Beating the Lakers will 100% redeem the Kings

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After starting 0-3 and after losing 4 of their first 5 games I was starting to get a bit worried. I wasn't really worried about it until everyone at work was constantly talking about how the Kings look like a slump team this year but after coming back and winning 5 in a row at home, and 6 games total; I feel the Kings have more than redeemed their status as a winning team. The Lakers game would really put them over the top so hopefully we can go into LA and leave there with another "W"

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone :)
 
it wont be the same rivalry but they're still a pretty good team and they're still LA and they're still in our division. So they'll always be rivals regardless so long as they're as they stay a decent team; which they are. Even though the Lakers have had some easy wins get away from them they're a good team-
I would never count them out towards the end of the year.
They always stay under the radar for about 3/4 of the year and they'll turn heads towards the end.

Watch :)
 
Andriod_KiNg said:
Beating the Lakers is always fun, but i liked having Shaq there, i dont know if the riverly is ever gonna be the same.
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I have to say that I feel the same way. We don't have a chance of really ever "settling the score" with Rick Fox and Shaq gone.

That said, Every Kings win is good, and I'm looking forward to Friday's. ;)
 
IMO, Beating the Lakers gives a little satisfaction in beating a rival, but its only 1/82 of a season. Redemption comes when the Kings win a championship!
 
kgrichwine said:
IMO, Beating the Lakers gives a little satisfaction in beating a rival, but its only 1/82 of a season. Redemption comes when the Kings win a championship!
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What I was trying to say, but better said! :)
 
Andriod_KiNg said:
Beating the Lakers is always fun, but i liked having Shaq there, i dont know if the riverly is ever gonna be the same.
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Agree with the first part. Not too sure abt having Shaq there. ;)
 
the lakers arent as good as they used to be so i dont know IF they need to be redeemed they would have to play a tougher team
though it will be a welcome addition to the W column
on that note though the kings beating the lakers will be sweet and i hope its a blowout in the kings favour
 
IMO the Kings don't need redemption. The fact that they lost the first 3 was not a big deal. They played top notch teams in the west on each of their home openers. If they need to redeem themselves at any point in time as a kingsfan then maybe you aren't a kingsfan. If you a looking for a test, look for the game this Sunday vs. Minn. Also if you feel like this 1 game will redeem them, then why didn't Chris Webbers triple double vs. Dallas in the playoffs do it for you or the one he had last week?
 
I was browsing their forum as well, and I have to say "some" of their fans have become really arrogant and already think they have the championship in the bag. Ofcourse, most of the media think they will win the title, so that essentiallly is just feeding their egos even more. I'm not impressed with the Spurs at all, aside from TD, and Manu, the rest of their players are terribly inconsistent. Their defense is great but they still have 4th quarter meltdowns and their biggest meltdown of all was losing to the Lakers in the WCSF last year after being up 3-1. Yes, it's still early and the championship is up for grabs more than ever.
 
KingKong said:
... [The Spurs'] defense is great but they still have 4th quarter meltdowns and their biggest meltdown of all was losing to the Lakers in the WCSF last year after being up 3-1...
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Minor nitpick: the Spurs were never up 3-1 against the Lakers. Not last year, or any other year; at least not in Tim Duncan's career...
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Minor nitpick: the Spurs were never up 3-1 against the Lakers. Not last year, or any other year; at least not in Tim Duncan's career...
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Yep -- it was 2-0, followed by 4 straight and an early vacation.

But I have made that point before too -- say what you will about Pop and how Adelman's teams are soft or whatever, but twice in the last four years Pop's squads have completely collapsed vs. the Lakers and been swept out of the playoffs with 4 straight losses. We may lose Game 7s, but at least we force them in the first place. Once the Spurs confidence gets shaken, they just don't seem to recover.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Minor nitpick: the Spurs were never up 3-1 against the Lakers. Not last year, or any other year; at least not in Tim Duncan's career...
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Thanks for the correction but you get the point :)
 
Welp, now that the Kings have officially made it 7 in a row against the Lakers I feel they've 100% rejuvenated themselves :) Let's keep the streak alive!

GO KINGS!

Finally, Webber looking like the Webber of 2001.
 
kgrichwine said:
IMO, Beating the Lakers gives a little satisfaction in beating a rival, but its only 1/82 of a season. Redemption comes when the Kings win a championship!
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I was somewhat surprised at myself to discover an interesting fact:

The game tonight gave me a LOT of satisfaction in beating a rival. In fact, it was the perfect ending to my mini-vacation, which started with my excursion to Sacramento for the Rockets game.

Seeing the Kings beat the Rockets, Thanksgiving with famiily, a win over the Lakers.

Yep, all in all, a pretty good four days!!!
 
I agree. I think the rivalry is largely dead with most of the major players from the Lakers gone. That said, its not ENTIRELY dead, because I found as I was watching this one that I wanted us to beat them rather badly. Might just have been the hostile and too smug crowd or the national audience, but it still meant a little something more than just beating a team we probably should beat.
 
real test for the Kings, Sunday against Minny. but i sure do agree that this was a highly satisfying victory as far i'm concerned. Kobe & his gang were all pumped up & feeling that a win was on the books when they made their run late in the fourth. he was smiling arrogantly, or maybe it's just his swagger, but the look on his face irked me a lot still. i wanted the Kings to win so bad & thank heavens they did. & the look on Kobe's face after Odom's miss from way out....rewarding, PRICELESS!
 
I have to admit that I feel alot more satisfied by this win than just any other game. I will always dislike the Lakers and take satisfaction out of seeing the Kings beat them.
 
Bricklayer said:
I agree. I think the rivalry is largely dead with most of the major players from the Lakers gone. That said, its not ENTIRELY dead, because I found as I was watching this one that I wanted us to beat them rather badly. Might just have been the hostile and too smug crowd or the national audience, but it still meant a little something more than just beating a team we probably should beat.
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yes, the rivalry is not what it used to be by Shaq leaving, but that could open up a new chapter in this rivalry that displays total dominence by the Kings, or more balenced play between both teams;)
 
eh, i think the rivalry is pretty dead....at least as far as the teams are concerned. the fans will do anything to hold on to something as precious as a rivalry, but i jus cant see this as a rivalry when players of both teams are joking and smiling at each other's benches. i mean, c'mon, even kobe bryant was laughing and joking with the kings. its more like a friendly reunion when they play now, rather than a rivalry.
 
Abstract terms like rivalry often have rather nebules and diverse meanings. So it is that several intellegent and informed people will percive a reivley either dead, nonexistant or intact. One view, harkening back to college or even High School is very traditional. By this view Harvard and Yale, Army and Navy, UCLA and USC Springfiedl and Shelbyville, are rivalries and always will be. But from the other (equaly valid) perspective of Profesional sports, rivalries are based on competive edge in a tightly contested well matched battles for chamionships. Unfortunatly fans of teams be they high school, college or professional are less concerned with these temporal distincitons. So despite the change in personal and trajectories of teams the rivialry fans feel persists. Our local example of Dodgers Giants is clasic. Na matter how bad either of these teams does their match ups are important to the fans on both sides. Now I could venture out of my area of expertise in language and perception into psychology of fans to discuss how and why many Laker fans want to consider the rivialry dead but I think I'll stop here before picking up Gargy's stick and poking him with it.
 
that was a fun win. beating the lakers is ALWAYS a good thing. and no the rivalry isn't dead, it's just takinga break for now.

i offer this to people who think the rivalry is dead: when one thinks of sports rivalries, what is the first thing that comes to mind??? yankees and red sox. the red so had the good end at first, winning a few world championships until they sold ruth. then it was ALL yankees for the next 86 years. no matter how good a teams the red sox had, no matter who they had, they could never beat the yankees. yet it was and still is considered the best rivalry in sports.

so think of kings and lakers as if they were the red sox and yankees. the lakers are the evil yankees, the kings are the red sox. well thats how i think of it anyways. it doesn't matter how good the teams are, it's the front of the jersey that counts IMO.

it doesn't matter who's on the lakers or the kings. i'll love the kings with a passion, and hate the lakers.
 
fakie said:
is anybody going to the game?
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I went to the game and trust me the rivalry is still very much alive. Every where I went I got booed or yelled at for wearing a Kings jersey.
 
TCH said:
I went to the game and trust me the rivalry is still very much alive. Every where I went I got booed or yelled at for wearing a Kings jersey.
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So true. I spent a lot of time on eBay in there several weeks. Man, you should see how those season ticket holders tried to sell the tickest.

Last night, I saw some people wore "Sacramento queens" T-shirt. During the game, I could hear people yelled "Sacramento queens" very several minutes. When Peja stepped on the line in the 4th Q, someone even yelled "Don't you want to be traded....blah-blah " :mad:
 
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