[Game] Kings @ Nets 1-21 12:30pt/3:30et

[TaxMan]

Enjoy the holiday folks.....I’m out.

 

[White_Chocolate]

This is a brutal second half

 

[SacTownKid]

I think it's the beyond terrible defensive display. Nets just draining 3 after 3. Kings showing little resistance.

Remember, the Kings are an offensive team. In a game being played at this pace scoring droughts like they've had in this one is like almost any other loss they've had this year, the predictor of things to come. They shouldn't have to rely on miraculous comebacks that often.

 

[Sluggah]

Call it already.

 

[Tizzy Flip]

Shump helping build this house... brick by brick

 

[SLAB]

We’re all missing the bright side.

At least Bjelica will be well rested for the B2B tomorrow!!!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Because today was a winnable game and tomorrow is a scheduled loss?

I mean, I'm not going to say that this game wasn't winnable, but I probably feel like it was less winnable than most of you guys seem to. Lotta anti-east bias in this thread, IYAM.

 

[PurpleHaze]

Have Kings gotten to the line at all in 2nd half? Nets far more attacking rim and gotten to the stripe throughout. Kings just chucking and chucking away!

 

[Kingster]

I think I'm going to look up my electricity rates to see if it's worth my money to watch the last 4 minutes of this game.

If you have PG&E don't bother to look up the rates. Just turn off the TV.

 

[Ozymandias]

Bring in Skal!

edit - he's in street clothes ><

 

[Kingsfan23]

This is the most lost I have seen Fox this season

He’s hitting a low recently, but he hasn’t been playing how he did to start the season for a long, long time

 

[SLAB]

Bring in Skal!

Tough to do in a suit.

 

[DesertFox]

The team needs outside threats to create space for Fox. When Belly isn't producing, you're left with JJ as a small ball 4, or the rookie struggles of a Giles-Bagley combo.

 

[Tizzy Flip]

I’m not so sure they are a “better” team. Evenly matched in my opinion. Nets are hot right now. Russel really playing well. Playing on the road it’s not a game I expected to win.

They’re hot but they’re also really good. 17-8 since Decemebe

 

[PurpleHaze]

Bring in Skal!

He's in street clothes on bench. But bring him in anyway!

 

[SacTownKid]

We’re all missing the bright side.

At least Bjelica will be well rested for the B2B tomorrow!!!

And for the next bashing of Bjelica I want whoever brings it up to replay this game and look at the defensive formations of the opposing team. They have been allowed to track the ball with as many as 3 defenders all night. Teams have figured it out. I've never seen a team fight against it's own identity as hard as the Kings have this year. They are a pick and roll team that is going to have to spread and shoot when teams pack it in.

 

[Kings_of_California]

He’s hitting a low recently, but he hasn’t been playing how he did to start the season for a long, long time

I'm not off the hype train whatsoever, but his path to stardom is starting to look a little more windy.

 

[SLAB]

With Shump unable to hit water from a boat, I’d like to let everyone know Carmelo Anthony is now available.

 

[SacTownKid]

Have Kings gotten to the line at all in 2nd half? Nets far more attacking rim and gotten to the stripe throughout. Kings just chucking and chucking away!

The Nets have taken the middle of the paint away. Then on the other side the Kings haven't stacked enough shooting outside of the end of the 2nd quarter when they went small to force them out of the middle. The Nets are tracking pick and rolls with as many as 3 layers of defenders and the Kings aren't killing them from the opposite corner because they don't have any shooting from the big spot.

 

[Kingster]

He’s hitting a low recently, but he hasn’t been playing how he did to start the season for a long, long time

I think it all comes down to the energy factor. Without his legs, his shooting went downhill and the result is what we see - forcing the issue. He's not going to get foul calls, so he's between a rock and a hard place right now. He's got to get his mojo back and his outside shooting back to open up the rest of his game.

 

[DesertFox]

Shump passing up the open 3, yet he's all about the conested step back long 2..

 

[Kings_of_California]

Breaking news: We just scored 9 points in the 4th quarter. Nine.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

We scored 9 points in the fourth quarter. 9.

 

[Kingster]

The road trip isn't exactly looking pretty. Not a panoramic view, that's for sure.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Breaking news: We just scored 9 points in the 4th quarter. Nine.

I don't understand how you spelled it out completely and still beat me.

 

[PurpleHaze]

Nets put a slobber knocker on Kings in 2nd half. Toronto awaits

 

[SacTownKid]

The team needs outside threats to create space for Fox. When Belly isn't producing, you're left with JJ as a small ball 4, or the rookie struggles of a Giles-Bagley combo.

Fox is getting tired but on top of that, teams are now playing the Kings pick and roll differently when they do finally run more and more of it. They can go to either extremes against the Kings. One play they can play very soft on the pick, on the next they can play very aggressively. They can do this because they know the Kings won't attack them from the perimeter via spot shooters. The only reason the Kings got back in the 2nd is because they did. The Kings never went back after that. Instead he took Buddy out early in the 3rd and took more shooting off the floor. It's mind boggling at times.

 

[The Hammer]

Tough loss.

 

[Tizzy Flip]

The road trip isn't exactly looking pretty. Not a panoramic view, that's for sure.

Yup we’re looking at 1-5 and that’s with a lot of luck involved. I think we won’t make the playoffs but this stretch could solidify that. Andthe Feb schedule only gets tougher

 

[SacTownKid]

The road trip isn't exactly looking pretty. Not a panoramic view, that's for sure.

I'm more concerned with how it's looking to other coaching staffs around the league. If they are watching close enough they might have just figured out the Kings for good. If they have this could get ugly in a hurry. From then on it's miracle games from 2 players or bust.