Michael Pina

But I just, I don't like it at all.

I don't think that there's a lot of creativity.

I feel like they are almost playing not to make mistakes and deferring quite a bit to Durant, which granted he's terrific, but I did not anticipate him having this large of a load this season, particularly in crunch time.

And yeah, so that's, that's like a big concern to me.

How do you, how do you feel about their crunch time offense?

I don't think... Yeah, I mean, look, the Denver Nuggets went healthy.

The Oklahoma City Thunder went healthy.

They are exceptional.

I did think that the win, how they beat the Spurs was encouraging coming off of some of the losses that they've had recently.

But...

I think one of the other things that has bothered me a little bit about this team, and they've had injuries for sure, but I just thought their defense would be second best, not as good as the Thunder, but non-Thunder division, arguably the best defense in the NBA.

And that has not happened at all.

I know they rank really high, but over the last... They're tied for fifth with Toronto.

Yeah.

Right.

But since December 1st, I think they're 11th in defensive rating.

They've had some real clunkers.

And when you watch them, they still make mistakes at the point of attack.

They'll have someone double when the weak side defender has no idea that that is actually the strategy.

So no help the helper there.