[Game] 80/82: Kings @ Warriors 07 APR 2026, 7pm PT/10pm ET

[Caccia]

I think he’s played more the last two months than he had in the previous two years

Well, he finally had a chance to get in a rhythm and started knocking down threes. Nice to see, with all the injuries.

 

[Tetsujin]

congrats to the Warriors on barely beating a Kings team missing its seven top players and playing a rotation with one guy who was on the roster last season in it

 

[Caccia]

Only 2 more games to go.

Hallelujah!

 

[coolhandluke]

Warriors are getting bounced in the play-in. God, they look terrible. They should have tanked this season.

 

[Tetsujin]

Warriors are getting bounced in the play-in. God, they look terrible. They should have tanked this season.

Their biggest error was believing there was a massive market for Kuminga just waiting out there to boost their roster. Instead they had to settle for the corpse of Porzingis.

 

[MizzouKing]

congrats to the Warriors on barely beating a Kings team missing its seven top players and playing a rotation with one guy who was on the roster last season in it

Betcha they're sure looking forward to playing us at home...

 

[MizzouKing]

Only 2 more games to go

Fingers crossed...

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Warriors are getting bounced in the play-in. God, they look terrible. They should have tanked this season.

It wouldn't be beyond the NBA to hand them a top 4 pick

 

[ockingsfan]

Their biggest error was believing there was a massive market for Kuminga just waiting out there to boost their roster. Instead they had to settle for the corpse of Porzingis.

They could of had DeMar and/or Monk for Kuminga, which would had been a whole lot better than Porzingis for them. Now they can go down in flames in the play-in.

 

[NewArena]

Agreed with this tweet

$153 million of salary not playing tonight. 5 of the top 6 guys out. And the Kings still nearly beat the Warriors.At this point, outside of sitting Monk (who played 11 minutes) and Achiuwa, which would have left the Kings with 7 guys, I don't know what any of us pro-tankers can expect.These guys are playing good basketball together. Hopefully that means great things for the future.

 

[Telemachus]

Warriors are getting bounced in the play-in. God, they look terrible. They should have tanked this season.

No need. They will probably be handed the first pick in the draft. Not that I think it is rigged or anything.

 

[Warhawk]

I was just thinking that too... how is our all-rookie team hanging with the starters of the Warriors? I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about next season.

No, no, no. We can't think that way. The ONLY way out is by losing 70 games a season and banking top-10 picks in perpetuity. Anyone who succeeds too much must be traded for more draft picks that we hope to turn into those type of successful players. Or so I've been told, ad nauseum.

YMMV.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

No, no, no. We can't think that way. The ONLY way out is by losing 70 games a season and banking top-10 picks in perpetuity. Anyone who succeeds too much must be traded for more draft picks that we hope to turn into those type of successful players. Or so I've been told, ad nauseum.

YMMV.

Well, now you're starting to veer into the same ridiculous hyperbole that they are... nobody's said that, either.

 

[Spike]

No, no, no. We can't think that way. The ONLY way out is by losing 70 games a season and banking top-10 picks in perpetuity. Anyone who succeeds too much must be traded for more draft picks that we hope to turn into those type of successful players. Or so I've been told, ad nauseum.

YMMV.

You gotta trust the process.

 

[ESP47]

No, no, no. We can't think that way. The ONLY way out is by losing 70 games a season and banking top-10 picks in perpetuity. Anyone who succeeds too much must be traded for more draft picks that we hope to turn into those type of successful players. Or so I've been told, ad nauseum.

YMMV.

The overly dramatic, passive aggressive, dishonest takes people have vs. what's actually being discussed here is getting tiring. At best it's hyperbole. At worst it's just flat out dishonesty. Can we just discuss the game like grown men without the childish antics?

It's not that difficult to take the words that people say and interpret them correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not seeing people barking that Nique, Carter, Dylan etc should be benched in order to throw games. The consensus among the people who are pro tank are that the young guys should be playing more while the older guys should be playing less and that means the team will lose more often while developing the young players better and faster. That take is quite a bit different from what you've wrote above and other similar posts made by other posters as well.

 

[Tetsujin]

You gotta trust the process.

Danny Ainge will find gold in them hills… eventually(?)

 

[The_Jamal]

The overly dramatic, passive aggressive, dishonest takes people have vs. what's actually being discussed here is getting tiring. At best it's hyperbole. At worst it's just flat out dishonesty. Can we just discuss the game like grown men without the childish antics?

It's not that difficult to take the words that people say and interpret them correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not seeing people barking that Nique, Carter, Dylan etc should be benched in order to throw games. The consensus among the people who are pro tank are that the young guys should be playing more while the older guys should be playing less and that means the team will lose more often while developing the young players better and faster. That take is quite a bit different from what you've wrote above and other similar posts made by other posters as well.

This is the correct take, but even when the above happens and those guys win the game... you have a contingent that bemoan how stupid this franchise is about not even being able to lose properly.

A couple here are an inch away from saying the Kings should intentionally throw the game. Thats just a bad take too

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

It's not that difficult to take the words that people say and interpret them correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not seeing people barking that Nique, Carter, Dylan etc should be benched in order to throw games. The consensus among the people who are pro tank are that the young guys should be playing more while the older guys should be playing less and that means the team will lose more often while developing the young players better and faster. That take is quite a bit different from what you've wrote above and other similar posts made by other posters as well.

That is also the consensus among 99 percent of the people who are anti-tank, except the anti-tank people aren't crashing out over that not happening.

 

[KingsRUs]

That is also the consensus among 99 percent of the people who are anti-tank, except the anti-tank people aren't crashing out over that not happening.

It’s arguably mismanagement for it to happen, is the issue. So people want accountability/answers

The other tanking teams were not employing this strategy of playing the vets to wins, so the Kings were on unequal footing to keep their lottery odds.

Why was Doug given free rein instead of playing the youth? Why was he allowed to run roughshod over the teams lottery balls going for wins when the youth should have been played?

Why were some of these vets on the team past deadline?

why was the roster more capable of winning (less g league for example) than tanking counterparts?

Some answers need to come forth

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

It’s arguably mismanagement for it to happen, is the issue. So people want accountability/answers

The other tanking teams were not employing this strategy of playing the vets to wins, so the Kings were on unequal footing to keep their lottery odds.

Why was Doug given free rein instead of playing the youth? Why was he allowed to run roughshod over the teams lottery balls going for wins when the youth should have been played?

Why were some of these vets on the team past deadline?

why was the roster more capable of winning (less g league for example) than tanking counterparts?

Some answers need to come forth

The Kings never committed to a tank, though. A loud minority of fans and a handful of talking heads sort of decided that that's what the organization "needed" to do, but it's not as if the organization ever went, "Yeah, y'all right. Let's do this!"

The only part of all this that truly baffles me is why the organization continued to play the vets even after they had been mathematically eliminated. Everything else I can kind of make sense of when I try to look at things from their point of view, even if I disagree with it.

 

[KingsRUs]

The only part of all this that truly baffles me is why the organization continued to play the vets even after they had been mathematically eliminated. Everything else I can kind of make sense of when I try to look at things from their point of view, even if I disagree with it.

Yep, and a lot of fans want answers…

Was it actual strategy to have DeRozan/Westbrook (still doesn’t really explain Precious) in the games because they believed them to be losing players?

Other tanking teams seemed to have more access to auxiliary players (G league for example) and be able to have their NBA players on injured reserve - was there stipulations for this in terms of the cap?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Yep, and a lot of fans want answers…

You may think of what's been happening on this message board for the better part of the last six months as "fans asking for answers," but I don't see it that way.

 

[Kingz19]

I didn’t watch the game last night, but KNBR this morning was lamenting that the Kings deployed a “Hack a Curry” strategy in crunch time last night to secure a Lin?

If true, that’s even more shameless than the Jazz. I’m proud of them

 

[Tetsujin]

I didn’t watch the game last night, but KNBR this morning was lamenting that the Kings deployed a “Hack a Curry” strategy in crunch time last night to secure a Lin?

If true, that’s even more shameless than the Jazz. I’m proud of them

they didn’t though. McBuckets was so gassed that he tried to intentionally foul to get out the game but Christie decided to just burn a timeout and kept him in the game instead lol

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

This is the correct take, but even when the above happens and those guys win the game... you have a contingent that bemoan how stupid this franchise is about not even being able to lose properly.

A couple here are an inch away from saying the Kings should intentionally throw the game. Thats just a bad take too

The bemoaning happens when there continually seems to be no real plan. A late season game is won by a big scoring effort from DeRozan, then the next game he sits for the 4th quarter,....then after that he's back to high minutes and finishing. Why did they win in Toronto on the shoulders of Derozan? Doesn't make any sense.

A lot of the time it's looked like some sort of a half hearted attempt at guaranteeing a top 5 pick in this important strong draft

 

[dude12]

The overly dramatic, passive aggressive, dishonest takes people have vs. what's actually being discussed here is getting tiring. At best it's hyperbole. At worst it's just flat out dishonesty. Can we just discuss the game like grown men without the childish antics?

It's not that difficult to take the words that people say and interpret them correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not seeing people barking that Nique, Carter, Dylan etc should be benched in order to throw games. The consensus among the people who are pro tank are that the young guys should be playing more while the older guys should be playing less and that means the team will lose more often while developing the young players better and faster. That take is quite a bit different from what you've wrote above and other similar posts made by other posters as well.

Correct. The franchise is doing this now but we were asking for it a long, long time ago.

 

[dude12]

That is also the consensus among 99 percent of the people who are anti-tank, except the anti-tank people aren't crashing out over that not happening.

You are sensationalizing things. “Crashing out”. Feels like the contingent who is having a problem with pro-tank forum members are as equally guilty of being on one end of the conversation where everyone is probably closer to the middle. Somewhere.

 

[dude12]

The bemoaning happens when there continually seems to be no real plan. A late season game is won by a big scoring effort from DeRozan, then the next game he sits for the 4th quarter,....then after that he's back to high minutes and finishing. Why did they win in Toronto on the shoulders of Derozan? Doesn't make any sense.

A lot of the time it's looked like some sort of a half hearted attempt at guaranteeing a top 5 pick in this important strong draft

Yep….here’s the other thing with our young guys…I’m happy they are getting heavy minutes but I also have seen players at the end of the year put up big numbers when a majority of teams are in end of year mode. I take the performances with a grain of salt. Young guys are doing good things but I keep it in perspective.

 

[Kingster]

I was just thinking that too... how is our all-rookie team hanging with the starters of the Warriors? I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about next season.

Losing by small margins at the end of a very losing season when other teams barely notice your existence is nothing to be confident about. The Kings are a loooooooooooong way from getting to the hallowed ground of mediocrity (.500), much less a winning team that other teams take seriously.

 

[Kingster]

Yep….here’s the other thing with our young guys…I’m happy they are getting heavy minutes but I also have seen players at the end of the year put up big numbers when a majority of teams are in end of year mode. I take the performances with a grain of salt. Young guys are doing good things but I keep it in perspective.

Yes.