Michael Pina

And so our men is sort of in these situations where he's got to go up against a loaded up defense when he does have the ball and he does the, the Euro step or the D cell.

And it's just a contested paint shot outside the restricted area.

And he's sometimes he makes them and that's great.

Sometimes they crash the offensive glass and get the rebound, obviously.

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.