24 -- Number of turnovers in a game for Seattle

34 -- Sacramento points off Seattle turnovers

32 -- Points scored by Wally Szczerbiak

6 -- Points scored by Szczerbiak in the fourth quarter

27 -- fastbreak points by Seattle

20 -- Points Seattle led by in the first half.

This was pretty much a game Seattle had in the bag, but couldn't hang onto. Again, Seattle struggled to close it out. With Kevin Durant, Damien Wilkins and Chris Wilcox all missing shot late that would have kept Seattle in it.

There were good things that happened. Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo liked his team's execution late in the game in the half-court set.

And Seattle was more aggressive on both the offensive and defensive ends.

But it's all about getting W's, and Seattle did not do that tonight.

I thought it was curious that Wally Szczerbiak didn't get more opportunities to shoot late in the game, particularly with the way he was shooting it.

Szczerbiak only had four shots in the fourth quarter.

Here's what he had to say.

“I’m not a bashful guy,” Szczerbiak said about getting only four shots in the fourth quarter. “I’ll start running toward the ball if I feel like I want it. But I got looked off a couple times. We got good shots down the stretch. It’s just one of those things. Shots didn’t fall.
“I think we executed our offense well, which is a start. We had a few too many turnovers down the stretch, which gave them easy buckets. And they made some plays. So we just have to back to the drawing board.
“But I did have a hot hand going, so it would have been nice (to get some touches).”

Listen to more Szczerbiak here.

Carlesimo said they tried to get it to Szczerbiak, but had trouble setting up plays for him because Szczerbiak was playing power forward, which he doesn't do that much.

Listen to the Conversation with Carlesimo here.

Seattle also not getting to the foul line. Seattle's opponents are taking a little over 10 more free throws a game than the Sonics.

Bottom line, until Seattle's stops turning the ball over 20 times a game and figures out a way to execute and get to the line down the stretch, it's going to be a long season.