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Kings notes: Evans forced to hit the ground running
By Joe Davidson -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Friday, February 4, 2005
The Kings welcomed back one mainstay Wednesday in Oakland. The rest of the crew has a green light to jump on-board any time. Maurice Evans came off the injured list and was immediately in the starting lineup against the Golden State Warriors. He didn't draw a flat-footed foe in his first duty after missing five games because of a strained groin. He challenged Jason Richardson, which served as a nice primer for tonight's assignment against Stephon Marbury, whose New York Knicks come to Arco Arena desperate for a turnaround.
http://ads.sacbee.com/RealMedia/ads...l/64313865323634663432303264343930?_RM_EMPTY_ Richardson won the statistical duel with 37 points, hitting from above the rim, on bank shots and from three-point range. But Richardson couldn't make enough free throws - he was 5 for 11 - as Evans hit a late three-pointer and Brad Miller scored a career-high 38 points as the Kings held on 111-107 in overtime.
Evans scored 15 points in 43 exhausting minutes. He had one dunk attempt blocked by Adonal Foyle and said he was rusty on his shot.
"It was rough," Evans said. "I was missing dunks and making mistakes I don't normally make. It's tough sometimes to find your rhythm, but I stuck with it."
Tonight, he hopes to stick to Marbury, no easy task given the veteran guard's ability to dribble, drive and shoot.
When the Kings played the Knicks on Jan. 4, it was Evans' defense and two late jumpers by Chris Webber that gave the Kings a 105-98 victory, the team's first win at Madison Square Garden since 1996.
Evans limited Marbury to one point in the fourth quarter of a game in which Evans produced a career-high 16 points.
In a zone - Kings coach Rick Adelman used a zone defense in the second half to help slow the Warriors, a ploy that worked wonders with an unsettled lineup.
"I had planned on using the zone all along, but I didn't want to do it in the first half," Adelman said. "I just wanted to take (the Warriors) out of their rhythm. Being short-handed like that, we didn't want to get in foul trouble, and we wanted to give our guys, well, not rest, but keep them from running around too much."
What was that? - Miller cracked after the game that his high-arching shot off the glass with 45 seconds left came out of the Greg Ostertag book of tricks, saying, "I don't know how in the world that made it."
Kings notes: Evans forced to hit the ground running
By Joe Davidson -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Friday, February 4, 2005
The Kings welcomed back one mainstay Wednesday in Oakland. The rest of the crew has a green light to jump on-board any time. Maurice Evans came off the injured list and was immediately in the starting lineup against the Golden State Warriors. He didn't draw a flat-footed foe in his first duty after missing five games because of a strained groin. He challenged Jason Richardson, which served as a nice primer for tonight's assignment against Stephon Marbury, whose New York Knicks come to Arco Arena desperate for a turnaround.
http://ads.sacbee.com/RealMedia/ads...l/64313865323634663432303264343930?_RM_EMPTY_ Richardson won the statistical duel with 37 points, hitting from above the rim, on bank shots and from three-point range. But Richardson couldn't make enough free throws - he was 5 for 11 - as Evans hit a late three-pointer and Brad Miller scored a career-high 38 points as the Kings held on 111-107 in overtime.
Evans scored 15 points in 43 exhausting minutes. He had one dunk attempt blocked by Adonal Foyle and said he was rusty on his shot.
"It was rough," Evans said. "I was missing dunks and making mistakes I don't normally make. It's tough sometimes to find your rhythm, but I stuck with it."
Tonight, he hopes to stick to Marbury, no easy task given the veteran guard's ability to dribble, drive and shoot.
When the Kings played the Knicks on Jan. 4, it was Evans' defense and two late jumpers by Chris Webber that gave the Kings a 105-98 victory, the team's first win at Madison Square Garden since 1996.
Evans limited Marbury to one point in the fourth quarter of a game in which Evans produced a career-high 16 points.
In a zone - Kings coach Rick Adelman used a zone defense in the second half to help slow the Warriors, a ploy that worked wonders with an unsettled lineup.
"I had planned on using the zone all along, but I didn't want to do it in the first half," Adelman said. "I just wanted to take (the Warriors) out of their rhythm. Being short-handed like that, we didn't want to get in foul trouble, and we wanted to give our guys, well, not rest, but keep them from running around too much."
What was that? - Miller cracked after the game that his high-arching shot off the glass with 45 seconds left came out of the Greg Ostertag book of tricks, saying, "I don't know how in the world that made it."
