Durant joins the Rockets and will be positioned like McGrady!

Durant and McGrady have a very high similarity! Those who are also tall and long, are almost misplaced against any defender in their own position! Durant also regarded McGrady as his idol, and even when he first entered the league, the template was McGrady!

After looking at the characteristics of the two, you will know why the Rockets arranged for Durant to play as a shooting guard!

McDie is 204cm tall and averaged 30 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in the last two seasons of the Magic, winning the scoring champion for two consecutive times! His signature scoring method is to pull it off, because he has a height advantage against defenders, there is almost no solution; when facing tall defenders, he can use a quick first step to get rid of defense!

After joining the Rockets, McGrady plays as a shooting guard. The main reason was that the Rockets' backcourt was too weak at that time! First Sura, then Alstom, almost all point guards behind the league. Moreover, at that time, the Rockets had Yao Ming in the interior, and they could play strongly and have mid-range distance, allowing McGrady to play in the backcourt to hold the ball more, and his pick-and-roll tactics with Yao Ming were very powerful!

The inner and outer lines of this rocket are a bit like that of the past!

Durant is 211cm tall and can shoot strongly against almost any defensive player. Although he is 36 years old this season, he can still average 26.6 points, 6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, shooting percentage of 52.7% and three-point shooting percentage as high as 43%!

Looking at the current Rockets lineup, the forward line is terrible, and there are also All-Star inside players like Shin Kyung, but the backcourt is very weak.

Van Vleet and Amen have the ability to start in the backcourt, but Van Vleet's offense is very abstract and Amen's three-pointer has not been developed yet. So it is very likely that Durant will play the shooting guard and Amen will play the striker during the offense. As long as Shin Kyung practices the mid-range, Durant and Shin Kyung's pick-and-rolls are definitely unsolvable!

Durant's offensive positioning will be very similar to McGrath's back then. He holds the ball more and plays pick-and-roll, but his organizational ability will be a little worse than McGrath's.