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On January 6th 2002 Kings beat Bucks at ARCO 115 - 101 to improve to 26-9 for the season. Also they extended the winning streak to 7 and it eventualy reaches 12 games. Kings overslept the first quarter but then woke up and Bucks were done. Adelman used 6 man rotation and Webber had a triple double. So Webber lead the Kings with 28/12/10/1/2, Pedja had 29/2/3/1, Bobby had 22/6/3/2, DC had 19/2/5/5st, Vlade had "only" 8/13/5/1. Hedo was the bench with 9/1/2.
Chris Webber is looking more like his old self every game.Webber had 28 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his first triple-double of the season as the Sacramento Kings extended their season-high winning streak to seven games with a 115-101 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.Webber missed the first 20 games of the season with a severely sprained ankle and three more in mid-December. But the Kings improved to 9-2 when he is in the lineup, and the All-Star power forward has dominated the last two games.After scoring 16 points in the fourth quarter of Friday's triumph at Phoenix, Webber came back with his 15th career triple-double and seventh with the Kings.
I brag to my friends in the NBA about what good players are on our team," Webber said. "This is just an example. I just want to become that overall player where if I have the ball you're worried that I'm not going to shoot but that I'm going to find someone."
"I don't know if we could have beaten them as well as they played," Bucks coach George Karl said. "We needed them to have a little bit of an off night. But they shot the ball real well."
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After losing the heart breaker last night Kings dropped to irellevant 14-16 for the season wasting a good opportunity to get back to also irellevant .500. Also, Kings are dead last in the Pacific and also the division record (2-6) is the worst in the respective division. Kings have Blazers and Cavs at home before getting ready for a road trip that pretty much lasts the whole January with some exceptions. It might be a very long month folks.
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It is still alive. Even if You refuse to call it a rivalry - whatever You want to call it - between Kings and Lakers - it is alive. It is on another level mostly due to the fact that both teams aren't very good anymore but the principles are the same. The fire is still there and if You put these teams in a PO series - it would be just like old times. You want evidence - that is easy. ARCO was on its feet in the last 5 minutes of the game. If You haven't heard "Beat LA !!!" chants towards the end of the game - You either need to get some hearing aid or You need to replace the one that You have because - it isn't working. It is good for the league too. How many games on national TV this year were as intensive, entertaining and exciting despite the 3 blind mice who tried to do everything to ruin it. This site was busy too. Way more than usual. Thank god it doesn't matter anymore
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There was a general suggestion last night to "get a life." I thought it was a great idea so I went to Walmart to see whet they have on sale. Since there was no "buy one get one free" or even "2 for 5 $" type of deal I had to "go" on ebay and I am currently bidding with some other people to aquire a life of a party animal currently in coma due to overdose.
It all depends on Your personal definition of what is life. If You prefer a life - where You go to a party and get trashed (cool) and have no reccolection of it the next morning and all You remember is a bad headache. Or if You like to meet friends and play video games or god forbid - read a book - it is a personal choice. As for me - in those 3 + hrs I have experienced, pain, anger, joy, excitement, disappointment, intensity etc and shared it with other people. In those 3 hrs - not for a second was I bored or wished to do something else. Finally, despite the heart breaking ending - I went to bed (3am) tired and happy because I had a great evening. Life is good.
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The game from last night is great example why Kings are mediocre at best. Let's start yet again with lack of size and talent - depth. We don't have either which caused us to get killed on the boards and to have wrong players on the floor at crucial parts of the game. Lack of consistancy - started horibble, the got worse, played really well but couldn't sustain it, fell, back again, came back and the choked the lead and looked lost in the overtime. All in one game. When a good team comes back from -21 - it finishes it up. When You are up 4 with 5 seconds to go and You missed 2 FTs in that strech - You don't deserve to win. Also - during the season we rarely had a game where more than one starter showed up and played really well. If we had those - we won them. Things won't change by themselves.
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All this aside - the guys gave everything they had. They played hard, they fought, showed heart and cared. Unfortunately, they only did it ib the 2nd half and OT. It almost was enough but almost winning ... Anyways, it would be nice to see this type of effort more often- let's say - every night. We would definitely win enough games to be right around .500 which is middle of the nowhere.
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Muss - can't coach or at least not for the whole game. Ocassionally he makes a good move and I am never sure whether he really meant it. As expected he was outcoached last night. He had hard time adjusting to the moves of the "zen master" Before the game he must have read Kafka. It took him 2 timeouts in the first quarter to reduce the bleading. In the half time he quoted Beckett:
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On January 6th 2002 Kings beat Bucks at ARCO 115 - 101 to improve to 26-9 for the season. Also they extended the winning streak to 7 and it eventualy reaches 12 games. Kings overslept the first quarter but then woke up and Bucks were done. Adelman used 6 man rotation and Webber had a triple double. So Webber lead the Kings with 28/12/10/1/2, Pedja had 29/2/3/1, Bobby had 22/6/3/2, DC had 19/2/5/5st, Vlade had "only" 8/13/5/1. Hedo was the bench with 9/1/2.
Chris Webber is looking more like his old self every game.Webber had 28 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his first triple-double of the season as the Sacramento Kings extended their season-high winning streak to seven games with a 115-101 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.Webber missed the first 20 games of the season with a severely sprained ankle and three more in mid-December. But the Kings improved to 9-2 when he is in the lineup, and the All-Star power forward has dominated the last two games.After scoring 16 points in the fourth quarter of Friday's triumph at Phoenix, Webber came back with his 15th career triple-double and seventh with the Kings.
I brag to my friends in the NBA about what good players are on our team," Webber said. "This is just an example. I just want to become that overall player where if I have the ball you're worried that I'm not going to shoot but that I'm going to find someone."
"I don't know if we could have beaten them as well as they played," Bucks coach George Karl said. "We needed them to have a little bit of an off night. But they shot the ball real well."
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After losing the heart breaker last night Kings dropped to irellevant 14-16 for the season wasting a good opportunity to get back to also irellevant .500. Also, Kings are dead last in the Pacific and also the division record (2-6) is the worst in the respective division. Kings have Blazers and Cavs at home before getting ready for a road trip that pretty much lasts the whole January with some exceptions. It might be a very long month folks.
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It is still alive. Even if You refuse to call it a rivalry - whatever You want to call it - between Kings and Lakers - it is alive. It is on another level mostly due to the fact that both teams aren't very good anymore but the principles are the same. The fire is still there and if You put these teams in a PO series - it would be just like old times. You want evidence - that is easy. ARCO was on its feet in the last 5 minutes of the game. If You haven't heard "Beat LA !!!" chants towards the end of the game - You either need to get some hearing aid or You need to replace the one that You have because - it isn't working. It is good for the league too. How many games on national TV this year were as intensive, entertaining and exciting despite the 3 blind mice who tried to do everything to ruin it. This site was busy too. Way more than usual. Thank god it doesn't matter anymore
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There was a general suggestion last night to "get a life." I thought it was a great idea so I went to Walmart to see whet they have on sale. Since there was no "buy one get one free" or even "2 for 5 $" type of deal I had to "go" on ebay and I am currently bidding with some other people to aquire a life of a party animal currently in coma due to overdose.
It all depends on Your personal definition of what is life. If You prefer a life - where You go to a party and get trashed (cool) and have no reccolection of it the next morning and all You remember is a bad headache. Or if You like to meet friends and play video games or god forbid - read a book
- it is a personal choice. As for me - in those 3 + hrs I have experienced, pain, anger, joy, excitement, disappointment, intensity etc and shared it with other people. In those 3 hrs - not for a second was I bored or wished to do something else. Finally, despite the heart breaking ending - I went to bed (3am) tired and happy because I had a great evening. Life is good.------------------------------------------------------------------------
The game from last night is great example why Kings are mediocre at best. Let's start yet again with lack of size and talent - depth. We don't have either which caused us to get killed on the boards and to have wrong players on the floor at crucial parts of the game. Lack of consistancy - started horibble, the got worse, played really well but couldn't sustain it, fell, back again, came back and the choked the lead and looked lost in the overtime. All in one game. When a good team comes back from -21 - it finishes it up. When You are up 4 with 5 seconds to go and You missed 2 FTs in that strech - You don't deserve to win. Also - during the season we rarely had a game where more than one starter showed up and played really well. If we had those - we won them. Things won't change by themselves.
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All this aside - the guys gave everything they had. They played hard, they fought, showed heart and cared. Unfortunately, they only did it ib the 2nd half and OT. It almost was enough but almost winning ... Anyways, it would be nice to see this type of effort more often- let's say - every night. We would definitely win enough games to be right around .500 which is middle of the nowhere.
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Muss - can't coach or at least not for the whole game. Ocassionally he makes a good move and I am never sure whether he really meant it. As expected he was outcoached last night. He had hard time adjusting to the moves of the "zen master" Before the game he must have read Kafka. It took him 2 timeouts in the first quarter to reduce the bleading. In the half time he quoted Beckett:
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Sicne Cook sarted hot he went smaller and we couldn't get a rebound. He never bothered to call a play for Kevin, He put Garcia and Douby in the game when they clearly had no business being there and they ended up taking shots that they can't make too. What happened in the last 5 seconds of the game is travesy itself and I am sure that he is to blame too. Overtime was very pathetic itself. Maybe he might be a okay coach on day and I understand that one gas to gain experience. I just wu=ish that the "on job training" would be on another team. We already had a coach.
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