[Game] Kings @ Hornets, 12/10/21 4pm Pacific 7pm Eastern

[Tetsujin]

Davion completely stalls Hayward on one end, drills the three on the other

 

[EIM86]

Obviously, we all like defense. But given the Hornets' roster issues today, I don't think Jamal's "first to 170" is a bad strategy. Just play ten men, run them into the ground, and cruise to the victory, D be damned. It's not like we can play it anyway.

Just get the win baby!!!!

 

[Capt. Factorial]

More shots with 20 left on the shot clock, please!

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Is Thor considered a "big"

 

[Tetsujin]

Davion with the nasty backside rip away on defense. Dude's a monster.

 

[Tetsujin]

Davion has looked like a freaking star since Kevin O'Conner sorta implied he was a bust.

 

[Tetsujin]

Moe sighting!

 

[Tetsujin]

Oubre apparently not gonna miss tonight

 

[Tetsujin]

Terence must have really hated playing for Luke Walton lol

 

[EIM86]

This game ginna be only 58 minutes and 23 seconds lol

 

[hrdboild]

Combined 3PA: 34. Combined FTA: 9.

 

[Tetsujin]

TD gets T'd up and the Hornets promptly miss the free throw

 

[hrdboild]

Okay so I know I was just asking for more Free Throws but how was Thor going to shoot from behind the backboard there?

 

[Tetsujin]

How bad must Kai Jones be if JT Thor is ahead of him in this Hornets pecking order?

 

[EIM86]

How bad must Kai Jones be if JT Thor is ahead of him in this Hornets pecking order?

man I wanted to draft him too LOL #CouchGMBustPick

 

[PurpleHaze]

This street ball no defense crap has got to end! Mark Jones: "Were looking at another 140 pt game."

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Terence must have really hated playing for Luke Walton lol

Gentry instills confidence in most/all of his players. Everything else aside, this makes him a much better coach than Walton

 

[EIM86]

Gentry instills confidence in most/all of his players. Everything else aside, this makes him a much better coach than Walton

yeah but don’t you have to look at the tape first?

 

[Sluggah]

That’s a foul?

 

[Tetsujin]

Bouknight making the non-Davion Kings guards look like good defenders by comparison.

 

[Tetsujin]

Davion and Marvin cause a bad Hornets turnover

 

[Sluggah]

Bags. Awesome work.

 

[EIM86]

that was the best defense we’ve played all season by far

 

[Tetsujin]

At least we're back to just being a great offense/offensively bad defensive team again.

under Luke, we were offensively bad on both ends of the court.

 

[hrdboild]

If Bagley doesn't get inexplicably benched in the second half, he's got a good shot at his first 20-10 game of the season. Fox is probably going to get 30 again. I wish we'd run some more plays to get Haliburton open from three. He's scorching hot from outside right now: 15 for 28 in the last 5 games (counting this one).

 

[The_Jamal]

Another really, really nice Bags stint.

 

[chief bromden]

If Bagley doesn't get inexplicably benched in the second half, he's got a good shot at his first 20-10 game of the season. Fox is probably going to get 30 again. I wish we'd run some more plays to get Haliburton open from three. He's scorching hot from outside right now: 15 for 28 in the last 5 games (counting this one).

Hali keeps passing up shots because his wind up is too slow

 

[hrdboild]

Hali keeps passing up shots because his wind up is too slow

Right but we could fix that by running a play designed to get him the ball out there off of a screen instead of having him either create the shot himself or stand in one place. The main thing I don't like about the way we've been playing offense is that we're not using screens to free up shooters, we're mostly using them to create dribble penetration but the off-ball defenders can read the passing lanes pretty easily if their man is standing out there motionless.

 

[Tetsujin]

Right but we could fix that by running a play designed to get him the ball out there off of a screen instead of having him either create the shot himself or stand in one place. The main thing I don't like about the way we've been playing offense is that we're not using screens to free up shooters, we're mostly using them to create dribble penetration but the off-ball defenders can read the passing lanes pretty easily if their man is standing out there motionless.

Right there are ways to create secondary actions off the middle pick and roll. Alvin's only had this team for a couple of weeks so I'm sure it'll come at some point.

 

[Tetsujin]

Tyrese is apparently never going to miss a three again.