[Game] Kings @ Thunder - Sunday, 12/6/15 - 4 pm PST, 7 pm EST

[Sluggah]

this is Karl's chance for a five guard lineup!

 

[Kingsgurl]

Great. I'd also appreciate it if you could actually be a bit more open to discussion, because it seems every time I say anything about Cousins you simply respond by going "OMG WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ARE YOU CRAZY" instead of you know ... actually backing it up with something.

So, you want me to put together a highlight reel for you, when he already said he was? I never responded with what you quoted, the film is out there to support my position.

 

[upinsmoke]

WE SUCK!

 

[HereWeBoogie]

That play being drawn up for Rudy Gay with the Kings down 1 just further backs up the theory that George Karl either wants to be fired, or is sabotaging our season

 

[c-webb1s#1]

welp

 

[Entity]

We can't screen either btw

 

[Merdiesel]

Rudy is the most unclutch guy I have ever seen.

The fact that Karl called that play and took the ball out of Rondo's hands is insane. Clueless mf'er.

 

[jdbraver]

Are some of you serious? Karl did not lose this game. It was there for our stars Rudy and cuz and they did not execute.

 

[hrdboild]

Great. I'd also appreciate it if you could actually be a bit more open to discussion, because it seems every time I say anything about Cousins you simply respond by going "OMG WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ARE YOU CRAZY" instead of you know ... actually backing it up with something.

I do? Other than the last 25 minutes, have I ever responded to one of your comments about Cousins before? I don't mean to be curt, I was just really taken aback by that comment in the first place.

EDIT: Sorry, hard to follow a conversation with an epic collapse going on.

 

[kingjatt]

Wow the one time Beli SHOULD have pump faked.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

This is so rediculous at this point. I don't know what else. Un F'ing real

 

[HereWeBoogie]

George Karl is secretly working for Pete molerat D'Alessandro to try to rip this team apart from the inside

 

[Showtime]

This team couldn't execute a 3 point turn.

 

[Gliesian]

Epic choke job by our two scorers.

 

[Entity]

Karl doesn't have a kings Christmas

 

[9x1x6]

Are some of you serious? Karl did not lose this game. It was there for our stars Rudy and cuz and they did not execute.

Was his call to have Rudy dribble for 15 seconds then drive, no?

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

Im done watchingg the Kings this season

 

[hrdboild]

Well...

nope, I got nothing.

 

[mac]

I do? Other than the last 25 minutes, have I ever responded to one of your comments about Cousins before? I don't mean to be curt, I was just really taken aback by that comment in the first place.

Eh? I was talking about Kingsgurl. Your responses are perfectly fine. We disagree at times but we engage in proper discussion.

Anyway I just youtubed DeMarcus Cousins post moves and this was the first hit:

The first half of the video we maybe one or two fades, a few more hooks, and you are right that that's definitely a lot more than we've seen so far this season. Then he's got the spin move I already alluded to. But the second half of the video is almost all dribble moves.

Just ask yourself, when's the last time you saw DeMarcus Cousins back his man down, and then turn and shoot a fade away and make it?

I may be simply arguing for style over substance here, or we could just have varying definitions of low post scoring. Perhaps more accurately I don't think Cousins is an elite back to the basket low post player. My point remains that I think Cousins is at his best when he gets the ball at the elbow, facing up. Just in the 4th quarter of this game, Cousins tried to pin Ibaka, received the ball and tried to take a hook but it got blocked. Several other times he caught the ball deep but was unable to finish. Not long after that possession, he got the ball at the elbow, pumpfaked and got his defender in the air. That allowed him to drive and take a shot, which he missed, but was able to get the offensive board because he was in much better position, and then got the basket and a foul on Ibaka on the putback.

For comparison:

 

[New Era]

What's kinda cool is I honesty feel nothing anymore when they lose. It used to bother me for a few hours to one day after a loss.

Now the only thing to look forward to is to see who goes first -- Georgie or DMC.

 

[upinsmoke]

Vlade is watching everything I would have to think he's thinking about the whole situation and I bet everything is on the table.

 

[KingsCitizen]

Kings always have a way to give games to opponents. This one is classic as @U$)#$#*@()$*(_!#_($

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

What's kinda cool is I honesty feel nothing anymore when they lose. It used to bother me for a few hours to one day after a loss.

Now the only thing to look forward to is to see who goes first -- Georgie or DMC.

That really is it. We're all just waiting for the inevitable hammer to drop

 

[SLAB]

I'm shaking my head in amazement. This team shouldn't be THIS bad...

Yet here we are, circling the drain and going down hard and fast.

Painful...

 

[Hoovtrain]

What now?

Another meeting

 

[andjel]

Rudy on Adams ISO was not a bad idea. Half of the court was empty.
This is not on Karl.

On the other hand, the last 4 seconds, what the heck was that. No movement for 2-3 seconds. It is miracle that ball even reached Belli.

 

[Andriod_KiNg]

Oh look, no one pointing at Cousins after another terrible game. Had a chance for a easy opp from Rondo and he missed, gets the ball down low and bricks two FTs.

Guy has done nothing but cry.

 

[Merdiesel]

Are some of you serious? Karl did not lose this game. It was there for our stars Rudy and cuz and they did not execute.

We had 23 seconds to run a play and get a shot off.

The ball should have been given to Rondo to make something happen.

Karl called for a Rudy ISO.

I seen that TO coming from a mile a way. Rudy is a choke artist who can't make a play when it counts. Simple as that.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Sometimes you have to make a major change, as a last resort to gain some sort of new better "vibe". That time is now, it's here. Make change

 

[jdbraver]

Was his call to have Rudy dribble for 15 seconds then drive, no?

Rudy can drive. Are you all of a sudden against giving the hot guy the ball? You knew Rudy would dribble off his foot? You think Rudy Ido on Steven Adams on the perimeter is bad? Shouldn't he be able to blow by him? You defend players missing freethrows? You excuse Malone for games where cuz is hurt, which he clearly has been for a while.