[Game] Kings @ Clippers - 4/7/12

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swisshh

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#71
As bad as the Kings have played, the Clippers should be ahead by a lot more. This is the worst zone I've seen by people of legal voting age that I can remember. Jimmer can't even play decent zone D right now.
 
kingjatt

kingjatt

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#73
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rainmaker said:
Smart isn't that Smart. He pulled this crap a month ago as well. No penalty for not playing defense either.
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i think he gets a pass because he's a likeable guy and actually runs a system, but you touch on a good point, with a young team you need accountability and discipline. at some point the buddy buddy i dont want anyones feelings hurt needs to go and he needs to play and grow our best guys. having reke it cuz or mt not playing most or all of the 4th will stunt there growth.
 
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Npliam

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swisshh said:
As bad as the Kings have played, the Clippers should be ahead by a lot more. This is the worst zone I've seen by people of legal voting age that I can remember. Jimmer can't even play decent zone D right now.
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Ha Ha Ha Yep, Jimmer keeps letting the bigs have uncontested dunks.
 
rainmaker

rainmaker

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kingjatt said:
i think he gets a pass because he's a likeable guy and actually runs a system, but you touch on a good point, with a young team you need accountability and discipline. at some point the buddy buddy i dont want anyones feelings hurt needs to go and he needs to play and grow our best guys. having reke it cuz or mt not playing most or all of the 4th will stunt there growth.
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Just sick of Smart ignoring poor defense from the same guys, going zone to cover it which isn't working, and then just letting them gun away as if defense doesn't even matter. On top of it, our best players aside from Cuz, IT/Reke are on pace to play below 25 mins while neither is in any kind of foul trouble.

It's asinine.
 
VF21

VF21

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Whatever Smart had in mind, it seems to have worked. We've closed the gap considerably. I think honestly some of you get so wrapped up in watching minutes you forget to watch the game.
 
rainmaker

rainmaker

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#84
#84
Cuz 21 mins

Reke 12mins
IT 13mins

Donte 12mins
TWill 14mins
Jimmer 9mins
Outlaw 10mins

Uh, why aren't a healthy IT and Reke much closer to Cuz in terms of mins? Why are IT/Reke getting comparable mins to our bench players? TWill played well, but as a SF that should have zero impact on IT/Reke. Run IT/Reke/TWill together.

Why is Smart giving Cuz the mins he deserves, yet not doing the same with IT/Reke? Big time favoritism in that lock room.
 
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swisshh

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Well IT wasn't really doing much in the 1st quarter. Reke was scoring but blowing some layups, too. The other part of why they had less minutes is because Jimmer was hitting all his shots and TWill was playing very well. The issue is all the minutes for Cisco when he looked lost out there and wasn't hitting much of anything.
 
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The_Jamal

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rainmaker said:
Cuz 21 mins

Reke 12mins
IT 13mins

Donte 12mins
TWill 14mins
Jimmer 9mins
Outlaw 10mins

Uh, why aren't a healthy IT and Reke much closer to Cuz in terms of mins? Why are IT/Reke getting comparable mins to our bench players? TWill played well, but as a SF that should have zero impact on IT/Reke. Run IT/Reke/TWill together.

Why is Smart giving Cuz the mins he deserves, yet not doing the same with IT/Reke? Big time favoritism in that lock room.
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Were you watching the defense that IT and Reke were playing in the 1st? It was downright pathetic.

Plus, Williams and Jimmer played great in the 2nd quarter. Smart made the right move
 
rainmaker

rainmaker

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#88
swisshh said:
Well IT wasn't really doing much in the 1st quarter. Reke was scoring but blowing some layups, too. The other part of why they had less minutes is because Jimmer was hitting all his shots and TWill was playing very well. The issue is all the minutes for Cisco when he looked lost out there and wasn't hitting much of anything.
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I might agree if it wasn't happening so frequently.

Oh well, still another half. Only down 5.
 
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