No matter what stage of your rebuilding you're in, though, you can look at any given time and see the wreckage. Maybe the kitchen is in shambles, maybe the guest room has been stripped down to its foundation. Basically, up until the remodel is complete, the house isn't looking too great. Last night was a prime example of the manifestations of that wreckage.

I compare it a little to the visual of somebody with their hands full beginning to drop something, beginning to make a few futile attempts to keep it from falling over and then dropping even more things in the process.

The Kings dropped half of their stuff, and they never really picked it back up.

It'd be hard for the Kings to have given up 19 wide open threes, which they didn't entirely. A lot of times Jordan Farmar was able to shoot right over the top of Isaiah, or the Lakers were able to get threes in semi-transition off of bad Kings' offensive possessions.

As a whole, the Kings took great care of the ball, only coughing it up 11 times.

16 of the Lakers' 19 threes came off of assists, and to me, that is representative of a Kings team that's slow to make rotations and unsound in playing off the ball defense. Passively double teaming the post-up situations leading to open threes from the post entry passer, rotating to the roll man in PNRs so much that it only takes one reversal of the ball to find an open three point shooter, those are all things the Kings have been getting beat in for long stretches of the season.

This is what happens when you're remodeling the house. You don't pull out the kitchen sink and expect to be able to wash the dishes right after. You might have it thrown at you from time to time in the form of Jordan Farmar and Marshan Brooks, but you just hope in the end the new house is worth it. We might pull out the tank card as an excuse for the process, but this was inherent all along.