[Game] 41/82 Kings vs. Rockets 16 JAN 2025, 7pm PT/10pm ET

[captain bill]

8-2, 8-1 since we had a practice with Doug. 73 win pace lmao. Beat the champs at home and the #2 team in the west. I’m BEAMing with happiness what a turnaround, just a month ago this current iteration and roster was having its obituary written

 

[Tetsujin]

Like I said to... I think his name was Angelo, last time, this is what winning is like. People only see guys on the top of the summit and think that looks like the most glorious thing ever, yet they never realize the pain and suffering and scrapping by the teeth throughout the journey because they never won before themsleves and had no idea what it takes.

I constantly have to remind myself that it’s been twenty years since the Kings were actually good before this so there’s a whole generation of Kings fans that have no idea how normal seasons of basketball look lol

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

TNT crew gonna stop slurpin the Rockets now that we won?

Well, they've got two guys who played for the Rockets, one of whom won championships with them, so probably not.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Man we need to trade for some of those Rockets lol. There potential is off the charts

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Keegan with 11 rebounds

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

A KINGS WIN ON TNT MEANS JUST ONE THING, KINGS FAM BAM...

LIGHT.
THAT.
MUTHA.
EFFING.
BEAN.



JUST.
MUTHA.
EFFING.
LIGHT.
THAT.
ISH.

 

[Caccia]

Houston is one tough team to beat. They kept coming back and coming back, but the Kings stood tall and made the plays in the last five minutes of the game.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Second night of the back to back didn’t hurt them one bit. 5 straight made threes in the 4th speaks to that. Plus half their roster are practically teeny boppers.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Hope Keon won’t be out too long. Last five minutes were far too stressful but we made our FTs, got officiated fairly, and have now taken 5 straight at home. Surely this will jinx it but Coach Christie is perfect at home which is something we always struggled with under Brown. I hope that’s part of his desire to amend for 2002. Arco was a fortress.

It's a tough road heavy schedule going forward, so it's even more imperative to win home games.

I'll say this though, if Christie gets this team to say 43/44 wins, it will be one hell of a turnaround effort

 

[coolhandluke]

Keegan with an aggressive 18/11 against a long team. More of this, please.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

"It's hard to win 5-on-8." Because the league is trying to fix games for (checks notes)... the Sacramento Kings?

 

[iowamcnabb]

Houston is one tough team to beat. They kept coming back and coming back, but the Kings stood tall and made the plays in the last five minutes of the game.

it’s funny because the guy who in the past has been considered a bad defender was their second best guy tonight ( Big Sumac)

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Shaq with the voice of reason lol. Why is Barkley hating on us today. Be normally loves us

 

[megapoxy]

So after 15 pages worth of people bitching and moaning about Fox, the Kings pretty much only win this game because Dillon Brooks couldn’t defend Fox without fouling him and De’Aaron’s become a good enough FT shooter to make them pay.

They can't ***** about Deebo obviously like some of them had done before.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Enough out of you. If fox played half his potential this game isn't close. Only reason Rockets was even in this game is because of fox.

But winning cures all. Let's celebrate not point the finger at the obvious

Right Fox getting gifted 6 fts to end the game doesn’t mean he did anything

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880126633815994386

 

[megapoxy]

Udoka blaming the refs with "soft as* calls" at the end.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880125177218101561

the refs fouled Sabonis out of the game with like half a quarter left lol

 

[gunks]

Keegan with an aggressive 18/11 against a long team. More of this, please.

He was great tonight

 

[NewArena]

So cool to see Monk and DeRozan going off on national tv, especially. We had a heck of a summer and they’re all finally showing why we felt that. Light it!!!

 

[Double-K]

I constantly have to remind myself that it’s been twenty years since the Kings were actually good before this so there’s a whole generation of Kings fans that have no idea how normal seasons of basketball look lol

Honestly this is why winning is hard. Most people would come to that crossroad between winning by giving up some of the best things in their lives, or losing and keeping their lives intact, and they would choose the latter.

It's just not made for everyone.

 

[Tetsujin]

They can't ***** about Deebo obviously like some of them had done before.

And Keegan had a good game so they couldn’t pivot to that scapegoating option either.

 

[MizzouKing]

Shaq standing up for Doug Christie... how times have changed!

 

[megapoxy]

If we were the Rockets we would be furious with the refs BUT they had so many steals/kick balls that could be called that werent. They foul like 60 times per match, 30 of them are whistled, and they get mad about 20 of them. That's how they've been last season when they couldn't win on the road cause the fouls were called there, yeah they are good defensive team but we couldn't play as hard in defense as them without getting whistles the whole time.

 

[kingsfan_4Life]

it's too bad Keon will be missing some games with that turned ankle

yea that will not improve our odds of winning that's for sure. I didn't see the ankle injury, as I was away for a few minutes, but hopefully it's under 10 games that he misses.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Barkley talking about defense and just ignoring Brown benched our best defender.

 

[whitechocolate]

Enough out of you. If fox played half his potential this game isn't close. Only reason Rockets was even in this game is because of fox.

Strongly disagree. I saw one ineffective player on the Kings getting exploited on defense repeatedly while the Rockets were coming back. Until we have somebody who can move Lyles/Len out of the rotation, focusing on our valuable players is crazy. Fox might not always have a great game. With the guys around him, he shouldn't need to every game. But our frontcourt depth is a constant issue.

 

[Bibby10AZ]

That’s the first time I’ve ever complained about Fox. Dude just seemed not into for a majority of the game

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880128212040314943

 

[LoungeLizard]

No real talk about the game from the TNT crew…just a bunch of nonsense about coaches getting fired/players fault/BBQ chicken etc etc

 

[pdxKingsFan]

If Keon out for a stretch someone refresh me what Carter’s status is? Was tonight rest for the surgery shoulder?