whitechocolate
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The Kings are just warming up for their next win streak.
[Game] 40/82 Kings @ Buckaroos 14 JAN 2025, 5pm Pacific 8pm Eastern
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Double-K
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Yep. Just because ESPN has stopped caring for Giannis in Milwaukee, that doesn't mean he has stopped being a superstar.
iowamcnabb
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came up grabbing the shoulder after the drive
megapoxy
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He managed to get enough money from the NBA Cup to buy his mom a house in Iowa I believe, it was a story written in Greek media that since the Cup matches started, Giannis promised him that and after every game he was reminding him that "1 game closer to buy a house" and so on...
Never saw him play before to be honest.
SacTownKid
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7 game win streak came to a close on 1 bad quarter. Can't complain. Keep grinding. The rest of the season is just that, a grind.
SacTownKid
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If it ain't hanging, it's fine. This is the other thing, every twinge dudes going to feel it. That's the way it goes.
iowamcnabb
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yeh that upcoming stretch of games they flashed on the screen is brutal. A hover around .500 and you feel pretty good kinda stretch.
Double-K
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Hmmm that's eye opening. They still found a way to outscore their opponents in the latter half of the game. They just couldn't erase the early-game deficit.
twslam07
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The Bucks are a really tough matchup for us. Their greatest strength (Giannis) just so happens to line up with our biggest weakness (not having a big, long, athletic PF that can defend and space the floor). Not to mention having a very big, long C (Lopez) and another big, long PF (Portis) compounds that size/length issue more for us.
iowamcnabb
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I actually thought Keegan did well against Giannis. We probably should have gone to that earlier.
twslam07
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Yeah he did have a couple of good defensive possessions against him towards the end.
iowamcnabb
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Giannis is so hard to guard because it takes 3 steps for him to get to the basket from the perimeter and then he is so strong that he is likely to get fouled. Kings tried sagging off him early but he made every mid range shot. He also passed out of the post well and his shooters made the threes when they counted. That’s why a team with him on it is always in contention
Srzly
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Agree. Actually wish DC would have made that switch much sooner. Domas on Giannis wasn’t going well for us. I don’t think we switched to Keegan until the 4th quarter and he did really well on him.
That first quarter was brutal.
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sactowndog
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I think there is a wide gap between using Domas and LeBron. Not having a larger stronger front court is a problem and has been one for a long time.
sactowndog
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yeah I didn’t understand the Ellis Huerter line-ups nor the Fox Carter line-up. It seemed neither line-up was complementary.
Double-K
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I mean, honestly, despite our winning streak, it is clear that there is still a big-defensive-wing-shape hole that we need to fill.
SacTownKid
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The Kings held Giannis pretty close to his averages. It was the fact that Lopez and Dame hit tough shots that sealed it. Keon did about as good as you could on Dame and it didn't matter much of the time.
SacTownKid
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Lets see. The Kings seemed to fill it for 3 out of 4 quarters. This is a long term thing, see what shakes out.
sactowndog
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Bucks are a long team and we don’t have the length to have multiple guys spend time on Giannis. I was also surprised Fox didn’t spend much time guarding Dame.
Joshyjosh31
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The only player I feel confident that the three will go in is Keon needs to be playing 30+ minutes enough with the Huerter nonsense
iowamcnabb
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that’s interesting, he’s from Davenport home of Ricky Davis, hadn’t even heard of him. Talk about good luck landing on the team that wins the cup and you get a check that will likely exceed your nba career earnings.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
It was last game. Keep watching.
sactowndog
All-Star
Kings had a 122.7 defensive rating over 2 games. Washington is last at 118.6.
the roadtrip was very good. But our defense these last two games was not good.
sactowndog
All-Star
yep. Problem is when reach the play-offs you have a lot of teams like that.
megapoxy
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Yeah, he didnt get the full paycheck. two-way players got half the amount if I remember correctly but it would be enough.
Huerter defensive rating today would be close to 200. Still he is not the one to blame for the lose. At one point in Q1 he was playing something like point guard for 3-4 possessions in a row.
Kevin, Lyles and Carter at some point were the only ones with double digit negative +/- and we were down by 25 or something.
Joshyjosh31
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It’s not about having a Gianni’s stopper it’s actually having a body to put on him and not you third string center that’s absolutely wild
SacTownKid
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People acting like Giannis went for 50, lol.
kingsboi
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also, you only play him twice a season
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