sactowndog
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If they had the talent they wouldn’t be as many games under .500. You are what your record says you are.
[Game] 21/82: Kings vs. Spurs 01 DEC 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET
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If they had the talent they wouldn’t be as many games under .500. You are what your record says you are.
Well he'll probably get 2-3 billion dollar expansion fee if not more x2 when they add Seattle and Vegas especially if they get some other chump city to up the bidding.
TaxMan
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Can’t believe I’m already at the point of both the 49ers and Kings season where on a Sunday I had the free time to watch and decided I had better things to do with the family. Checked the score and would have watched on replay if we won but I don’t need this negativity in my life right now. I hope they turn things around and I get excited about the season again.
iowamcnabb
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This had all the makings of a get right game. Ball movement was awesome, we made our 3s, Keegan looked better, IJ had a coming out party. Instead we have to dig our hearts out of our stomachs. When does the team just start losing confidence that this turns?
What else needs to be said than this? People think 3pt defense is why we lost this game? This is NBA officiating right here. One team has to play with their hand tied behind their back and we wonder why they keep losing.
Caccia
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Another close loss. I missed most of the game spending time with family and had to follow the play-by-play. There were some definite positives going forward:
1) Malik Monk had his first start for the Kings and shot 50% from three and 50% from the field with seven rebounds and six assists. The starting unit looked strong overall until Sabonis got in late foul trouble.
2) Isaac Jones had a breakout game.
3) Five Kings scored in double figures.
4) DeMar DeRozan came back and scored a team-high 28 points on 50% shooting.
5) The Kings had only 10 turnovers against 31 assists.
1) Malik Monk had his first start for the Kings and shot 50% from three and 50% from the field with seven rebounds and six assists. The starting unit looked strong overall until Sabonis got in late foul trouble.
2) Isaac Jones had a breakout game.
3) Five Kings scored in double figures.
4) DeMar DeRozan came back and scored a team-high 28 points on 50% shooting.
5) The Kings had only 10 turnovers against 31 assists.
I know but I've seen enough all season plus the Wemby play to know something is rotten. I don't even care about refs in a game like Portland we played like butt and deserved to get killed but this is not right. I am going to quit watching.
So, you want us to believe that this team is less talented than last year's team, when the only significant personnel move is replacing Harrison Barnes with DeMar DeRozan? You're saying that change results in the Kings being less talented?
LPKingsFan
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It stinks but Fox’s contract is going to force the issue if this team doesn’t start competing soon.
It was an absolutely awesome game played by the Kings in every way except one. Unfortunately that one negative is the only thing people want to talk about. And yes, I know, that 3pt defense from the Kings is a problem. I've never said it wasn't a problem just that I'm not going to harp on about it when the Kings are actually winning. But the Kings lost this game by 2pts so I guess the flood gates are open.
iowamcnabb
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We have the Grizzlies, Rockets and Spurs up next. If we go 0-3 someone is getting fired or demoted.
I’m being super Debbie downer right now but this team is a 3 game winning streak from completely flipping the season but how do we get there?
I’m being super Debbie downer right now but this team is a 3 game winning streak from completely flipping the season but how do we get there?
sactowndog
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We got smaller this year and worse from 3 while everyone in the west got better. This team is wholly on Monte and his inability to get length on the team and balance this roster. Multiple years of drafting older smaller players in the lottery is coming home to roost.
iowamcnabb
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honestly it’s probably just going to be his decision if he is traded. He won’t be getting the all nba selection if this season continues this way. I would think he would wait to the offseason to request a trade if that happens. Ugh
SacTownKid
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Infreakingsane.
ShastaKingsFan
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As a coach, you change the defensive scheme like 8 games ago. Then you make a commitment to it, by sitting guys down for a bit, if they sag off and leave their man open at the 3 pt line.
coolhandluke
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This call should have been challenged. Don't know what the Kings assistants were doing.
SacTownKid
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And if you switch, you SWITCH! The entire point of a switch is to maintain man to man. Every year the switches turn right back into help. It literally defeats the entire purpose of switching, lol. I mean you're literally better off just going under every screen.
sactowndog
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We were a 10th place team last year who is playing worse and others got better. The changes we made did nothing to address our issues.
The problem with saying, "I'm not going to harp on what the Kings are doing wrong, if they're winning" is that that take only ages well if the Kings actually win.
The Kings were outplayed for 36 out of 48 minutes; the signs were there the whole time, and going "Why are y'all tripping? We're up!" while the lead is steadily evaporating is daring the universe to laugh at you.
PorchSurfin
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Yay!!! We suck again!!
iowamcnabb
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it seems worth trying. Some of their threes we were the 30 foot variety, 5 of them wet by the dumb 7’4 alien that you can’t really guard and some were contested. The problem is that’s the first thing on the scouting report “ kings give up the 3”. Guys shoot with confidence, a few go down and then it’s a problem all game. 3 point shooting is provably 80 percent mental. We need to change that comfort level or they will continue to make them, even the ones we play good defense on
ShastaKingsFan
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The freaky gumby guy didn't win this game. It was leaving other shooters open, time and again. Reduce that and you can survive big games from top individuals
Well, he basically did, but it's the old adage of "Accept he'll get his, but don't get beat by his teammates"
Champagnie: 19 points on 10 shots
Keldon: 17 points on 10 shots
Vassell: 21 points on 12 shots.
12-21 on 3's with this trio.
Just horrific.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
- That's not an answer to the question I asked.
- Fact Check: The Kings weren't a tenth-place team, they were a ninth-place team. But more to the point, we weren't talking about standings, we were talking about record. And if the Kings were three games above .500 this year, they'd still be a ninth-place team, so the standings are not an accurate reflection of whether your team is good or not, especially when a 9-9 team is above the play-in line in the other conference.
SacTownKid
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So Domas helping over was his call? No, sorry, common sense, if you switch you pressure the pass. Any player knows that.
So, he threw the players under the bus?
SacTownKid
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I didn't see it, but sure sounds like it. That has to be taken out of context. It doesn't sound like him.
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