Kings-Lakers 10/17 Game Thread
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I have no idea what SacKings384 means by "I just didn't like his body language at all." He said it a couple of times but didn't explain.
John Salmons did fine last night. If we didn't have him on the court, we wouldn't have won. He pretty much single-handedly stopped the bleeding from Garcia's mistakes that fed into the Laker's 11-0 run.
John Salmons did fine last night. If we didn't have him on the court, we wouldn't have won. He pretty much single-handedly stopped the bleeding from Garcia's mistakes that fed into the Laker's 11-0 run.
Exactly, chalk 1 up for Salmons, without him the Lakers would have beaten us....well at least with the group we had out there. If we really wanted to win, we'd put our starting unit in their to finish them off, but that would be pretty desperate. Well a win against the Lakers anytime is a good thing. 
I don't think Taylor was that bad, he started off with taking a charge and scoring on the other end. This is his 1st game and we are getting him for 90% off of what NY would have payed him (close to 10M). If anyone is going besides the youngings, which I really hope stick, it's Hart, Potato, and/or Woods at this point.
A lot of it with Cisco is lack of confidence and trying to hard (ie taking shots way out of his range, fouling people past the 3 pt line, just bad decisions in general), that stupid ankle injury has really stunted this guy. He was doing great and could have made a good case for Rookie of the year, or at least been in the top few last year. I do like his Defense, he just needs to be smarter about it. His hustle is nice though, I think he'll come around again. It is nice to have a shot blocker here, I hope JWill2 stocks, before him 6' 7" bench Cisco was our lone shot blocker last year.....yeah pretty pathetic. ;-)
I don't think Taylor was that bad, he started off with taking a charge and scoring on the other end. This is his 1st game and we are getting him for 90% off of what NY would have payed him (close to 10M). If anyone is going besides the youngings, which I really hope stick, it's Hart, Potato, and/or Woods at this point.
A lot of it with Cisco is lack of confidence and trying to hard (ie taking shots way out of his range, fouling people past the 3 pt line, just bad decisions in general), that stupid ankle injury has really stunted this guy. He was doing great and could have made a good case for Rookie of the year, or at least been in the top few last year. I do like his Defense, he just needs to be smarter about it. His hustle is nice though, I think he'll come around again. It is nice to have a shot blocker here, I hope JWill2 stocks, before him 6' 7" bench Cisco was our lone shot blocker last year.....yeah pretty pathetic. ;-)
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I understand what he is suggesting. Salmons often had his shoulders slumped between plays, never really looked excited, his eyes would drift like he was unfocused. His general body language would lead you to believe he did not care.
However, his play showed that this might just be how he comes off and not how he acutally feels and acts.
I've seen this at play even in business settings. A couple of our top performers at work were inititally deemed questionable by some people in management, because they would slouch in their chairs and their general demeanor was laid back (think CA surfer cliche); however, when they had a task to do or were part of a project they would give 100% effort and achieve great results.
It is way to early to make any real assessment of Salmons, but this might be the case with him. He may not be the "rah rah cheerleader" type of player who shows a lot of emotions or has a Webber-esque serious "scowl face," but he may be very intense and serious when it comes to actually performing on the court. Obviously, he will ultimatley be judged by his results.
However, his play showed that this might just be how he comes off and not how he acutally feels and acts.
I've seen this at play even in business settings. A couple of our top performers at work were inititally deemed questionable by some people in management, because they would slouch in their chairs and their general demeanor was laid back (think CA surfer cliche); however, when they had a task to do or were part of a project they would give 100% effort and achieve great results.
It is way to early to make any real assessment of Salmons, but this might be the case with him. He may not be the "rah rah cheerleader" type of player who shows a lot of emotions or has a Webber-esque serious "scowl face," but he may be very intense and serious when it comes to actually performing on the court. Obviously, he will ultimatley be judged by his results.
Hopefully that will be different in Sacto. It isn't exactly easy playing alongside AI or coming off the bench for him. I like his versatility in playing the 1 - 3 positions as well as his great Defense. Artest commented on Salmons D and I see it. So people saying he needs to have the ball in his hands to do something are wroung, this guy plays great D.
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