Multiple times during Sunday night’s broadcast of the Warriors’ game against the Detroit Pistons, Jim Barnett — NBC Sports Bay Area’s color commentator and a certified national treasure — observed multiple times that Kevin Durant — widely considered to be the deadliest and most proficient scorer in the league — opted multiple times not to score and instead look for teammates to pass to, in an obvious attempt to keep the ball moving around instead of stagnating into an isolation possession.
Durant did this multiple times, despite the fact that he garnered mismatches on much-smaller players such as Ish Smith, and also against bigger and slower defenders like Thon Maker.