As far as lins go, this was a big one. Knicks were fading hard and only a few games up on the Kings. They now hold the season series (does that matter in draft rankings?) and are going to be up 3 in the W column. Especially if we keep playing like this, seems unlikely we fall to 9 now.
At least this collapse was caused by a good player going supernova and us just missing a ton of threes. I'd rather that than a bunch of weird turnovers and Kangzy play coupled with an end of the bencher destroying us
the next 6 might just wrap it up. The danger is teams resting their players.
Denver (6 west 9-1 last 10)
@Utah (4 west 7-3 last 10)
Chicago (4 east 5-5 last 10)
Milwaukee (3 east 6-4 last 10)
Boston (5 east 8-2 last 10)
Phoenix (1 west 7-3 last 10)
Partly playing out of position though too. He's always been more SF/PF than SG/SF and he's being relied upon to be that other player up top. Can't handle, can't really pass, and they run him off way too many pin downs. This dude ain't Ray Allen.
Yeah, that was always the risk if we rifled off like a 19-4 stretch to end the year. You basically would have to stick with Gentry at that point and tie yourself to a mediocre (honestly, been pretty bad with the Kings this year. Didn't really take note in his previous spots) HC. Plenty of freedom for Monte to get his guy now.
That stretch was always very worrisome. A bit less so now, as we're toast. Once that stretch is over, we'll probably be about 6-7 games out of the #10 slot with 9 to go (7 of those 9 on the road, but easier teams overall).
It's time to pull the plug, there's no chance at this point.