[Game] Friday morning game
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I haven't watched the game today, except for garbage time in the 4th. In the previous game, I remember that Bogi did not have the ball once in his hands in OT, so he didn't have the opportunity to pass to anyone. I haven't paid attention before, but I don't think he and Fox spent time on the floor together. Besides, I don't think it is personal, Fox just has blinders, when he decides it his time to be a hero. Maybe it was what was the coach asked him, who knows.
Wow. Just a whole lot of negatives from today's game. Overall just selfish basketball. Very little teamwork offensively and wide open 3 after wide open 3 for the opponents hs become all to familiar year after year.
Fox making bad decisions with drives and passes and missing FREE throws. Buddy looks good offensively. Bagley is forcing the issue down low but had a much better game defensively. Holmes CoJo and Ariza didn't play today so we could see our 3rd string. Caleb should not be in th NBA too slow period. Guy missed a bunch of shots and JJ plaued good defense but was blocked every time at the rim (like 4 times), and he got hurt. Yogi chucked up some ugly bricks.
What was worrisome was our starters were losing points to indianas scrubs.
Fox making bad decisions with drives and passes and missing FREE throws. Buddy looks good offensively. Bagley is forcing the issue down low but had a much better game defensively. Holmes CoJo and Ariza didn't play today so we could see our 3rd string. Caleb should not be in th NBA too slow period. Guy missed a bunch of shots and JJ plaued good defense but was blocked every time at the rim (like 4 times), and he got hurt. Yogi chucked up some ugly bricks.
What was worrisome was our starters were losing points to indianas scrubs.
Same as last game. Got outrebounded by 16 (51-35) and destroyed in the paint (60 -28).
Noticed couple of consecutive possessions where Fox threw an alley oop to Dedmon but he was unable to go get it. Those oops will have to become more on target. The only true lob target for the two man pick and roll game we have is Holmes it seems to me. For some reason Bagley does not seem to be used like that...
Noticed couple of consecutive possessions where Fox threw an alley oop to Dedmon but he was unable to go get it. Those oops will have to become more on target. The only true lob target for the two man pick and roll game we have is Holmes it seems to me. For some reason Bagley does not seem to be used like that...
There are some concerns already early in preseason. The biggest one is one that could really hinder the Kings early and it's their pick and roll defense. It goes to show you sometimes when you change coaches things go back to square one in some ways. It took Joerger years to finally figure out some things and Walton has taken the team back to step 1 playing almost exclusive help defense with the big playing off the pnr and the guard showing over into a soft double with the corner defender switching up. They aren't at all on the same page yet but just like we saw for a few years already, you can't defend that way as a foundational set in a faceup guard league. It won't work. You have to be able to switch or and play man to man.
On the positive side we saw offensive adjustments within the span of one game. That's something we haven't see for a long time. Now, the negative is indeed, Walton is running a lot of the same sets the Kings ran before with again, mixed results. There is literally no reason for Dedmon to be posted at the basket off the ball. None. It's probably less effective with him in there instead of Willie who did develop an OK inside game.
On the positive side we saw offensive adjustments within the span of one game. That's something we haven't see for a long time. Now, the negative is indeed, Walton is running a lot of the same sets the Kings ran before with again, mixed results. There is literally no reason for Dedmon to be posted at the basket off the ball. None. It's probably less effective with him in there instead of Willie who did develop an OK inside game.
Somebody send Walton a recap on the Kings failures the last few years. They mostly involve pick and roll on both ends. Playing too little on one end with proper spacing and not defending it aggressively on the other. If I were a part of the Kings org, I would hire Chuck Hayes as a pick and roll defensive specialist coach.
Its not just the new coach, we also lost a very good pnr defender in Willie. agreed about (not) posting Dedmon.
The mix of bigs we have and their advantages/disadvantages is in general problematic for us I think. Without going into everything I am thinking right now and into the reasons why, let me summarize it like this: In order for all of this to work, "Bagley must figure it out". whatever that actually means.
The mix of bigs we have and their advantages/disadvantages is in general problematic for us I think. Without going into everything I am thinking right now and into the reasons why, let me summarize it like this: In order for all of this to work, "Bagley must figure it out". whatever that actually means.
Nah he is probably Serbian and Bogi does have a higher IQ than Buddy. It’s also true that in playing ~28 minutes with Fox, Bogdan shot exactly 2 3 pointers and scored 8 points. In 23 minutes with CoJo he got off 5 three pointers and scored 14.
If we are going to play Fox, Buddy and Bogi together than Fox darn well needs to pass the ball to Bogi when he is open.
If we are going to play Fox, Buddy and Bogi together than Fox darn well needs to pass the ball to Bogi when he is open.
