HOUSTON -- Star forward Kevin Durant said Houston Rockets players and coaches are "pissed off" as they fell to 0-2 with a 115-111 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.

But Durant also views that early-season frustration as a good thing.

"Coaching staff is pissed off, players are pissed off," he said. "We want a better outcome, and it's early, too. So for us to feel that way I like that kind of energy."

Durant dropped 37 points on 9-of-18 shooting, while going 16 of 18 from the free throw line. But that outburst in his Houston home opener, which saw Rockets legends Yao Ming and Hakeem Olajuwon sitting courtside, wasn't enough to give his new team its first win.

Like their season-opening 125-124 double-overtime loss to the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder , the

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