The effort was largely pathetic on Thanksgiving. The team gave up on so many plays, and eventually the game. The team abandoned what worked, ignored what didn't, and in the second half played like a high school team on the first day of practice. Seriously, this team looked more polished in preseason. Is Tyreke Evans' plantar fasciitis really gluing everyone's feet to the floor?

The Clippers hit two threes all night, had a grip of turnovers (17) … and still scored 1.08 points per possession (above league average, well above the Clippers' season average). That's pathetic defense, again, after a short respite.

No, not quite. It's more that any play by an opponent that involves defensive rotation by the Kings ends in disaster. The Kings' bigs don't rotate well — only Dalembert blocks shots, and no other big draws charges. Griffin 86'd Dalembert by getting him into quick foul trouble; after that, the only King who credibly defended Blake for more than one possession was … Tyreke Evans. That's not sustainable, and came because of a couple switches, which:

b) creates even more problems because of the clueless defensive rotation scheme behind the pick-and-roll.

If it's a health issue for Evans — he's now .412 on the season, taking essentially the same shots that got him to .458 last year — then that's one thing. But you get the sense the players are even more frustrated than we are as fans. I wouldn't have thought that possible, but the looks on their faces — unanimously bleak — tell a story. The Kings are not happy, and they shouldn't be. This is bad, bad, bad.