[Game] Kings @ Suns, 11/11/2024, 5pm PST/ 8 pm EST

[Capt. Factorial]

You can avoid a transition take foul if you tackle the guy who stole the ball from you before he can get to it.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Dam we really need Monk in the line up. Hope the spray is not bad. We can get him back soon.

 

[Kingz19]

Brown with a trust the player challenge

Those don’t usually have a high success rate

 

[Capt. Factorial]

"Why not?" is a bad strategy for using your challenge

 

[Tetsujin]

Just open three after open three for Phoenix

A lot of them are coming off of Nurk moving screens that aren’t called. And the rest are just terrible defense

 

[Bfreeman]

Kev is on FEED him been a long time since I’ve felt this way.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

It has to be a Mike Brown thing. More than one coach has done the same things.

Try something different. Have Brown be the offensive coordinator and Christie defensive coordinator.

For a guy who was supposedly a defensive guy, Brown has never impressed me at all there

 

[Sluggah]

Jobbed

 

[Tetsujin]

Keegan hit a three

 

[Bfreeman]

They look a little rougher than they should this far into the season. They might win this game but the worst perimeter defense and the worst 3pt % is not a winning combination.

 

[The_Jamal]

Huerter is playing incredible basketball the last 6 minutes here. Locking down on defense, hit those 2 3's.

 

[Tetsujin]

Not sure why we’re playing exclusively drop all of a sudden

 

[Kingz19]

Domas made a business decision there

 

[Tetsujin]

We were playing drop with Trey at the five. The only big we should be playing drop with on our roster is Alex Len.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Not going to give Fox a pass for his sloppiness, but can't help but wonder how much of his 0 assist night on Friday was due to his teammates not being able to throw it in the ocean?

 

[SacTownKid]

Decent run. Now if the refs call out these moving screens from the Suns on almost EVERY PICK AND ROLL this will be over.

 

[The_Jamal]

Joined here late, nice to see a little run.

-Huerter was freaking good that last 6, looks like he's carrying our shooting. 14-5-3-2 in the 1H is damn good
-Fox 5 ast, 0 TO. Very good
-Domas usual stat line
-DDR 4-12 shooting? What's up there?

 

[Bfreeman]

Monk ankle injury really hurts us.

 

[Tetsujin]

Joined here late, nice to see a little run.

-Huerter was freaking good that last 6, looks like he's carrying our shooting. 14-5-3-2 in the 1H is damn good
-Fox 5 ast, 0 TO. Very good
-Domas usual stat line
-DDR 4-12 shooting? What's up there?

Dunn’s had some good defensive possessions but most of Demar’s shots have just been easy misses

 

[The_Jamal]

Not going to give Fox a pass for his sloppiness, but can't help but wonder how much of his 0 assist night on Friday was due to his teammates not being able to throw it in the ocean?

Was posted in the last game thread that Fox's potential assists are still pretty good, dropped by about 1 from the previous season. But literally across the board, the Kings are shooting about 6-8% worse from 3, where Fox does a lot of his playmaking. Add in DDR taking some possessions, pretty well explains the AST numbers.

 

[Remi]

what baffles me - all team has only 4 personal fouls...that's no defense sign.
Sabonis had 10 points in 1st quarter and only 2 in 2nd, means team didnt use him - team instead has opened brick factory and started to throw them in.

 

[SacTownKid]

They look a little rougher than they should this far into the season. They might win this game but the worst perimeter defense and the worst 3pt % is not a winning combination.

They have to realize that maybe working from the inside out on offense is better than outside in. Mostly through pick and and even post play. Hopefully it's still just them finding themselves but like Keegan with that 3, in transition where no defenders are near you? Fine, launch. The issues are still quick shooting off of some of the DHO actions. That's a 50/50 bet when this teams offense with DDR should be much higher yield.

 

[Tetsujin]

what baffles me - all team has only 4 personal fouls...that's no defense sign.
Sabonis had 10 points in 1st quarter and only 2 in 2nd, means team didnt use him - team instead has opened brick factory and started to throw them in.

Team was using him. The Suns just started having to shade towards him more which led to a bunch of good open looks for the other guys in the lineup.

 

[hrdboild]

Hmm, just 4 FTA combined at the half for two teams which are ranked 7th and 10th in the league in FTA per game. We should see more in the second half but how much more I wonder?

 

[iowamcnabb]

This Sun’s offense is Mike’s wet dream. Touch the paint and spray for threes. Luckily the Suns didn’t hit them at an absurd rate. Things look decent on offense for us too, deebo short on a bunch of his looks.

 

[Kingz19]

Hmm, just 4 FTA combined at the half for two teams which are ranked 7th and 10th in the league in FTA per game. We should see more in the second half but how much more I wonder?

No KD would explain it on the Phoenix side. And we’re allowing a lot of open threes and they’re taking them.

 

[The_Jamal]

This Sun’s offense is Mike’s wet dream. Touch the paint and spray for threes. Luckily the Suns didn’t hit them at an absurd rate. Things look decent on offense for us too, deebo short on a bunch of his looks.

Pretty amazing that even with a bad 4-12 from DDR, just shooting "bad" from 3 at 31%, we still drop 60 in the half. This offense has all the potential in the world to be elite; we just haven't been able to put everything together.

 

[megapoxy]

Mark Jones mentioned that Bill Kennedy is a Phoenix resident, is it a trend to play a host with a referee from the area after that Miami match?

 

[The_Jamal]

Oh boy, sprained ankle for Monk. Jmac/Colby Jones time.

 

[The_Jamal]

Maybe I'm just keenly aware of it this season. But Fox with ANOTHER in and out jumper.