[Game] Game 15: Sacramento F Kings @ Houston Rockets, 11/26/14, 5 PST, 8 EST

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Tetsujin

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Kingsfans.com Official Game Thread
Game 15
Sacramento F Kings!!!! at Houston Rockets
By Stephen Tetsu, Owner of a TriBrow

Demarcus! Cousins!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Shorthanded and undermanned against a talented Pelicans squad, the upstart Kings somehow, someway found a way to pull off the startling upset victory. And the crazy thing is that the game was largely under the Kings’ control from start to finish.

Let’s backtrack a bit. Coming off of an ugly win against a poopity Timberwolves team, the Kings started off the day with the news that Rudy Gay would be missing the game on account of his tight Achilles tendon. Then, to make matters worse, the news came out before tip-off that Darren Collison would also not be able to make his start. Suddenly, our “Big 3” had been reduced to Demarcus, Ben McLemore, and the entirety of the bench. Surely, this would be too large an obstacle to overcome, right?

WRONG!

For forty-eight minutes, our beloved Sacramento Kings (or what was left of them at least) outhustled, outdefensed, and outhearted the Pelicans to come away with the hard-fought victory on the backs of strong efforts from Omri Casspi (!), Jason Thompson (!!), Ray McCallum (!!!), and Nik Stauskas (?????) and a run of the mill 22/12/5/2/1 night from the best big man in the NBA.

If you’re reading this recap and haven’t yet watched the game but have it recorded, close this window immediately, strip to your undies, and watch it RIGHT NOW!

There is really nothing I can say other than “This team makes my happy places tingle.”

One win down. Many more to go.

Awards Time

Tony Delk Memorial Award- I am almost ready to rename this one the Tyreke award. Everytime the Kings face him, he always puts up nice numbers. Tonight, he did us a favor and played like Keith Smart-era Bad Tyreke in crunch time, sprinkling in a couple of ill-fated drives to the basket to help us seal the deal.

Mikki Moore Award- Derrick Williams, who, after two relatively solid efforts, reverted back to his ineffective, unable to do much of anything self. Heck, he’s even starting to resemble Mikki Moore, complete with the tarantula living on top of his head.

Doug Christie of the Night- Jason Thompson, who pretty much turned the Brow’s night into a nightmare and left him with the worst performance of his young season. Doesn’t show up in the box score but it does show up in the win column.

WTF Moment- The Pelicans SF depth chart right now: Darius Miller/Luke Babbitt/John Salmons. How this is even possible, I’ll never know.

Stinky Fish Moment of the Night- With time winding down in the first half and the chance to take the lead on the fast break with an easy finger roll, the Stinky Fish instead opts to gather and go up for the highlight dunk, which he scores… after time expires. Keep on keeping on, Johnny Salmons.


The View from the Other Side
The following posts have been taken from http://www.pelicansreport.com/ and features *yawn* riveting Omri Casspi versus Miller at SF debate.

7:10 Hear Gay and Collison out


7:20 Pretty terrible start


7:24 Monty Williams is out of his mind. I'm

About to give up simply bc of his idiotic mentality.


7:25 That fast break by AD was amazing.


7:26 Cousins is not smart.


7:28 No. Miller is terrible because of 3 years worth of games. But we are at the bottom of the barrel anyway so it's not like I'm upset he's playing.


Although, it kinda sucks that we had Casspi on the team and let him walk. He sure looks pretty good for Sac and just what we need at the 3.


7:30 Ryno chewing some *** because no one is coming to help him on Cousins.


7:32 With Babbitt and Ryno, we are at a severe disadvantage on defense against this team. If they aren't making 3s, they are worse than useless. They're liabilities.


7:33 “ Originally Posted by Mythrol


No. Miller is terrible because of 3 years worth of games. But we are at the bottom of the barrel anyway so it's not like I'm upset he's playing.


Although, it kinda sucks that we had Casspi on the team and let him walk. He sure looks pretty good for Sac and just what we need at the 3.”


O yea all the sudden Cassipi is our missing 3 cause he makes a couple of shots. Seriously? If Miller has had a terrible career than Cassipi has been just as bad. Not a huge Miller fan but just a joke people wanna beat there fist how terrible he is cause of a few missed shots.


7:35 Wait Anderson sucks he can't play and is useless!! Never mind he made a shot he's the best bench player in the NBA!! 6th man of the year!!


7:37 Comparing Cassipi to Miller is laughable. Once again, you need to stop putting words in people's mouths and look at the comparison in the context of their entire body of work.


7:46 Cassipi is shooting 11% from the 3 this year!! What are you talking about! He is no better than anybody we have so don't know what your trying to say. 11% 3 shooter with little D is not just what we need.


7:49 Asik is so unathletic. It's sad AF.


7:53 First off his name is not Cassipi!!!! Secondly, Casspi is playing great ball and Miller will not ever come close to playing as well as Casspi. The PELS screwed up not signing him!!!


7:56 Try again another day I will. When someone mentions our missing 3 who is shooting 11% from the arc with garbage D not much trying I need to do. Acting like it a joke to mention our 3s with him and he is that much better than what we have is the joke.


7:57 Did Malone just get ejected?


7:58 Casspi didn't want to play here and he was very vocal about that.


7:59 For all the Casspi lovers!!!


David 'Dubi' Pick: "This is a big season for my career, it's important that I play," Omri Casspi said upon arrival in Israel. New Orleans isn't the best situation for me. We'll finalize terms of split," Omri Casspi added.


8:03 AD>Cousins


AD>Aldridge


AD>Marc Gasol


AD>Dirk


AD>Duncan


AD>LeBron 2014


AD>Melo


AD>Kobe 2007-2014


AD=AD


8:03 If Jrue Holiday's defense were a woman, I'd wife her so hard.


8:05 (cameo appearance by our very own Hadlowe) As someone who splits viewing time between the Kings and Pelicans, Casspi has been an excellent backup sf. He is playing miles better than any bench player for the pels not named Anderson.


8:06 Salmons. Dumb. LOL


8:09 Anyone else wondering why the 2nd leading scorer in the league.. 60% fg percentage and coming off a 43 point game got literally 0 touches in the 2nd quarter??


Let me remind you, the person marking him is jason thompson...


8:11 Yea it's completely ok for him to shoot 11% from 3 and say he would be our best bench player behind Anderson. God forbid Miller, Salmons, Rivers, or anyone else shoot below 40% and they suck.


8:13 Well.. they don't have Rudy, and Darren, and their coach is ejected.. and its home.. WE SHOULD be up by 20.

and we are getting the benefit of the doubt from the refs, aswell as shooting below 40%


8:17 Thompson did a fantastic job against AD in the first game. AD went off because the Kings stopped playing Thompson.


He has definitely defended Davis the best out of anyone this year


8:29 Casspi, 11% from 3 eh?


8:33 Why we keep letting the biggest player on the Kings bring the ball up unimpeded is beyond me.


8:36 You do realize that you're using a nine shot sample within a singular statistical category to make the argument that Casspi is a below average basketball player, right?


8:36 Is that your comeback? Someone who is playing 7 mins with the smallest sample size compared to 16 mins? Miller shot a higher 3pt % in his rookie year than Casspi has his entire career. Miller also has a better career 3pt%. Casspi can have 30 points and go 5-5 still does not make him our missing piece and the 3 haha.


8:37 Miller is 0% from 3pt this year and he's our starter. He's 25% in overall fg%. I don't see any argument where Casspi isn't blowing him away.


8:38 Why is it that all you care about is 3pt shooting? I like my players to hit shots and do other things as well. But even using your asinine argument of "11% 3pt this year" he's STILL blowing Miller out of the water.


8:40 Ok I'll use his pas 4 seasons including this one 31% 32% 34% and 11%. Is that a big enough sample size for you? While steadily staying in the 60% on FTs? With 40% avg from the field and no D? How much more sample size do you need?


8:43 Rivers aka "glue fingers" is just plain awful. Good god.


8:47 Is Holiday hurt or something? Why so many bums on the floor at once? Is it 2013 again?


8:48 It's a sad day when Landry has a mismatch when Ryno is checking him. SMH


8:51 I give up! Dells worst move ever is letting Casspi go! I'm gonna go post that in the thread on Dells worst moves. 2 people crying over a guy who didn't even want to be here and fits nothing anybody wants in our SF.


8:55 We don't pass more than twice a possesion. That's trash


8:55 What was the point of bringing Jimmer in for 1 minute?? That did nothing for anyone.


8:58 Landry is looking like Barkley right. Nobody can check him. We can only hope to contain him


9:00 Every game we play we run out of excuses for why this team doesn't execute at a higher level. Mike Malone, Mike Budenholzer, Jeff Hornacek, Jason Kidd (2x), Steve Clifford have all done more with less time. These mental errors, man I tell you,...


9:03 Maybe the Pels will sign me at my usual $10/hr and give me all of Austin's minutes.


9:06 Wow, look how Sacramento moved that ball until they got what they want. Why is it that we can't do that?


9:08 Monty is done. Either he's stale or the team beyond AD has tuned him out. They do absolutely nothing right beyond the initial action. 8th grade basketball


9:12 oh tyreke...



9:13 So how's our starter SF doing this game?


9:13 Casspi 22, DM 0. Cool Story


9:15 who knew that the difference between us making the playoffs or not could come down to the decision to cut omri casspi?


he is not this good, but he has played quite well this season...but he is an all-star compared to our SF's


9:15 we had casspi, and we decided to keep miller.Bower's style.


9:16 We have 3 good players on the team and they all play in the front court.


When Anthony Davis plays like the GOAT we can compete with teams. On off nights this happens. As simple as that.


Monty and Dell need to go. They had 4 years and Monty has never built the defense and Dell has made so many failure moves.


9:16 god damn i hate this team, why can't we just clone anthony davis and just have 12 of him on this team, i hate everyone else.


9:16 Kings players seems to play hard every game ours just seem like they dont want to be there


9:21 We make so many excuses when this team plays poorly. How many good looks have we just missed? How many times has Sacramento played really good D? It's easy to look like crap when you play a team game as a bunch of individuals. Even in our wins we play like that and THEN if AD doesn't play well or the shots don't fall we look like trash. This team is fundamentally flawed and that's before you start poking holes in rosters and skill sets. I mean look at that shot by Ryan. Why?


9:22 Yeah I was caught off guard when we released Casspi. I thought he was an ideal fix when we knew our biggest need was at the 3 spot.


9:23 Unfortunately, this is a classic "Tyreke puts up good stats on a bad team" kind of night.


9:27 It sucks when the assistant coach for the other team shows himself to be far superior to the head coach for your squad.


9:28 Asik wasn't the difference. Our players came out flat and did nothing. Our usual star AD has an off night. I'm already ready to see Salmons get a chance to start. He might actually grab a rebound or assist or something compared to Miller.


9:33 After 15 games, I'm seeing the light. I like Jrue as he is a go with the flow kinda guy who will take on the identity of the guys he is surrounded by, but Tyreke needs to go and I'm pretty certain I would be okay with giving up Ryan to get rid of Gordon once he's healthy. He's out of shape, doesn't play D. and his decision making is mind boggling. I expect him to be a guy that helps keep the younger guys on the straight and narrow and too many times he's the guy to veer us of course. Just bad fits all around.


9:38 Is it to soon to whisper fire monty?


9:43 If Jimmer doesn't get 10 shots a game we are doomed.


9:46 If AD isn't getting as many shots as Ryno and Evans you have bigger problems than Jimmer not getting touches.


10:10 I'm so dam tired of seeing the same dam thing from this team year in year out. I honestly would be shocked if we make the playoffs. Tyreke evans and ryan Anderson make the most bone headed plays ever. For every "plus" play Reke makes, he makes 3 "boneheaded" plays. It's getting very frustrating to watch. For every "flamethrower" shot Ryan Anderson makes, he gives up 10 more points with his pathetic defense. Not sure how much more I can handle the disappointment this team dishes out.


10:37 Ok guys, time to think about what kind of win totals will we need to retain our pick?


10:41 Not wanting to play here didn't stop Demps from signing Gordon. I doubt it was the determining factor in not signing Casspi. But its hard to deny that he is not better than our current SF's. Casspi signed a minimum contract and counts less than $1,000,000 against the cap.


12:13 As a team we're shooting 27% from three per Vorped. What's especially odd is that we've seen the threes we're taking and they aren't bad shots, nor are they from bad shooters (aside from Reke who is strangely hitting them). I don't know what to point that to. Our volume three point shooters in Jimmer and Ryno have been off for the most part. Gordon wasn't helping until his last couple games. Holiday hasn't been a great shooter. Maybe it's just getting comfortable and into the rhythm of the team. In any case, we've seen what this offense does when it is hitting it's threes. To me that seems as much a barrometer of our success as anything else. If we're hitting threes, we'll be in the game, and if not, then we struggle.


This was a bad loss. Losing at home to an upstart team is rough. This is the kind of game you have to win to be a playoff team. I don't think I'd blame any player/coach/etc. I think this is part of growing pains but it does make me feel pretty sure that there is a lot of mental growth that needs to be done before we turn it around. I didn't think we'd make the playoffs this season, but after seeing how we looked when we played well I thought there was actually a decent chance. I'm adjusting my expectations after seeing how we lack resilience.


It's going to take some luck for things to break for us before the 2016 season. I hope that the Pels get the city to rally around them by that time so it doesn't feel like every game is an away game. Seriously, watch games in Portland, Golden State, LA, Boston, Washington, Sacramento, and Chicago. Those teams have a home court advantage. Those crowds are into the game from start to finish and you hear them rooting for their team any time they make a run, even when they're down big. Looking at the blender lately it is still so quiet and sparse.

Tonight's Game

Houston, we have a (Boogie).

If you'll remember (or not), last season after we traded for Rudy, the Kings started to really really get rolling on the backs of the "Big Three" (or, rather, Cuz and Rudy, with IT running around playing keep away with the ball), only for both Cuz and Rudy to get injured in the same game in Houston. Fortunately (I suppose), that might be impossible tonight, with Rudy expected to miss the game against the Rockets.

As we saw last night, however, that doesn't mean an automatic loss, especially when the Rockets are equally injury ravaged on their side. With alleged child abuser Dwight Howard out, the Rockets are starting future superstar (slight exaggeration) Tarik Black at center, which wouldn't be wholly terrible were it not for the fact that Terrence Jones, their starting power forward, is also expected to miss the game, leaving the Rockets with a Black/Donatas Montejunas front court.

What? That's not enough injury talk for you? Well, it just so happens that the Rockets are missing their starting point guard, the 3 and D Patrick Beverly. In his place will be Isaiah Canaan, a second year player who has also emerged as a nice kick-and-shoot receptacle.

So fret not Kings fans, we are not the only team that has early season injury woes. Our injuries just seem worse because the Sacramento Kings can't seem to ever have nice things.

So who is playing for the Rockets right now? (Cue lazy defense and flopping reel in 5...4...3...)

James Harden continues to get to the free throw line at an utterly ridiculous rate AND continues to be comically lazy on the defensive end. But who the hell cares because his beard is fluffy and he's a fantastic scorer and distributor.


After losing Chandler Parsons, the Rockets decided to stop ignoring the defensive side of the ball and signed Trevor Ariza in the offseason, one of the better defensive wings currently in the NBA. Couple that with relatively efficient offensive basketball and the jettisoning of Parsons in a failed bid to sign Chris Bosh doesn't look so bad after all.

The Rockets also have their own Greek Freak in 6'8" small forward Koustas Papanikolaou, who has taken Omri's spot in the Houston rotation and been a key rotation guy as a rookie. Also, his name is really hard to type, which has got to count for something, right?

At sixth man, a rejuvenated Jason Terry is proving to be pretty effective, even if his legs are about to fall off and his batteries are starting to do that nasty blue foamy thing. The man is currently shooting .429 from three and has been way better than Ramon Sessions which would have been nice to have but who knows how it'll be in a month or so.

Even if Rudy and Darren miss the game, this isn't an auto-loss, as the Pelicans can attest. We just need a repeat of last night. 48 solid, teamwork-filled minutes.

Matchups
Demarcus versus Tarik- Poor Tarik might be having night tremors by the second quarter.

James Harden versus Defense- Over/under on crappy James Harden defense moments? Maybe 30.

The Kings versus back-to-back- Extra aspirin for breakfast!

Final Thoughts and Predictions
Back-to-back games, back-to-back wins. I BELIEVE! Kings win 105-98. Demarcus rules us all. Praise be his name.

And then this...

#BuildAStatueofKahn
 
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Tetsujin

The Game Thread Dude
#2
Agreed we just need to keep Harden out of the lane and he will start chucking.

Also on a side note, it would be awesome to have game threads up early so we can discuss some Kings basketball against our next victim. Even a place holder game thread would do.
Your wish is my command.
 
K

KingMilz

Guest
#7
Beverly, Dwight and Jone are out for Houston.

Demarcus and our PGs need to dominate and Ben needs to contain Harden.
Refs need to let him first, but since it's not the playoffs yet I highly doubt that, expect a lot of flailing of the arms.
 
#8
Against Harden it will really hurt us, that we have no Shotblocker outside of DMC. I suspect DMC to be in foul trouble early in the game, cause Harden will attack him all the time.
 
#9
In any case the refs are going to blow (pun not intended), so better foul harden hard whenever he tries to penetrate. Make him miserable. Ray and Ben are worth 12 hard fouls, but I don't think it will go this far. Harden will get the message earlier.
 
#10
From last night, man, their crowd is awful. AD needs to get out of that place. The Pelicans have many problems, and letting Tyreke go isn't looking so bad at this point. There's all that talent but something is just missing.

I"m not sure Tyreke and IT weren't ruined completely by the Keith Smart era. Cutting ties may have been the only way to go.

We sure hit the jackpot with early season Casspi. Keep in mind, he's done this before and fades. Just last year it happened.

Very Paul Westphal of Monty to put a guy who had played 29 minutes this season into the starting lineup. Surprised that didn't work. :rolleyes:

Thank goodness we are not debating the merits of Darius Miller (had to look that up) vs. John Salmons. Makes Dwill and Casspi look like superstars in comparison. The guy who's argument that Casspi is a bad player cause he's a 11% 3 point shooter was a good laugh.
 

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#11
Never wish another team to lose its superstar. Bad karma.

But the crap attendance in places like New Orleans and Atlanta is really a black eye for the NBA. Hard to feel you have a city behind you when most of them are painted like seats.
 
#12
9:27 It sucks when the assistant coach for the other team shows himself to be far superior to the head coach for your squad.
Had to pull this quote out of the View from the Other Side.

The reality is that Corbin has seemingly been a HUGE addition to the coaching staff. There's really no doubt in my mind that he is a much better coach than Monty Williams. And I think it's extremely likely that Corbin has a head coaching job next season, possibly even for the Pelicans.

Tyrone Corbin - loved him as a player, love him as a coach. He really managed the game masterfully last night after Malone's ejection.
 

dude12

Hall of Famer
#14
Had to pull this quote out of the View from the Other Side.

The reality is that Corbin has seemingly been a HUGE addition to the coaching staff. There's really no doubt in my mind that he is a much better coach than Monty Williams. And I think it's extremely likely that Corbin has a head coaching job next season, possibly even for the Pelicans.

Tyrone Corbin - loved him as a player, love him as a coach. He really managed the game masterfully last night after Malone's ejection.
Yeah...I thought Corbin got screwed in Utah. When you strip the team of talent and go young all you can ask a coach to do is have the team compete hard every game. I thought he did that in Utah.

Only way to keep him is if Vivek opens the pocketbook and Corbin doesn't have a burning desire to bea head coach again
 
#15
Yeah...I thought Corbin got screwed in Utah. When you strip the team of talent and go young all you can ask a coach to do is have the team compete hard every game. I thought he did that in Utah.

Only way to keep him is if Vivek opens the pocketbook and Corbin doesn't have a burning desire to bea head coach again
Just hope Corbin wants to be Phil Jackson.
 
#16
Never wish another team to lose its superstar. Bad karma.

But the crap attendance in places like New Orleans and Atlanta is really a black eye for the NBA. Hard to feel you have a city behind you when most of them are painted like seats.
Oh, I don't wish they lose him. Just that they'd appreciate what they have.

If you can't fill the place with AD vs Boogie, you've got a real problem.
 

Mr. S£im Citrus

Doryphore of KingsFans.com
Staff member
#17
Never wish another team to lose its superstar. Bad karma.

But the crap attendance in places like New Orleans and Atlanta is really a black eye for the NBA. Hard to feel you have a city behind you when most of them are painted like seats.
At least with New Orleans, they don't show because it's a football town; they haven't cared about basketball there since the Jazz left. I don't know why they got a second team in the first place.

Atlanta, on the other hand, is a ****ty sports town, all the way around.
 
#18
From last night, man, their crowd is awful. AD needs to get out of that place. The Pelicans have many problems, and letting Tyreke go isn't looking so bad at this point. There's all that talent but something is just missing.

I"m not sure Tyreke and IT weren't ruined completely by the Keith Smart era. Cutting ties may have been the only way to go.

We sure hit the jackpot with early season Casspi. Keep in mind, he's done this before and fades. Just last year it happened.

Very Paul Westphal of Monty to put a guy who had played 29 minutes this season into the starting lineup. Surprised that didn't work. :rolleyes:

Thank goodness we are not debating the merits of Darius Miller (had to look that up) vs. John Salmons. Makes Dwill and Casspi look like superstars in comparison. The guy who's argument that Casspi is a bad player cause he's a 11% 3 point shooter was a good laugh.
I don't think things are that bad for them. Monty isn't a very good coach, but the team will work itself out. They haven't exactly been playing badly either. They have some clear holes in their bench depth, but so do lots of teams. The problem is Eric Gordon's salary occupying what could be a starting SF or 2 solid role players.

This Houston game is the one I wanna win most in this trip. Can't stand Harden and Howard. DESTROY THEM!
 
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GQ_Gabriel

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#19
Anybody have any updates on whether or not Rudy and Collison will be playing tonight? Regardless of how good the team played last night, we're going to need our big guns back.
 

Entity

Hall of Famer
#20
At least with New Orleans, they don't show because it's a football town; they haven't cared about basketball there since the Jazz left. I don't know why they got a second team in the first place.

Atlanta, on the other hand, is a ****ty sports town, all the way around.
its all about College Football in the Southeast north of florida
 
#22
I don't think things are that bad for them. Monty isn't a very good coach, but the team will work itself out. They haven't exactly been playing badly either. They have some clear holes in their bench depth, but so do lots of teams. The problem is Eric Gordon's salary occupying what could be a starting SF or 2 solid role players.

This Houston game is the one I wanna win most in this trip. Can't stand Harden and Howard. DESTROY THEM!
Not talking about the team, I'm talking about the atmosphere around the team. Empty seats, etc.
 
#23
Well at least the New Orleans fans are not delusional like the Bulls fans are. They are realistic about their team and the players on their team. I can appreciate that they know their team has a lot of holes and are still building something. They have a fantastic centerpiece in the BROW, and so they have something to build around. That is better than a lot of other teams that are mired in mediocrity.

I'm sorry that Big Cuz will not have Dwight to beat like a dirty rug tonight. The more often Cuz has big games against centers considered by the media to be better than Boogie the better. Eventually Cousins will get the respect he deserves. I love that the team has already earned a split on this road trip. But I am really hoping they pull off a win against Houston tonight. GO KINGS !!
 
#24
I understand that Rudy is still out in Houston. That's bad, because the Kings need every player to beat Houston. The irony, however, is that Casspi comes back starting against Houston. I truly hope he makes them regret that they traded him. I hope Casspi can keep his cool, because he undoubtedly feels the pressure that he has to shine. Casspi has to keep Ariza from shooting 3-pointers. If he can do that, it leaves only Harden as a serious scorer. I don't think that the Rockets can deal with Cousins, so he should have a great game.

This will be a difficult game, but it definitively is a winnable game.
 
#25
Ben needs to contain Harden.
I'd also like the bigger DWill to alternate on Harden defensively. DWill is quick and athletic enough to slow-down Harden. Just let him stick to Harden like a glue. This should be an easy WIN if we can slow-down Harden.

Another good match-up is Casspi VS. Arriza.
 
#26
Must resist the urge to swipe at Harden when he drives. Stand stilll with hands straight up Cuz. Harden will get some easy buckets but thats better than Cuz getting in foul trouble. I HATE when refs give weak fouls when teh offensive guys throws himself at the defenders. Pisses me off because few players, including Harden, get those calls consistently and it is cheesy. Should be a NO CALL when offensive player creates the contact and DEF is essentially straight up and barely moving
 
#27
Well at least the New Orleans fans are not delusional like the Bulls fans are. They are realistic about their team and the players on their team. I can appreciate that they know their team has a lot of holes and are still building something. They have a fantastic centerpiece in the BROW, and so they have something to build around. That is better than a lot of other teams that are mired in mediocrity.

I'm sorry that Big Cuz will not have Dwight to beat like a dirty rug tonight. The more often Cuz has big games against centers considered by the media to be better than Boogie the better. Eventually Cousins will get the respect he deserves. I love that the team has already earned a split on this road trip. But I am really hoping they pull off a win against Houston tonight. GO KINGS !!
I think we may be close to the point where Cuz is considered the best center already. I have seen his name attached to the words All-Star, Superstar, All-NBA, and MVP already this season.
 
#28
Collison and Gay are out again, but this could be a blessing in disguise. At worst we are 2-2 and it lets Sessions snap out of his funk, maybe Stauskas gets it going a little and Ray Mac emerges as a viable rotation player. If we can have everyone healthy in December we could go on very good run. This should be a tough game, while we played tough hard nosed yesterday, the Rockets have pretty much had the same mentality with all their injuries.
 
#29
Collison and Gay are out again, but this could be a blessing in disguise. At worst we are 2-2 and it lets Sessions snap out of his funk, maybe Stauskas gets it going a little and Ray Mac emerges as a viable rotation player. If we can have everyone healthy in December we could go on very good run.
Que the people that start screaming about how we will never win a game without Gay or Collison in the line up ;)