[Grades] Grades v. Lakers 03/30/2013

[The_Jamal]

Then maybe someone should get the little guy some tissues.

Tell that boy to toughen up. He's been all about himself numerous times, looking off Reke/Cuz to get his own, celebrating every other shot he hits, contributing to Reke getting benched repeatedly because he won't give up the ball. He sits one 4th quarter and he's teary eyed? Napoleon complex rears its head once again. It's about IT and IT getting his points. Thinking he's the top option and should be our leading scorer. This is what happens when you turn a role player into someone who thinks he's a top option.

Jesus Christ. Your smear campaign is reaching epic proportions. You go off on IT on 1 fan thinking IT was perhaps teary-eyed? I call hogwash


IT has always been a very professional teammate. We didn't hear any negativity from him when he was benched for Brooks and he's always the first one off the bench to meet the players on a timeout.

 

[mac]

Jesus Christ. Your smear campaign is reaching epic proportions. You go off on IT on 1 fan thinking IT was perhaps teary-eyed? I call hogwash


IT has always been a very professional teammate. We didn't hear any negativity from him when he was benched for Brooks and he's always the first one off the bench to meet the players on a timeout.

I don't fully agree with Rainmaker making such a statement based on that one poster, but what you said isn't exactly true either. It was reported that he was very frustrated in some of the games recently when Smart benched him in the 4th, even when we won the game, that he also left the locker room in a hurry etc etc. He is certainly still a good team mate, just pointing out that he isn't as angelic/ unselfish as you think.

 

[KingsFanSince85]

Nice to know that the current and soon to be former owners of the Sacramento Kings kept their word about ensuring that no Lakers fans would ever sit in their court side seats again. It first happened during the whole Anaheim ordeal 2 years ago. They used plausible deniability defense and promised something like that would never happened again. Here's a view of their seats last night: https://twitter.com/CrownDowntown/status/318187693785894912/photo/1

 

[jalfa]

If you do a Google Image Search for "conflicted" you'll find a picture of me reading this quote.

#2. making a Kings fan like Kobe Bryant counts among the cruellest things you could do.

 

[Spike]

Maybe Smart remembered IT's defensive lapses against Blake and the Lakers last time they played. However, that's giving Smart a lot of credit.

 

[Kingster]

Other than that last minute, we saw what we should have seen all year long: riding Reke and Cousins all game long to positive results.

Yeah, it's great for getting more ping pong balls!

 

[pshn80]

I missed the game and didn't record it.

I just finished reading your analysis of the game. What I get out of it is:
It's the Hustling Huskie's fault - the loss that is - because he sat on the bench in the 4th Q and made faces.
And, oh yes, of course, it was Smart's fault for a variety uf reasons too numerous to list right here.
Otherwise our guys played hard and well and some felt good about that.

Thanks.

 

[Cwebb#4]

So we're now 8-11.

 

[The_Jamal]

I don't fully agree with Rainmaker making such a statement based on that one poster, but what you said isn't exactly true either. It was reported that he was very frustrated in some of the games recently when Smart benched him in the 4th, even when we won the game, that he also left the locker room in a hurry etc etc. He is certainly still a good team mate, just pointing out that he isn't as angelic/ unselfish as you think.

Well, yea. Our starters have a lot to gripe about with random 4th quarter benchings. It's happened to IT, Reke, and Cousins on the regular and often when they were having a great game.

I just get really frustrated with those who try to scapegoat IT for all of our problems. Yes, he needs to be reigned in and he gets the selfish bug at times. That's for our new coach to do.

 

[Agent23]

Yeah, it's great for getting more ping pong balls!

Yes, let's ride our Nate Robinson clone instead!

 

[CruzDude]

This game down the drain goes mostly to Cuz and his matador defense on Howard. I watched Cuz on defense most of the night and he actually stepped back 6-7 times from Howard so as not to foul rather than play defense. Absolutely embarrassing. He wasn't the only one just the most obvious. Where was Aldrich and his 6-fouls to use on Howard? That kid can play down low defense and might have slowed down Howards' ego.

But the bottom line for fault and losing games that should have been won is Coach Smart, who isn't.

 

[mac]

On Tyreke's "help D" - I think it was made even worse tonight because "coach" "Smart" had one of our bigs double teaming Kobe behind the 3 point line, sometimes even triple teaming. As a result the lane was wide open and Tyreke seemed to slump off his man even more than usual. Slightly silly considering Tyreke has ZERO chance against Pau Gasol or Dwight Howard down low. Also, this put JT/Patterson in weak rebounding positions as they had to recover from trapping way up top. Didn't help either that the Lakers PFs in Gasol and Jamison are somewhat stretch 4s. That basically left Cousins to fight with Howard for rebounds, and in one stretch the Lakers went on a 14-1 run or something like that with Dwight doing most of the damage.

 

[rainmaker]

Well, yea. Our starters have a lot to gripe about with random 4th quarter benchings. It's happened to IT, Reke, and Cousins on the regular and often when they were having a great game.

I just get really frustrated with those who try to scapegoat IT for all of our problems. Yes, he needs to be reigned in and he gets the selfish bug at times. That's for our new coach to do.

You've pointed out multiple times I blame Smart too much, yet here you are saying I scapegoat IT for all our problems. That's a contradiction which makes no sense.

I've complained about everything from lineups, sub patterns, offensive sets, defensive strategy, lack of hierarchy, small ball, unbalanced roster and more, and here you are making s*** up and thinking I only blame IT for everything.

 

[VF21]

NOTE: The constant personal attacks and insults stop now. This isn't the way KF has ever been and it's not going to get to that point. Some of our new members are getting off to a bad start because they think they've got to join in with the stupid pissing contest stuff.

You can disagree with someone's views and opinions without resorting to personal attacks, insults, etc.

 

[The_Jamal]

You've pointed out multiple times I blame Smart too much, yet here you are saying I scapegoat IT for all our problems. That's a contradiction which makes no sense.

I've complained about everything from lineups, sub patterns, offensive sets, defensive strategy, lack of hierarchy, small ball, unbalanced roster and more, and here you are making s*** up and thinking I only blame IT for everything.

I gave Smart at the beginning of the year to show anything he implemented in the offseason. This was his first real year as our coach and he deserved a chance to show if he had anything. Obviously, he didn't, and I then quickly jumped off the ship. I haven't defended anything Smart related for close to 4 months now. I fully agree with all the Smart flack he gets; he absolutely deserves it.

What has IT done to deserve your... statements in your previous post? You go off on IT being the most selfish teammate ever and plotting to keep Reke on the bench. Frankly, none of its true.