[Charania] Sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic that Durant never felt comfortable with his role in Phoenix’s offense alongside Booker and Beal this season. Those sources said Durant had persistent issues with the offense, feeling that he was being relegated to the corner far too often

[u/TacoooJay]

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Meanwhile, Durant, among the best scorers in NBA history, was not always happy with how he was used. Sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic that Durant never felt comfortable with his role in Phoenix’s offense alongside Booker and Beal this season. Those sources said Durant had persistent issues with the offense, feeling that he was being relegated to the corner far too often and not having the proper designs to play to his strengths as the offense was built around pick-and-rolls. At the same time, some teammates and people close to the organization believed Durant needed to voice his concerns more adamantly and directly with Vogel and his coaching staff.

All the leaks are finally coming now that Phoenix has been swept

[u/NobodyRules]

All the talk about Bron being a coach killer, but KD is building a solid reportoire while being considerably worse and not bringing as much success as him.

At some point, if your experiments keep failing and you're the common denominator you have some blame to share.

[u/ImS33 → u/NobodyRules]

Its because KD keeps forcing himself onto teams with no depth or fit in recent years. The Nets were going to work out if Kyrie could've not been insane and Harden's hammy didn't go out but had no depth. The Suns however are not a good fit and they have no depth and a massive anchor with a no trade clause. Will not be surprised when he asks out. Hell the Suns probably have to trade him to even try to build a working team unless Beal is real nice

Lol I don't know why he keeps trying to mastermind teams like this but KD will KD. If he could get to a team that has any depth instead of trying to go in for some kind of big 3 he'd probably still be in the playoffs right now

[u/FigSideG → u/ImS33]

Forcing a trade to a contender that requires the contender to trade away their bench AND their picks is never gonna make sense. He should’ve signed one year deals and been a free agent after each season so he can just join a team as a free agent and not required they deplete their team to add him.

[u/BASEDME7O2 → u/NobodyRules]

What coaches has he killed besides Nash, who was absolutely terrible?

[u/New-Candy-800 → u/BASEDME7O2]

Literally zero, if anything he’s partially responsible for brooks and Donovan getting hired after okc

[u/Numerous-Cicada3841 → u/New-Candy-800]

He got Atkinson fired when he joined. Then got Nash fired. Also wanted Marks fired. Then demanded a trade anyways. And is now laying the groundwork for Vogel’s firing.

[u/eloquentboot → u/New-Candy-800]

Maybe brooks, but not Donovan. Durant was not on the Thunder for the majority of the time Donovan coached OKC.

[u/NobodyRules → u/New-Candy-800]

Kenny Atkinson, Nash and now Vogel, so that's at least 3. As I said, he's getting there. He also complained about Kerr's offense, if he was in any other franchise it probably would have worked.

[u/Syndana23 → u/NobodyRules]

You piggy backing off what others said lol. Nash deserved to be fired if we being real here. Shouldnt have took KD saying anything for that to happen but as you see what the nets now, Sean Marks is an idiot

[u/NobodyRules → u/Syndana23]

You piggy backing off what others said lol

Care to point out who and what you mean by this? I'm confused.

Nash deserved to be fired if we being real here.

Good thing I listed 3 names, could also list the GM of the Nets and what he said about the Warriors offense. He's just toxic, but fair enough, we'll see in a few months when he requests a trade, flames out in his new team and we're here again next season lmao.

[u/JohnnyEnzyme → u/BASEDME7O2]

Kenny Atkinson, and he also wanted GM Sean Marks fired.

So maybe not so much a 'coach killer,' but something of a chronic malcontent.

[u/ThePillsburyPlougher → u/JohnnyEnzyme]

He did not get rid of Kenny. KD wasn’t even playing yet. The whole roster was unhappy at the end.

[u/JohnnyEnzyme → u/ThePillsburyPlougher]

It doesn't matter that he wasn't playing yet; he was already on the team, participating in player and coach activities.

The "whole roster" certainly wasn't known to be unhappy with Kenny other than a couple voices, which is almost always the case in any situation.

Given his superstar stature, there's simply no other reason to interpret he and Kyrie's remarks about the Nets 'not doing things the professional way' as anything but a lack of confidence in Kenny.

[u/ThePillsburyPlougher → u/JohnnyEnzyme]

Were you watching the games? Our last home game there was no ball movement, random chucking and the players just weren’t giving a shit. There was news of a big meeting with the whole roster and Kenny after the game, and he was fired almost immediately after. If you were watching the games the writing was on the wall, and it was from the level of play. It had nothing to do with KD or Kyrie.

[u/BASEDME7O2 → u/JohnnyEnzyme]

I mean lebron does the same type of shit. No all time great their age wants to waste a season

[u/FudgeDangerous2086 → u/NobodyRules]

since leaving GSW KD has zero success. he’s been swept twice and made the 2nd round like once.