk this game
Duraint
This and the one where he jumped backcourt with that extra step. Shit was on purpose.
Learned a new word today thanks
He Shaqtin a fool
LeOld in the corner
Get off his dickerson
He must be in a very rare group of players that have gotten a 8 second violation and a backcourt violation called in the same game.
How are you 7 feet tall and you cant cover half the court walking in eight seconds
He looked like a deer in headlights all 2nd half. He NEEDS a true PG, a playmaker and a shot creator next to him.
de’aaron fox used to always come within 0.00001 seconds of getting that 8 second violation every time up the court and it used to piss me off to no end
Every star player needs teammates that can space the floor so they don’t get doubled. I also thinks it’s unfair to call KD a second option because he turnovers the ball over a lot. He’s one of the most efficient iso players in the league while being one of best defenders in isolation defense. Though I do agree as a suns fan that KD is an insanely lazy passer. It’s literally just effort with those. He can have a very sloppy handle at times. His turnovers, lack of off ball movement, his body language(frustration), being an unlikable teammate recently, and his lack of trust with coaches nowadays have definitely been his big weaknesses
Fakest “great” of all time
There was another 8 second violation earlier they didn’t called. And this one the refs didn’t call until it ran down to 15 WTF.
I’m surprised that this has to be said.. but 24 minus 8 is 16, so when the shotclock goes below 16 (i.e. 15) then it is more than 8 seconds.
KD is washed and trash.
Sad to see him decline so quickly like this.
No, he’s just not being used right. Making him point guard doesn’t work
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