When I asked Terry Murray, after the Colorado loss, if inconsistency can be attributed to having a young roster, he fairly quickly dismissed the theory. So today, after a Nashville game in which the Kings seemed to be very different in the final 30 minutes than they were in the first 30 minutes, I asked Murray, more generally, about how inconsistency might be overcome.

MURRAY: “I think that’s that process we talked about in August, and it is a process. We’re bringing together a group of guys that we’re trying to make a team out of. We’re trying to become a team. We’re showing great team play at times, in certain games and in parts of the games we’ve played. In the St. Louis game, I thought we showed a great team game. That’s the consistent level that you strive for, for every game. So it is a process and we’ve made lots of steps in the right direction.”