Please don't make me look. I've been drinking.
[Game] Kings @ Lakers, 11/26/21 7:30pm Pacific 10:30pm Eastern
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Please don't make me look. I've been drinking.
MizzouKing
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When your super team is young, but properly coached... (This one's for You, VF-21!)
SacTownKid
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He's also starting because Harrison Barnes at the 3 next to Bagley/Holmes is a proven loser. If they were smart they'd figure that having a 3 guard unit is actually better on both ends. Buddy and Davis are so much more dangerous with Fox or Haliburton out there. This is where the mixed roster kind of fouls things up. It makes injuries easier to deal with but not all the pieces necessarily work in a complete form.
EIM86
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qualifying offer at best needs to prove it for 2 years in a row
coolhandluke
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It's a rhetorical question.
To be fair it was sorta like two games.
I mean, maybe it's time to try and run it back and see if the new Bagley jumper is enough spacing from last year's starting 5. If Bagley wants to keep playing strong D like this and not being a sieve like he was last season, it makes that LU far more effective and easier to digest.
Or hell, maybe you get real creative and Len is the "opener" to get him on the floor with Fox and Holmes still plays 28-30 minutes off the bench and gets to destroy bench bigs. Gets him away from fully having to go vs the beefy Centers that Len is more well-suited to bang with down low. Sync up Fox/Len and Hali/Holmes where they can be most effective with each other. Holmes got his money and he obviously can see how effective Buddy has been off the bench with not much of a role decrease at all.
Even from the afterlife, she Loves This Team™.
Some of us may not understand "rhetorical questions" vs. "Capt. Factorial's predilections".
That's cool, though.
iowamcnabb
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One other thing worth mentioning: Fox has caught flak for his nonchalant personality but it can be a good thing in crunch time. He stays calm and collected and has shown the confidence to take big shots. He did a great job keeping us in the game with the mid range in the 4th and overtime.
EIM86
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beating the Fakers in 3OT will do that baby!!!!!!
SacTownKid
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They could try but the one thing Walton did run into the ground was a Barnes/Bagley/Holmes frontline. And while De'Aaron is firing on all cylinders he'll get his, but then Barnes tends to fade.
It's funny that Kings fans are so petty, something that happened nearly 20 years ago still has pure hatred engrained in our hearts in any match-up vs the Lakers.
[VF21 Mode]
So, you're telling me that the Kings have gone twelve years, without losing a game in triple overtime?
[/VF21 Mode]
ShastaKingsFan
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He's pushing all the right buttons now, including being transparent. Players love that. I can see why they want to play for him
EIM86
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that sounds like an excellent idea. If Gentry can figure out something like that we definitely can make the play in. I’m not gonna dream after 3 games or even 30 games just get in the play in lol
iowamcnabb
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Monte taking a crack at a personality. I bet Tinker has a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce on his shelf as well.
IIRC, the starting 5 was still a positive unit from last year. It just wasn't as good as the death squad with Hali in and Barnes at the 4. And that's with Bagley being really bad on D and an inconsistent shooter. If he all of a sudden becomes neutral and a good spacer? hmmmm.
ShastaKingsFan
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Some of us have hated the Lakers and all LA teams, for our entire lives
EIM86
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I mean I have a handful of friends that are Faker fans and even they admit the Kings got cheated a trip to the finals that year
steelevt
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I really want monte to have a real coaching search and interview multiple candidates, whether it’s proven coaches like Kenny Atkinson or up and comers like Bobby Jackson. But if gentry keeps winning and having the players play hard, it’s kind of hard to not give him the job.
kingsboi
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isn't he 26th all time in scoring and a former league MVP?
SacTownKid
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It was positive on net rating but Walton ran the lineups so certain numbers are kind of fudged because there were only two real units he rolled with. Then there's the Haliburton part. Buddy was a huge part of making it work since he's the only true shooter. Haliburton and Fox basically play as a combo G unit.
It wasn't one thing that happened 20 years ago. I've hated the Lakers pretty much my whole basketball watching life. It was just one of those things growing up in NorCal we generally did not like SoCal teams and then the kids/people that did tended to be really annoying about it and they also tended to like good teams from different cities in other sports, so you know they may be frontrunners too.
SacTownKid
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I think that was a part of the plan before the word came out about Vivek slobbering over Warriors leftovers again.
I have no idea, but you started off by talking about efficiency.
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