[Game] 07/82: Kings @ Nuggets 03 NOV 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

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Padrino said:
It's such terrible roster construction and lineup management if your goal is to win, which is what the goal seems to be. Domas is not a great defender, so the point of attack needs to be locked down to prevent Domas from overextending himself at the rim, where he's not remotely effective as a deterrent.

The most ridiculous part of this is that the Kings actually have a bunch of strong perimeter defenders. They just don't give them consistent minutes. And they rarely play them together.

Carter
Ellis
Nique
Murray
Sabonis

That's not a winning starting unit in the West, but it's a lineup that understands how to compensate for some of Sabonis' weaknesses as a defender by keeping him from having to cover every single blow-by. Obviously, Keegan is still out injured, and that has a larger impact than it should on the Kings' ability to perform at all defensively. But when he returns, we're still likely to see regular use of lineups that ultimately funnel the opposition to the rim, where Domas gets exposed and embarrassed.
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Agreed. There are must haves to help protect Domas having to do something that he’s just not good at which is rim and paint protection. Yes, he is very good on the boards and facilitating and depending on matchup, can score in the paint. But if you don’t provide the pieces on the floor to help him defensively, what’s the point in having him.
It’s another piece of the mismatched roster parts. Good players on this team but we refuse to put it together for the better of the team. Effing hard to watch games knowing that we will give it up with the all iso ball closing lineup.
 
dude12 said:
Agreed. There are must haves to help protect Domas having to do something that he’s just not good at which is rim and paint protection. Yes, he is very good on the boards and facilitating and depending on matchup, can score in the paint. But if you don’t provide the pieces on the floor to help him defensively, what’s the point in having him.
It’s another piece of the mismatched roster parts. Good players on this team but we refuse to put it together for the better of the team. Effing hard to watch games knowing that we will give it up with the all iso ball closing lineup.
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Agreed. I wanted to rebuild around Sabonis, but every day pursued in chasing the Holy Grail of 40 wins is increasing the probability he eventually gets traded.
 
ESP47 said:
Carter comes in, has one of the best defensive stops of the night on Murray, gets completely ignored on offense and gets sent to the shadow realm. Awesome treatment of your lottery pick. And for what? So Schroder could get subbed back in? It's just insanity.
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All the young guys are pretty much waived off by the vets. Nique has gotten the same thing this year as well. He shoots more than Carter but this was kind of his "hometown" game and he was still an afterthought. Even Carter got more opportunity in Boston last year than what Nique got. As is, I'm not even sure at this point what the plan will be with development. I don't think there is one TBH. This isn't a two timelines thing the way they're running this. It's like push the kid to the corner and if they struggle in 4 minutes to the bench they go. This is Dave Joerger all over again. This is how you repeatedly just go, "Dang, the Kings don't know how to draft." Wrong, even a totally blind idiot would hit on something at some point. It's what they do with it, not the it they've got. Clearly.
 
It looks like Malik Monk will be back in the rotation tomorrow night. That should help take the pressure off the starters, though of course it may not help get minutes for Ellis, Clifford, and Carter. In any case, the starters were playing too many minutes the past two games.
 
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