Bee; Bumbling and grumbling...

My response?

Hey, Mike, I'm sorry it's tough for you to hear the disapproval of the fans but give me a break.
i like that he said that. i dont think i've ever seen a home game where the fans have booed the Kings. hopefully Mike isn't the only one who noticed that and they do something to fix it
 
i like that he said that. i dont think i've ever seen a home game where the fans have booed the Kings. hopefully Mike isn't the only one who noticed that and they do something to fix it

Yeah, play like you deserve the contract you have. That'll stop the booing faster than anything else.
 
My response?

Hey, Mike, I'm sorry it's tough for you to hear the disapproval of the fans but give me a break.

We have bled purple for years. We've supported this team like no other fans in the NBA. And we've learned to recognize real teamwork and unity. To prove it, we saw it in the first half of the Cavaliers game. Then, for no definable reason, we saw a total and complete collapse in the third quarter...again.

I, for one, am insulted that our own PBP announcer was so enamored with the play of LeBron James that he dismissed the loss by saying at least we fans would look back and remember seeing LBJ play a great game. Excuse me if I beg to differ. Screw seeing LBJ play a great game. I don't tune in to see him play. I tune in to see my Kings play - and while I'm not the type who boos, I can't really blame those who did.

As frustrating as it is for you, try to imagine what it's like for the fans who have been supportive all these years to see game after game frittered away. Especially when we've dug deep into our pockets to get the tickets to come see the game in the first place.

So, sorry Mike. I do love this team but I sure can't defend what I'm seeing - and not seeing - on the court on a regular basis.

Maybe, just maybe, Mike was not complaining about the booing itself, but the fact that the team has come down so much from the glory days that fans turn against the team at times.

In the entire team, if there is one guy I shall give a pass to, it is Mike. He has played very hard, and very well over the years through injuries. Even this year, when we all thought that he shall miss a significant time due to his injury, he didn't miss any game. True, he didn't play well in the beginning. But that also shows that we had no one to replace him, and a one handed Mike was better than his replacement.

I know people think that he plays only one end of the floor, but over the last few years, he has had to carry a huge load (not only does he rarely miss games, he plays huge minutes too. Even when Bobby was around, he missed lot of games in his last two years). Couple that with the fact that the team needed his scoring desperately, apart from him running the team.

He was not a great defender to begin with, and was not playing with other great defenders, which further exposed his limitations on the defensive end. For any player, when he has to carry a huge load like Mike on the offensive end, defensive efficiency is bound to suffer. Even an excellent defender like Kobe has suffered in this aspect, when he has had to carry his team on the offensive end.
 
Mike's right about the booing, but that has been coming for a long time. Arco has been in decline for years, and while management has been busy balthering about "gold standards" and we worry about how best to pat ourselves on our backs for being such great fans, its not really that sepcial an environment anymore on a night to night basis. And Mike is really the last/only player or coach we have who remembers when it still was.
 
My response?

Hey, Mike, I'm sorry it's tough for you to hear the disapproval of the fans but give me a break.

We have bled purple for years. We've supported this team like no other fans in the NBA. And we've learned to recognize real teamwork and unity. To prove it, we saw it in the first half of the Cavaliers game. Then, for no definable reason, we saw a total and complete collapse in the third quarter...again.

I, for one, am insulted that our own PBP announcer was so enamored with the play of LeBron James that he dismissed the loss by saying at least we fans would look back and remember seeing LBJ play a great game. Excuse me if I beg to differ. Screw seeing LBJ play a great game. I don't tune in to see him play. I tune in to see my Kings play - and while I'm not the type who boos, I can't really blame those who did.

As frustrating as it is for you, try to imagine what it's like for the fans who have been supportive all these years to see game after game frittered away. Especially when we've dug deep into our pockets to get the tickets to come see the game in the first place.

So, sorry Mike. I do love this team but I sure can't defend what I'm seeing - and not seeing - on the court on a regular basis.


best post of the season.
 
Also, I think Bibby's comment about the fans was probably in response to a question. Not something he volunteered.

Just how it reads to me.

I'm thinking that Bibby's comments "it's not about how many shots you get" could be in response to everyone - press, fans, media, friends - wondering why K-Mart isn't getting more shots.

I don't think I've seen a player in a game be a ball hog or repeatedly take bad shots. Yeah, Artest took a couple here and there, but not to any extent that would put him in that catagory. I think even he has an understanding of when his shot isn't falling.

So I'm not thinking Bibby's comment was directed at other players, but at outsiders.

IMHO.
 
So I'm not thinking Bibby's comment was directed at other players, but at outsiders.

IMHO.

That's possible, and something I had not considered. But given that there was apparently some big and not so friendly team "meeting" that inspired much of this, I would imagine there was a mesaage to the team back there somewhere too.
 
That's possible, and something I had not considered. But given that there was apparently some big and not so friendly team "meeting" that inspired much of this, I would imagine there was a mesaage to the team back there somewhere too.

Yeah, I'm just not sure what was in the team meeting vs. what Bibby decided to tell reporters.
 
Yeah, I'm just not sure what was in the team meeting vs. what Bibby decided to tell reporters.

And we don't know what questions Amick asked leading up to the responses Bibby gave...

I was actually a little surprised because Mike generally is nowhere near that talkative.
 
And we don't know what questions Amick asked leading up to the responses Bibby gave...

I was actually a little surprised because Mike generally is nowhere near that talkative.

Yep, when it comes down to it. We don't know much at all.

Oh well.

But yes, Mike does talk a lot more. I think he's just growing up.
 
i like that he said that. i dont think i've ever seen a home game where the fans have booed the Kings. hopefully Mike isn't the only one who noticed that and they do something to fix it

Last season the Kings were booed worse than that at home around this time. I remember being at the Indiana game and we lost by about 30 and the booing was MUCH worse than that.

I don't boo, but I can't say I blame those who do. I feel similar frustration.

To me, if they just played hard like they all wanted to be out there, that would fix it.
 
KMG, or at least not have such a big lead into the 2nd 1/2 and then blow it in a big way and quick. What the heck happened? I cannot even rewatch the game, I just caught the 4th quarter and then heard how rewarding the 1st 1/2 was so I'm saving that to watch later on my DVR! :p

Sure must have been painful to watch and make the effort to be at the game!
 
I think Brad was talking about one of the PF's being in the post. But he has to remember that Gooden was covering him and NOT ONE of our PF's could have posted up Z without being blocked or just pushed out of the paint. If we had a legit PF in that game that we could have went to in the post that could do something with Z we would have thrown their counter to our pick and roll all to ****. Fact is we don't and everygame we are playing 4 on 5 unless one of the 4 step up or they all step out.

Have we picked up Webber yet???
 
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