Kevin Durant’s recent interview with J.R. Moehringer of the Wall Street Journal broke the internet. It provided ammo to your favorite neighborhood hot-take artists for weeks on end (and gave birth to my best piece to date). One quotation particularly set the net ablaze. When discussing the offense of his former Bay Area team, Durant expressed frustrations with head coach Steve Kerr’s system.
“The motion offense we run in Golden State, it only works to a certain point. We can totally rely on our system for maybe the first two rounds. Then the next two rounds we’re going to have to mix in individual play.