Alan Shipnuck

You said it.

They were the second seed last year.

They brought Kevin Durant in to be the missing piece, right?

Like the final piece to the puzzle that can get us a championship.

And now they're a worse team.

So this has been horrific.

And it's been so bad, Colin.

That the expectations have been lowered to the point where if they win this first round and then get beat by OKC in the second round, which, of course, would happen.

Everybody would kind of be like, hey, you know, at least they won a round like that's how low expectations are falling.

And as you said, Kevin Durant is an all time great score and all time great shooter.

But he's not a leader.

And when you look at some of the top, you know, people want to push him into the top 10 all time.

I say, no, he can be in the top 20.

Yeah.

And it's toward the 20, not 10.

But he's not a top 10 player.

Most of those top 10 guys had the intangibles, whether it was leadership, a killer instinct, something that set them apart and got their team wins.

And Durant, look, I'm glad he got those two championships in Golden State, but when he has had to be the leader, whether it was Oklahoma City early in his career, obviously Brooklyn, Phoenix, now Houston, it's been horrific.

And remember, the burner accounts here in Houston, those young players who probably grew up looking up to Kevin Durant had to read that –

He really didn't think they were that good.