16/82: Kings @ Clippers 22 NOV 2024, 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET

[HndsmCelt]

Once again, I’m impressed with the kings energy and sense of late in the fourth quarter when they’re down. I wondered where this has been for three and a half wusrters my

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Needed a wide open one from Murray.....and couldn't get it

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Kings have a minute to break the Law™.

 

[Spike]

Once again, I’m impressed with the kings energy and sense of late in the fourth quarter when they’re down. I wondered where this has been for three and a half wusrters my

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Once again, I’m impressed with the kings energy and sense of late in the fourth quarter when they’re down. I wondered where this has been for three and a half wusrters my

Kings are a good team, just not good enough to give their opponents a 20-point head start. Their first quarter preparation has to be addressed.

 

[KF8]

blue print to beating the kings. Clog paint let them kill themselves shooting 3 pointers.

 

[The_Jamal]

Key to next game; Don't spot the other team 23 points in the 1H

 

[PurpleHaze]

The NBA has always been like this. Only play real hard 4th quarter and see if can come back from the hole you dug yourself in. Kings just good enough to climb back into a lot of these games but not good enough to win a lot of them - more like 50-50 bet. Which might mean they are 41-41 team this season at best - hopefully not.

 

[SacTownKid]

Once again, I’m impressed with the kings energy and sense of late in the fourth quarter when they’re down. I wondered where this has been for three and a half wusrters my

This is a sign of what the team is now. They have to understand that they are a team that can't likely afford to get down 20+. They aren't a super explosive team anymore. The good news is they have the iso chops to not have to rely on gamble 3's to get going which is why they were down early in the first place. They're kind of stuck in between the team they were year 1, and the team they need to be in year 3.

 

[coolhandluke]

Enough bricks to build the Clippers another stadium.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

blue print to beating the kings. Clog paint let them kill themselves shooting 3 pointers.

of which ironically, is the opposite of what they need to do defensively

 

[iowamcnabb]

Key to next game; Don't spot the other team 23 points in the 1H

That’s 3 straight games with huge deficits. The other two we explained away due to injuries, now what?

 

[KF8]

Monk couldn't come back soon enough. We need his shooting.

 

[The_Jamal]

"standout" stats here:

Huerter: 0-5, 0-4 from 3. Ouch.

DDR: 0-5 from 3, 4-8 FTA. Ouch.

Keon and Lyles combined 1-7 shooting for 4 points. Ouch

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

This is a sign of what the team is now. They have to understand that they are a team that can't likely afford to get down 20+. They aren't a super explosive team anymore. The good news is they have the iso chops to not have to rely on gamble 3's to get going which is why they were down early in the first place. They're kind of stuck in between the team they were year 1, and the team they need to be in year 3.

It's weird. What is so different about this team's offensive capability as compared to the 22/23 team.

I would argue the biggest difference is Murray and Huerter not hitting shots

 

[coolhandluke]

Kings are so massively underachieving, it's frustrating.

 

[PorchSurfin]

Key to next game; Don't spot the other team 23 points in the 1H

Maybe don't start Heurter and play him so much.

Edit. Start Keon and tell the Jamal to ride someone else's nuts.

 

[megapoxy]

Los Angeles Clippelicans for us this season. Can't hit a shot against them.

 

[hrdboild]

I probably should just turn these games off when there's 3 minutes left and we're down by 10. It's pretty much a guarantee that every shot from then on will be a 3pt attempt and I just can't abide that as an offensive concept. It feels to me like we're playing Pop-A-Shot out there not actual basketball.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

... And I don't think our travel schedule has been easy at all, with 2 road B-B, an incredibly stupid ATL-TOR B-B and then back to Miami. Pretty sure we had a 5in 7 thrown in there too.

Hell, I'd forgotten about the travel: the Kings have played three games in four nights three times this month and just kicked off their fourth such stretch. Ain't no way that SOS takes that into account.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

I probably should just turn these games off when there's 3 minutes left and we're down by 10. It's pretty much a guarantee that every shot from then on will be a 3pt attempt and I just can't abide that as an offensive concept. It feels to me like we're playing Pop-A-Shot out there not actual basketball.

It's a live and die by the 3 team. That's a Mike Brown mandate

 

[sactowndog]

"standout" stats here:

Huerter: 0-5, 0-4 from 3. Ouch.

DDR: 0-5 from 3, 4-8 FTA. Ouch.

Keon and Lyles combined 1-7 shooting for 4 points. Ouch

well the critics said the Kings were too small to defend and not good enough from 3. We all thought Keon and Keegan would prove them wrong.

 

[coolhandluke]

I probably should just turn these games off when there's 3 minutes left and we're down by 10. It's pretty much a guarantee that every shot from then on will be a 3pt attempt and I just can't abide that as an offensive concept. It feels to me like we're playing Pop-A-Shot out there not actual basketball.

100% this. Take the open two, chip the lead down.

 

[iowamcnabb]

59-53 in the second half is better and the clips piled on a few points at the end to make it closer but we can’t keep digging ourselves out of big holes

 

[SacTownKid]

It's weird. What is so different about this team's offensive capability as compared to the 22/23 team.

I would argue the biggest difference is Murray and Huerter not hitting shots

Yeah, the difference is some teams really figured out that DHO. The Pels just flat out took it away in the play in last year. Some teams do, some don't. The encouraging thing is the Kings know this. Hence the directive on more draw and kick where spot 3's are as much the goal as anything. The Kings will eventually find some groove but until then they have to keep a very controlled offense. They can't afford to take bad shots. Not like they once could and even that said, the ceiling was limited to first round fodder at it's peak.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

LOL. Deuce just told Morgan that she was still young, the last time the Kings scored less than 30 points in a half. He's not going to hear the end of this

 

[The_Jamal]

That’s 3 straight games with huge deficits. The other two we explained away due to injuries, now what?

I think most of it goes back to the freaking inability to shoot. Clippers shot 23.8% from 3 tonight... and WE STILL SOMEHOW WERE -3 IN 3PM AND SHOT 20%.

This offense and team has to find someone who can put the ball in the basket. Keegan was 2-5 tonight, that's better... but the non Keegan/Domas 3PA were 3-25 combined.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Kings are so massively underachieving, it's frustrating.

Exactly how good do you think the Kings are supposed to be?

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Yeah, the difference is some teams really figured out that DHO. The Pels just flat out took it away in the play in last year. Some teams do, some don't. The encouraging thing is the Kings know this. Hence the directive on more draw and kick where spot 3's are as much the goal as anything. The Kings will eventually find some groove but until then they have to keep a very controlled offense. They can't afford to take bad shots. Not like they once could and even that said, the ceiling was limited to first round fodder at it's peak.

The Warriors took it away first, in that series

 

[coolhandluke]

59-53 in the second half is better and the clips piled on a few points at the end to make it closer but we can’t keep digging ourselves out of big holes

Sorry, the Kings shouldn't be playing for moral wins at this point. 59-53 is abysmal playing a third string Clips team.