Imporatant win. This was the classic trap game that would befall the Kings in years past. The team was coming in with two days completely off, shootaround today was the first time the team was together since Minnesota game, you knew the team would come out slow and sloppy, especially playing a team they were supposed to beat. Rudy was back in the lineup and that always throws a wrench when the team is on a roll without him. Cousins was meeting his true challenger to the throne for the first time. He was a little rattled at first and especially in the third quarter.
Rudy made some key shots to spark the comeback and Cousins came back in the 4th quarter and stepped up the task at hand and outplayed Embiid and hit the big three to put us up for good. Kings teams of the past would have lost this game. An ugly win but a win that perhaps signifies this years squad is a cut above past ones.