[Grades] Grades v. Thunder 2/29/2016

[Bricklayer]

Nope, still not working. A scoring pace so ridiculous that your franchise center, on one leg, chugs in 35pts 12rebs 3ast and 4 steals.... and its a drop in the bucket and a win going away for the other guys.

Part of the problem was that there were 3 of the 10 best players in the world on that court tonight, and they had 2 while we only had 1. But that doesn't explain the utterly ridiculous scoring by the Thunder bench and their 57.4% shooting, which is just vomitous.

We let everyone score 110, even teams who have never scored 110 in their lives. But if the Thunder scored 110 it actually would have been ok. They average 109. But to score 130...I'm not ok with that. Somebody should have punched somebody. Oh wait, Cousins almost did.

Tick tock. Only 3 remaining clear schedule losses for us from here on out, @SAS, CLE, and then OKC just before the end of the season. Let's hope that next OKC game still has some meaning left, but once we start getting beatable opponents lined up we are going to have to go on a hell of a run for the final month.

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[Larry89]

 

[sdballer]

Goblin: F

 

[fansinceday1]

keep up the pace!

 

[gunks]

I hate Karl so very very much.

 

[Fear the Putin]

DE-FENSE!
oh
I meanz PAY-ACE!

 

[Amaranth]

Some great quotes from Casspi post-game (and pregame).

 

[Chicken Chaser]

Some great quotes from Casspi post-game (and pregame).

Do you have a video link or quotes? Thanks

 

[gunks]

Brick, you shoulda let it be a multi answer poll so that I could have selected every option but us making the playoffs...


Sorry, little bitter right now. The Thunder are the better team, but it's HOW we lose these games that's so irksome. ..

 

[Dbeltz24]

Kayte looked smoking as a Catwoman. So I'll give that an A.

DMC had a good first half, the wheels fell off in the second half once the game got out of hand.

Acy showed up like normal.

Everyone else needs a wake up call after tonight, if someone is holding DMC ankle like that I expect to see at least someone reacting to it to stick up for DMC.

 

[KingMilz]

Kayte looked smoking as a Catwoman. So I'll give that an A.

DMC had a good first half, the wheels fell off in the second half once the game got out of hand.

Acy showed up like normal.

Everyone else needs a wake up call after tonight, if someone is holding DMC ankle like that I expect to see at least someone reacting to it to stick up for DMC.

The team is in desperate need of more thugs we played well everytime the game gets chippy but once the heat and chippyness goes out the wheels fall off. It's been a flaw in our team for a while the only two players on this team that will get in someone's face are Cousins ( who always backs up teammates on every incident) and Q.

 

[Dbeltz24]

The team is in desperate need of more thugs we played well everytime the game gets chippy but once the heat and chippyness goes out the wheels fall off. It's been a flaw in our team for a while the only two players on this team that will get in someone's face are Cousins ( who always backs up teammates on every incident) and Q.

Not going to call them Thugs but I'll say we need some toughness out there when things get chippy. Caron Butler could have been that guy this year. I used to love watching Reggie Evans play, the toughness he played with was great to watch.

 

[KingMilz]

Not going to call them Thugs but I'll say we need some toughness out there when things get chippy. Caron Butler could have been that guy this year. I used to love watching Reggie Evans play, the toughness he played with was great to watch.

Yeah guys like Marcus Morris/PJ Tucker would be great we need a tough wing type

 

[ESP47]

Who cares how tough you are when it doesn't even look like the team is coached on defense. They can get chippy and smack opposing players around they you want and it's still not going to change the fact that this team can't defend a screen or the 3 point line to save their lives.

This team isn't losing because they lack toughness. They're losing because they give up 110 points per game. They give up 110 points per game because they are constantly out of position. Guarding absolutely nothing in the hopes that the other team will not see them so they can make the steal and run down the court and get us some exciting POINTZ!

Go back and watch the game last night. There were so many wide open three's taken by the Thunder for reasons I can't even fathom. Our players are just constantly brain farting and/or double teaming guys that don't even need to be double teamed yet. Westbrook had the easiest triple double of his life because of this. You think Malone would have just kept on playing when Rondo and Collison were off chasing butterflies halfway through the Thunders offensive set? I have no idea what the hell Karl is thinking. Maybe he's showing the team James Harden defensive reels and making them copy that? At least Harden is off in lala land thinking about a Kardashian when he's brain farting during a game. Our players have no Kardashian's. They just simply aren't coached and aren't held accountable for their ridiculously stupid plays on defense. Malone would have burnt through all his timeouts in less than 5 minutes on this stupidity that were watching.

 

[dude12]

Maybe the worst coaching job regarding defense that I can recall. And based on our personnel it shouldn't be this bad. There is enough there to be a middle of the pack defensive team and maybe better with a lights out defensive oriented coach.

 

[Amaranth]

Do you have a video link or quotes? Thanks

From the pregame show: Casspi said ‘Look, I sent a text out to these guys the other night, I said this is probably the last go for this team. If we don’t get our butts in gear and start playing better, and start focusing, and start winning games, then this team is going to break up, and we like playing together, we want to stay together. But there’s going to be massive changes if we don’t start playing better.’"

After the game, he said they're not worthy of the playoffs, other teams play with a chip on their shoulder that the Kings don't have, and that they don't have a lot of opportunity left to start winning.

 

[kingsboi]

this season can't end any sooner...Cousins needs to take some time off and heal up, this pace is absolutely destroying him physically, probably mentally too.

 

[Kingster]

From the pregame show: Casspi said ‘Look, I sent a text out to these guys the other night, I said this is probably the last go for this team. If we don’t get our butts in gear and start playing better, and start focusing, and start winning games, then this team is going to break up, and we like playing together, we want to stay together. But there’s going to be massive changes if we don’t start playing better.’"

After the game, he said they're not worthy of the playoffs, other teams play with a chip on their shoulder that the Kings don't have, and that they don't have a lot of opportunity left to start winning.

It wouldn't surprise me if Casspi and others have heard either directly or indirectly from management that this is exactly what will happen.

 

[Amaranth]

It wouldn't surprise me if Casspi and others have heard either directly or indirectly from management that this is exactly what will happen.

Common sense tells you that's what's going to happen.

 

[Larry89]

Saddest part of the night for me is taht I didnt get to see Kayte

 

[Sac.Kings]

I kind of stopped watching the games. Not even Cousins can make this team tolerable to watch for me. As far as the playoffs there's no chance. None.

 

[Dime Dropper]

so, looking at the roster, I see our only real youth to build on being WCS and Ben.
Logic tells me that the only way to rebuild this (THE RIGHT WAY) is to trade our only valuable pieces, DMC and gay, and try to do this correctly. IMO, we're past the point of blowing this up, again, and trying to rebuild this around cousins. For one thing, I don't see him wanting to go through this again. Why should he? Do him a favor, trade him, and get a good haul for him. But they better not go Kings and f this up.

In my book they have 2 years to show me they are moving in the right direction. If they don't I'm done. I'm 42 and have been a Kings fan my whole life. I don't have it in me to be like those loveable loser cubs fans or those poor poor sap Cleveland Browns fans, forever rooting on their pathetic teams.
This team has sucked their entire Sacramento existence, with the exception of the early 2000's. Sports is suppose to be an escape and up to now it's been aggrevating and a huge fun suck. When I start feeling like a dupe for supporting this franchise, I think that's telling me I've just reached the end of my rope. If that makes me some horrible fan, so be it. Frankly I don't give a F anymore.

Logic tells you to trade the best big man in the game, who is only 25 years old? I'm not sure what your definition of logic is.

 

[Kingster]

Common sense tells you that's what's going to happen.

It's one thing to guess. It's another to hear from management that that is what is going to happen.