On the minus side, I counted five mistakes. One of Durant’s issues is transition. When he’s back, he often has to pick up Krstic’s man when Krstic gors to the glass. Twice alst night he picked up a man and was covering him. BEFORE Krstic (or whoever) recovered, he LEFT the man to get his own – this led to two easy buckets . . . his decision to leave made no sense . . .

Dan :I dont know how you come up with the + 3 on Durant but the kid was really lazy in the first half. I mean he was literally jogging on defense. 2nd half he turned it up a bit, but still not a great effort by him.

by the way, as an additon to that, +3 is an average grade (at best) . . . for a guy in the rgular rotation (28-30 minutes), +6 or higher would probably be above average . . .

Dan :I dont know how you come up with the + 3 on Durant but the kid was really lazy in the first half. I mean he was literally jogging on defense. 2nd half he turned it up a bit, but still not a great effort by him.

Remember, he started out the game with a steal (and a subsequent dunk). Durant is not in the same planet as Thabo, but he is playing the passing lanes a lot letter than last year . . . I don’t have the specifics now – but I will breakdown his scoring later . . . I will give you one quick example of how I score – if Durant is lazy and doesn’t close out , BUT the opponent misses – it doesnt count against him . . .

Crow :Kev, in your system does failing to contest a shot or a shot that goes in count as a negative? Ideally it would to some degree.

yes – failing to contest a shot that goes counts as a negative (assuming that person had responsibility) . . .

about 8% of turnovers were offensive fouls, 48% were bad passes and 44% were ball-handling errors.

So by comparison this season Russell has a much “higher percentage” of offensive fouls and a much lower percentage of ball-handling errors.

It might not be a “very” helpful split but I checked it for what it might show / be worth.

We got our butts handed to us on the boards. We allowed way to much penetration. If I weren’t so disgusted with the effort, I’d look up the Kings shot chart. It seemed in the first half all we gave them were layups and 5 foot jumpers. I realize the way the rules are now, that penetration is much harder to stop, but our rotating help was poor.

It really hurts us when Jeff Green gets in foul trouble and has to sit. Everyone was a foul machine last night, but Nick continues to draw more whistles in a shorter time than anyone.

So frustrated with Russell last night. He hit that early three and gave me hope, then he missed shots at point blank range the rest of the night. I don’t know what happened to Thabo’s shot, but it must be at a picnic with Russell’s shot, because neither of them showed for the game.

It was just flat out weak.