[Game] Kings vs. Clippers, 1/20/21, 7pm PST, 10pm EST

[chief bromden]

It’s called the “I’ve designed this scheme for the 2003 Lakers” offense

The triangle offense has nothin on Luke's Venn diagram offense.

 

[mac]

Silver lining. We held our opponent to the lowest total since 1/2.

Next stop, PLAYOFFS

 

[Tetsujin]

Only guy with Kobe mentality on offense is GRIII and I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing.

Buddy had the Kobe ballhog mentality last season and Luke benched him for it lol

 

[SacTownKid]

Buddy had the Kobe ballhog mentality last season and Luke benched him for it lol

Buddy's a star. Role players that Luke can identify with get a pass. Clearly.

 

[Groovygreg]

Why did Fox sit so long throughout the 2nd half?

 

[joemama]

This team is legit less fun to watch than the Sergio Rodriguez Sean May Kings, and I'm not sure DeAaron shoots FTs any better than Chuck Hayes.

How does he shoot 56% from the floor 50% from 3, yet 38% from the charity stripe?

 

[chief bromden]

Does anyone think Tyrese has been infected with the Kangz yet? I'm worried

 

[mac]

Buddy's a star. Role players that Luke can identify with get a pass. Clearly.

Will never get sick of watching CoJo dribble the ball up the whole floor and take a fadeaway

 

[Turgenev]

Sometimes you question why you keep tuning in

 

[DynaPamm]

What the **** does Luke do at halftime to make the Kings constantly look so bad in the third quarter?

Absolutely nothing.... after all he doesn’t know how to coach

 

[chief bromden]

How does he shoot 56% from the floor 50% from 3, yet 38% from the charity stripe?

It seems like most good FT shooters have a deliberate rigamarole at the line, and Fox just rushes his shots with no methodical dribble routine or anything. I'm goin with that

 

[mac]

Does anyone think Tyrese has been infected with the Kangz yet? I'm worried

Give him a legit coach and system and he'll be more than fine. He's a rookie that is going to struggle as teams figure him out, no surprise there.

 

[chief bromden]

Give him a legit coach and system and he'll be more than fine. He's a rookie that is going to struggle as teams figure him out, no surprise there.

Ah, a voice of reason. Thanks

 

[SacTownKid]

Give him a legit coach and system and he'll be more than fine. He's a rookie that is going to struggle as teams figure him out, no surprise there.

Man, I could imagine him under Mike D'Antoni or Snyder in Utah. Even we'd be sick of all that middle pick and roll goodness.

 

[joemama]

Buddy had the Kobe ballhog mentality last season and Luke benched him for it lol

He was benched because he's a walking bad decision. Our starting backcourt had TEN turnovers. Fox had 6 but kept us in th game single-handed in the 2nd Q. Buddy had 4 turnovers on a total five made field goals. Outside the first five min Buddy was pure trash.

 

[iowamcnabb]

I know tanking is probably in our best long term interest. But losing sssuuuuuuccckkkks

 

[joemama]

Does anyone think Tyrese has been infected with the Kangz yet? I'm worried

I was thinking his game has been going downhill, specifically his passing. 2 assists tonight.

 

[SacTownKid]

I know tanking is probably in our best long term interest. But losing sssuuuuuuccckkkks

That's the thing, there's a way to do it. You can't afford to do it the way the Kings are right now with the team they have. Even Haliburton wouldn't really benefit much on a team like this. He's too close to his ceiling and too good at the game now competitively speaking.

 

[steelevt]

Does anyone think Tyrese has been infected with the Kangz yet? I'm worried

i havent seen a lot of pick and pop/push shot he did with holmes recently in our losing streak. wonder why they strayed away from that. or maybe other teams are defending it better

 

[joemama]

Is not getting destroyed by other teams bigs each night too much to ask?

 

[Livinthedream]

i havent seen a lot of pick and pop/push shot he did with holmes recently in our losing streak. wonder why they strayed away from that. or maybe other teams are defending it better

Teams are definitely scouting him.

 

[iowamcnabb]

I haven’t been as big of a Walton hater as others but my biggest frustration with him is his inability to identify when someone is struggling and then adjust to put them in position to succeed. Ty and Buddy are examples of guys he could set up some plays for open looks.

 

[EIM86]

The offense we run is so stupid. There is no motion at all. It's just give it to the big man and then iso. The Clippers were giving us the wing 3 yet we never shot from there.

 

[KingsFanSince85]

Boy is it a lot of fun rooting for a team surrendering the most point in the league.
Sometimes it seems like having zero players on the floor on that end couldn’t fare much worse.

Maybe the KINGS could finally use Vivek’s cherry picking strategy. But instead of 5 on 4, ALL 5 players can just hang out on the offensive end. Why not?

 

[Tetsujin]

Boy is it a lot of fun rooting for a team surrendering the most point in the league.
Sometimes it seems like having zero players on the floor on that end couldn’t fare much worse.

Maybe the KINGS could finally use Vivek’s cherry picking strategy. But instead of 5 on 4, ALL 5 players can just hang out on the offensive end. Why not?

Right. Giving up a bajillion points would at least be a little more tolerable if we were doing it on purpose but Walton is actually trying to have our guys play on defense while also running an outdated bad offense.

 

[ESP47]

All teams have to do is clamp down for one quarter and play defense and it's an instant 20 point win because the Kings can't seem to hold opponents under 30pts in a quarter.

 

[ppine]

Everything good about last night can be summed up in one sentence.
DA Fox challenged the best players on the Clippers and played great against them.

The Kings came out in a zone defense and won the first quarter. The Clippers pace themselves and play great defense in spurts and the Kings folded like a tent.

 

[Section 101]

All teams have to do is clamp down for one quarter and play defense and it's an instant 20 point win because the Kings can't seem to hold opponents under 30pts in a quarter.

Kings actually held the clippers to 25 and 20 points in the first and 4th quarters. It was the offensive side in the 3rd that put them out scoring only 19.

 

[Tetsujin]

Everything good about last night can be summed up in one sentence.
DA Fox challenged the best players on the Clippers and played great against them.

It's great that after four seasons of "rebuilding", we're now back at the "our best player is a freaking stud but everything else about our team sucks" stage that we were at with Boogie.

 

[iowamcnabb]

They just officially postponed the two games against the Grizz so we better make it count against the Knicks tomorrow.

This sucks. Prior to the season I anticipated we would be bad but then Ty and the good start gave me hope that we would at least be entertaining. After the season my Eagles had and the season my Cubs will have, I was at least hoping to semi enjoy the Kings season. Oi.