Season has officially started for most of the teams, some of them start on Friday and Kings season won't start till next Tuesday when we have the home opener against the Sonics. Unfortunately, we will start it with the 0-3 handicap courtesy of the NBA scheduling gods who just can't leave us alone. In case that You still don't know - our NBDL team strengthened with Kevin Martin and John Salmons easily lost in the Big Easy against the solid Hornets squad. It was the cat and mouse game between their starters and whomever we put on the floor. So Kings are 0-1 with 81 long games left to go as bad as the Lakers, going on 0-3 because we will play a back to back in Texas which doesn't include the Rockets. Thanks a lot NBA.
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Damn ! That was my first thought after reading this quote from today's Bee article. But then again - I thought about it some more and then I realize how desperate this attempt was. At least we tried but GP has already fooled too many too often so it is very hard to sell things these days. I have no clue why Hornets would need Thomas but that wouldn't really bother me at all. About a year ago in one of my threads I suggested a trade involving Kenny Thomas and a 6 pack of beer and bag of chips. Some journalist attempted to portrait it as panic exaggeration of the spoiled fans. Well, all I can say now is - good luck getting a bag of chips for him, pal !
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I didn't want to look back this season but I will make sort of an exception (because I can
) On the opening night I saw a part of the Lakers loss (it is so much fun) and Rick was on the bench again. His team defended well for a coach who doesn't preach defense. Rockets are lucky to have him but they aren't the Kings of old and hopefully they will understand it. Princton offense is difficult and requires players with high BB IQ. Most teams are lucky if they have one player with the high BB IQ. Kings were unique because we had 2. Yao is good and he will get better but in some segments of the game he will never be Chris or Vlade. Rockets might struggle ab bit in the beginning but they will eventually get it and they will be there at the end because Rick Adelman will make it happen
Last night it was great to see Bobby and Pedja. I can't help it but I like to see those guys do well most of the nights. Bobby didn't play too well but Pedja was very decent as the game progressed but mainly it is nice to see him somewhat healthy. He can still shoot which Kings apparently didn't know. Pedja is a player made by Sacramento Kings just as Kevin Martin is now. Hopefully, more will come just as good or better.
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Kings are trying to work market hard these days because we need help everywhere. Beno Udrich is one name that has been mentioned and I wouldn't mind but only as a transition to something better. He is a Spurs product which means he has at some point heard of defending and he has also been yelled at before. It is a start. And we don't have a PG right now so if someone can bring in some order - it would be nice.
Also, I am disappointed that Kobe deal didn't go trough the other night. Maybe it will soon. My agenda is obviously getting Ron Artest out of the Kings uniform and whatever it takes - I am fine with it. How bad can a deal be really ? Look at our front line ! We have already been robbed blind. If there is anyone that is retarded enough to take Artest off our hands - we shouldn't think twice because there won't be a second chance here.
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I looked on the national TV schedule and if You disregard the NBATV we have only one appearance only because they have to show Lebron so many times and we happen to be involved. Knowing our luck - Bill Walton will be part of that in some way just to ruin it. We used to be on 20-25 times per season. For some reason they showed the preseason game against Lakers which I caught in a hotel room flipping trough the channels wondering what is going on. Apparently, BSPN run out of stupid poker reruns and decided to actually show some real sports. My point here is (other than the BSPN sucks) is that we will be allowed to suck privately which is all we can ask for.
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We should start a petition for retiring the position of power forward when the Kings are concerned. We don't have any. What we are doing right now is recycling our and someone else's garbage on that position. This must be some sort of weird fetish collecting all useless PF wannabes on one team. Last night they combined for nothing in way too many minutes (I have the stats but they are too damn depressing). Maybe we could help them providing some literature.
either one will do and if that fails we can make Muss give them a power point presentation on how to get paid not to work. I don't really care - I just don't want to watch them anymore.
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Well, the last night's game wasn't what we hoped for because only time that we were competitive was when our best 5 played their 2nd 5 which just isn't enough. We got outplayed and outrebounded. We couldn't stop penetration or close down the shooters. All that talk about defense in the preseason did nothing. Only positive think is that Cisco played a good game.
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AWARD TIME
first award ceremony of the season
TDM award goes to Mo Peterson but it wasn't really strong outing
LW-VC award went to Bobby who had a bad night or maybe he just felt sorry.
JHA award went to SAR who was almost the worst player on the floor
RAand1 award went to Kenny "the garbage" Thomas who played 15 minutes too many.
if this goes on - I will need to come up with a different degree of awards because too many players suck too much at the same time.
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Green - not ready for NBA but it is not his fault that he has to start. Good luck with Tony Parker
Kevin - just stay away from Bowen because if ...
Salmons - keep it up
KT - good help us
Brad - not healthy but at least - trying
Cisco - we have seen this before. Now it is up to him to do it again.
Douby - we need more here
Dawkins - so so
Rest - garbage
RT - very hard for him to work with what he has. At least he didn't irritate me jumping around the baseline attempting to playe defense like You know who. I do expect more.
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Champs are next and it is a good thing. It is the easiest game we can have because we have absolutely nothing to lose except the game which we will. It would have been a great experience for Hawes but he is hurt. We don't really have too many young kids that we are developing which is too bad. Spurs are Spurs. Their front line will abuse ours badly. We won't stop Parker od Flopibili. If we play hard we can keep it close but that is about it.
TDM award will go to Darius Washington because no one has ever heard of him - making him a perfect candidate. Barry will torch us too. All other awards are reserved for our players. First losing streak of the season - here we come.
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Damn ! That was my first thought after reading this quote from today's Bee article. But then again - I thought about it some more and then I realize how desperate this attempt was. At least we tried but GP has already fooled too many too often so it is very hard to sell things these days. I have no clue why Hornets would need Thomas but that wouldn't really bother me at all. About a year ago in one of my threads I suggested a trade involving Kenny Thomas and a 6 pack of beer and bag of chips. Some journalist attempted to portrait it as panic exaggeration of the spoiled fans. Well, all I can say now is - good luck getting a bag of chips for him, pal !
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I didn't want to look back this season but I will make sort of an exception (because I can
) On the opening night I saw a part of the Lakers loss (it is so much fun) and Rick was on the bench again. His team defended well for a coach who doesn't preach defense. Rockets are lucky to have him but they aren't the Kings of old and hopefully they will understand it. Princton offense is difficult and requires players with high BB IQ. Most teams are lucky if they have one player with the high BB IQ. Kings were unique because we had 2. Yao is good and he will get better but in some segments of the game he will never be Chris or Vlade. Rockets might struggle ab bit in the beginning but they will eventually get it and they will be there at the end because Rick Adelman will make it happenLast night it was great to see Bobby and Pedja. I can't help it but I like to see those guys do well most of the nights. Bobby didn't play too well but Pedja was very decent as the game progressed but mainly it is nice to see him somewhat healthy. He can still shoot which Kings apparently didn't know. Pedja is a player made by Sacramento Kings just as Kevin Martin is now. Hopefully, more will come just as good or better.
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Kings are trying to work market hard these days because we need help everywhere. Beno Udrich is one name that has been mentioned and I wouldn't mind but only as a transition to something better. He is a Spurs product which means he has at some point heard of defending and he has also been yelled at before. It is a start. And we don't have a PG right now so if someone can bring in some order - it would be nice.
Also, I am disappointed that Kobe deal didn't go trough the other night. Maybe it will soon. My agenda is obviously getting Ron Artest out of the Kings uniform and whatever it takes - I am fine with it. How bad can a deal be really ? Look at our front line ! We have already been robbed blind. If there is anyone that is retarded enough to take Artest off our hands - we shouldn't think twice because there won't be a second chance here.
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I looked on the national TV schedule and if You disregard the NBATV we have only one appearance only because they have to show Lebron so many times and we happen to be involved. Knowing our luck - Bill Walton will be part of that in some way just to ruin it. We used to be on 20-25 times per season. For some reason they showed the preseason game against Lakers which I caught in a hotel room flipping trough the channels wondering what is going on. Apparently, BSPN run out of stupid poker reruns and decided to actually show some real sports. My point here is (other than the BSPN sucks) is that we will be allowed to suck privately which is all we can ask for.
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We should start a petition for retiring the position of power forward when the Kings are concerned. We don't have any. What we are doing right now is recycling our and someone else's garbage on that position. This must be some sort of weird fetish collecting all useless PF wannabes on one team. Last night they combined for nothing in way too many minutes (I have the stats but they are too damn depressing). Maybe we could help them providing some literature.
either one will do and if that fails we can make Muss give them a power point presentation on how to get paid not to work. I don't really care - I just don't want to watch them anymore.
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Well, the last night's game wasn't what we hoped for because only time that we were competitive was when our best 5 played their 2nd 5 which just isn't enough. We got outplayed and outrebounded. We couldn't stop penetration or close down the shooters. All that talk about defense in the preseason did nothing. Only positive think is that Cisco played a good game.
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AWARD TIME
first award ceremony of the season
TDM award goes to Mo Peterson but it wasn't really strong outing
LW-VC award went to Bobby who had a bad night or maybe he just felt sorry.
JHA award went to SAR who was almost the worst player on the floor
RAand1 award went to Kenny "the garbage" Thomas who played 15 minutes too many.
if this goes on - I will need to come up with a different degree of awards because too many players suck too much at the same time.
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Green - not ready for NBA but it is not his fault that he has to start. Good luck with Tony Parker
Kevin - just stay away from Bowen because if ...
Salmons - keep it up
KT - good help us
Brad - not healthy but at least - trying
Cisco - we have seen this before. Now it is up to him to do it again.
Douby - we need more here
Dawkins - so so
Rest - garbage
RT - very hard for him to work with what he has. At least he didn't irritate me jumping around the baseline attempting to playe defense like You know who. I do expect more.
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Champs are next and it is a good thing. It is the easiest game we can have because we have absolutely nothing to lose except the game which we will. It would have been a great experience for Hawes but he is hurt. We don't really have too many young kids that we are developing which is too bad. Spurs are Spurs. Their front line will abuse ours badly. We won't stop Parker od Flopibili. If we play hard we can keep it close but that is about it.
TDM award will go to Darius Washington because no one has ever heard of him - making him a perfect candidate. Barry will torch us too. All other awards are reserved for our players. First losing streak of the season - here we come.
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