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Another good win for the team without Green and Durant. Also making for another interesting variety of player of the game choices. We had a really well balanced effort tonight (scoring-wise) and several guys chipped in to make it all happen, just like the last few games.

Player (points/rebounds/assists)
Westbrook (12/2/8)
Sefolosha (15/8/4)
Krstic (18/4/0)
Collison (12/10/1)

Personally I've gotta go with Collison for keeping several possessions alive (sometimes multiple times on one possession) by getting offensive boards and hustling after loose balls. Thabo comes in 2nd with yet another game where he did all of the small things in a big way and continued to show me more than I thought he had on the offensive end.

I thought that Krstic was pretty key, however, he's a center that had half of his four rebounds in the last minute once the other team had started fouling... not the kind of production we need from that spot. The shooting stroke is still great as ever though.

Quiet game for Westbrook, but still the obvious 4th player on the list to me... he had his usual athletic plays, but didn't finish at the rim as well as he usually does. No huge "Earl Watson-esque" mistakes though...

Krstic is not the physically dominating type, so I'm not so surprised to see that he doesn't crash the boards as hard as your Ben Wallaces, and the Tyson Chandlers' would do on the nightly basis. He did howewver played a good game on the offensive end to help contribute to tonight's win.

Krstic is no average center like someone said, he is much better.

I believe that someone said that he is an above average starting center. I would have to agree with that sentiment. He plays a similar game on the offensive end to a Kurt Thomas or Joe Smith kind of guy (although he does it better). On the boards and defense, he is at best, average. So you've got a guy who is great but not dominant in one of the big 3 areas for centers, and average in the other two... to me, that comes out as above average. He's just good enough to start on a pretty good team, as long as the rest of the lineup compliments him well. Of course that makes him plenty good enough to start for a team vying for the top pick in the draft, and I'm still thrilled with his signing.

wizkid27 wrote:and I'm still thrilled with his signing.

And you should. It will pay off every cent given to him.
He just need to get little stronger an faster, after injury, and it will be good. Krstic is player who knows game,very smart, he was under greath couch Dusko Vujosevic in Partizan (win tonight against Panatanikos ), that is his advantage.
sorry on my bad english. God luck Oklahoma

thanks for the kind words

His bball knowledge/intelligence is definitely apparent. I've never really seen him as a stronger/faster type of player, even pre-injury. He has enough to get by, but not much beyond that. He does do a great job of playing within his limits though.