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Game 10
Sacramento Kings versus San Antonio Spurs
Game 10
Sacramento Kings versus San Antonio Spurs
By Stephen Tetsu, Resident Glutton for Punishment
Ref'd
Well that was fun. You've got to give it to the Kings. What other franchise has succeeded so well in the pursuit of the perfect loss? Coming on the heels of a loss to an injury-ravaged OKC team and a blowout-turned-buttwhooping against the Mavs, it would take a Herculean effort to somehow top the disappointment and misery of the last week. With the help of the refs and yet another epic meltdown in the second half, the Kings blew a 26 point lead to talk home the loss on the back of one of the most controversial calls I can remember about a Kings game in a long while.
If I'm not making sense, it's because I'm still sick, sick-deprived, and moving in-between the states of awake and asleep like Grandpa Joe at Thanksgiving. To be fair to me, I should only be half as sick as I am right now because the referees, much like the Kings in the entirety fourth quarter, dropped the ball in the last second of the game (literally).
Now obviously, I'm no expert official, which makes the fact that they didn't seem to see the same thing that the majority of people watching the game could see is slightly troubling as NBA officiating is apparently being manned by the less-sighted people of the world, which would be cool, were it not an official's job to see things as they happen and make the correct call.
I doubt the NBA is going to change the outcome of the game because the best way to deal with a mistake is to simply carry-on as if absolutely nothing happened at all but, and this is a big but, maybe they can give us a mulligan on our next bad call, just don't want any more game sixes in our future.
Tonight's Game
I'm sick and so this is going to be a very, very short one (also, Pop would make whatever I wrote moot by sitting half the guys I wrote about anyways).
Watching the Spurs game against the Lakers to research for the game tonight (You're welcome America.), I was struck by the simple fact that Hubie Brown is apparently the one man in America still high on the Lakers and also is perpetually in his 80s. When old guy Kobe is out there missing 20 shots a game, there's no way your franchise is going to win many games. Thankfully for us though, the Lakers at least mustered enough effort to force San Antonio to play its good players enough minutes to give Gregg Popovich pause to use them on the second night of a back-to-back.
But of course knowing our luck, Pop's going to play all his guys 35 minutes AND build a time machine to put vintage Admiral in the middle to further stack the deck.
Anyways the cough meds are really checking in now AND I've spent the last two hours typing this sentence so I will leave things a t there. Sorry for the lack of follow through or whatever. Flu/fever/lung conditions suck. This is why if anyone would like to volunteer or has anything cool to say, I'm always down to share game thread duties.
82 games is a lot of games.