"Sometimes it's as simple as giving the ball to one of your best players and asking him to make a play when the offense isn't working.

The Kings try to do that, but many times that ends with much dribbling and a contested shot.

Every team struggles to score at times. The Kings have suffered such stretches in many of their losses.

The Kings say they're still trying to figure out how to end their scoring droughts before they fall way behind.

Teams with superstars know their opponents will go out of their way to neutralize that player, which creates openings in the defense.

The Kings' ideal go-to player, Tyreke Evans, has struggled this season. And the Kings haven't figured out which plays will create the shots they need at critical moments.

"We haven't discovered that player yet or the situation that demands them tilting their whole defense against us," said Kings coach Paul Westphal. "So we're working on that."

What's baffling is that the Kings sometimes have great ball and player movement and the offense looks fluid.

But then they regress. Ball movement stops. Players don't cut and move away from the ball, and the Kings struggle in the second half.

Beno Udrih suggested the Kings' solution to their offensive problems doesn't depend on one player.

"Our go-to play is move the ball better, really," Udrih said. "… I think if we're to keep moving the ball, keep running our offense like we do in the first half, we'd be fine. We get stagnant, too much one-on-one play."

Some of the problems have been attributed to inexperience.

Evans is in his second season. DeMarcus Cousins has shown flashes of maturity and being a go-to player, but he's a rookie."