Schedule caught up with Kings who lost 5 out of the last 6 games. Still winless in 2010 Kings dropped to 14-19 for the season. Once great home record dropped to 11-7 as Kings lost 4 out of the last 5 home games. With few days rest and regrouping time Kings well look to re energize in a 2 game week hosting the Suns and playing the Warriors in Oakland.
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Being shorthanded playing against top teams 5 on 8 is very difficult and Kings did well for the most part. It became clear that we aren't there yet in terms of having a winning season and even getting close to the playoff spots. We are too weak up front and we lack depth in the back court - quality wise. Additionally, we have pieces which don't really fit. I do expect us to look better after the trade deadline and to be even better during the summer or before the training camp. Next season Kings will compete for the playoffs. This season we can enjoy being competitive against everybody at all times but that is about it. One thing we unfortunately can't control are injuries and we can export them because the abundance is off the chart.
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Writing the NBA rule book is the biggest waste of time since internet was invented. No one follows them. Why have them in the first place ? Any time you hear the phrase - "they don't call that at this stage of the game" - you have to ask yourself - why bother having the rules ? NBA is turning into "wrestling" where everything is scripted. You know ho will win - you just don't know how. Our problem is that in the whole "wrestling world" we are the "anonymous guy" who gets beat up in the process of main characters getting where they need to be in order to maximize profit. NBA is certainly not a sport organization. I was sitting in a hotel room during my short vacation waiting to show Kings highlights of the Denver game which I didn't watch and didn't know the score at the time. In the one minute clip they showed 95% Nuggets & Mello and one Kings basket. I thought we lost by 50. When I saw the score I used very bad language towards the BSPN. WTF ?
And if You think that one day - Evans will get all those calls that Kobe, Lebron and others get - think again. Webber fouled out so many times in big playoff games. It is not how good you are - it is where you play and how much money can Mr Stern get.
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Whit this kind of refereeing Mr. Stern can forget his NBA Europe. It is different world when it comes to sports. People over there don't like to be robbed and fooled when they pay good money to watch something. You add the "professional fandom" to that equation and you can only imagine all sorts of problems. I have seen in person police and once even military police escort the guest and the referees out of the city limits after the host was "robbed." And that was at an unimportant women basketball game in a fairly small city. I have also seen police officers in uniform and in civil clothes attacking the referees when Drazen Petrovic and his team won on the road. And that city wasn't Athens or Istanbul or Madrid or Tel Aviv. We are talking about crazy crazy people that show up to the stadium 2 days before the game and stay 2 days after. In Euro League - You don't win much on the road and you certainly don't have a winning road record very often if ever mostly because the referees like to live.
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I don't like Mavs and never will but You have t give Cuban credit to keeping that team on highest level at all costs. While he probably will never win it all for obvious reasons - Mavs have been to almost as often as the Spurs. Yet again they have a great veteran team and coach, playing very good defense and while they won't win it all - they will be right there o be robbed by "Heat" again. I don't like them but they deserve respect.
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Will we ever seen Thompson and Hawes play well at the same time. It is always one or the other. Hawes was better last night that JT was in LA which isn't all that hard but it was bad again. When You go from 30-11-5 to 9-4-2 - very disappointing. Is it a mental thing or is it just a fact that jump shooting center will oscillate like that - I don't know. I do however know that in order for us to be good - we need both of them playing well at the same time every time.
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Sergio Rodriguez is the 4th or 5th best PG that Spain has. There are currently at least 10 PGs playing in Europe which are better than he is. Only reson why he was successful over there is his speed which is off the charts for Europe but in the NBA - just average. His shooting and decision making have always been questioned and defensively his is couple levels below Mike Bibby. He is a "temp" in a Kings team going places. He is just playing here until we get someone better which won't be difficult. He is cheep too. We just have to live with it for a little bit.
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Kings couldn't handle the situation last night. Physically and emotionally drained from the LA robbery they had no chance against a veteran team well rested and ready to play. Kings put up the fight but an uphill battle was just too much. We allowed way too many layups and easy baskets. Turned the ball over too much and just missed shots all night long. When Jason Kidd shoots 6-7 from the field - Mavs won't lose often.
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AWARD TIME
TDM - As expected Barea won it in the first quarter. Scored 7 points above is average and hurt us pretty bad in the 2nd quarter run that won Mavs the game. Our own Drew Gooden came close 2nd.
LW-VC - Dampier did not abuse us
JHA - Hawes - frustrating inconsistancy
MIKKI - Sergio
SAR - Metuselah - Shawn Marion - what happened to him ?
RA&1 - Jason Terry
Jax/Walk - Udoka
DC-DT goes to Evans. He has been playing on one leg as well as he can.
WTF moment of the game - lose ball in the 2nd half. Terry and Rodriguez are going after it. Terry fouls him twice. I go in the kitchen to get a drink and when I came back - Terry is shooting free throew. I spilled the drink all over me
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Suns are next and first problem for us is the fact that they were trashed by Grizzlies at home where they lost by 25 despite the game never being that close to begin with. On the other side - we surely can beat a team which gets trashed by the Grizzlies at home by 25. Both teams have few days off. Neither team defends well so we can expect lots of points. Kings will have to play slower pace in order to win this one because if we get caught up on the 3pt shooting contest we will lose.
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My key matchups for Tuesday night
Hawes vs. Frye - which center will shoot and hit more threes ?
Udrih vs Dragic - real vs fake Slovenian
Barbosa vs Amudsen vs TDM - Barbosa used to be lock of all locks for the TDM bur our own Amudsen will be fired up
Amudsen vs Brockman - I want to see it
Sergio vs Kingsfans.com - will he finally be blamed for the global warming ?
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Evans - has to initiate offense much quicker
Udrih - keep it up
Casspi - class
Hawes - twice in a row was too much to ask
Thompson - bounced back as expected
Udoka - do what you know how
Sergio - this isn't Europe
Brockman - more minutes please
Greene - I wish he was smarter
Noc - trade please
rest - mateen
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Suns are 21-13 and 8-10 on the road. Had a great start of the season. Seem to play top teams great but lose against "lower" opponents. That is where we come in. They play what they can and know how. If You get caught up in that - You will lose. Amudsen gets the TDM, LW-VC better goes to Frye in order for us to win the game. Hill will get his SAR-Metuselah one way or the other. We need to stop this slide but if we don't - that is why we have the Nuggers for.
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Being shorthanded playing against top teams 5 on 8 is very difficult and Kings did well for the most part. It became clear that we aren't there yet in terms of having a winning season and even getting close to the playoff spots. We are too weak up front and we lack depth in the back court - quality wise. Additionally, we have pieces which don't really fit. I do expect us to look better after the trade deadline and to be even better during the summer or before the training camp. Next season Kings will compete for the playoffs. This season we can enjoy being competitive against everybody at all times but that is about it. One thing we unfortunately can't control are injuries and we can export them because the abundance is off the chart.
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Writing the NBA rule book is the biggest waste of time since internet was invented. No one follows them. Why have them in the first place ? Any time you hear the phrase - "they don't call that at this stage of the game" - you have to ask yourself - why bother having the rules ? NBA is turning into "wrestling" where everything is scripted. You know ho will win - you just don't know how. Our problem is that in the whole "wrestling world" we are the "anonymous guy" who gets beat up in the process of main characters getting where they need to be in order to maximize profit. NBA is certainly not a sport organization. I was sitting in a hotel room during my short vacation waiting to show Kings highlights of the Denver game which I didn't watch and didn't know the score at the time. In the one minute clip they showed 95% Nuggets & Mello and one Kings basket. I thought we lost by 50. When I saw the score I used very bad language towards the BSPN. WTF ?
And if You think that one day - Evans will get all those calls that Kobe, Lebron and others get - think again. Webber fouled out so many times in big playoff games. It is not how good you are - it is where you play and how much money can Mr Stern get.
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Whit this kind of refereeing Mr. Stern can forget his NBA Europe. It is different world when it comes to sports. People over there don't like to be robbed and fooled when they pay good money to watch something. You add the "professional fandom" to that equation and you can only imagine all sorts of problems. I have seen in person police and once even military police escort the guest and the referees out of the city limits after the host was "robbed." And that was at an unimportant women basketball game in a fairly small city. I have also seen police officers in uniform and in civil clothes attacking the referees when Drazen Petrovic and his team won on the road. And that city wasn't Athens or Istanbul or Madrid or Tel Aviv. We are talking about crazy crazy people that show up to the stadium 2 days before the game and stay 2 days after. In Euro League - You don't win much on the road and you certainly don't have a winning road record very often if ever mostly because the referees like to live.
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I don't like Mavs and never will but You have t give Cuban credit to keeping that team on highest level at all costs. While he probably will never win it all for obvious reasons - Mavs have been to almost as often as the Spurs. Yet again they have a great veteran team and coach, playing very good defense and while they won't win it all - they will be right there o be robbed by "Heat" again. I don't like them but they deserve respect.
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Will we ever seen Thompson and Hawes play well at the same time. It is always one or the other. Hawes was better last night that JT was in LA which isn't all that hard but it was bad again. When You go from 30-11-5 to 9-4-2 - very disappointing. Is it a mental thing or is it just a fact that jump shooting center will oscillate like that - I don't know. I do however know that in order for us to be good - we need both of them playing well at the same time every time.
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Sergio Rodriguez is the 4th or 5th best PG that Spain has. There are currently at least 10 PGs playing in Europe which are better than he is. Only reson why he was successful over there is his speed which is off the charts for Europe but in the NBA - just average. His shooting and decision making have always been questioned and defensively his is couple levels below Mike Bibby. He is a "temp" in a Kings team going places. He is just playing here until we get someone better which won't be difficult. He is cheep too. We just have to live with it for a little bit.
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Kings couldn't handle the situation last night. Physically and emotionally drained from the LA robbery they had no chance against a veteran team well rested and ready to play. Kings put up the fight but an uphill battle was just too much. We allowed way too many layups and easy baskets. Turned the ball over too much and just missed shots all night long. When Jason Kidd shoots 6-7 from the field - Mavs won't lose often.
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AWARD TIME
TDM - As expected Barea won it in the first quarter. Scored 7 points above is average and hurt us pretty bad in the 2nd quarter run that won Mavs the game. Our own Drew Gooden came close 2nd.
LW-VC - Dampier did not abuse us
JHA - Hawes - frustrating inconsistancy
MIKKI - Sergio
SAR - Metuselah - Shawn Marion - what happened to him ?
RA&1 - Jason Terry
Jax/Walk - Udoka
DC-DT goes to Evans. He has been playing on one leg as well as he can.
WTF moment of the game - lose ball in the 2nd half. Terry and Rodriguez are going after it. Terry fouls him twice. I go in the kitchen to get a drink and when I came back - Terry is shooting free throew. I spilled the drink all over me
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Suns are next and first problem for us is the fact that they were trashed by Grizzlies at home where they lost by 25 despite the game never being that close to begin with. On the other side - we surely can beat a team which gets trashed by the Grizzlies at home by 25. Both teams have few days off. Neither team defends well so we can expect lots of points. Kings will have to play slower pace in order to win this one because if we get caught up on the 3pt shooting contest we will lose.
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My key matchups for Tuesday night
Hawes vs. Frye - which center will shoot and hit more threes ?
Udrih vs Dragic - real vs fake Slovenian
Barbosa vs Amudsen vs TDM - Barbosa used to be lock of all locks for the TDM bur our own Amudsen will be fired up
Amudsen vs Brockman - I want to see it
Sergio vs Kingsfans.com - will he finally be blamed for the global warming ?
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Evans - has to initiate offense much quicker
Udrih - keep it up
Casspi - class
Hawes - twice in a row was too much to ask
Thompson - bounced back as expected
Udoka - do what you know how
Sergio - this isn't Europe
Brockman - more minutes please
Greene - I wish he was smarter
Noc - trade please
rest - mateen
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Suns are 21-13 and 8-10 on the road. Had a great start of the season. Seem to play top teams great but lose against "lower" opponents. That is where we come in. They play what they can and know how. If You get caught up in that - You will lose. Amudsen gets the TDM, LW-VC better goes to Frye in order for us to win the game. Hill will get his SAR-Metuselah one way or the other. We need to stop this slide but if we don't - that is why we have the Nuggers for.
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