Was It Donovan or Durant Who Blew It?

You see, this is the advantage of having a rogue blog where I don’t need off the record access to write my blog. I don’t have to kiss Clay Bennett, Sam Presti, Billy Donovan, or even the two stars’ asses to  maintain off the record access. In a word…I can be honest. What a novel concept—being honest. Who would have ever come up with this concept?

As I wrote in my blog recap last night, I said I’d be interested to see how the two primary beats in this market crafted their recaps given the fact Kevin Durant blew the game in the waning seconds of regulation.

Anthony Slater at newsoksport handled it just right. He featured it prominently and addressed it head on. Tough, but I thought fair towards Durant and Donovan. I’d give this an A.

Then I go over and read some nonsense on the Daily Thunder recap which in length seemed like something written by Tolstoy but never once even mentioned the Durant turnover and why the game even went to overtime. I’m sorry, but this gets a D- for basic storyline epic fail.

Pick it up over there at Daily Thunder, the writing needs to be stronger and on point. Stronger writing voices are needed–please address this.  Anthony Slater, Erik Horne, Tramel and I can’t do all the heavy lifting for you. If you want to be homers, blog with Nicky Gallo.

So—who’s fault was it? I would say Durant even though Billy Donovan showed a real chink in his armor in the Indiana game when he wasted that late timeout which basically deprived OKC of a possession with 5.1 seconds left in the game.

Last night Durant had the ball in his hands. He’s clearly the team’s closer and a great free throw shooter. This is his wheelhouse comfort zone. It was a simple play. Call the timeout, move the ball up court, and play the free throw game with the ball in Durant’s hands. Who the hell was he trying to pass to anyway–hopefully not Andre Roberson. Just a really bad play by Durant.

How tough is it to write this? Not tough if you’re not a homer blog pandering sunshine to the youth male demographic. Not tough at all.

And btw—I didn’t even mention Russell Westbrook’s dubious foul on Klay Thompson on the and one layup late in overtime which was really not a heady play at all. But clearly—the storyline was Durant’s turnover at the end of regulation which cost OKC its biggest win in almost two regular seasons of basketball.

So enough of this—OKC tomorrow night in Sacramento against the mentally imbalanced Kings.

Mike Jackson

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