[Game] 66/82: Kings vs. Pacers 10 MAR 2026, 7pm PT/10pm ET

[ShastaKingsFan]

What blows my mind is Vivek can sit courtside game after game and no one boos him. No one starts a sell the team chant. Nothing. Maybe Sacramento fans are too soft. In all my years as a 49er fan Jed York has been ravaged by the fans. He’s been thoroughly embarassed on national television. As an A’s fan we had plenty of signs in the stadium, boycotted games, etc. is Vivek untouchable here in sac, no matter how bad he screws this up?

Well, like tonight for example. He gets personalities like Joey from nSynch to help light the beam. How can anyone question that?

 

[luckytkp]

I am all for tanking, but I dont know what else we could do tonight to get a lost. Went back to Russ in clutch time? I mean we were playing two guards shooting less than 20% from threes.

 

[fansinceday1]

I am all for tanking, but I dont know what else we could do tonight to get a lost. Went back to Russ in clutch time? I mean we were playing two guards shooting less than 20% from threes.

If the kings were serious about tanking they would have bought out Russ and sent him packing. Cut derozans minutes back to nothing and not played monk. Was that not possible?

 

[Section 101]

Because the other team wanted him to and did not have NBA defenders.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL, one of your favorite defenders was on him Nesmith.

 

[Tetsujin]

If the kings were serious about tanking they would have bought out Russ and sent him packing. Cut derozans minutes back to nothing and not played monk. Was that not possible?

I’m confused. I thought the point of tanking was to lose

 

[BuddyBuckets]

Can you honestly say, looking at Carter, Clifford, Hayes, Plowden, and Raynaud after the game, that it was meaningless to them?

I could explain once again why winning is important for young players, but it would not change your mind, or the minds of most of the fans here, so why bother?

We are lucky if 2 of these guys end up being bench players when we are next relevant. Next year if our #7 pick is leading us to victories ill sing a different tune.

 

[BuddyBuckets]

What blows my mind is Vivek can sit courtside game after game and no one boos him. No one starts a sell the team chant. Nothing. Maybe Sacramento fans are too soft. In all my years as a 49er fan Jed York has been ravaged by the fans. He’s been thoroughly embarassed on national television. As an A’s fan we had plenty of signs in the stadium, boycotted games, etc. is Vivek untouchable here in sac, no matter how bad he screws this up?

He saved the team and is eternally praised because of it. I mean thankfully he stepped up. But that grace has worn off as far as im concerned.
He will raise ticket prices in the face of a 15 win season after he destroyed this team with Zach lavine, and fans will continue gobbling it up.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

What blows my mind is Vivek can sit courtside game after game and no one boos him. No one starts a sell the team chant. Nothing. Maybe Sacramento fans are too soft. In all my years as a 49er fan Jed York has been ravaged by the fans. He’s been thoroughly embarassed on national television. As an A’s fan we had plenty of signs in the stadium, boycotted games, etc. is Vivek untouchable here in sac, no matter how bad he screws this up?

I met him in person once, and found him to be an insincere schmoozer. Certainly he has not done a good job of stewarding the team.

But - and this pays all! - Sacramento has one major professional sports team almost solely due to him. I am not so foolish as to even consider booing the man that saved the Kings, however I might think of him otherwise, and so long as he keeps the team in Sacramento that will not change. You can be sure that most Kings fans who know the history feel the same, and give him the respect he deserves for making the Kings remain the Sacramento Kings against all odds.

 

[The_Jamal]

Because the other team wanted him to and did not have NBA defenders.

Are you suggesting the Pacers intentionally lost the game?

 

[Tetsujin]

Are you suggesting the Pacers intentionally lost the game?

They ended the game playing 4 out of their 5 “starters” and were trying to cool Devin off by guarding him with Nesmith and Sheppard (I.e. their two actual NBA grade good defenders). The problem was that they kept missing the rim by half a foot on all the open threes they were chucking.

 

[The_Jamal]

They ended the game playing 4 out of their 5 “starters” and were trying to cool Devin off by guarding him with Nesmith and Sheppard (I.e. their two actual NBA grade good defenders). The problem was that they kept missing the rim by half a foot on all the open threes they were chucking.

I missed this one, but its pretty hilarious spin to try and make 24 points in 16 minutes from Dev somehow a negative.

The only negative is why the hell is he only playing 16 minutes

 

[SLAB]

I’m personally most excited about that new and exciting 20% shot we have at the six seed. I’m all for blowing out our tank before Silver does whatever mad hack fix we have.

This franchise sucks lol

 

[sactowndog]

Ben Sheppard and Aaron Nesmith literally were big minutes guys for the Pacers’ final run last season.

Yes I saw. I also saw the Pacers willingly give up a 20 point lead. Carters points were not translatable to a real game.

 

[sactowndog]

I’m personally most excited about that new and exciting 20% shot we have at the six seed. I’m all for blowing out our tank before Silver does whatever mad hack fix we have.

This franchise sucks lol

Yeah glad the Clippers will have a better pick than us.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Of all the games to have this take: Achiuwa only played twenty minutes, Westbrook and DeRozan didn't play in the final sixteen minutes, Monk didn't play in the second half. Christie played the guys he's "supposed" to play if you want the team to lose, and they won anyway. I'm not sure what else he could have done, short of telling the kids to miss shots on purpose?

 

[The_Jamal]

Yes I saw. I also saw the Pacers willingly give up a 20 point lead. Carters points were not translatable to a real game.

So you'd tell Carlisle to his face that he told his team to throw the game? Or how about every single Pacer that played last night? Would you tell them they willingly lost that game?

 

[The_Jamal]

Of all the games to have this take: Achiuwa only played twenty minutes, Westbrook and DeRozan didn't play in the final sixteen minutes, Monk didn't play in the second half. Christie played the guys he's "supposed" to play if you want the team to lose, and they won anyway. I'm not sure what else he could have done, short of telling the kids to miss shots on purpose?

Thats exactly what he's suggesting we should have done. And he's also suggesting the Pacers willingly threw the game and blew the lead on purpose. Which, is a pretty serious accusation on Carlilse that he's telling his guys IN GAME to lose

 

[ESP47]

How did Carter score 24 in 16 minutes sheesh

He didn't have to play along side of Russ, DDR or Monk.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Thats exactly what he's suggesting we should have done. And he's also suggesting the Pacers willingly threw the game and blew the lead on purpose. Which, is a pretty serious accusation on Carlilse that he's telling his guys IN GAME to lose

Well, at the risk of playing devil's Advocate, I don't think that Carlisle told his team to lose, per se, but it did feel like there was about a 6-8 minute stretch during the Kings' comeback where the Pacers were exclusively shooting threes unless they were butt-naked open around the rim. And, if Carlisle didn't order the Code Red, he certainly seemed to be okay with his team doing that.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Or.....
Carter went off. Showing the potential that we all hoped for. There are zero bums in the nba. Zero. Scoring 24 points in 16 min is a great feat. Novody lets you score in the NBA period.

If we are going to win, this is how it should be. Only thing im mad at is the 16 min. Play the kid, start the kid and bench these old bums. Enough already.

Then if we win so be it. We not getting 1st pick and kings will win 10 games in a row to close season out no matter what. Its just what we do

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Switching gears, it looks like half the poll respondents are big Alexander Graham Bell fans... Would have been more than half, if @QWERTYLICIOUS could read...

I've been posting in the super-secret mod forum the events that don't make the cut for the final poll: I'm kicking around the idea of adding that here, but I'm non-committal.

 

[Tetsujin]

Well, at the risk of playing devil's Advocate, I don't think that Carlisle told his team to lose, per se, but it did feel like there was about a 6-8 minute stretch during the Kings' comeback where the Pacers were exclusively shooting threes unless they were butt-naked open around the rim. And, if Carlisle didn't order the Code Red, he certainly seemed to be okay with his team doing that.

To be fair, that’s been their entire offense since Carlisle got hired. It’s just Nesmith and random dudes are taking those threes instead of Haliburton and Siakam right now

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

To be fair, that’s been their entire offense since Carlisle got hired. It’s just Nesmith and random dudes are taking those threes instead of Haliburton and Siakam right now

Touché.

 

[The_Jamal]

Or.....
Carter went off. Showing the potential that we all hoped for. There are zero bums in the nba. Zero. Scoring 24 points in 16 min is a great feat. Novody lets you score in the NBA period.

If we are going to win, this is how it should be. Only thing im mad at is the 16 min. Play the kid, start the kid and bench these old bums. Enough already.

Then if we win so be it. We not getting 1st pick and kings will win 10 games in a row to close season out no matter what. Its just what we do

Yeah, the Russ triple doubles games are inexcusable at this point in the year.

Carter going off, Max with another big double double. Thats where you just put your hands up and say it is what it is. Don't have to like it, but its acceptable