Kings 3-5 (worse than lakers) trying to have a first winning streak for the season again. It is about time. (it is actually past due but...) NBA still trying to find some rythm in general except the Pistons who are pretty scary at the moment. Kings temporarily last in Pacific and second to last in the West courtosy of NOH. It can only get better from here.
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King still in "no man's land" with mine fields all around them just trying to "put something together" and go from there. We are consistantly inconsistant (L -L - W - L - L - W - L - W). On the other hand we did not lose a game this week. Also we are 0-2 against the East at home and that has got to stop. I did not want to look at the stats but it would be interesting to see Mike's and Pedja's production in wins vs. losses.
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Last game we beat Utah and that is the only thing that should be remembered from that game. But then again that is the only thing that counts. As a Kings fan I certainly don't like to see any players injured but I also have no sympathy for any Kings opponent that shows up shorthanded. We have been down that road way too many times.
I will focus here on "bad" things that could be seen despite the easy win. Our bench showed once again that we can not count on it to give us anything. (4th quarter did not matter) At the moment the starters can not provide a lead that is safe for this guys. Maybe I just get annoyed easier these days but my "cursing" expotentionally increases with our bench entering the game.
Inability to stop guard penetration has goten worse this season. We play Spurs soon and unfortunately that will show how bad we really are in that segment.
And we continue to provide the opportunities for "no name" guys to have career games. In the past we could afford to do so. Things sure have changed "around here"
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We play "Bucks" tonight. Hopefully someone will tell Brad to leave the shotgun at home
. Bucks are on the 4/5 trip which should help us. They got to be tired by now. We have lost to the worse Bucks team at ARCO while having much better team than now so there are no "givens" for us.
First thing that comes to mind is - Bibby vs. Ford matchup and that is scary. The way Ford has been playing. - oh boy, oh boy.
They have some good shooters and the rule of tumb is that they will have a good game against Kings. There are several players there that have allready had good games against us before like Joe Smith or Maglore, Simmons, Redd. All in all - might be trouble.
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Mike - will get a nice workout chasing T.J. Did have good game against Jazz ofensivelly. Will see what is it wirth tonight.
Pedja - Much more important to have a great 1st quarter than 4th quarter. We don't want to trail early and give our bench chance to bury us.
SAR - needs to do more tonight.
Bonzi - can he put 2 good games together.
Brad - a tripple double please
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Bench - has to earn any kind of comment.
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RA - please just make sure there are always 3 starters in the game and 2 out those 3 are the "core" guys.
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Again Bucks are playing well but should be tired enough tonight for us to jump on them early and if the lead survives the play of our bench - we should win this because we go to Seattle next and the we host the Spurs. Chances of us winning both of those games are equal to ... (fill in the blank Yourself because it is too depressing for me).
We need this one tonight
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Go Jazz !
Go Blazers !
One LA will lose tonight
One will win
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King still in "no man's land" with mine fields all around them just trying to "put something together" and go from there. We are consistantly inconsistant (L -L - W - L - L - W - L - W). On the other hand we did not lose a game this week. Also we are 0-2 against the East at home and that has got to stop. I did not want to look at the stats but it would be interesting to see Mike's and Pedja's production in wins vs. losses.
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Last game we beat Utah and that is the only thing that should be remembered from that game. But then again that is the only thing that counts. As a Kings fan I certainly don't like to see any players injured but I also have no sympathy for any Kings opponent that shows up shorthanded. We have been down that road way too many times.
I will focus here on "bad" things that could be seen despite the easy win. Our bench showed once again that we can not count on it to give us anything. (4th quarter did not matter) At the moment the starters can not provide a lead that is safe for this guys. Maybe I just get annoyed easier these days but my "cursing" expotentionally increases with our bench entering the game.
Inability to stop guard penetration has goten worse this season. We play Spurs soon and unfortunately that will show how bad we really are in that segment.
And we continue to provide the opportunities for "no name" guys to have career games. In the past we could afford to do so. Things sure have changed "around here"
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We play "Bucks" tonight. Hopefully someone will tell Brad to leave the shotgun at home
. Bucks are on the 4/5 trip which should help us. They got to be tired by now. We have lost to the worse Bucks team at ARCO while having much better team than now so there are no "givens" for us.First thing that comes to mind is - Bibby vs. Ford matchup and that is scary. The way Ford has been playing. - oh boy, oh boy.
They have some good shooters and the rule of tumb is that they will have a good game against Kings. There are several players there that have allready had good games against us before like Joe Smith or Maglore, Simmons, Redd. All in all - might be trouble.
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Mike - will get a nice workout chasing T.J. Did have good game against Jazz ofensivelly. Will see what is it wirth tonight.
Pedja - Much more important to have a great 1st quarter than 4th quarter. We don't want to trail early and give our bench chance to bury us.
SAR - needs to do more tonight.
Bonzi - can he put 2 good games together.
Brad - a tripple double please
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Bench - has to earn any kind of comment.
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RA - please just make sure there are always 3 starters in the game and 2 out those 3 are the "core" guys.
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Again Bucks are playing well but should be tired enough tonight for us to jump on them early and if the lead survives the play of our bench - we should win this because we go to Seattle next and the we host the Spurs. Chances of us winning both of those games are equal to ... (fill in the blank Yourself because it is too depressing for me).
We need this one tonight
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Go Jazz !
Go Blazers !
One LA will lose tonight
One will win
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