[Game] Kings @ Lakers 1/18/2023 7:30pm Pacific 10:30pm Eastern

[The_Jamal]

AYO RICHAUN

Atta babe, big shout-out for this performance so far. This is the dude who won Kings fans over

 

[Tetsujin]

Should've been an And-1 too.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Hmm. Welp, after all that up 1 at the half with 61 pts. 130 still in play

 

[SacTownKid]

RICHAUN EUROSTEP ON LEBRON TO END THE HALF

Use someone the way they are used to and watch it all come back. Now, work those phones during halftime Monte, lol.

 

[Kingz19]

10 offensive rebounds

 

[SLAB]

That’s more like it. Glad to see Holmes remember he isn’t awful.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I'm gonna do myself a solid and say if this game is 20 points at half I'm out.

Well at least I didn't commit myself to watching the second half of a game we're down 19.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

My big takeaway is how the F did the Lakers screw up building around LeBron so badly? This team is absolute trash outside of him

They gave up everybody who would have complemented LeBron to acquire Street Clothes™. I mean, I guess it paid off with one championship.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Holmes with 8 and 5. Pretty dang solid

 

[The_Jamal]

What the hell happened in those Davion minutes?

4:34, -13?

Also need better than 1-7 from Monk. He's got to step up with Domas out, can't afford bad Malik in the 2nd half

 

[Woot!]

Happy for Richaun. He still doesn't look like the Richaun of old, but those were very effective minutes; nice to see a couple chest thumps from him.

 

[Kingz19]

Kings need a Monk explosion in the second half. That might win it

 

[SacTownKid]

What the hell happened in those Davion minutes?

4:34, -13?

Also need better than 1-7 from Monk. He's got to step up with Domas out, can't afford bad Malik in the 2nd half

He didn't look great running the team for sure, but it was all pick and roll and mismatches on defense that killed them again. They were attacking that big and the team D wasn't there at all because of it.

 

[Tetsujin]

They gave up everybody who would have complemented LeBron to acquire Street Clothes™. I mean, I guess it paid off with one championship.

It is hilarious in hindsight that Luke Walton screwed up his one season with Lebron so badly that it forced their front office to mortgage their entire future for 40 games a year of Anthony Davis.

They could've had a
Zubac
BI
Lebron
Hart
Ball lineup with Kuzma as their sixth man for half a decade but decided to go completely insane instead.

 

[LoungeLizard]

They gave up everybody who would have complemented LeBron to acquire Street Clothes™. I mean, I guess it paid off with one championship.

***

 

[Woot!]

If HB got Lebron calls, he'd have ~15.

 

[SacTownKid]

Kings need a Monk explosion in the second half. That might win it

Yeah, I'd like to see Brown get him some more pick and roll. He and Metu ran some decent ones but the timing was off.

 

[Kingz19]

What the hell happened in those Davion minutes?

4:34, -13?

Also need better than 1-7 from Monk. He's got to step up with Domas out, can't afford bad Malik in the 2nd half

You answered it in your post. His minutes coincided with the Monk clank-a-thon of the first quarter.

 

[Tetsujin]

Keegan with 4 boards at the half. Doing a good job of fighting on the glass to make up for Domas being out.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Gotta give Holmes some love. I’ve been pretty hard on him this year. He was pretty good that half AND he didn’t get called for an illegal screen.

 

[The_Jamal]

It is hilarious in hindsight that Luke Walton screwed up his one season with Lebron so badly that it forced their front office to mortgage their entire future for 40 games a year of Anthony Davis.

They could've had a
Zubac
BI
Lebron
Hart
Ball lineup with Kuzma as their sixth man for half a decade but decided to go completely insane instead.

Zubac is the biggest LOL of all. He wasn't even traded, they just straight up let him walk because they couldn't afford him for 7mil a year. Imagine letting a starter walk out the door for 7 mil/season in the year of our lord 2023

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

They gave up everybody who would have complemented LeBron to acquire Street Clothes™. I mean, I guess it paid off with one championship.

Pretty big asterisk on that championship given how weird that year was

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

What the hell happened in those Davion minutes?

4:34, -13?

It turns out that you don't have time to get into defensive position if you're turning the ball over on every possession.

 

[Caccia]

It's depressing to see Monk go 1-7. Maybe he needs more emotional support than his bulldog is giving him.

 

[Woot!]

If Kings were having an average shooting game from 3, they'd be up double-digits. Missing wide-open stuff.

 

[macadocious]

Keegan with 4 boards at the half. Doing a good job of fighting on the glass to make up for Domas being out.

he was aggressively going after them.

I wonder how much of some of this lack of rebounding is just the space Domas takes up.

 

[Sluggah]

Woah. I’m getting some sort of half-time show with a lady and a dude instead of the arena feed. What if Skee-Lo is butchering more of his music?

 

[dude12]

What the hell happened in those Davion minutes?

4:34, -13?

Also need better than 1-7 from Monk. He's got to step up with Domas out, can't afford bad Malik in the 2nd half

I was told that we might be better with Davion on the floor instead of Fox. The data says so.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

***

Pretty big asterisk on that championship given how weird that year was

Eh, I don't play that asterisk ****. Once they decided that they weren't going to cancel the season, we knew that somebody was going to have to win it. Sixteen teams had the same shot, and they're the ones that did it.

 

[Remi]

Assists so far tonight: Kings 12, Lakers 13
Turnovers: Kings 7, Lakers 3 ....