He had an off night as the Warriors did a fantastic job contesting his shots, especially Wiggins getting right at his hands while he’s bringing the ball up, also GP2 for swarming him. Wiggins/Kuminga/GP did a great job.
He had a mini flurry at the beginning of the 4th but I didn’t even hear his name after that. Book took over the rest and closed it out.
7/22 shooting . He will get better I don’t doubt KD
Don’t think it’s a trend yet. He rarely has inefficient nights like this but he does have them.
Just an off night, and he still managed to contribute quite a lot. 10 boards and a consistent presence at the rim on defense.
We just dae playoffs KD. He shoots horribly when he gets nervous these days. Chucking up brick after brick. Suns aren’t going to the finals.
He will be fine. Particularly when Beal returns. Tonight with Beal just exposes limitations offensively nowadays in the fact his game is incredibly jumper oriented and he doesn’t get all the way to the rim with a lot of consistency these days. I also agree with u/SirThixcksAlot that he’s gonna need to take some of these 3’s that he has created for it and be more willing to let it fly. That’ll be an adjustment for him, as an off ball player, but it’ll be for the benefit of the offense and himself in the end.
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Was shocked he didn’t touch the ball in the last like 4 minutes
KD is a legend and I wish we had him 😭 so much reach, power and a great shot. He’s basically the upgraded versions of AD
Age concerns are overblown he’s been moving like this since the achilles. He’s had worse games on the nets
Legs lookin like Jell-O.
i can taste the salt from here
He will be fine. He was dominant agains the lakers a few days ago. He was just off. And the Suns while lacking chemistry still have more talent and can overcome his bad nights more this season
KDs handle has never been that great. It’s primarily why the best defenders on him have been Wade, Allen, and such. They get low, throw him off balance, and don’t let him step into shots by attacking his handle.
While he can shoot over anyone, he does so by getting to a spot while properly balanced and he likes to use a little pre-hop into the actual shot which those guys took away.
KD has lost a lot of athleticism that could overcome the poorer handle. That said, he’s not washed at all. He’ll likely continue to shoot his way back into another 50/40/90 season with no problems. It’s just going to be more of an issue in the playoffs when teams are looking to hone in on that weakness.
In light of his declining athleticism, he needs to move the ball more.
To me he just takes too many terrible shots, even for a shooter as good as KD.
Kd fine but he do need adjust cause warriors were playing him defenses would in the playoffs. Whenever Kd passed he straight and hopefully Vogel can get Kd off the ball for easy shots instead of ISOs against hard converges