Iced Espresso
Starter
Well that suspense lasted a long time.
[Game] Kings at Blazers, Wednesday Dec. 4, 7 PM PT/10 PM ET
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Yes, with Fox, Bagley, and Bogdan all out Buddy is definitely NOT one of our best five players. Bench him. Play Swanigan instead.
1234kings
Bench
No wonder why the lakers were so happy they got rid of him. I'm questioning his coaching skills.....
Iced Espresso
Starter
There are some positives at least.
Quality effort, they made me sick vs the Bulls.
The corpses of Dedmon and Ariza reanimated.
Quality effort, they made me sick vs the Bulls.
The corpses of Dedmon and Ariza reanimated.
1234kings
Bench
UHH.....BJELICA... Buddy needed to take a seat when he was making poor shot selections and TURNOVERS. And yeah at this point, any dude on the bench for Buddy would've been better at this point in the game.
Bjeilica season best game thrown away..... it was apparent the offense was stalled with that group.....would've kept Yogi and Bjelica...they needed scoring.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Dude we're missing 3/4 of our best players and our only core scorer left is our off-the-ball specialist who we have to iso up because there aren't any go-to scorers left.
May as well question his wizarding skills, as he was unable to conjure up players that don't exist to replace the guys you didn't want on the floor.
This one's on the coach....
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I'm sure playing Bjeli at shooting guard would have gone great.
1234kings
Bench
Better than leaving someone that's having an off game in...
Iced Espresso
Starter
He had to make a call, Dame & CJ. Used Ariza on CJ a lot.
To do that Bjelica couldn't be on the floor unless you wanted to take Barnes out.
But I do see your point if you can't score.
Walton was not illogical about this at all. If Buddy got hot the game would of been a lot closer.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Bjeli is an average defender at best at his natural position. Asking him to defend CJ McCollum is not ideal.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
And the issue with taking Barnes out is that you'd have to put Bjeli on Melo, which was a matchup the Blazers were exploiting a bit in the first quarter. Bjeli could have probably handled it well enough but I'm not sure any potential points he would have added in that situation wouldn't have been offset by points scored by the Blazers on the other end.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
But we still have Bjelica!
Both Bjelica and Yogi were having decent offensive games - they needed more offense......they were behind and floundering on offense....will never know because he sat on it. Hield wasn't playing well either - hell bring in James too. Why not.....car had no gas.
They did not limit these 3 things
steelevt
All-Star
Ariza and Dedmon weren’t really the problem tonight
Kingster
Hall of Famer
Bagley needs to drink gallons of milk, take calcium pills, drink directly from the cow's udder, whatever it takes. We need him badly and we need him now. If Bogs has to go to an acupuncturist and look like a seamstress's pin cushion or a Haitian voodoo doctor to get well, get on it. The Kings' playoff chances are swirling down the drain.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
They needed offense paired with defense. Playing Bjeli and Yogi probably adds a couple more points on offense but you're also taking out two of your better iso defenders in Ariza or Barnes/CoJo against a team with three scorers who excel in that very category at the very positions you're playing around with.
Iced Espresso
Starter
Well despite the recent loses it's a cluster cluck around the 8th seed, but just one game out.
Beat the Spurs and the Dallas Luka's and maybe it won't seem so bad.
Beat the Spurs and the Dallas Luka's and maybe it won't seem so bad.
Livinthedream
All-Star
Texas triangle is going to be tough with no players.
steelevt
All-Star
I’m still upset. I praised Walton for going to the play where we switch the pg onto Barnes at the top of the key the other night and he didn’t really try it tonight. Dame isn’t exactly a defensive threat and it could have gotten Barnes to the line to get him going. Especially getting port into the penalty with about 5 mins left in the 4th. We kept trying to hit homeruns and bricking 3s instead of chipping away with the clock stopped. Everyone we got a stop it felt wasted with a missed 3 
No they needed offense -desperately. And they needed a different dynamic....they were stagnant..... cut and dry
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