[Game] Kings v. Hornets, 1/25/16. 7PM PST, 10PM EST.
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kingsboi
Hall of Famer
That's what it comes down to. Charlotte just could not miss from three...they hit a bunch of them and timely ones too.
fansinceday1
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Thats what really sucks. We got beat by a trash shot that happened to go in. Another thing I hate about today's NBA. A lot of players throw up these trash shots. They usually don't go in and its just embarrassing.
Kingston Jamaica
Bench
I'm extremely proud of this team!!! What a fight! Can't find any other words.
Belinelli played 18 minutes, Collison played 39. Butler and Curry played zero combined. He couldn't have been that desperate.
fansinceday1
Starter
kings gave up 42 points in the 3rd. That is horrible. This is gonna take a while to get over. Night y'all.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
It's something about playing the Kings that these insanely stupid shots drop. Either that or maybe we are just having this attitude where everything that goes wrong, will go wrong, no if's or but's about it. I'm sure other fan bases feel the same way about their teams.
This. Karl's claims to be trying to find a backcourt combo that will defend while trotting out the DC/Belli combo EVERY...SINGLE...GAME
ElRey
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Don't think Butler or Curry would have done any better, but I see your point. Would rather see those guys out there than Anderson.
I think the lineup was Rondo, Collison, Anderson, Casspi, Cauley-Stein. I just don't understand George Karl's logic here with some of these situational lineups. Put your best defensive squad on the floor, secure the rebound, then call timeout. Rondo, Anderson or McLemore, Casspi, Acy, Cauley-Stein should be automatic. You know they're going to set a pick to free up a shooter. Putting two 6 footers out there means you have to move that much further to get back in the play. It was a crazy shot in any case, but playing the percentages we'd be better off with a full-size lineup in that situation more often than not.
HereWeBoogie
Hall of Famer
Kings got jobbed. Kemba got bailed out umpteen times with the game on the line and then the Cousins foul out... wow.
love the fight though.
terrible defense and lineups at times though
love the fight though.
terrible defense and lineups at times though
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Im Still Ballin
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Just think about some iceblocks for awhile guys
3rd time this has happened this season. And it hurts so bad.
3rd time this has happened this season. And it hurts so bad.
I'm fairly confident they couldn't have done worse.
jaysutton2003
G-League
As much as I hate this loss, the kings gave 110%. Pick any Kings team within the last 10 years, we would have folded. This team shows heart!!! Take the game from Portland and let's build the momentum of the next win streak.
The Hammer
All-Star
Completely agree. He's "leveled up" yet again. And a bit part of it is Rondo. Both on the actual court, but also guiding the style of play that gets the most of out him. Cousins, in my mind, is the MVP favorite for next year. Truth be told, even with the season Curry is having, I feel like Cousins has a shot this year. These 40, 50 point games are not flukes, and they don't rely on hot shooting. That's the whole special sauce with this guy... you knew when he figured it out he'd be able to destroy anybody, at any time, and not just because he was hot.
I predict at least a handful more 40 or 50 point games from him this year. He's now just so methodical about it. Lookout the next 10-15 games... we could be in for a historic stretch of basketball as Cuz revs his new toy: a team ACTUALLY built around him and ACTUALLY playing to his strengths with a great point guard who can and will ACTUALLY get him the ball.
The Hammer
All-Star
Completely agree, and it's frustrating to say the least.
What a game. Disappointed we lost, but what an exciting finish. Hornets simply got hot in the 3rd. Made like 8 out of 9 threes as a team. Even Hawes chipped in.
Getting pretty fed up with Marco. I have much more confidence in Ben at this point. Marco should get 10-15 mins a game max.
Getting pretty fed up with Marco. I have much more confidence in Ben at this point. Marco should get 10-15 mins a game max.
Dime Dropper
All-Star
Those flopping mother****ers did not deserve that win. Congrats to the refs on a bunch of f**king awful calls too.
Daniels took about 16 steps on that last shot by the way, but I suppose it's asking too much for the officials to do their actual jobs.
Daniels took about 16 steps on that last shot by the way, but I suppose it's asking too much for the officials to do their actual jobs.
KingsCitizen
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Maybe Vlade should call the TWolves for a trade
Marco/DC for Martin/Bazz/Dre
I like Marco but Karl is using him in a wrong way.
The way Karl runs him is how Martin actually plays, which running around multiple screen and do those turnaround shots. This is KMart's bread and butter not Marco.
Marco is a spot-up pure shooter.
As for DC, he is just Karl's temptation candy.
We get Bazz to rotate as SG/SF (if opponents go small) and we get Dre to mentor Curry.
Rondo + Dre should sky rocket Curry's play making instincts.
Marco/DC for Martin/Bazz/Dre
I like Marco but Karl is using him in a wrong way.
The way Karl runs him is how Martin actually plays, which running around multiple screen and do those turnaround shots. This is KMart's bread and butter not Marco.
Marco is a spot-up pure shooter.
As for DC, he is just Karl's temptation candy.
We get Bazz to rotate as SG/SF (if opponents go small) and we get Dre to mentor Curry.
Rondo + Dre should sky rocket Curry's play making instincts.
We need more defenders, not inefficient offense only guys
Watching the replay on ESPN, foul #6 on Cousins was a miscall I think and that turned the game. Cousins was absolutely unstoppable, playing his heart out, grabbed a tough rebound in traffic and finished through contact and we got hosed because Kaminsky decided to lean his face into an immovable object. One player is out there dominating the game at the highest level the other is standing in the wrong place at the wrong time and you're going to tell me that Cousins deserved to have his effort negated and his ability to play the deciding minutes of the game taken out of his hands over that? Situationally that's just a terrible lack of awareness by the referee crew.
KMart does not look like the KMart of old this year and Shabazz is on Marco's level as a defender. This trade does nothing for us. I don't think we even need a trade, personally. Maybe at the trade deadline if a team is making a fire sale we can swoop in and find a useful piece for the stretch run but right now we'd be giving up too much. We don't have the bodies to do 2 or 3 for 1 and nobody is going to give us a better player straight up for any of our bench crew.
KingsCitizen
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Bazz is good on both sides actually if he's head is right on the game.
Martin does not defend much but I think he'll fit better into Karl's system than Marco is now.
Dre is a very smart player and knows Karl's system very well.
The thing here is that since we are kind of winning, it will be tough to disprove that Karl's systems does not work.
It would be easier to get him the right personnel than let another coach go.
Whenever the camera switched to Vlade, you could almost see the wheels turning. He's gonna be doing everything he possibly can to find that perimeter defender. And, for the record, I have a feeling he'll do it.
Bosnian Diehard
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What makes this loss worse is after all those hard-fought minutes, the team has to travel to Portland right now and try to get as much sleep as possible, even with the bitter taste of defeat.
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