Kings @ Lakers Game Thread 1/1, 7:30 p.m. PST

[casspion]

You just need to defend the three point line so Udoka is pressing Pau the last guy who will shhot the three and they leave Kobe with Sergio...My gosh.This was not a game for the lakers to win. Helping Kobe add to his resume a game winning shot that shouldn't have been there.

 

[Luv4Kings]

That was an epic chokejob.

Hold on. Let's remember we won 17 games last year, and we are playing without 3 key players against the world champs and STILL could have won that game.

 

[rhythmless]

No matter what, Ime makes both FTs, we win. So..

Slice it any way you want, Kings lost the game. Period. Lakers couldn't have won if Kings took care of business. They didn't.

If Kobe's foot was out of bounds, dont you think Westphal et al would have been up in arms?

 

[Aenadin]

PHANTOM CALLS.... just sucked really

 

[rainmaker]

If you look at th replay, kobe forearms Sergio out of the way. Thats not a clean pick.

Sergio has to toughen the **** up.

 

[Rockmeister]

no matter what, ime makes both fts, we win. So..

Exactly

 

[king07]

how many games like this have we blown this year, gotta be in double digits now...

 

[kingsnation]

Then to let Bryant get completely wide-open with not a single Kings player w/in ten feet of him. Nothing to do with being too young - how about being fundamentally weak on defense in crunch time.

Or Kobe pushing off?

 

[ockingsfan]

kobe was out of bounds... you can see the referees looking right at his feet and they ignore it....

also kobe shoulder blocked/ pushed sergio to the ground... the refs just turned the other way...

the the nba really wants the lakers to win at any cost, it is really sickening to watch....

 

[Kings Faithful]

"We need to learn how to win these games". Sorry Westphal, it isn't going to happen until we get a money making megastar on the team. Otherwise Stern won't even give this team a chance to win. Its like ****ing WWE out their.

 

[reyes13]

how come knowone notices kobe's elbows? Sergio got screened out by his own player? Come on?!

 

[SacKings384]

Hold on. Let's remember we won 17 games last year, and we are playing without 3 key players against the world champs and STILL could have won that game.

That doesn't make it any less of a choke. Just because "Hey we wouldn't even be in those games last year" doesn't mean that they can choke away games and get a pass.

 

[Aenadin]

Hold on. Let's remember we won 17 games last year, and we are playing without 3 key players against the world champs and STILL could have won that game.

hence i stand by my opinion that they should give their rings back... if the kings can take it to them with out their key players they dont deserve those rings...

 

[Andre87]

Kobe wasn't left open - he pushed himself open - big difference

come on it was hardly a push
we had that game in our hands and lost it plain and simple as always

 

[piksi]

Sergio has to toughen the **** up.

doesn't make it any less of a push

 

[rhythmless]

Sergio has to toughen the **** up.

Seriously, don't you just love all the people pointing fingers at refs, Kobe, Lakers, blah blah?

Kings lost. Find a way to win. Don't give other teams a way to beat you.

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

I hate this ****ing cheating league.
We were up 2 with 40 seconds left and they crooked refs bailed out the Lakers with that bull**** call on Shannon Brown. Not to mention if you breath on Kobe its a shooting foul. This league is so damn currupt it makes me sick. That POS David Stern just got another Kobe highlight to make money off of, thats all it is. Everything went his way.

Yes, the call on JT was big time bailout BS. Brown just drove, JT backed off and Brown loss control and fell. The refs had to find a way to let the lakers stay in the game.

 

[steelevt]

westphal screwed us too with the inbounds timeout. hawes was on a breakaway.

why are so many people so quick to blame the coach for this. if he didnt call a time out and there was a violation, you would have blamed him too for not calling a time out. there's no way he would have known hawes would break away.

 

[swisshh]

I watched the game. Sorry, it wasn't just on Sergio and I am really getting tired of all the Sergio bashes.

The Sergio bashing is probably from the euro haters.

 

[SacTownKid]

My my, how far we've come! From worst team in the league to being "chokers" against the world champs??? Hahahaha. C'mon, this team of youngsters just took the Lakers to the limit in LA and gave them hell for the 2nd time in the last couple of weeks WITHOUT their two best players.

Oh yeah, and they had to have the help of the refs again!

 

[Luv4Kings]

why are so many people so quick to blame the coach for this. if he didnt call a time out and there was a violation, you would have blamed him too for not calling a time out. there's no way he would have known hawes would break away.

And Hawes was open because his defender saw the timeout call.

 

[OptimusRhyme]

this was probably the worst starting to a year in my life.

 

[reyes13]

can't wait till boston works them

 

[rainmaker]

doesn't make it any less of a push

But that stuff is never called at the end of games. Right or wrong. Sergio went 10 ft in hte opposite direction. You can't allow yourself to get pushed completely out of the play like that.

 

[Rockmeister]

The Sergio bashing is probably from the euro haters.

Its really starting to get VERY OLD.

 

[piksi]

come on it was hardly a push
we had that game in our hands and lost it plain and simple as always

look at the tape. It was a clear push. Kobe's arms are moving in Sergio's direction. A push can't be more clear than that. There is no such thing as "hardly a push" - is is push or it isn't a push and this clearly, clearly was a push. If it was Casspi instead of Kobe it would have been called and it would have been a good call

 

[Daniela]

Kobe got away with several elbows tonight including the one to Sergio for the game winning 3. However, JT and Udoka making their FT's would have won the game for us. Both games against the Lakers were ours to win, and they were ours to lose.

 

[Kings Faithful]

Seriously, don't you just love all the people pointing fingers at refs, Kobe, Lakers, blah blah?

Kings lost. Find a way to win. Don't give other teams a way to beat you.

It's impossible. We can't win, other than the occasional mercy game that the Stern decides to go easy on us.

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

No matter what, Ime makes both FTs, we win. So..

Yes thats true... but it doesn't make the forearm push off by kobe a clean play. Thats like saying to a murder victim that if he didn't show up at that place then he wouldn't have been killed.

 

[LWP777]

this was probably the worst starting to a decade in my life.

fyp....