2024/25 Season Opener

NewArena

NewArena

All-Star
#32
#32
Rain man said:
Also, if we do really have 5/7 and 6/9 on the road to start and end the season, and have two different 6 game road trips, that means that we get 23 of our 41 road games out of the way in 4 chunks. That is actually really good, and would indicate that we have long stretches at home.

To me, the killer last year was not the long road trips, but rather, the lack of long home stands where we didn't have to travel. Every team has long road trips. Those can actually be good bonding experiences for the team and we tend to play well on long road trips. But January and February were brutal because we never had any long homestands to balance it out. We'd have something like 4 on the road, 1 at home, 2 on the road, 2 at home, 3 on the road, 1 at home, 1 on the road. It was the inability to ever get a long homestand for like 2-3 months of the season that was a killer. I recall Kayte saying on one broadcast that we had played something like 20 of our previous 24 games in a different city than the previous game. That is crazy! That constant travelling (even with home games sprinkled in) is much harder than long road trip followed by long home stand.

Hopefully having those 4 really long road trips will mean longer home stands.
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TaxMan

TaxMan

Starter
#34
#34
I really don't see getting worked up about the schedule one way or the other. Outside of the number of back-to-backs, everything else just feels like trying to find some conspiracy from Adam Silver to for some reason keep us down. 82 game season is super long. This stuff evens out one way or the other. Last year the Kings blew home games against bad teams on longer homestands. They just need to take care of business and all this stuff won't matter.

I really don't understand strength of schedule concerns. For the most part, that's just going to be dictated by their conference (with some factor I'm assuming for back-to-backs, etc.) If we have a stronger second half strength of schedule, then we just need to build up a better record in the first half.

Finally, am I the only person that could care less about nationally televised games? Maybe I'm just getting old, but when they happen, I need to scramble to figure out what channel they are on, wait for the earlier game on the network to finish (sometimes they don't wait and I miss a few minutes of the Kings game), listen to announcers (usually color commentators) that know nothing about the Kings and/or throw shade that just pisses me off. Even for Kings home games, I find watching the national broadcast doesn't generally translate the same level of crowd excitement that comes through on local broadcasts....I also tend to prefer my homer local announcers.
 
hrdboild

hrdboild

Moloch in whom I dream Angels!
Staff member
#35
#35
TaxMan said:
I really don't see getting worked up about the schedule one way or the other. Outside of the number of back-to-backs, everything else just feels like trying to find some conspiracy from Adam Silver to for some reason keep us down. 82 game season is super long. This stuff evens out one way or the other. Last year the Kings blew home games against bad teams on longer homestands. They just need to take care of business and all this stuff won't matter.

I really don't understand strength of schedule concerns. For the most part, that's just going to be dictated by their conference (with some factor I'm assuming for back-to-backs, etc.) If we have a stronger second half strength of schedule, then we just need to build up a better record in the first half.

Finally, am I the only person that could care less about nationally televised games? Maybe I'm just getting old, but when they happen, I need to scramble to figure out what channel they are on, wait for the earlier game on the network to finish (sometimes they don't wait and I miss a few minutes of the Kings game), listen to announcers (usually color commentators) that know nothing about the Kings and/or throw shade that just pisses me off. Even for Kings home games, I find watching the national broadcast doesn't generally translate the same level of crowd excitement that comes through on local broadcasts....I also tend to prefer my homer local announcers.
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More national TV games mean more people watching the Kings outside of our local fanbase which translates to more recognition for our players and coaches when they perform well, more chances to see them participate in All-Star and Team USA related activities, and perhaps (if you're inclined to believe in this sort of thing) fairer treatment from the officials at some point. That's why I care about it.
 
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QWERTYLICIOUS

Starter
#36
#36
hrdboild said:
More national TV games mean more people watching the Kings outside of our local fanbase which translates to more recognition for our players and coaches when they perform well, more chances to see them participate in All-Star and Team USA related activities, and perhaps (if you're inclined to believe in this sort of thing) fairer treatment from the officials at some point. That's why I care about it.
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