[Game] Kings vs Suns - 7 PM PRE-GAME THREAD

[fnordius]

Holmes is doing a good job of keeping me from missing WCS.

 

[SLAB]

I hate Booker. Should have laid him out harder.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

how the heck that is a flagrant foul????

 

[Iced Espresso]

The way the Kings are finding Bagley & Holmes in good position close to the basket is looking nice.

 

[L'Optimisme]

yeah, i'm not within 75 miles, so it just loads a page that says this is not available in your location. thanks for trying though

Dang. Sorry

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

love how Walton after subbing out Holmes stood up from his seat and went to Richaun to give a fist bump after that Flagrant

 

[gunks]

love how Walton after subbing out Holmes stood up from his seat and went to Richaun to give a fist bump after that Flagrant

Must reward the scrappiness.

I'm so sick of how soft this team has been since that one year of Bonzi/Artest laying people out.

Hopefully Holmes's aggression rubs off on the team!

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Goosh I just remember how badly I dislike Booker.

He and Morris brothers are in my top 3.

 

[L'Optimisme]

BTW it is an absolute joy to listen to The G Man while watching a game.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Me *this is only preseason, this is only preseason...

Also me: Alright I will be right Back, buying plane tickets for around playoff time.

 

[Iced Espresso]

Dedmon looking nice, sets the screen for Buddy, rolled down, had rebounding position if needed.

 

[L'Optimisme]

G man gem: "Rubio skids to a stop and called for a travel... LIKE A PUPPY ON LINOLEUM"

 

[SLAB]

Booker is one of the most obnoxious chuckers I’ve ever seen. They will never be good with him.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Devin "don't double team me" Booker is not a winning player, sorry.

 

[Iced Espresso]

The defense on the pick and roll looks pretty good.

 

[jcwkings]

Rubio essentially being treated as a non shooter is really gonna hurt the Suns. Kings are swarming because they don't worry about Rubio.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

To be honest not scared of Phoenix, I have a lot of friends who are Suns fans, they told me with a lot of confidence, that Rubio and Saric additions is gonna bring them to the playoffs or atleast close to it, they might need to get drug tested.

 

[gunks]

Fox kinda doo doo tonight

 

[SLAB]

To be honest not scared of Phoenix, I have a lot of friends who are Suns fans, they told me with a lot of confidence, that Rubio and Saric additions is gonna bring them to the playoffs or atleast close to it, they might need to get drug tested.

No team will ever win with Booker as their best player.

 

[jcwkings]

If I'm the Suns I'm rolling with Booker, Bridges, Oubre, Saric, Ayton. Even then I'm not very high on them.

 

[joemama]

Booker is captain flop
Fox airballed two straight 3s
Bags and Dedmon are forming some chemistry.
Oubre elbowed buddy in the face. He wanted walton to challenge. Walton didnt.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

No team will ever win with Booker as their best player.

Still can't believe there are people who would take him over KP in the redraft lmao

 

[fnordius]

I never wanted to see a guy dance with an ironing board balanced on his nose.

 

[Larry89]

Team and Individual defense looks much improved. A noticeable increase in interior defense and rotations. Alot of deflected passes and busted possessions caused by the Kings.

Richaun Holmes looks like what WCS could have been, active and hustling always making sure someone is accounting for him and if they don't then he will be near the ball somehow. Physicality in the paint and on screens.

I am curious to see how the minutes are distributed we seem to have a surplus of 3/4's and 4/5's in Ariza,Barnes,Bjelica,Giles,Bagley, and Then Dedmon can only play 5... Hopefully it doesn't mean Harry out of the rotation, because we need his half court passing. It will be interesting to see if we do run any small ball lineups this year to match up or if we just go big and punish those lineups.

I noticed we were quite stagnant with Yogi at point and Bogi at Point playing 1, but in our case Bogi was also guarding a 3 in Mikal Bridges.

 

[Larry89]

No team will ever win with Booker as their best player.

I agree, it seems at this point I'd rather have Zach Lavine at that contract he was given. Would've been interesting to see how the Kings look with Lavine at the Wing as well considering he turned down our offer.

 

[Bruiser62906]

I agree, it seems at this point I'd rather have Zach Lavine at that contract he was given. Would've been interesting to see how the Kings look with Lavine at the Wing as well considering he turned down our offer.

I believe the bulls matched

 

[ESP47]

Kings look like crap to me. They wont beat anyone other than the bottom feeders of the league playing like this.

 

[Agent23]

Kings look like crap to me. They wont beat anyone other than the bottom feeders of the league playing like this.

They looks real lethargic to me. We’ll see.

 

[joemama]

22 turnovers 30 fouls still more game to go

 

[SacTownKid]

Kings look like crap to me. They wont beat anyone other than the bottom feeders of the league playing like this.

One positive is that we have already seen multilple game to game adjustments in both offensive and defensive strategy from the coaching staff. This team would go full seasons not doing much of that before. That is a very positive sign heading in.