has this team ever hit clutch free throws ? chokers

GoSACtown said:
one of those nights ? hmm, a lot of these nights... i love how we faught back.....but just gotta make FREE THROWS! we have been missing these for years!
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There are other aspects of the game besides free throws. Had the Kings played defense, not be sloppy with the ball or blown the lead, maybe it wouldn't have mattered if they missed a few free throws. The Kings deserved to lose last night. Maybe now this will be a wake up call.
 
Rockmeister said:
There are other aspects of the game besides free throws. Had the Kings played defense, not be sloppy with the ball or blown the lead, maybe it wouldn't have mattered if they missed a few free throws. The Kings deserved to lose last night. Maybe now this will be a wake up call.
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haven't the kings had enough "wake up calls" the last 3 years???? maybe its time to get a new service, cuz whomever is making these "wake up calls" now just isn't working.
 
jeffjcalweb said:
haven't the kings had enough "wake up calls" the last 3 years???? maybe its time to get a new service, cuz whomever is making these "wake up calls" now just isn't working.
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Hey, no need to dump on my opinion. I know the Kings have had enough wake up calls. They have also played together for 5 or 6 yrs. They have also been lousy at playing defense. As well as being poor at rebouding. But what else is new. Got any suggestions besides saying "its time to get a new service". Exacly, what does this mean?
 
i'm not dumping on anyone's opinion .... lots of peeps are probably frustrated, and rightly so. the point i was trying to make was (and is); after 6 years, this core group of players (yes i know vlade is gone & brad is in his second season), why are we still talking about the same things?? every year kings fans have the same chant "rebound, defense and crunch shots". well if it hasn't happened in the previous 5-6 years, what makes us think its going to start now?

i think expectations need to just be a little more inline with understanding what this team has to offer. this is not a NBA championship caliber team, it just isn't. they are a good team that has flaws which aren't going to go away. and before i get blasted by someone for not being a "true fan", i didn't say i like the way it is, i'd love for the kings to celebrate a NBA title in downtown sac!
 
i didnt say we played the lakers last year, i said we miss free throws every year in the playoffs....i probably misunderstood what you were talking about.........when you said it was 2002, get over it....i thought u meant that was the last time we 'choked'.....but i guess you were talking about something else
 
lets not just pinpoint the loss on the missed free throws...other things contributed to the loss...TURNOVERS...lack of energy...and of JRich just went CRAAAAAZY....

i actually think the turnovers bug me more than the missed free throws...we went from the best team with the least amount per game to the third best team in like a week...whats up with that?

ps--the sacramento kings aren't the only team that misses critical free throws in games...it happens to every team
 
oui this team has made clutch free throws. last night wasn't one of them. hopefully it'll happen vs a team that MATTERS!!!!!! the W's suck, yes we should have won, but it's not like that team is going anywhere. i'd rather make the clutch free throws vs the spurs when we welcome them to acro and that the kings WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOO LAKERS!!!!!!!!! ( just for the hell of it :D)
 
Watching Lakers vs. Blazers Game 7 WCF 2000 on ESPN Classic this weekend reminded me (or showed me for the first time) about how poorly the Lakers shot free throws in their first Conference Finals Game 7 at home.

They shot virtually the same percentage from the free throw line in their game as the Kings did in their first Conference Finals Game 7 at home (54.1% vs. 53.3%).

My point is that frustrating lapses like missing free throws, giving up big leads, losing to bad teams, losing to good teams, etc, happen often to many teams which include championship teams. It is easy to not realize that it might be a little more common than it seems.
 
4cwebb said:
The Kings' poor free throw shooting in game 7 of that 2002 series vs. the Lakers is to me as the slow grounder getting between Buckner's legs *was* to Red Sox' fans prior to this past World Series...
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it's nothing like that for a couple of reasons:

1. this is not baseball
2. we have not been cursed for 86 years
3. the Kings missing free throws did not cause us to lose the championship
4. that horrible free throw exibition had been going on for months, when bill buckner wasn't making errors like that all season

yes they both choked in a big game, but what does bill buckner letting a ball go between his legs in October, 1986 have to do with the kings losing on december 26th, 2004
 
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BJax24 said:
it's nothing like that for a couple of reasons:

1. this is not baseball
2. we have not been cursed for 86 years
3. the Kings missing free throws did not cause us to lose the championship
4. that horrible free throw exibition had been going on for months, when bill buckner wasn't making errors like that all season

yes they both choked in a big game, but what does have to do with the kings losing last night?
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It's nothing like that for you. For me I've been waiting for the past 12 years for CWebb to bring home some type of championship (sure, 12 isn't 86, but it's more than a third of my life at this point). It didn't work out at Michigan. As for your reasons...

1. I don't see a problem drawing a parallel between different sports.
2. It hadn't been 86 years in '86. Only 68 years.
3. I feel comfortable in the assumption that if the Kings beat the Lakers they go on to beat the Nets in the Finals.
4. Fair enough, but as has been pointed out by many Boston sports fanatics many times over, Buckner hadn't been playing late game defense for the Bo Sox for the large portion of that year. It was a situation that was foreign to him that year, as was Game 7 to the Kings.

And, my post wasn't about last night...it was in response to the thought that some Kings' fans should just let go of the disappointment of the 2002 WCF.
 
I don't know how to break this to you, but drawing a parallel between sports is fine - if you make it clear enough to people who aren't baseball fans. Otherwise, it just looks pretentious.

We do have another forum for people who want to talk about the OTHER b-ball.

In other words

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Point taken, but I wasn't really talking about baseball. Just drawing a parallel. I guess I just find it hard to believe that people have no idea about the curse of the Red Sox, especially after they just won the WS. I'm not debating the finer points of baseball.

And I generally agree...I find baseball terribly boring, and don't follow it that closely.
 
I knew about the curse of the Red Sox, having been alive for most of it. I just didn't know (nor did I care) about that guy you mentioned...

;)
 
I can only think of ONE game with this team in the last few years that we have actually hit meaningful, clutch free throws...Game 6 against Minnesota last season. Clutch only is clutch when it counts...to win games. I cant really remember any other CLUTCH free throws that we've made. Game 7's(or 5's) have been our demise. But that has always been the case with ALL Kings teams of the past, when the heat gets turned up, the Kings just melt.(oh, and btw, I'm a Kings fan of 20 years, and always will be, no matter what) Oh, and I'm glad someone else brought up the Sox and the Kings in the same post...I just hope that I dont have to wait another 66 years(that is if I live to see 96), to see the Kings win a title...but hey, how sweet it would be, right...to see our team win a title in the twilight of our lives, right?
 
Circa_1985_Fan said:
I can only think of ONE game with this team in the last few years that we have actually hit meaningful, clutch free throws...Game 6 against Minnesota last season. Clutch only is clutch when it counts...to win games. I cant really remember any other CLUTCH free throws that we've made. Game 7's(or 5's) have been our demise. But that has always been the case with ALL Kings teams of the past, when the heat gets turned up, the Kings just melt.(oh, and btw, I'm a Kings fan of 20 years, and always will be, no matter what) Oh, and I'm glad someone else brought up the Sox and the Kings in the same post...I just hope that I dont have to wait another 66 years(that is if I live to see 96), to see the Kings win a title...but hey, how sweet it would be, right...to see our team win a title in the twilight of our lives, right?
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Twilight nothing. In 66 years, I will be...........oh, never mind. I'll be dead.
 
We Kings fans share similarities with Sox fans...coming from someone who lived in New England a while, too. They wrote the book on those similarities, though...we just share them.
 
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