Warriors missing lots of easy looks....helping the Kings stick around. Don't expect to see that in the second half here and I'm not sure what prompted them all of a sudden to start playing harder...if you can't come out and play like that from the get go against the top Western Conference team record wise, then I question their motives here.
[Game] Game 43: OH DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!!! 7:30 PST, 10:30 EST
- Thread starter Tetsujin
- Start date
Deuce Mason @DeuceMason 2m2 minutes ago
Kings down by 5 but it feels like 20. Can't give the Warriors so many open looks from three-point land.
Kings down by 5 but it feels like 20. Can't give the Warriors so many open looks from three-point land.
Not just inexperience, but an attitude to change the way the NBA is played without any regard to anyone's feelings (especially your star player) and how it would alter team chemistry/dynamic. An utter refusal to follow traditional and proven steps in order to attempt to implement something so ridiculous we were laughed at before we even tried it.
It isn't just inexperience. We have GM who has been in the business long enough to understand things, but doesn't have the balls to say no to the owner and cowers in the corner. What we have is an egotistical owner who thinks he has an idea that will revolutionize basketball, when in fact it will send us even further down the pipe known as sucking hard. Even when presented with evidence of this, he refuses to acknowledge the deficits and has been as vocal as a mute individual in recent weeks (coincidence? I think not). In fact, the Malone firing will be exhibit A when Cousins leaves. At this point, I see no reason why Rudy and Cousins would waste their prime here, when everything other than the product on the court seems more important.
It isn't just inexperience. We have GM who has been in the business long enough to understand things, but doesn't have the balls to say no to the owner and cowers in the corner. What we have is an egotistical owner who thinks he has an idea that will revolutionize basketball, when in fact it will send us even further down the pipe known as sucking hard. Even when presented with evidence of this, he refuses to acknowledge the deficits and has been as vocal as a mute individual in recent weeks (coincidence? I think not). In fact, the Malone firing will be exhibit A when Cousins leaves. At this point, I see no reason why Rudy and Cousins would waste their prime here, when everything other than the product on the court seems more important.
Not inexplicably. Necessarily. And I think at his own behest.
This is precisely the sort of hero/leader stuff that can get the attention of both your team and All Star voters. He refused to let us go away, and so here we are. That doesn't mean we are going to win BTW. But he has made an actual game break out by not taking the easy way out.
This is precisely the sort of hero/leader stuff that can get the attention of both your team and All Star voters. He refused to let us go away, and so here we are. That doesn't mean we are going to win BTW. But he has made an actual game break out by not taking the easy way out.
They weren't a lottery team but they were a fringe playoff team. You and Rainmaker can make all the excuses that you want but the fact remains that two teams traded away Rudy Gay when he was their #1 player and both teams became much better after they traded him. That's not an aberration but rather a similar correlation.
Teams don't just trade their best player for junk and suddenly get better unless that player has some real leadership flaws and lack of intangibles.
Teams don't just trade their best player for junk and suddenly get better unless that player has some real leadership flaws and lack of intangibles.
No, fact remains that I(can't speak for Slim) am not going to sit here and debate Rudy's career in Tor and Mem and explain all the factors going into both situations vs his situation here, right in the middle of a Kings game.
If you're on some witch hunt with Rudy, good for you. I'm not wasting my time on this **** in the middle of a game though.
If you're on some witch hunt with Rudy, good for you. I'm not wasting my time on this **** in the middle of a game though.
Ailene Voisin @ailene_voisin · 16m16 minutes ago
Frustration level reaching boiling point. Omri Casspi pulled from game , gestures and speaks angrily - while seated - to asst Micah Nori.
Frustration level reaching boiling point. Omri Casspi pulled from game , gestures and speaks angrily - while seated - to asst Micah Nori.