[Game] Kings vs. Clippers, 1/15/21 7pm PST, 10pm EST
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I mostly agree but he's still getting out-muscled on the boards. With the face up game, the outside jumper, the athleticism, and the agility to move his feet on defense he's oozing potential but he also clearly needs to get a lot stronger and angrier to really make the best of it. He's young though, so there's time to get him there.
Well, the good is that they aren't messing around tonight. They are jamming pnr down the throat of the Clipps and it's working. The bad is that again, over help and open 3's a plenty on defense. There just isn't any way you can survive in the NBA by not switching man to man full stop. Of course he might actually have to play Woodard if they did that so that can't happen, haha.
This has actually been a pretty even match up so far. The Clipps have made some runs but so have the Kings. The difference is all those PG and Marcus Morris spot-up threes and the Kings getting real sloppy with the ball once the bench came in. Fox has 4 TO on the box score but I think half of those should have been fouls. He continues to get no respect from the refs. Also Haliburton needs to have the ball in his hands a lot more in the second half.
It's probably also worth mentioning (in fairness to Bagley and the comment I made earlier about his lack of rebounds) that even though our entire starting lineup combined for only 9 rebounds in the first half (and 5 of those came from Barnes) it's kind of hard to grab rebounds when both teams are shooting over 50% from the field.
