Evaluating Kevin Durant's Performance vs. Thunder on Tuesday

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00:00I'm a huge Kevin Durant guy everybody knows that I think Kevin Durant's a better basketball player

00:05than LeBron James I think Kevin Durant's one of the five greatest offensive basketball players

00:09in the history of basketball you can argue amongst yourselves that being said if he if

00:15LeBron had done last night what KD did I'd be all over him so I got to be consistent first off

00:23you miss a free throw up two in the waning seconds of regulation to give yourselves a

00:29three-point lead and yes you could have Oklahoma City come down and made it three they certainly

00:34could have but it was a lot easier for SJ to make a regular shot not a three-point shot with a couple

00:39ticks left to get into overtime if you're going to be the greatest player of all time or one of the

00:45great players of your generation you cannot miss free throws down the stretch the reason the Houston

00:51Rockets wanted and needed desperately to get Kevin Durant was for the exact position they were in

00:58last night when they look back and watch how they got eliminated by the Golden State Warriors in the

01:04playoffs in the first round despite having home court advantage they needed the killer they needed

01:10the guy in the final seconds or minutes of a game that could close the game out Amen Thompson great young

01:16player Sangoon going to be a rock star in this league Dan ran a triple double with 40 points last night

01:22but the reason they got Durant was for the exact situation they were in last night go get the ball

01:30and win us the game and he does get to the free throw line and he makes one he misses the second one

01:37and Oklahoma City has life that's on Kevin Durant number two he's lucky it didn't get called because it

01:45should have been called in overtime when he gets a rebound and he asked for a timeout there are 27

01:53officials in an NBA game none of them apparently saw KD asked for a timeout you're looking at it right

02:01there clearly he clearly goes timeout timeout the reason that's important is that they're out of timeouts

02:08if they say timeout and stop the game it's a technical foul it's free throws we never get to

02:15a second overtime in that game SGA goes to the line knocks down a free throw game over everybody

02:21goes home happy to Oklahoma City