Kings_of_California
Starter
I just got around to checking stats. This one is over for sure.
How did Giles do? The box score doesn't look good.
How did Giles do? The box score doesn't look good.
[Game] Kings @ Hornets - Thursday, Jan. 17 - 4PT/7PT
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Suicide King
Starter
NewArena
All-Star
Tough when u just beat them a couple days ago. I figured we’d lose this
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Bjeli hasn't exactly been much of a threat lately.
Ozymandias
All-Star
Giles got completely abused and mauled by Hernangomez, similar to how Favors did him in the season opener.
Hernangomez has a massive strength advantage over harry, and thats putting it politely.
Suicide King
Starter
Can't take this loss too hard. Put it behind us and go 3-3 or better on this trip.
Ozymandias
All-Star
Hate to pile on but, the boxscore doesn't remotely do justice to how thoroughly Marvin Williams outplayed him tonight.
Ozymandias
All-Star
Lets hope one of the things he learns is he needs to eat more and stay in the weight room! gotta strengthen up, there are colossally strong players lurking in the backup C depth charts of NBA teams.
The Effort Police
Starter
Of all the flaws this team has, the starting forwards are still the glaring weakness that I think will be the reason they miss the playoffs.
Kingz19
Hall of Famer
Rough one for Harry. Tried to force a couple drives that ended very badly. Passing was on point again though.
Tizzy Flip
Starter
We also played them on the back end of a back2back and they were without Parker.
I’m concerned that our past 3 wins were against exhausted teams that were also without key players. And when we play teams at full strength and rest, we have a dud like today (and Phoenix).
We need to sharpen up our play and start making adjustments as teams are playing us straight up and exposing our interior defense and rebounding
SLAB
Hall of Famer
Maybe he can hit up Skal’s body people this offseason.
White_Chocolate
Starter
This game made it very clear we need an Otto Porter in our lives. Shump has been bad since the beginning of 2019, Bjeli hot start ended months ago, and JJ isn't ready to handle starter minutes. To compensate we are attempting to play three guards (which is not the best use of our talent). Again we need a true SF that can shoot, play d, and compete on the road.
Kingsfan23
All-Star
Was there any imprint on the game? (Half joking as he’s been better lately with consistency)
14 feet of low motor/weak paint presence. At least WCS has some supporters still where they are, but Beli brings no presence and there isn’t a sliver of question if he’s a cog in the future. Start Marvin (and I’d prefer a trade for a C if Giles ain’t ready)
14 feet of low motor/weak paint presence. At least WCS has some supporters still where they are, but Beli brings no presence and there isn’t a sliver of question if he’s a cog in the future. Start Marvin (and I’d prefer a trade for a C if Giles ain’t ready)
Folsomkingsfan
Starter
Would've liked for Fox to have been more aggressive today. Lots of missed opportunities to attack the defense before they got set.
Guilty of this on the rare occasions that I watch games live, but at least my reasoning is that when the games going well I'm up and enjoying myself and not on the board. It's when things are bad that you turn to the board to vent.
OPrime
G-League
Only happened 4 times this year and they are 1-3
burekijogurt
Starter
I think we know why we lost this game! Bogi!
Kingster
Hall of Famer
It was jet-lag city. They just didn't have the energy. It was very apparent with Fox. He pushed the ball only once during the entire game. I don't understand why they didn't fly to Charlotte yesterday as opposed to today, but they must have a good reason. The only experience I've had similar to what they did was when I was in my 20s (in good shape) and flew from L.A. to Atlanta and on the same day in Atlanta played basketball with my friend in a pick-up game. Man, I was tired.
No excuses for the Detroit game. They better be primed and ready because Blake Griffin isn't going to be taking another night off.
No excuses for the Detroit game. They better be primed and ready because Blake Griffin isn't going to be taking another night off.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Sigh. His play in the second half of the game didn't singlehandedly lose us the game but it certainly wasn't helping matters.
Almost every single Hornets possession in the fourth quarter stretch where they increased their lead and pretty must won the game involved Tony Parker running a simple rub play with Bogi's man and the chaos that ensued as Bogi either switched onto the wrong guy or simply had a bad defensive possession. On offense, Bogi was absolutely fantastic in the first half but then went into hero ball mode in the second half.
Overall, the rebounding battle was probably a bigger factor in the loss but it's harder to forgive two rookies for not being strong enough to muscle up Willy Hernangomez than it is to excuse Bogi for playing like a rookie.
