Nets vs. Celtics: Boston is strangling Kevin Durant, whose split-second lapse in Game 1 now looms even larger
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K.D. shot 4 for 17, including 0 for 10 in the second half, in Brooklyn's Game 2 loss Wednesday
Kevin Durant is indefensible. This is what we've all been told. The media says it (myself included). Coaches say it. His fellow players say it. There is supposedly nothing you can do with an elite shooter with guard skills who is seven feet tall with a skyscraper release point. They all say the same thing: All you can do is try to make it tough on the guy.
On Wednesday, the Boston Celtics made it more than tough on Durant. They made his life a living hell en route to a 114-107 Game 2 victory over the Brooklyn Nets to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
You won't often see Durant legitimately bothered by a defender, even multiple defenders, but it turns out, he is defensible. Sure, you have to have the Celtics' personnel to pull it off, which no other team in the league has, and that personnel has to devote itself almost entirely to stopping one man, and the officials have to let the game become extremely physical, which only happens in the playoffs ... but here K.D. is in the postseason, against the Celtics, who are almost entirely dedicated to stopping one man, and so far it's actually working.
