[Game] 53/82: Kings vs. Clippers 06 FEB 2026, 7pm PT/10pm ET (Prime Video)

[HndsmCelt]

Problem is that Sabonis is not best playing outside the paint. Not a real shooting threat. Could have maybe been an option back in the day when teams were not obsessed with spacing.

Put a good stretch 4 with Cardwell and you've potentially got a front line fit

Good point. Again, I don’t I think card is likely to end up in the starting lineup, but I do foresee a legitimate chance that you’re going to be depending on starting duos of Biggs that are less defined in terms of position. With precious having the outside shot and the ability to shop, he is the largest choice to play with Sabonis. Despite the card brings stronger presence to the paint lol

 

[BuddyBuckets]

Because you want time for Max also.

Why cant they both play 30? Keegan and domas shouldn't see the floor again this season. Want to keep giving demar, russ, lavine 20 a game, fine.

30 cardwell
30 maxime
30 nique
25 carter
25 monk
25 hunter
20 lavine
20 russ
20 demar
15 precious

 

[BuddyBuckets]

He's dangerously close to being there, which is actually pretty insane considering where he started offensively this year. Had some really tough finishes tonight: a Richaun Holmes push shot, a nice half hook feed from Dev, a PnR finish from Russ. And he's absolutely lethal on the offensive glass, LAC could not put a body on him which is a real form of offensive skill in itself.

The beauty of Cardwell is he just has to be and stay very efficient with his limited touches to justify staying on the floor. His defense, rim protection and rebounding are so good, I don't ever care if he can't be a 15+ PPG guy. He's already over 60% TS (again, madness for where he started) and a 10% USG rate. That'll go up after tonight. 8-10 PPG, 63-65% TS, 11-13% USG, 65-70% FT (this is a big one, so he's viable to be a crunch time player).

This exactly. I dont care about ppg for him. Hes doesnt ever need a play ran for him. He can get 6-12ppg on lobs, paint clean up, and random dump offs.

Main thing is just making sure he continues to grow and get more confident. He can anchor a defense. When is the last time we could say that about a player?

 

[BuddyBuckets]

It's not out of the question, if you have real NBA scoring talent at the 1-4 positions with him

My ideal team is
Shot blocking center
Keegan murray
Super star forward
3&D 2
Oversized Uber athletic pg who can do it all.

Then you have 2-3 guys who can score on the bench (including a maxime type of scoring big)

 

[NewArena]

Man i hope we get a top 2-3 pick. Kings fans deserve it

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

This exactly. I dont care about ppg for him. Hes doesnt ever need a play ran for him. He can get 6-12ppg on lobs, paint clean up, and random dump offs.

Main thing is just making sure he continues to grow and get more confident. He can anchor a defense. When is the last time we could say that about a player?

I'd have to go all the way back to Ron Artest on the Kings, for a real defensive anchor....and he did that from the 3 position

 

[NewArena]

I'd have to go all the way back to Ron Artest on the Kings, for a real defensive anchor....and he did that from the 3 position

We were 18-24 when we traded for Ron in January. Lost the next two games and still won 44 games for the season. I’ll never freaking forget it

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

Man i hope we get a top 2-3 pick. Kings fans deserve it

Why "top 2-3", though, and not "top 1"?

 

[Remi]

Man i hope we get a top 2-3 pick. Kings fans deserve it

And Kings office will do a crap thing.... Look at the history...

 

[KingsRUs]

And Kings office will do a crap thing.... Look at the history...

This draft is such where you can throw a dart at the board and not screw up too badly, unless you mean trade

 

[Krunker]

Our losing streak has brought up comparisons to the 12 game losing streak in 1998 with the likes of Mitch Richmond, Olden Polynice, Corliss, and Anthony Johnson. But then next season we got J-Dubb and CWebb, so I have similar hope for our next season! Also, we are bad but not nearly as unwatchable as that 1991 team that lost 40 games on the road. Now that I think about it, we have a lot of similarities (no identity, no defense, no 3 point shooting) but in my mind that team seemed to be the worst of Sac Kings history.

 

[MizzouKing]

Ask and you shall receive as I sit here over a post game snack and think about things I would call this the best of all possible losses. Assuming one is OK with losses. Plowden looks confident and pretty much being ready in his limited playtime. Harder rate Hunter as he went out with an injury, but honestly color Me Unimpressed so far. Max seems to be getting back in the groove and definitely was a bargain where we picked him and probably will be starting material at some point in not too few. This future great moves and instincts just undersized underweight in a tad slow in the reflex department. My favorite guy out there of course is Dylan Cardwell. He wa suburb. This number is alone 1515 and I don’t know how many blocks will tell you what the eye also spots and that’s it. This is a guy that has no fear and incredible instinct in quick hands. Whatever limitations this game has the quick hands in quick reflexes will help and continue to grow into being a real legit threat. I don’t think it’s ever been a scoring beast but that’s OK right? He is incredible. Fun to watch. Clifford looks good actually kind of easy to ignore out there this was my big take from the fourth quarter watching these guys play with Malik Mike who they clearly respect and love. These guys like playing with each other and it shows my two cents the one player on that squad that you don’t ever want to lose if you expect those kids to play well is Malik, but that’s just my opinion. Finally the good the band the ugly on Devon Carter and she used to pull some bone head moves and hesitate to shoot. I really appreciate it Dougie putting him back in showing some faith and sure enough in responding. The energy. And defensive focus in that fourth quarter cannot be overstated. I actually kind of felt bad for the people that walked out in the last 2 to 5 minutes because although they did miss a complete comeback what they did miss with some of the best play of the whole night. I’m not gonna bother to talk about the old vets just because I think that’s been hashed out over and over again on this board.

Thanks for the inside perspective! If Carter can learn to dribble just a little less I think he'll be on the right track. I love that we still have Monk and that he vibes so well with our young core. Add a couple of draft picks and the future looks bright!

 

[Warhawk]

This draft is such where you can throw a dart at the board and not screw up too badly, unless you mean trade

If any team would find a way, it would be us.

 

[MizzouKing]

Man i hope we get a top 2-3 pick. Kings fans deserve it

...and I feel like we finally have a front office that wouldn't screw it up!

 

[NiNetNiNe]

We were 18-24 when we traded for Ron in January. Lost the next two games and still won 44 games for the season. I’ll never freaking forget it

One of my favorite iterations of the Kings was the Artest/Wells duo. They were just beating teams up.

 

[ESP47]

The young guys are way, way more entertaining to watch than the vets. Play hard, share the ball, grow their game.

Yep that was one of the more watchable games of the season for me. Especially the second half.

The young guys still fully defer to the vets when they're on the floor with them but we finally got to see guys like Carter show off some skills when the vets were off the floor. This team should have been doing exactly this for the last couple months.

 

[Jdbraver137]

I didn’t watch the game is Hunter as bad as his stat line?

 

[Warhawk]

Yep that was one of the more watchable games of the season for me. Especially the second half.

The young guys still fully defer to the vets when they're on the floor with them but we finally got to see guys like Carter show off some skills when the vets were off the floor. This team should have been doing exactly this for the last couple months.

I may have to start watching games again if they are competitive. Those earlier games were abysmal. I wasn't going to waste my time.

 

[The_Jamal]

I didn’t watch the game is Hunter as bad as his stat line?

Hes been horrible on offense. At least attempts to play defense though and his length really does play a factor. Hes been an upgrade there.

But yeah, he cant buy a bucket right now

 

[eleventy]

We were 18-24 when we traded for Ron in January. Lost the next two games and still won 44 games for the season. I’ll never freaking forget it

i've heard a story about that artest-wells team that i wonder if anyone knows if it is true:

wells became a free agent after his half-season in sacramento and the Kings offered him something like $35 mil over 4 years and wells turned it down to test the open market.

"supposedly", artest went to management and (supposedly) said, "whatever you have to pay him to keep him (wells), just do it and take the money off of my contract"

anyone know if this is//was true?

in the end, the Kings did not negotiate, wells got no offers and signed a two year deal with houston for 2 mil per year.

he then stopped caring, the rockets traded him to new orleans, he went to china and played a handful of games before they asked him to leave, went back to the nba and signed (and was waived) by Minnesota and i think that's how his career ended.

anyone know if there is any truth to this?

i've heard that he is second on the "left most money on the table" list (to latrell sprewell, who turned down bigger money from minnesota and never got another offer).