[Highlight] Kevin Durant sees a double team and runs backward into a backcourt violation.
Lakers spammed this defensive adjustment on durant the entire quarter and ime udoka and his yes men couldn’t even come up with anything to counter? Is ime mean mugging just so people would think he has something going on between his ears?
Nah, Alpi is the problem, surely the team isn’t cooked at all with a horrible coach and horrible locker room vibes while rushing your young star to play injured and make the injury even worse. :)
I was expecting him to play this game tbh
“let’s force a KD iso play but not make the Lakers defenders respect us cos we positioned ourselves to have no threat”
i was genuinely disgusted at how inept their positioning was
Imes a little overrated imo. His team plays hard defense not him.
Bro saw AR and he panicked lol
Austin “Cocaine Polar Bear” Reaves
Snow time!
Foreal though. You would have thought AR was Jason the way KD froze up in the 2nd half.
As he should. AR played a great defensive game. He had 4 steals, drew charges, etc.
Cavs should have doubled him instead of Steph on those finals
“But he’s 7ft, he can easily shoot over them or pass out of it unlike steph”
He was still capable of torching double teams back then. He has neither the explosiveness nor the handle to escape or pass out of those situations consistently anymore. In 2017⁄18, he could much more fluidly transition from a dribble to a pass and was more comfortable self-creating space to shoot.
The explosiveness was there but his handle and passing has always been suspect in those situations. He struggled against the Warriors in quite a similar fashion in 2016, same with the Spurs and Grizzlies in 2014.
KD now and KD during his Warriors years is two very different players tho
shoes too big
its becoming a real problem
Wouldn’t have happened if he was wearing heels
I thought backcourt violation was when the ball crosses the line. We saw Lebrons body cross the line just a few weeks ago and nothing was called
No
That backcourt line is treated like an out of bounce for the offensive possession. If you touch the line while having the ball it’s out. You can hang over it but if you’re not touching out then it’s a live ball.
AR’s aura got him to back up fr
He’s him, after all
The “I’m the best player in any LA Fitness pickup game” aura
Also lack of movemebt by the other Rockets player is noticeable.
One is jogging towards the paint, no screen, no nothing.
It’s like they let him ISO on the double team.
They know the ball ain’t coming to them and if it is it’ll be a terrible floater pass
“Ball movement is contagious, good or bad” is one of the youth coaching cliches that holds true at every level.
Austin used the move intimidate. It was highly effective.
Dickerson twitter gonna be lit
It’s Alperen’s fault…
I mean, between this and the backcourt violation, I feel like the main question is why are the rockets having KD bring the ball up the court so much.
Getoffmydickerson about to post tonight.
Lmao weak sauce right there…
Spurs set the blueprint for guarding KD, early this season. Can’t believe the Rockets have won as many games as they have. Double and pester KD and he will turn the ball over.
Those tweets fucked that team up
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The hardest road.
Preordering the next kd jersey ahead of time
Just like he did scared 10 years back.
shoud be lowlights
This has to be the worst set of lowlights Kevin Durant has ever collected in a single game and you can include failing to send the Warriors home when he was up 3-1.
Is this even a backcourt? I see guys with their entire body behind the line go uncalled all the time…why was it suddenly called so quickly? I think it is when he pulls the ball behind his head to pass that the ball goes backcourt. It’s just odd to see it called right for once when I’m used to it not being like that in so many games.
Once you go past the line, you can’t go back and step on it unless possession is lost.
Learned this from Book
he was so scared LMFAO what a little bitchhhh
I thought the rule was the ball needed to go all the way over the line?
No it’s treated like the out of bounds sideline. Player just has to make contact with the line while in possession of the ball
Based on the two clips I’ve seen, I feel like the refs really decided to call this stuff tight, tonight.
I dunno if that’s cuz KD was giving them opportunities to do so all game or what, but there are a lot of times when refs wouldn’t bother calling something like this