[Game] Kings @ OKC Thunder- 4/9/2024 - 5:00PM PDT/8:00PM EDT

[SacTownKid]

Come on….this did not start with the monk injury. I will always love this team but this is just who they have been all year.

Yeah, being a contender vs. 6th/7th/8th/9th isn't Monk. Never was. He can be the difference if you have that top end, but not a way to get to it.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

He plays smart and knows what is effective. He has a talent for taking the ball into the defense and producing at a high %

And, by "playing smart," you mean stays committing insurance fraud?

 

[Tizzy Flip]

It's really simple. You don't keep settling for 3's. SGA takes it to the defense and gets contact

Not a difficult formula to win tbh

 

[NewArena]

Come on….this did not start with the monk injury. I will always love this team but this is just who they have been all year.

This is true but I’m just saying the scoring droughts wouldn’t be anywhere near disgusting. You have guys passing up shots Monk would shoot with no hesitation, especially at or near the rim.

 

[iowamcnabb]

And? They lose that one, Dubs win theirs... Then home play in game against the Dubs...

If they win tonight we are still up a game on them and would be playing the Pels if the records hold.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Fox shot 17 3s! Let that sink in

The Kings shot 58 3's and OKC shot 30. Then people are wondering why one team gets more calls

 

[Rob-The-Great]

He shot 17 threes tonight and made just over 41% of them. That's pretty much a Steph Curry shooting night. And Keon Ellis had a pretty good Klay Thompson shooting night himself (8 for 15). The trouble is we were better as a team offense when Fox was getting to the basket and everyone else was making the threes. And tonight was a perfect example of why... Shai and Chet are shooting free throws every time down the floor and we're shooting threes and hoping enough of them go in to regain the lead.

You proved my point. Fox shooting 17 3s should never happen. He needed to attack attack attack. I don't care how many he made, I care that we are consistent with how we attack.

When Fox makes a 3 the other team says we can live with it. It's not the same feel or momentum as a curry 3. Nobody will ever say foxes biggest strength is him shooting 3s

 

[hrdboild]

Consistency makes a major difference. SGA puts in the effort every game. Fox doesnt

I don't know what "effort" is supposed to mean in this context. Fox had more rebounds, more assists, more made baskets, and less turnovers than SGA in this game. On the season he's now closed the gap in steals between them to less than 10. The only real effort I see from SGA is putting his head down and running into defenders. Fox has tried that before and he doesn't get the calls.

 

[TaxMan]

Fox shot 17 3s! Let that sink in

He scored 21 points on those 17 shots. Would I rather he attempt fewer? Yes, but hard to blame fox for this game when he’s trying to drag the whole team with him in the second half.

 

[KingsFanSince85]

Consistency makes a major difference. SGA puts in the effort every game. Fox doesnt

Complete nonsense. A more apt example would be certain members of this board putting in more effort with their contributions than others.

SGA is a phenomenal player, but the amount of FTA’s he gets bailed out with in comparison to Fox, who attacks and gets hit/hacked as much as anyone, is beyond ridiculous. Even Steph Curry in his prime never got to the line near as much. And he gets hacked a ton too.

 

[hrdboild]

You proved my point. Fox shooting 17 3s should never happen. He needed to attack attack attack. I don't care how many he made, I care that we are consistent with how we attack.

When Fox makes a 3 the other team says we can live with it. It's not the same feel or momentum as a curry 3. Nobody will ever say foxes biggest strength is him shooting 3s

I was agreeing with you.

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

What an awful loss. My concerns of Domas as a long term piece to a contender continues to increase.

 

[KF8]

I'm ok but not ok with fox taking 17 3's to be fair he shot 41% from 3, but considering the time and score you try to get something easier rather than contested 3 with near full shot clock left on the shot clock

 

[NewArena]

We can’t just act as if Fox never attacked the entire game either. Yes he shot a lot of 3’s and we shot ourselves out of it, but they missed a LOT more calls for him than they ever would for SGA. Multiple things can be true here.

 

[gunks]

The Kings shot 58 3's and OKC shot 30. Then people are wondering why one team gets more calls

Refs are trash AND we shoot waaaay too many 3s

 

[iowamcnabb]

Just to ease everyone’s pain for a second, are you seeing the Clippers/Suns score? 37-8

 

[KingsFanSince85]

I don't know what "effort" is supposed to mean in this context. Fox had more rebounds, more assists, more made baskets, and less turnovers than SGA in this game. On the season he's now closed the gap in steals between them to less than 10. The only real effort I see from SGA is putting his head down and running into defenders. Fox has tried that before and he doesn't get the calls.

It seems we have some “blind” mice wandering the site. It ain’t just the officials at the games. Lol.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

He scored 21 points on those 17 shots. Would I rather he attempt fewer? Yes, but hard to blame fox for this game when he’s trying to drag the whole team with him in the second half.

Fox's final 3 was a nail in the coffin. 58 3s with. Nothing in the middle is a loss to good teams. And complaining about no fouls while not attacking the rim is irritating

 

[SacTownKid]

The Kings shot 58 3's and OKC shot 30. Then people are wondering why one team gets more calls

Brown wants spray 3's, he gets spray 3's. I mentioned it in the other game, Domas has a literal layup at times and dished it out. Maybe the Kings didn't get the memo, no more shooters cheatery? Don't tell us the NBA is ditching the soft *** shooter stuff now that there's super teams? Consider me shocked. lol.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Refs are trash AND we shoot waaaay too many 3s

Alexander was 2/3 from deep.....scored 40 points....and closed the game by taking it to the defense

 

[KF8]

The scouting report is up on the kings. Crowd the paint and let them get 3 point trigger happy.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Ok fine we going to spray 3s. Why is Sasha on the bench then. I thought he was the best 3 pt shooter on the team. If we gonna die by the 3 at least bring all our guns out

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

We can’t just act as if Fox never attacked the entire game either. Yes he shot a lot of 3’s and we shot ourselves out of it, but they missed a LOT more calls for him than they ever would for SGA. Multiple things can be true here.

The difference is Alexander shot only 3 times from deep. Fox settled for 17 of them.

 

[Kingster]

Waste of an excellent overall game by Ellis. The Kings did not win and will not win anything of import in the future unless they can somehow someway address the free throw disparity. Fox doesn't get calls on drives. Murray shoots fallaway jumpers in the key rather than go through players to the basket. Barnes just isn't good enough to consistently attack and get fouls. There's no way in hell the Kings can ever win major playoff series unless they address this issue. Otherwise, you can just put, "Three point or Die" on their epitaph.

 

[ick300]

Ok fine we going to spray 3s. Why is Sasha on the bench then. I thought he was the best 3 pt shooter on the team. If we gonna die by the 3 at least bring all our guns out

Easy - he is not among the first 10 best shooters

 

[Sam0ah]

Waste of an excellent overall game by Ellis. The Kings did not win and will not win anything of import in the future unless they can somehow someway address the free throw disparity. Fox doesn't get calls on drives. Murray shoots fallaway jumpers in the key rather than go through players to the basket. Barnes just isn't good enough to consistently attack and get fouls. There's no way in hell the Kings can ever win major playoff series unless they address this issue. Otherwise, you can just put, "Three point or Die" on their epitaph.

This! I hate it, but this!

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Also Fox doesn't ger foul cause because he doesn't go through contact. He's so skilled he simply goes around it most the time. He's not gonna get SGA calls because for one he doesn't attack consistently and two he's more crafty
Like a kyrie Irving compared to a harden

 

[Spike]

You proved my point. Fox shooting 17 3s should never happen. He needed to attack attack attack. I don't care how many he made, I care that we are consistent with how we attack.

When Fox makes a 3 the other team says we can live with it. It's not the same feel or momentum as a curry 3. Nobody will ever say foxes biggest strength is him shooting 3s

At least in this game, it's hard to go inside and attack when Sabonis is having an off night. This was a time to draw up plays to get Barnes good looks inside, for example, once the lead got up.

The bigger issue is how not having Sabonis engaged impacted this game missing both Monk and Huerter. The threes have to come from somewhere. 57 is absurd, though. Absolutely absurd.

Moving forward, if this team is to have any chance, players are going to have to step up in a way they may not have been ready for. I've seen Len, Lyles, Mitchell and Ellis have shown it. We really need the Black Falcon to rise in a bad way. Ditto Murray, who has been kinda quiet, and Sabonis is going to have to put up more points as well.

 

[iowamcnabb]

The difference is Alexander shot only 3 times from deep. Fox settled for 17 of them.

why take threes when you are going to lead the league in free throw attempts. No fans want to watch that unless you are in Okc. This is entertainment and that ain’t it.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Easy - he is not among the first 10 best shooters

Ok so Now Sasha can't shoot 3s. My mistake