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Game 38
Sacramento Kings versus Dallas Mavericks
Game 38
Sacramento Kings versus Dallas Mavericks
By Stephen Tetsu, Frozen rain is worse than snow
The crawl-on-all-fours strategy probably works better than doubling Boogie.
Oh wait. Oh... Oh no... That's not right at all. Fiddlesticks.
In an absolutely predictable turn of events, the Sacramento Kings blew the sad skeleton of the zombie Cavaliers out by slowing things down, hammering the soft-as-fudge defense of Euroball genius David Blatt's squad inside, and generally playing a style of ball that strangely resembled the successful uglyball of the early season.
That's right, the Sacramento Kings won a game by playing the kind of basketball that got their old coach fired. If style really means more than wins, then PDA must be pooing diamonds out of his furry herniated weasel hole because the Kings were actually playing at the slowest pace in the NBA against the Cavs.
Why, if the Kings keep this up, I might actually start looking forward to watching them again.
But don't worry, oh ye lovers of Nellieball and speedy plays and teams scoring 120 points. Tonight the Dallas Mavericks are coming to town. If there ever was a team for the Kings to NOT try to outrun, it would be this one (and Vivek's favorite team from the bay), which of course means Tyrone Corbin's going to be getting notes from up top telling him to pick up the pace ("Think of all the dunk opportunities, Ty! Think of the style!") and the Kings are going to drop yet another twenty pound deuce right on the front lawn of the collective Kings fan mansion in which I presume everyone now lives (I haven't been back to the states for the better part of a year. For all I know, that's where everyone lives now.)
Sure Dirk is now approximately three-hundred-fifty-five years-old but he's a good three-hundred-fifty-five years-old and still quite the handful for even a man-to-man defender of Jason Thompson's caliber (yeah, I said it). Meanwhile, Monta Ellis is doing Monta Ellis things, that is to say he is scoring at a nice clip while also being scored on at a nice pace as well. Chandler Parsons is also scoring at a high pace while also being generally bad at defense.
Yep, while they're a great offensive team, the Mavs of this season aren't exactly going to lock anyone down with their defensive prowess. The only two plus defenders on their roster aren't as good defensively as they once were. With Tyson Chandler now being sorta fat but a good team facilitator and glue guy. He also won't be able to stop Demarcus though, in his defense, no one can. Rajon Rondo has played well enough to start his Dallas career but has never really been the same defensively since his first big injury a couple seasons ago.
But who cares about all of that because the pace of this game should be amazing! Get your EXCITEMENT pants ready because tonight is the night we get to see NBA 3.0 fully realized. Be prepared to have your mind blown.
