Dave Hardisty

or in eventually leading into a KD, you know, trying to get through two guys to get a shot.

They should be trying to at least lean on that to see if there's something there because, well, first there surely is.

We might need more reps, but that's got to be explored, especially because we're not elite on defense anyway.

So we might as well try to be elite on offense.

know what Kevin Durant uh it's still pretty good folks um 35 points 14 to 20 shooting you know that game gets to 95 91 right and Kevin makes the last four field goals for Houston one more thing I kind of noticed here he fired a lot early 10 first quarter points and that's been a theme a lot this season Kevin says um he scores to inspire his teammates that's a phrase he keeps using

Um, and perhaps he means that like mentally, but I also think there was an immediate gravitational pull from that, right?

When he's cooking early, when guys are having to converge on him immediately, he's finding Jabari Smith in the corner.

He's finding these open guys and the offense is a lot more open, a lot less clogged.

And you saw that for Jabari tonight, six for nine from the field, two threes in easy 15 points.

That interplay should be there when Kevin's cooking early.

And it really was tonight.

Yeah, I mean, you'll see that in certain nights where Kevin is a little extra amped up.

I think the biggest one this season was at home against Phoenix.

He hits that game winner, right?

And he has to kind of get out of here.

Gesture to the Suns, which I thought was great.

And that whole night, he was kind of fired up.

He got entangled with Dylan a little bit.

I feel like tonight was another night where the emotions were maybe a little

pent up after recent days and he got after it.