Kevin Durant says the Suns need Grayson Allen to keep shooting

Kevin Durant says the Suns need Grayson Allen to keep shooting

And right now joining us for the CarMax conversation is Kevin Durant he led all scores with 35 points tonight a second straight 35-point performance to match that jersey number you’re rocking KD congrats on the victory just take us through what it took to beat these Raptors tonight yeah this is a Brazilian

Young team who even though their record doesn’t show it they going to play hard until the end um so we knew they was going to make some runs and that’s what they did they made a few runs and got back into the game but I think we had

Control level for the most part Kevin you’ve got on some great runs in your career scoring wise have you seen anything Grayson Allen has done in the past two nights uh eight of eight to start it in Denver seven of eight to start this uh game tonight yeah I mean

He’s uh you know he’s an incredible shooter with that plays with a lot of confidence and uh I think previous you know before the last two games um he he hasn’t been getting a lot of shots up um so he came out in Denver game and wanted

To be aggressive and it just LED over until tonight so we’re going to need that from G as much as possible um that aggression um downhill Drive into the rim but also knocking down that three and playing defense as well so I I love this game tonight another guy that’s

Doing a lot of those same things you warned us about because you played with him in Brooklyn Royce O’Neal what have you felt about him stepping into the starting lineup you got you don’t have book these last couple games but he’s filled the role hasn’t he yeah man he’s

Uh I mean it’s hard you can’t feel those shoes um but he came in and did his uh and did his best on both ends of the floor we asking a lot of them he had to guard joic and Jamal Murray down the stretch last game and tonight he having

To guard five guard uh uh Emanuel quickly you know so we asking a lot of him he making the right play six assists no turnovers and knocking down the three so we going to need that from him great run Kevin thanks for spending some times

With us and uh keep it rolling big fella yes sir I appreciate you Kevin Durant tonight 35 points he hit 11 of his 19 field goals two for five from deep and 11 of 12 from the free throw line and the Suns get the win 120 113 the final

Tonight over the Toronto Raptor

Kevin Durant stopped by to talk postgame on Arizona Sports about the Suns win over the Raptors.

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