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Kevin Durant's move to the Brooklyn Nets had more to do than a feeling of acceptance and the necessity of carving his own legacy in the league away from a star-studded roster. The perennial scorer noted he felt like the Golden State Warriors' offense had reached its ceiling with him in it:
Article Continues Below“The motion offense we run in Golden State, it only works to a certain point,” Durant told J.R. Moehringer of WSJ. Magazine. “We can totally rely on only our system for maybe the first two rounds. Then the next two rounds we're going to have to mix in individual play. We've got to throw teams off, because they're smarter in that round of playoffs. So now I had to dive into my bag, deep, to create stuff on my own, off the dribble, isos, pick-and-rolls, more so than let the offense create my points for me.”
Durant's tenure in the Bay Area was stellar, but marred by media speculation and the fan consternation, which he admitted made it so that “it didn't feel as great as it could have been.”
The Warriors won at otherworldly levels with Durant on the roster, but they were capable of more, had it not been for the constant distractions surrounding his impending exit. No NBA career is perfect from end to end, and Durant will have to take his the way it comes — now able to write another chapter with the Brooklyn Nets, once he has recovered from a devastating Achilles tear that ended his season during Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
