[Game] Game 18: Sacramento Kings vs. Toronto Raptors

[Kingston Jamaica]

At some point in time if a PG is going off on us and Collison/Sessions can't contain him I would like to see the coach put Rudy Gay on that PG in the 4th during crunch time, Rudy when he's engage (when the game is on the line he's normally engage), can do a solid job defending man to man by using his length/size. In particular against physical PGs like Lowry you at least take away Lowry's ability to overpower our PG's. Lowry was massacring our PG's we should have switched Rudy or Casspi onto Lowry for a different look..

Got to agree with this. I think Casspi should have been on the floor during the last 3-4 minutes. It's starting to become a routine that both SFs are the Kings best passer collecting the highest assist numbers per game. Gay with 10 and Casspi with 5 assists were highest tonight. Also in rebounds, 6 and 4, repectively, only Reggie Evans and Sessions were able to supercede them with 7 and 5 rebounds. What I could notice also in this game, when Gay and Casspi were on the floor together, the ball started to move and they created good opportunities for everybody.

 

[Tetsujin]

Got to agree with this. I think Casspi should have been on the floor during the last 3-4 minutes. It's starting to become a routine that both SFs are the Kings best passer collecting the highest assist numbers per game. Gay with 10 and Casspi with 5 assists were highest tonight. Also in rebounds, 6 and 4, repectively, only Reggie Evans and Sessions were able to supercede them with 7 and 5 rebounds. What I could notice also in this game, when Gay and Casspi were on the floor together, the ball started to move and they created good opportunities for everybody.

Who would Casspi have gone in for?

You can't possibly be telling me that you'd have liked to have seen a Evans/Williams/Rudy/Casspi/Ben lineup.

 

[Kingston Jamaica]

Who would Casspi have gone in for?

You can't possibly be telling me that you'd have liked to have seen a Evans/Williams/Rudy/Casspi/Ben lineup.

Right. I would have started with JT/DWill/Rudy/BenMc/Collison and substituted with Evans/Rudy/Casspi/Stauskas/Sessions and at some point switched to Evans/Landry/Casspi/BenMc/Sessions and coming back with JT/Rudy/Casspi/BenMc/Collison.

 

[dude12]

You forgot to mention that Toronto was without their best player too...

Toronto replaces their best player or one of their best players with T Ross or Vazquez. We replace the best big man in the game with Ryan Hollins.

 

[twslam07]

Toronto replaces their best player or one of their best players with T Ross or Vazquez. We replace the best big man in the game with Ryan Hollins.

That's a very good point. DeRozan goes down and they still have a guard rotation of Lowry, Vasquez, and L. Williams with Ross shifting to SG every now and then. While on our side, Cousins goes down and we have a frontcourt rotation of Thompson, Landry, Evans, D. Williams, & Hollins. Yikes!

 

[Bricklayer]

That's a very good point. DeRozan goes down and they still have a guard rotation of Lowry, Vasquez, and L. Williams with Ross shifting to SG every now and then. While on our side, Cousins goes down and we have a frontcourt rotation of Thompson, Landry, Evans, D. Williams, & Hollins. Yikes!

an interesting question/point given the way things turned out was what about possibly starting Landry alongside JT to retain some semblance of inside offense.

I think that's an idea that may need to be doubly considered against Indiana, where a JT/Landry structure is the best mirror of Hibbert/West we can muster. Try to mute how badly we lose those positions, beat them with our little people. With JT's descent into complete roleplayer, and apparently without anymore offensive gears anymore, it might be the best play.