[Game] 76/82: Kings @ Wizards 02 APR 2025, 4pm PT/7pm ET
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Honestly Keon was getting beat all night. He really tends to struggle against physical guards and hard screens. He did try and pull a Devin Carter and flop on the screen, but the difference is Carter smashes right into it, Keon didn't get hit much and got called for the T. lol. I was just wondering why they don't call flopping T's anymore and now they start to? Garbage.
Disagree. What exactly did you want the Kings to do? You had 2 top 20-30 guys in Fox and Sabonis and role players, limited assets and no cap space. You can work around the edges and add more role players, or take a swing at a legitimate scorer? It didn’t work out, but we didn’t break the bank and maintained assets and flexibility.
What are you even saying? Why do I care about other stupid people?
Keon Ellis is a very impactful player, especially on defense, something we are largely very bad at. Which makes his contributions on the floor THAT much more important because we don't get his level of defense anywhere else outside of Keegan and a little bit from guys like LaRavia and Carter.
The smart basketball prognosticators all know how good Keon Ellis is. He's the guy every team wants to steal because he'd make every team significantly better. To say we shouldn't need him to beat an NBA team is ridiculously dumb.
Keon Ellis is a very impactful player, especially on defense, something we are largely very bad at. Which makes his contributions on the floor THAT much more important because we don't get his level of defense anywhere else outside of Keegan and a little bit from guys like LaRavia and Carter.
The smart basketball prognosticators all know how good Keon Ellis is. He's the guy every team wants to steal because he'd make every team significantly better. To say we shouldn't need him to beat an NBA team is ridiculously dumb.
DDR is putting up 22 ppg on 48/35/86 on the year. How did you come to the conclusion that he can’t shoot? This man is legitimately one of the greatest shot makers of all time.
It’s easy to criticize the moves when you have hindsight, but honestly it wasn’t a bad gamble it just didn’t work out. So you go back to the drawing board, it’s what the NBA is.
It’s easy to criticize the moves when you have hindsight, but honestly it wasn’t a bad gamble it just didn’t work out. So you go back to the drawing board, it’s what the NBA is.
From laptop so quite easier to write (got butter fingers also that makes it hard using the handphone)...
I don't think Keon flopped in that screen, he did get a hit, and it is very rare to see a flop given. Saw it once more this season, in favor of Lakers after Redick challenged a "moving screen" called against them (was very wild to be given a flop after the review but hey it's the Lakers, saw much worse things).
It is an irony to challenge a call so early in the game for Keon not to get his 2nd foul as if to protect him and then play him only for so limited time.
The excuse will be "the current unit did a run to come back in the game" which is true but in that possession with the team down by 2, 50 seconds before the end there was only one player covering the whole left are of defense (from 45 degrees to 90, no idea how to describe it properly) and it was Monk that is not the best defender. Christie had a time out, if needed he could have Keon inside, and take a timeout after to sub whoever ego was hurt sitting down on the defense.
Wizards had 9 players available, became 8 cause Holmes was injured, kept Poole outside during the 4th to "develop young" (tank synonym that Kayte used the entire game), kept Sarr out as well they weren't killing time to preserve their win but still we managed to lose with Deebo probably exhausted at the end after his whole effort from the beginning of the 4th quarter.
I have a huge respect for our "famous fan" jumping up and down (noticed her only at the end), if I was living in Sacramento I would have stopped attending matches quite early this season with how frustrating the team performs. There are a whole bunch of issues that go on, the same ones over and over and over again but no matter who the coach is does nothing to make them go away. If Christie will remain the head coach just because he follows whatever the front office tells him to do we are doomed.
I don't think Keon flopped in that screen, he did get a hit, and it is very rare to see a flop given. Saw it once more this season, in favor of Lakers after Redick challenged a "moving screen" called against them (was very wild to be given a flop after the review but hey it's the Lakers, saw much worse things).
It is an irony to challenge a call so early in the game for Keon not to get his 2nd foul as if to protect him and then play him only for so limited time.
The excuse will be "the current unit did a run to come back in the game" which is true but in that possession with the team down by 2, 50 seconds before the end there was only one player covering the whole left are of defense (from 45 degrees to 90, no idea how to describe it properly) and it was Monk that is not the best defender. Christie had a time out, if needed he could have Keon inside, and take a timeout after to sub whoever ego was hurt sitting down on the defense.
Wizards had 9 players available, became 8 cause Holmes was injured, kept Poole outside during the 4th to "develop young" (tank synonym that Kayte used the entire game), kept Sarr out as well they weren't killing time to preserve their win but still we managed to lose with Deebo probably exhausted at the end after his whole effort from the beginning of the 4th quarter.
I have a huge respect for our "famous fan" jumping up and down (noticed her only at the end), if I was living in Sacramento I would have stopped attending matches quite early this season with how frustrating the team performs. There are a whole bunch of issues that go on, the same ones over and over and over again but no matter who the coach is does nothing to make them go away. If Christie will remain the head coach just because he follows whatever the front office tells him to do we are doomed.
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