piksi
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Will NOT be able to do a game thread for the Rockets game.
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Nothing lasts forever but some things are really nice while they last such as our 4 game winning streak that was ended by the Bulls on Tueasday night. Kings dropped to 5-5, 4-3 at home and they will have a difficoult task to stay at 0.500 considering the 3 game road trip including Mavs, Rockets in a back to back set as well as the Grizzlies. Additionally, for the first time this season Kings failed to win a quarter
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We lost the game, we deserved to lose the game but we didn't quit and that is yet another new quality of this team. In the recent past all it took was a 10-0 run of the opponent for the Kings team to play possum for the rest of the game. And sure enough those runs came. Sometimes it was 12-0 sometimes it was 22-1 run but games were over quickly and garbage time was expanded from the last few minutes of the 4th quarter to the rest of the season. Right now, it looks like we will lose many games but we won't quit. We will play for 48 minutes. We might suck, we might play poorly, we might turn it over more than the stock market but we will still play.
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One draft pick was the difference between Noah and Hawes and yet again we were on the dark side. It makes all the difference. If I gave you some clues like - leads the league in rebounding, averages a double double, shooting 56% and has not attempted a three yet vs. not averaging double double, shooting barely 40% and has 0-13 from down town this season - could you pick the right guy ?
There is still hope for Spencer to become a man first and then maybe a center. Is it ever going to happen? Probably not, because what you need to get ther - you can't learn. It is in your nature. Spencer's upper limit as a player can be Brad Miller level and that would be overachieving.
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Season barely started but Kings continue with the tradition of having multiple key pieces being injured. Right now, we have no bench and even if we hadd all our players we would be extremely short. It was nice to se Sergio come in and contribute but it isn't enough especially when you can not replace "Mr. Charmin" and " Mr. Fumble Fingers" - out two starters up front. One is extremely soft anf the other can't catch the ball right and needs 3 attemps for a layup which helps him to average double double and to be a good offensive rebounder. Hell, even Mikki caught a ball from time to time.
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Kings vs Mavs - good old times, lots of points, lots of drama and lots of Kings wins but also the most devastating loss - the Webber injury in 2003. In the big picture - they did achieve more and lasted longer than us. It is a personal satisfaction for me that they didn't go all the way either. I don't like them, never have, never will. The owner, Irk, Finley and so on... Right now - I believe that we are in a better position because we are going uphil. However, their owner is not afaraid to spend so they can change everything next summer.
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After several games in which we played opponenets who don't defend, bulls showed us that we have a long way to go. They beat us easy with their defense. Held us uo season low 87 points, caused 21 turnover. We made a run and had a chance to cut it to 5 but missed a layup and turned the ball over in two consecutive possesions. After that they closed the door.
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AWARD TIME
Pargo gets the TDM for those Jordan-esque 2 minutes when he scored 12 points sponsored by Kings defense
LW-VC went to Rose sponsored by Evans
JHA is earned by Spencer "charmin" Hawes for his aweful performance
RA&1 - Kirk "elephant" Hinrich was garbage
SAR-Methuselah - Brad has slowed down
Jax-Walk - Evans gets it for 0-4 from three. neither one was close, in fact they looked ugly. Even Popeye Jones had better form.
WTF moment of the game - Kings blocking out Noah
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Mavs are next in Dallas. Needless to say that it will be a difficoult task even if we were healthy despite them not being healthy. We have no noe that can guard Itk which means that he will shoot 20 FTs tonight. Evans Kidd matchup will be interesting to watch as well as Hawes vs 3pt line matchup, Thompson vs layup matchup. maybe Donte can light them up.
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Evans - go to the basket more
Udrih - keep it up
Donte - nice
Hawes -
Thompson - catch that ball and dunk it !!!
KT - hopefully won't get to guard Irk
Casspi - more consistancy please
Udoka - hit them hard
Sergio - do it again
rest - get well soon
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Mavs 2 9-3 and 4-1 at home are 2nd best in the West. They were beaten by Wizards in Dallas so we do have a chance. They have lots of injured players like us. Barea wins the TDM eventhough Beaubois is way tu new and hard to pronounce so he might get his career high too. Hope that Terry gets the TDM.
This would be great great win but realistically we will again fall below 0.500.
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Nothing lasts forever but some things are really nice while they last such as our 4 game winning streak that was ended by the Bulls on Tueasday night. Kings dropped to 5-5, 4-3 at home and they will have a difficoult task to stay at 0.500 considering the 3 game road trip including Mavs, Rockets in a back to back set as well as the Grizzlies. Additionally, for the first time this season Kings failed to win a quarter
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We lost the game, we deserved to lose the game but we didn't quit and that is yet another new quality of this team. In the recent past all it took was a 10-0 run of the opponent for the Kings team to play possum for the rest of the game. And sure enough those runs came. Sometimes it was 12-0 sometimes it was 22-1 run but games were over quickly and garbage time was expanded from the last few minutes of the 4th quarter to the rest of the season. Right now, it looks like we will lose many games but we won't quit. We will play for 48 minutes. We might suck, we might play poorly, we might turn it over more than the stock market but we will still play.
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One draft pick was the difference between Noah and Hawes and yet again we were on the dark side. It makes all the difference. If I gave you some clues like - leads the league in rebounding, averages a double double, shooting 56% and has not attempted a three yet vs. not averaging double double, shooting barely 40% and has 0-13 from down town this season - could you pick the right guy ?
There is still hope for Spencer to become a man first and then maybe a center. Is it ever going to happen? Probably not, because what you need to get ther - you can't learn. It is in your nature. Spencer's upper limit as a player can be Brad Miller level and that would be overachieving.
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Season barely started but Kings continue with the tradition of having multiple key pieces being injured. Right now, we have no bench and even if we hadd all our players we would be extremely short. It was nice to se Sergio come in and contribute but it isn't enough especially when you can not replace "Mr. Charmin" and " Mr. Fumble Fingers" - out two starters up front. One is extremely soft anf the other can't catch the ball right and needs 3 attemps for a layup which helps him to average double double and to be a good offensive rebounder. Hell, even Mikki caught a ball from time to time.
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Kings vs Mavs - good old times, lots of points, lots of drama and lots of Kings wins but also the most devastating loss - the Webber injury in 2003. In the big picture - they did achieve more and lasted longer than us. It is a personal satisfaction for me that they didn't go all the way either. I don't like them, never have, never will. The owner, Irk, Finley and so on... Right now - I believe that we are in a better position because we are going uphil. However, their owner is not afaraid to spend so they can change everything next summer.
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After several games in which we played opponenets who don't defend, bulls showed us that we have a long way to go. They beat us easy with their defense. Held us uo season low 87 points, caused 21 turnover. We made a run and had a chance to cut it to 5 but missed a layup and turned the ball over in two consecutive possesions. After that they closed the door.
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AWARD TIME
Pargo gets the TDM for those Jordan-esque 2 minutes when he scored 12 points sponsored by Kings defense
LW-VC went to Rose sponsored by Evans
JHA is earned by Spencer "charmin" Hawes for his aweful performance
RA&1 - Kirk "elephant" Hinrich was garbage
SAR-Methuselah - Brad has slowed down
Jax-Walk - Evans gets it for 0-4 from three. neither one was close, in fact they looked ugly. Even Popeye Jones had better form.
WTF moment of the game - Kings blocking out Noah
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Mavs are next in Dallas. Needless to say that it will be a difficoult task even if we were healthy despite them not being healthy. We have no noe that can guard Itk which means that he will shoot 20 FTs tonight. Evans Kidd matchup will be interesting to watch as well as Hawes vs 3pt line matchup, Thompson vs layup matchup. maybe Donte can light them up.
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Evans - go to the basket more
Udrih - keep it up
Donte - nice
Hawes -
Thompson - catch that ball and dunk it !!!
KT - hopefully won't get to guard Irk
Casspi - more consistancy please
Udoka - hit them hard
Sergio - do it again
rest - get well soon
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Mavs 2 9-3 and 4-1 at home are 2nd best in the West. They were beaten by Wizards in Dallas so we do have a chance. They have lots of injured players like us. Barea wins the TDM eventhough Beaubois is way tu new and hard to pronounce so he might get his career high too. Hope that Terry gets the TDM.
This would be great great win but realistically we will again fall below 0.500.
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Hope we win tonight. GO KINGS!!
