[Game] 22/82: Kings vs. Rockets 03 DEC 2024, 7pm PT/10pm ET

[Tetsujin]

LOL clear path foul with four seconds left

 

[pdxKingsFan]

lol take foul with 4 seconds.

 

[HndsmCelt]

More beef than a Chris’s Steakhouse out there tonight

 

[Krunker]

Glad I stayed up for this one (on an east coast trip). Awesome to get a W!

 

[SacTownKid]

Good win. Now time to build on it. Please, Kings coaches, give Domas a little more credit from here on and let him defend.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Hot take: those "Light the Beam" chants don't hit the same when you're three games under .500 at home.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Light the Beam!

 

[dude12]

Haha…Rockets weren’t getting the calls like the Kings usually don’t and they imploded. Udoka and Brooks are douches and Sengun is soft

 

[pdxKingsFan]

He got the full Davion treatment!

Does that mean we're sending him and a second rounder to Toronto?

You never go full Davion.

 

[SLAB]

We needed this even more than that Minnesota game. Now for the love of god build on it.

Monk in the starting lineup probably should have happened from day 1 in retrospect.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Unloaded the bench except for Keon. owwies.

don’t know how I feel about it but that series of plays against Spurs he had was muy terrible

 

[PurpleHaze]

 

[coolhandluke]

Nice win with good sharing of the ball and nice energy on defense.

Consistency is key though. Scored just 24 points in the fourth after dropping 42 in the third. Don't take the foot off the pedal.

 

[gunks]

Kayte: Keegan is laughing.

Cutaway to stone faced Keegan.

Made me laugh.

Blink and you miss it haha

 

[Tetsujin]

don’t know how I feel about it but that series of plays against Spurs he had was muy terrible

Also with Kev playing good and Mike keeping one of Malik or Fox on the court at all times, there was really no where for him to play in the tightened rotation tonight.

 

[iowamcnabb]

So we got a bunch of technicals, guys getting thrown out, Angry Fox, Splash brother Keegan and a Kiss Cam BJ all in one game.

 

[Caccia]

We needed this even more than that Minnesota game. Now for the love of god build on it.

Monk in the starting lineup probably should have happened from day 1 in retrospect.

I concur.

 

[SacTownKid]

Malik with a big assist night, both he and Fox are going to have plenty of those ahead if the C rotation is Domas and Jones. You can pretty much throw the ball out of a catapult and they'll wrangle it in. That might be the best combination of hands at C in the NBA.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Does that mean we're sending him and a second rounder to Toronto?

You never go full Davion.

I was against it, I was wrong.

 

[coolhandluke]

Haha…Rockets weren’t getting the calls like the Kings usually don’t and they imploded. Udoka and Brooks are douches and Sengun is soft

 

[Kingz19]

Best win of the season

It was needed. Vs one of the hottest teams that is a tough stylistic matchup.

Also, they responding very well to a physical game with their most balanced team performance of the season.

Nice to see Keegan and Huerter put together good games, and on the same night.

Monk 12 assists 0 turnovers. Offensively the returns are very good from moving him to the starting lineup.

Isaac Jones is awesome. Gets better on both ends every game. Gets after every shot and always in the middle of the action. Can cover a lot of ground and he’s been the first true rim runner the Kings have had since getting Domas. Also, the most athletic forward seeing regular minutes since Metu. As odd as it sounds, the Kings never adequately replaced Metu

Let’s hope they can keep it going

 

[Caccia]

Hard to believe, seeing how hard he was working, but Keegan Murray played 40 minutes tonight.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

"We Gettin' Arab Money" Cup update:

Six teams went into the final day of pool play 0-3, two of the 0-3 teams played each other (Pacers and Raptors), meaning that there was guaranteed to be at least one team to get their first win.

There ended up being two: Toronto and Sacramento. Charlotte, Indiana, Washington and Utah all finished pool play winless.

Nobody got the poll question right.

 

[megapoxy]

I don't know if those 33 assists are season high, but they were against the team that allows the least assists (21 if i remember well when that card was shown during a timeout) in the league.
We lost the rebounds battle by far, but for a change we shot better from 3 and had way less turnovers than usual.

 

[Kingster]

The game turned in the Kings' favor because Fox and Malik especially decided to tough it out and go over every single screen. This resulted in a ton of fouls against Houston because of their illegal screens and at that point the Kings had them exactly where they wanted them.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

don’t know how I feel about it but that series of plays against Spurs he had was muy terrible

He knows what he did wrong and isn't likely to do it again. They don't need to ruin any confidence he had going, by removing him from the rotation.

Would be stupid to do that to a valuable defender and shooter like him. The guy just hit 9 threes in a game a while back, when nobody else could shoot

 

[Caccia]

The game turned in the Kings' favor because Fox and Malik especially decided to tough it out and go over every single screen. This resulted in a ton of fouls against Houston because of their illegal screens and at that point the Kings had them exactly where they wanted them.

I was really surprised that the referees called all those offensive fouls. Mike Brown, in his pregame comments, talked about how teams like the Knicks establish a physical "style" of play early in the season; the referees then just put the physical play down to the way that team operates and they get away with a lot of slapping, pushing, and illegal screens.

 

[iowamcnabb]

He knows what he did wrong and isn't likely to do it again. They don't need to ruin any confidence he had going, by removing him from the rotation.

Would be stupid to do that to a valuable defender and shooter like him. The guy just hit 9 threes in a game a while back, when nobody else could shoot

yeh I think it was 20 percent punishment and 80 percent circumstance. Huerter had it going and Keegan was playing well so the minutes dried up tonight.

 

[TaxMan]

Well, that was fun. Let’s hope this is a turning point but will take a nice little streak to get me totally believing. I LOVE Malik in the starting lineup. Not necessarily because he is a starter but because brown is now actually playing him big minutes. If we can get good shooting from Huerter off the bench this is definitely the way to move foreword. That starting 5 is crazy good offensively if we can get things gelling.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Rocket fans very big mad over on the birdie site.