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

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Sure he did.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

https://streamable.com/ocb8

Does anyone know if this was on the final play?

I believe this was during the timeout, seconds after a jump ball, where he threw his temper tantrum.. because the ref didn't toss the ball soon enough for his liking.
This is the stuff that really kills a team's chemistry. Collison hits a huge 3 ball before the timeout, to get us within a point or two and the whole team is pumped and into the game, but Cousins is pouting because of some B.S during a jump ball

 

[Kingston Jamaica]

My two cents for the discussion. The players, all of them, played to the hands of OKC during the last minute and a half. You could feel that they went into a panic mode from the idea that they had the game, but it needed to be finished. I didn't understand the last 4 second game plan (after the final time out). If I was the coach, and probably that's why I am not, I would have put four 3-point shooters and Rondo on the court (meaning Casspi, McLemore, Collison and Gay). I would have preferred Curry instead of Gay, but he didn't see the floor before that. You are down 3 points with 4 seconds to go, so your chances to get a foul are close to nil. Hence, move the ball on the perimeter and the first to see open shot shoots. Your best bet is to get to OT, nothing more. They would not have fouled you even on a 3-point attempt. There was no place for dribble. That was just waste of precious time. Belinelli got his shot up with 1 second on the clock, but that was not an easy shot. Anyway, he would not have been on the court if I had my way. The play should have been written for Casspi or McLemore 3-pointer, because they are 5-10% better 3-point shooters than Gay or Belinelli. Can they take the pressure of the moment????? Well, you'll never know with plays like the one that was executed.

 

[KingsFanGER]

Well, I think we can let the playoffs idea/hope go because we just aren't a good team. This might be the most disappointing season for me in the past 8 years. We had so much to hope for and now even our worst case scenarios (prior to the season) are looking like a good outcome. I just don't understand -- we have good players, so why can' t we be good as a team? Boggles my mind that year in and year out, no matter who is on the floor, who owns the team, or who is coaching it, we still suck. Even the Jazz, minus their starting PG and C, are still winning, with arguably less talent. Why can't we just do what everyone else does?

1. Because the players are asked to do too much, to improvise all the time, to read and react without a strong system and easy plays to fall back to. This leads to a lot of broken plays out of misscommunications and to a lot of difficult shots. This is Karls fault.
2. Because the roster as it is, has serious holes, the key players lack the ability to space the floor and our talent isn't evenly distributed over the positions. This is Vlades fault.
3. Because the players don't give their best every night. We lost some games due to an obvious lack of hustle, pride and energy. This is the worst thing to happen and the players are to blame for this.
4. Because we had multiple injuries. This is nobodys fault.

The biggest concern for me is, that I don't think this franchise has a plan moving forward. It's all about the moment, all about this season - we want to win now and we are desperate to do so.
But so far we are heading nowhere and there might be no backup plan other than tearing everything down.

 

[KingsFanGER]

My two cents for the discussion. The players, all of them, played to the hands of OKC during the last minute and a half. You could feel that they went into a panic mode from the idea that they had the game, but it needed to be finished.

But why do the players panic? This is not the first time we fail to finish a quarter strong.
Usually a team wary about winning the game or trying to stop a run, will try to fall back to simple plays to avoid mistakes.
But we start to throw the ball all over the gym, fumble the ball while dribbling or force up bad shots.
Do we have no simple plays, that we practiced over and over again to fall back to?

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

But why do the players panic? This is not the first time we fail to finish a quarter strong.
Usually a team wary about winning the game or trying to stop a run, will try to fall back to simple plays to avoid mistakes.
But we start to throw the ball all over the gym, fumble the ball while dribbling or force up bad shots.
Do we have no simple plays, that we practiced over and over again to fall back to?

Some sort of "panic"...or at least a sense of "not sure" will set in, when they don't have confidence in the plan or strategy going into the situation. Of course this affects feel, flow, etc, everything