Rebounding is key to bouncing back in Game 4.

Kevin Durant is on a tear right now. An alltime tear. The kind of tear that makes people re-calibrate their thoughts on who the best player in the NBA is.

Since he decided it was important to remind people that he’s Kevin Durant ahead of Game 3 of the Warriors’ first-round series, the Slim Reaper has averaged a stupefying 39 points, five rebounds, five assists, a steal, and a block per game on 5¼4/91 shooting.

In that seven-game stretch, Durant has posted a 50, 46, and 45-point games.

The Warriors have lost two of those games.

That’s malpractice — brought on by lax defensive efforts (in which Durant is complicit) and a lack of offensive help from the team’s other stars, Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry. And if the Warriors are to reach a fifth-straight NBA Finals, Saturday’s Game 3 loss must be the Warriors’ last wasted effort of such a transcendent offensive performance from Durant.

But in that blinding skill and collective failure to capitalize, there is also illumination into Durant’s evolution as a player, the Warriors’ continued struggles with identity three years into the KD era, and the nature of the game itself.

Let’s not forget what started all of this — what sparked this incredible run of form.

In printable terms, it was a sense of “forget you”.

Durant spent the final weeks of the regular season facilitating, playing point guard and helping the Warriors’ offense find its groove before the postseason started. He dished out 7 assists per contest while attempting 21 percent of the team’s field goals (and only 17 percent of its 3-pointers). With Durant in that role, the Warriors won nine of their final 11 games to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.

So Durant didn’t change his game for the playoffs. But after taking only eight shots in the Warriors’ Game 2 loss to the Clippers the criticism came in waves.

Since then, coincidence or not, Durant is taking 32 percent of the Warriors’ shots and 51 percent of the team’s free-throws. In that, he’s taking what the defense is giving him, but seeing as he is unguardable, that means he’s able to take anything he wants.

This is him asserting his dominance in a way we simply have not seen before. It’s spectacular.

No one knows how long this insane run will last because it is equal parts obvious and mystical.

Durant is a truly singular talent in NBA history — a 7-footer with a true, refined all-around game. He can dribble past big men, bully guards, and rise above even the longest wings and double-teams. He is one of the few people in the history of the game with the ability to score at will.

He’s easy money.

At the same time, something has clearly changed with the 30-year-old forward. He’s playing with a focused aggression that we haven’t seen before in his Golden State career.

“I don’t really understand what he’s doing right now, either,” Draymond Green said. “It’s pretty amazing, though… “

We saw a flashpoint of this impossibility and focus at the beginning of the fourth quarter Saturday, when Durant — surrounded by a second unit that has struggled all series and nearly torpedoed the Warriors with a woeful second-quarter stretch — went on an individual 10-2 run in the first 1:47 of the frame to give the Warriors a lead.

“If you had that KD for 48 minutes, you’d have the greatest player in the history of planet, and you’d win every single game,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Saturday.

The Warriors’ original offenses under Kerr was based on basic numbers: 3 is greater than 2 and you can’t guard five-onfive if you’re double-teaming someone. The backbone of that early-dynasty offense was the high Steph Curry pick-and-roll. But by signing Durant, there would always be a fall back, a second kind of smoke.

Of course, over the last three years, the Warriors have struggled, at times, to find the right mix between two contrasting styles.

The Warriors don’t want to waste a singular talent like Durant by using him as a spot-up shooter, but Kerr really does believe in the positive spiritual effects of ball movement and total team involvement.

The give-and-take between that idealism and the pragmatism of simply giving Durant the ball and getting out of his way is an interesting but ultimately meaningless subplot for the regular season. That said, it’s not something you should be struggling with come the playoffs.

Given the fact that the Warriors have lost two games where Durant has been superhuman on the offensive end, you could make the argument that the egalitarian style is the way to go.

But the style of postseason basketball — which has been true for ages but has been recently shaped by the Warriors’ success and failure in the pre-Durant runs of 2015 and 2016 — is all about shot creators and shot makers. And Durant has become the league’s best player in both areas.

So this is his moment. This is his show.

But as we saw in Game 3, one man cannot do it alone — not even Durant. Not against a team like the Rockets, anyway.

So if the Warriors are to win a third-straight tile, Durant’s teammates need to up their games. It’s time for them to follow the leader.