[Game] Game 25: Sacramento Kings vs. OKC Thunder, 12/16/14, 7:30PM PST, 10:30PM EST

[Bosnian Diehard]

Rudy's end game execution this year **without Boogie**. Yikes.

Fixed.

 

[Larry89]

A string of 5 or 6 bad plays/lack of attention in late game situations once again

 

[Sam0ah]

Man the bench was so much better.... Rudy needs to quit thinking he has to do it himself.

 

[sdballer]

Fixed.

That's fair.

 

[Merdiesel]

I can see why Toronto couldn't stand Rudy. The guy is a nightmare when he is the first option.

HURRY BACK DEMARCUS!

 

[PurpleHaze]

Kings masters of self-destruction in last few minutes crunch time over and over. Unbelievable!!

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Ben just is not afraid to take those type of fouls. Gotta give him props on that. Eventually it's going to get him ejected though

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Rudy's end game execution this year. Yikes.

There's a relatively simple remedy for that, but it might not be basketball 3.0.

 

[k_dubb90]

Another poster said rudy just isn't a winner and I have to agree. He can put points on the board and keep your team coasting to a win, but when it's crunch time he folds

 

[Larry89]

Hmm maybe it wasnt Malone's fault but the players faults all along...

 

[randymoss1881]

Hmm maybe it wasnt Malone's fault but the players faults all along...

Malone wasn't the one missing fts/ and getting careless TO. Both cost us games vs la/Houston.

 

[VF21]

Random fact: The Hornets beat the Kings 111-110 on a buzzer beater by Rashad Butler on March 31, 2009, the night Vlade Divac's jersey was retired. On that same day, Tyreke Evans declared for the NBA Draft.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

lead in the last 7 minutes of the 4th, lose by over 10. Classic Kings.

NBA 3.0!

 

[Mad D]

What a mess.

 

[est.1999]

This 4th quarter = LOL

 

[k_dubb90]

Random fact: The Hornets beat the Kings 111-110 on a buzzer beater by Rashad Butler on March 31, 2009, the night Vlade Divac's jersey was retired. On that same day, Tyreke Evans declared for the NBA Draft.

So does this mean we're getting a rookie of the year next draft?

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

This NBA 3.0 stuff doesn't seem fun. Maybe I just need new glasses, I mean, Vivek is always right!

 

[Mad D]

Random fact: The Hornets beat the Kings 111-110 on a buzzer beater by Rashad Butler on March 31, 2009, the night Vlade Divac's jersey was retired. On that same day, Tyreke Evans declared for the NBA Draft.

Rasual Butler, I remember that game. Stupid Lil Wayne was storming on to the court.

 

[fansinceday1]

We can't forget that we're playing one of the best teams in the league WITHOUT our best player.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

It certainly seems that every time a coach is fired midseason, the team whose coach was fired comes out the next game and plays very well. I don't have any numbers on that, but it certainly feels that way. Perhaps that will bode well for us tonight.

Good call!

 

[Sluggah]

i was promised cherry picking!! my 12 year old niece swears by it.

 

[Sam0ah]

I would say it all went downhill when Sessions came out. Once Collision was back in the game the offense just stopped moving the ball in the fourth.

 

[gunks]

We can't forget that we're playing one of the best teams in the league WITHOUT our best player.

True. I was just thinking, we'd probably get the same result if Malone was still our coach. Now, if we had Cuz playing...We might have gotten the W.

Anyways...Perspective is nice, but lets go back to bashing our FO!

 

[Sam0ah]

We can't forget that we're playing one of the best teams in the league WITHOUT our best player.

This times a googleplex!

 

[lawlman91]

bench picked it up when they saw the starters faultering. should always have that mindset, dear bench

 

[KingMilz]

We just beat our-self's we turn the ball over at a alarming rate and it literally looked like we traded for Gerald Green with the shot selection of Rudy Gay. Massive props to Ryan Hollins for his effort and Darren Collison has to stop turning down wide open shots he's a good shooter and he keep turning down wide open looks.

Happy with the effort they tried hard but the Thunder had Westbrook and he literally looked like the best player on the planet that game and with the way he's been playing since he came back you can argue he might be.

If we could ever get a starting level version of Ryan Hollins in a trade imo that's the piece that gets us to the playoffs.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Same old Kings. Basically looked identical to the last nine games right down to the 4th quarter push followed by total collapse

 

[Sam0ah]

Same old Kings. Basically looked identical to the last nine games right down to the 4th quarter push followed by total collapse

Not sure If I agree... This was the best I have seen the bench play all year.

 

[theclash4u5]

I would say it all went downhill when Sessions came out. Once Collision was back in the game the offense just stopped moving the ball in the fourth.

Nah Sessions was spent, we were down by 8 or so when Collison came back in

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

i was promised cherry picking!! my 12 year old niece swears by it.

You're lucky; I don't even have any nieces. I have four sisters, and they all had sons.

I do have an eight year-old cousin, though: my aunt had what they used to call a "change of life" baby.