[Game] Kings at Blazers, Wednesday Dec. 4, 7 PM PT/10 PM ET

[Capt. Factorial]

Game thread! Bring your game comments here!

 

[jcassio]

Go Kings! Dammit.

 

[fnordius]

The Suns are stinking up Orlando, so a win means another 8th-9th tie with them. Otherwise, we swap places with Portland (11th). I'm hoping the team feels up for winning tonight.

 

[gunks]

Cojo on Dame should be interesting. Lillard always destroys Fox, so hopefully putting our defensive specialist on him can slow him down.

Defense and AT LEAST one of Buddy or Bogi going off should give us the W. I got Barnes for 20. Holmes vs Whiteside will be entertaining.

Lets go Kings!

 

[LoungeLizard]

No Bogi tonight. Gonna be tough. Expectations low. Damn it we need to get our guys back. Go Kings.

 

[Solicitor]

No Bogi tonight. Gonna be tough. Expectations low. Damn it we need to get our guys back. Go Kings.

Is this official already?

 

[LoungeLizard]

Is this official already?

I heard Grant say it on my drive home, haven’t checked online for anything, Grants usually pretty connected.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Yep, he’s out.

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/nba/sacramento-kings/article238055869.html

 

[joemama]

3 biggest mistakes kings have been making lately:

#1 letting Buddy bring the ball up the court
#2 playing Ariza/allowing him to jack up bricks from 3 pt land
#3 giving Deadman's minutes to Giles (or anyone else)

Limit these 3 infuriating things please

 

[Solicitor]

With Bogi out and Ariza with more playing time, i hope the kings make this a low scoring slugfest so we have a chance to get the W.

 

[ockingsfan]

No Bogi tonight. Gonna be tough. Expectations low. Damn it we need to get our guys back. Go Kings.

Time for Justin James to break out with a 16+pt game to go with his tough defense.

Time for all the fellas to step up and play big time!

We need this one bad!

 

[Kingster]

Hield has been averaging a mediocre 1.2 points for every shot attempt in the last 10 games. That ain't going to cut it for $20+ mill/year man. He needs to take better shots and hit them in this game. Good time for the kid to get minutes. Barnes has to be stellar for the Kings to have a chance and Cojo has to make less efficient than he is ordinarily. Without Bogs, Yogi is probably going to get minutes. I hope he is aggressive with his shot.

 

[L'Optimisme]

Feels like we need this win. Pressure is on us to get this after the Bulls collapse. We can survive getting 1/2 of these. If we habitually lose consecutive winnable games that will nix any playoff hopes. It's not do or die, but it's a patter that must be squelched.

I expect a super scrappy effort.

 

[Iced Espresso]

3 biggest mistakes kings have been making lately:

#1 letting Buddy bring the ball up the court
#2 playing Ariza/allowing him to jack up bricks from 3 pt land
#3 giving Deadman's minutes to Giles (or anyone else)

Limit these 3 infuriating things please

Dedmon has been horrible, but so has the way he has been used on offense.

Agree with the others, with 2 it is because James has done ok, which is much better than Ariza has done.

 

[joemama]

I say give Guy some burn because I cannot remember the last time Yogi hit a 3.

 

[Iced Espresso]

I say give Guy some burn because I cannot remember the last time Yogi hit a 3.

Is he with the team tonight?

 

[Kingz19]

Nothing like that brick against the Bulls to kill any interest in tonight’s game. 15 minutes since the last comment?

 

[Tetsujin]

Bjeli and Melo taking turns cooking each other

 

[joemama]

Is he with the team tonight?

Yep and active

 

[joemama]

Buddy 1 of 5
Melo 3 of 4

 

[Kingster]

Hield has had his shot blocked 3x in the first five minutes. Not auspicious.

 

[joemama]

Oh God no Ariza is 1st sub.
Sure wish Walton did not have a man-crush on him.

 

[jcwkings]

CJ is owning Buddy right now.

 

[Kingz19]

Buddy Bricks these days

 

[joemama]

Holmes with 1/2 of our points

 

[joemama]

Dont foul Ariza you'll get an angry Walton

 

[joemama]

Buddy actually hit a shot
Drink!

 

[Tetsujin]

Buddy gonna shoot all the shots tonight and considering the remaining supporting cast, I don't really mind.

 

[Kingz19]

Somebody must’ve shouted my Buddy Bricks crack from the bench, because he went on a 7-0 run since

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

What’s up with Buddy this season? High highs and low lows.