[Game] Kings @ Lakers, 11/26/21 7:30pm Pacific 10:30pm Eastern

[hrdboild]

FACT: Lebron + Westbrook + The Brow + Carmelo + DHoward + DJordan < The Sacramento Kings

No amount of money will buy you heart. That's why beating LA feels so good.

 

[Chupacabra]

I'm telling you all, this is the type of win that can turn a season around. Unites the players, builds trust in the new coach, early in the season for it to be salvaged. It's one of those things where a coaching change takes place mid-season and the team changes course. Could be us this year.

 

[The_Jamal]

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.

Yeah the closing LU is still really clear Fox-Hali-Buddy(or Mitchell for D)-Barnes-Holmes. But I do think Bagley and Metu are making a case to explore their development at the 4 as "Big 4s" with the ability to have some wing/perimeter skills. Both guys really took the challenge to defend LeBron and make possessions tough.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1464488211288182785

 

[PurpleHaze]

Coach Gentry post-game presser: On Buddy Hield (paraphrasing) - "We ride with him because we know there will be times in the game he'll make a big shot and help us to win." Media question: "Why is Buddy showing up of late for you." Answer: "I drafted him."

 

[kingsboi]

I have no idea, but you started off by talking about efficiency.

you couldn't come up with other players with that type of efficiency? What about the likes of a Jamal Crawford? Michael Redd? Arenas?

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Have to say, I love Dave's spaces on twitter, feels like a podcast after every game!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

you couldn't come up with other players with that type of efficiency? What about the likes of a Jamal Crawford? Michael Redd? Arenas?

I always go to Iverson, first, because of the whole "Greatest Living American" thing. It makes me laugh.

 

[kingsboi]

I always go to Iverson, first, because of the whole "Greatest Living American" thing.

how did that term originate?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

how did that term originate?

Rachel Nichols really, really, really likes Allen Iverson.

 

[kingsboi]

Rachel Nichols really, really, really likes Allen Iverson.

is she a stan?

 

[Groovygreg]

I really didn’t think the Kings had it within them to win this game. From here forward, it’s going to take contributions from everyone asked to take the floor.

 

[Groovygreg]

isn't he 26th all time in scoring and a former league MVP?

Jordan. GOAT.

 

[MizzouKing]

It was the fifth time the Lakers had been to OT this season... before tonight they were 4-0.

 

[Groovygreg]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1258526513210593280

Skip to the 35 second mark.

Who puts Ehlo on Jordan?

 

[Fear the Putin]

It was the fifth time the Lakers had been to OT this season... before tonight they were 4-0.

before tonight, the Lakers did not face a team with generational trauma that is hell bent on beating the Lakers.

 

[kingsfan101]

Bagley is a Lebron stopper. Who knew??

Vlade

Didn't he say he could play the 3?

 

[Warhawk]

sprichst du deutsch?

Nur ein bisschen.

 

[Tetsujin]

Vlade

Didn't he say he could play the 3?

In all fairness to everyone involved, Lebron can't even play the 3 anymore (hence the Lakers having major issues by playing him there).

 

[KingsFanSince85]

Fox was money tonight.

He couldn’t have been. All I’ve heard this season is that he’s not really all that good.

 

[DynaPamm]

IT'S A GOSHDARNED MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And finally after 50 minutes I screamed IT’S ABOUT GODDAM TIME

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

is she a stan?

She's certainly not not a stan: she was a "cub" reporter for the Washington Post, when he was at Georgetown. I wouldn't be surprised if that accounted for some of it.

And, on that note, I'm up about two and a half hours past my bedtime, and I don't have the weekend off. I kinda wish that game had continued to be as boring as it was, in the first half, for another five minutes: I'd have been asleep, hours ago.

 

[hrdboild]

Rachel Nichols really, really, really likes Allen Iverson.

I think I get it. For the specific period of time that I grew up anyway... Magic and Bird were already old, Jordan was obviously great but he was a shoe salesman, Kobe was a ball hog who wanted to be the greatest so bad that he shut out his own teammates, Shaq was a force of nature but couldn't even shoot a free throw, KG was just sortof a weirdo on a bad team that nobody ever watched. AI was cooler than all of them put together. The best basketball player? Probably not. But he was the NBA in the late 90s and early 2000s. You needn't bother even showing up for pick up games unless you had a crossover.

 

[kingsfan101]

In all fairness to everyone involved, Lebron can't even play the 3 anymore (hence the Lakers having major issues by playing him there).

I know, but it was tongue in cheek, as I'm sure you realize.

 

[EIM86]

I really didn’t think the Kings had it within them to win this game. From here forward, it’s going to take contributions from everyone asked to take the floor.

Gentry has been preaching that it’s gonna take a village to win with these guys

 

[EIM86]

He couldn’t have been. All I’ve heard this season is that he’s not really all that good.

i credit him to getting Luke fired. He played like butt on purpose to get that loser out

 

[KingsFanSince85]

But he was the NBA in the late 90s and early 2000s.

I’d say AI and Vinsanity, along with our KINGS and their exciting “team” style. That was the NBA at that time.

 

[NewArena]

Win or lose, I’m digging their heart this game. Had Luke been coaching they’d already be showered and on the bus.

LOL

This thread is fantastic, and i'm only 13 pages in.

 

[NewArena]

Man, at least don't make excuses for your ill-fit superteam with Lebron and Anthony Davis losing to a team missing it's entire already thin frontcourt.

They're such pathetic homers omg

 

[NewArena]

that was one long excruciating game that neither team deserved to win but someone had to

BS! We absolutely deserved it. Lakers were up, what, 13 points in the final quarter? We fought hard