[Game] Kings @ Celtics - 12/2/16 - 4:30PT/7:30ET

[kingjatt]

No whistle for us and Celts getting touch calls.....

 

[Larry89]

Gotta be physical on defense to start games to set the tone for how you are refereed the rest of the game.

 

[sactownfan]

How many mins has Casspi played straight? He looks gassed. Coach is terrible at managing mins.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

No whistle for us and Celts getting touch calls.....

So, the usual, then?

 

[Tetsujin]

Getting a text from AI maybe isn't a mark of a good thing

 

[Larry89]

Isaiah is an amazing player for his size

 

[kingjatt]

Get rudy some easy buckets to get his groove back, without him we go no where.

 

[SLAB]

Barnes for Rudy makes the Kings much better with how it's going tonight.

Yeeeeesh, Rudy...

 

[Tetsujin]

Marcus Smart still doesn't live up to his name.

 

[New Era]

GIVE THE BALL TO THE PG RUDY.....MY GOD

 

[sactownfan]

Thank god rudy has to leave... he needs to rethink his life

 

[Larry89]

Apart from a good stretch of games to begin the season, Rudy has been below mediocre.

 

[kingjatt]

Collison has those sticky hands, move the dam ball.

 

[SacTownGrantFan]

Pretty solid half.

A halftime lead would have been nice.

 

[Tetsujin]

Just tuning in but why are the Celtics playing the game in their pajamas?

 

[Bricklayer]

you know, we're down by 1 at half with neither Cousins nor especially Gay giving us anything

now of course you could say the same for IT the other way, but still, if we can just diagram up something to get Cuz something other than 3ptrs after half we're once again right there.

 

[kingjatt]

Apart from a good stretch of games to begin the season, Rudy has been below mediocre.

Hes smart though he strategically blamed the kings before the season even started to protect himself. Feel bad for the next team that overpays him because they think they can change him.

 

[Kingsfan23]

Cousins has bad games against the Celtics

Last three years it seems. Trade talks build, and he plays a bad game against this team that destroys the momentum of those talks

Not that I'm particularly for trading him

 

[SacTownKid]

Apart from a good stretch of games to begin the season, Rudy has been below mediocre.

He probably didn't think he'd last much longer and would've been traded quickly considering his stretch of really good games early on.

 

[Bricklayer]

I disagree on the "no matter who we put out there".

Coach has only made one change all year. Collision over Lawson. Which minus the suspension would have been the starting lineup from the beginning... so with this horrible starting lineup we get bombed on by teams to start every game. So it's not whoever it's mostly just that starting line up

To the contrary, we have started 5 different lineups. Check my stats thread.

 

[Bricklayer]

Cousins has bad games against the Celtics

Last three years it seems. Trade talks build, and he plays a bad game against this team that destroys the momentum of those talks

In which case: good.

Let's just win it on his off night then.

 

[gunks]

Big Al still owns Cuz.

Well, in the first half at least. I'm hoping for a bounce back.

 

[SacTownKid]

To the contrary, we have started 5 different lineups. Check my stats thread.

They usually play the first six minutes then get yanked, and last week it was revealed the first six minutes of Kings games with that lineup are horrific.

 

[Larry89]

We really need a powerforward, then we can actually start doing some high low action. Also need to find ways to have Cousins catch the ball deeper in the paint in a scoring position, most of the time he has to dribble to his spot and it takes so much time and it is much easier to defend.

He really needs to learn how to move without the ball better as well.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Apart from a good stretch of games to begin the season, Rudy has been below mediocre.

Has he, though? If you disregard the first half of the schedule, Gay's scoring numbers are only a hair off his career numbers, and he's averaging more rebounds and assists.

 

[Larry89]

I'm also still waiting for the moment Marcus Smart tries "verbal flopping" shenanigans against cuz

 

[SacTownKid]

We really need a powerforward, then we can actually start doing some high low action. Also need to find ways to have Cousins catch the ball deeper in the paint in a scoring position, most of the time he has to dribble to his spot and it takes so much time and it is much easier to defend.

He really needs to learn how to move without the ball better as well.

The sad thing is they have a really good one in Tolliver. The Kings finally get a solid defensive stretch 4 and he sits.

 

[Larry89]

Has he, though? If you disregard the first half of the schedule, Gay's scoring numbers are only a hair off his career numbers, and he's averaging more rebounds and assists.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gayru01/gamelog/2017

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Yeah, I know, that's where I got the numbers from.

 

[SacTownGrantFan]

you know, we're down by 1 at half with neither Cousins nor especially Gay giving us anything

That's a good thing. Not necessarily a half time adjustment except for Gay.

To double Cousins' numbers, if he finished with 18 pts and 10 rebounds but we won in Boston, I'd be happy with that.