The difference was not great for TO's between the two. The difference in assists was just as great in favor of RW. The thing about RW is that he HAS to score for the Thunder to be successful just like DRose does. Durant is a great scorer. However, Rose has more options than RW. Westbrook literally has nobody besides Durant for most of the season. James Harden came on certain games in the playoffs and was pretty good off the bench during the season, but he was inconsistent AND played a lot of his minutes with RW on the bench. I think people over analyzed the playoffs and threw Russ under the bus for them. If you watched the regular season closely you would understand a little better I think...and maybe the same could be said of me for DRose. I understand that KD is far better than anyone Rose has, BUT I think Deng, Boozer, Noah, Bogans, Brewer, Watson, etc... are better overall at scoring than Harden, Ibaka, Perkins, Sefalosha, etc... so it evens out pretty well IMO.
As for the "I'm an elite player, lets be the hero instead of Durant" mentality...I just don't see that. If you watch the end of games clearly you will see that for one, Brooks can't call an end of the game play, and two, Durant moves terrible without the ball! KD should take the last shot, no doubt. However, when he took the last shot in the playoff games you were watching it was usually 5 or 6 feet beyond the 3 pt line and the success rate was zero...just like Russ. It's really hard to blame RW when KD doesn't know how to get open and when he is not set up to be successful. I agree Durant is the better option, but I disagree that RW has the attitude you stated. I think the ENTIRE Thunder team is very young and needs to grow up to win at an elite level like the Western Conference Finals and many of the late game breakdowns came because there was little offensive flow and RW was hung out to dry at the end of shot clocks. I'm not saying he is infallible at all, but I do think RW matches up very closely with Rose at this point in their careers.