Fast Forward: Inability to get loose ball dooms Warriors (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)

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The final, futile seconds of the latest Warriors loss should be, probably will be, rewound and replayed by the likes of Jermaine O'Neal and David Lee. The Warriors were leading by two, a loose ball was in the air and neither big man could control it or gather it in – or otherwise keep it away from Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook. As painful as it was to see Westbrook drill the game-winning, 3-point shot with .1 second left on Friday, sending the Warriors to a 113-112 overtime loss to the Thunder, it has to be more agonizing to the Warriors to realize it was Westbrook who kept alive a missed shot that ended up back in his hands in the corner. "Russell just wanted the basketball more than anybody else on the floor,'' Warriors coach Mark Jackson said.

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