[Game] 33/82 Kings vs Mavericks 7pm PT, 10pm ET 12/30/2024

[Caccia]

Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II (left hip contusion) has been downgraded to out against the Sacramento Kings.

— Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) December 31, 2024

Do the Mavs actually have enough guys left to field a team?

Minimum is five players, so yes. Only five guys are out, plus they have two-way players that can be called up.

We may see one of my favorites tonight, Kessler Edwards!

 

[bball_nomad]

Now or never. Signing DDR was a disaster. Assigning DDR to the bench - well Doug, do or die.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Now or never. Signing DDR was a disaster. Assigning DDR to the bench - well Doug, do or die.

Brown tried that allegedly

 

[Tetsujin]

Kings and Mavs starters for tonight in Sacramento pic.twitter.com/dh0UQiZBlK

— Sean Cunningham (@SeanCunningham) December 31, 2024

 

[GWD]

Not that impressed with seeing Monk starting. Maybe Doug is making changes slowly rather than ripping the Band Aid off.

 

[iowamcnabb]

This would have been a good game to give Devin some run but I get it.

 

[megapoxy]

This would have been a good game to give Devin some run but I get it.

Maybe we could loan him to the Mavs just for tonight?

 

[The_Jamal]

Not that impressed with seeing Monk starting. Maybe Doug is making changes slowly rather than ripping the Band Aid off.

We have 3 days off betwen the Jan 6th game vs Miami and the Jan 10th game vs Bos. Wouldn't expect too many changes until then and he gets a few practices and time to implement some new stuff

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Not that impressed with seeing Monk starting. Maybe Doug is making changes slowly rather than ripping the Band Aid off.

Why are you expecting a lineup change? The analytics back the change but the analytics back Ellis playing more and that hasn’t happened either

 

[megapoxy]

In the broadcast they had the card with Len starting... I guess they forgot to change it from the Pistons match.

 

[The_Jamal]

Whatever happens, don't let Jaden Hardy go off. I don't think i could handle sactowndog victory lapping his one good career pro game

 

[HndsmCelt]

Go Kings. Let’s turn that ship around right now.!

 

[The_Jamal]

Fox and Domas immedaitely clamp down on D. Good sign

 

[Tetsujin]

Malik doing his best to force himself back to the bench tonight

 

[The_Jamal]

DDR and falling asleep in the paint on D. Name a better duo

 

[The_Jamal]

What the **** man. Of course

 

[Tetsujin]

De’Aaron defended Dinwiddie perfectly only for him to drain the three anyways lol

 

[The_Jamal]

We left PJ open for 1 3. Otherwise it's Dinwiddie, chucking, contested 3's and hitting them

Cursed

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Just no explanation for how every three goes in against us even when we do contest it. None at all.

 

[megapoxy]

It took us 3.30" to leave a wide open 3, usually it's 30" after the game starts... progress!

 

[iowamcnabb]

Happy New Year everybody?

 

[SacTownKid]

The D isn't that bad on pick and roll, the overhelp is a bad habit they'll have to break. This is actually looking like a pretty bad matchup for the Kings guards, a lot of beefy G's for the Mavs. At some point, no defenders, can't defend.

 

[iowamcnabb]

The D isn't that bad on pick and roll, the overhelp is a bad habit they'll have to break. This is actually looking like a pretty bad matchup for the Kings guards, a lot of beefy G's for the Mavs. At some point, no defenders, can't defend.

we have the same offensive and defensive coordinator and the same guy setting the rotations. Gotta scrap the whole thing

 

[Tetsujin]

Jesus Christ Malik

 

[The_Jamal]

Wtf just happened??

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Wtf just happened??

Monk taketh away

 

[SLAB]

lol Monk wow

 

[Tetsujin]

Keon apparently don’t want to start either

 

[SLAB]

I didn’t like Brown. But it’s the players. Blow it up.

 

[Kingz19]

Threes for everyone