[Game] Kings v. Mavericks - 4/4/17 - 7:30PT/10:30ET

[parker]

Whoops goes Mclemore for the W.

 

[VF21]

So, Ben McLemore, the most tenured King, picks the absolute wrong time (in the mind of members of the tank battalion) to come alive.

 

[Tetsujin]

So, Ben McLemore, the most tenured King, picks the absolute wrong time (in the mind of members of the tank battalion) to come alive.

That's 24-year old 4-year vet Ben McLemore to you!

 

[Blob]

Barnes Noel and Barea on bench for crunch time that's no accident

 

[White_Chocolate]

I mean we are playing rookies and no PG. We can't really do much worse. Dallas just has worse players to put on the floor sadly

 

[Kingsfan23]

As I said, Ben needs reps to determine if he should be kept still

I expect the resting of the vets throughout the rest of the season

 

[fansinceday1]

I hope we win out. KANGZ

 

[VF21]

WCS with 16 boards. Damn that Ben McLemore.

 

[PurpleHaze]

Ben McLemore III garbage time all star no matter what the score.

 

[steelevt]

I think we've been doing it wrong this whole time. Maybe if we want the kings to lose from the start, they might go undefeated

 

[HndsmCelt]

I have to say watching the Kings fans give the team was standing ovation was pretty impressive. Best fans in the NBA bar none!

 

[VF21]

The heart of this team is gonna lead to wonderful things. I've only felt that way once before...

 

[NewArena]

That's 24-year old 4-year vet Ben McLemore to you!

Off topic (I guess) but I really really want him off this roster by next year. He's even more pointless to me now

 

[parker]

In the thirty seconds I was over Howdy complained about "YOURGOSS" not grabbing enough rebounds.

Jerry is calling him Gorgeous "yourgus".

 

[Tetsujin]

The Kings rested any vet not named Garrett Temple or Reke and still won.

 

[Tetsujin]

Nothing will help you remember how young Papa is more than his bad acne. The kid's 19!

 

[VF21]

Jason Jones‏Verified account@mr_jasonjones 2m2 minutes ago


FINAL: Kings 98, Mavs 87 McLemore 22 pts, Hield 16 pts, WCS 12 pts 16 rebs, Papagiannis 13 pts

 

[LPKingsFan]

tanks for nothing, Ben!

 

[kingjatt]

I wonder how far teams will go to out do each other in trying to tank, will teams start instructing guys to go out and lose? if things get competitive in terms of tanking the league will have no choice but to step in.

The season basically ends at the All star break now, the contenders rest and the losers tank, and I have a feeling that its only going to get worse.

 

[NowImLost]

Where's Tonya Harding when you need her and her henchmen.
......
THIS IS NOT A GOOD WIN GUYS.

I mean it is for the players but not for us Tankers.

 

[gunks]

So Ben only plays well when we're trying to tank?

Haha. .... Kangz

 

[VF21]

Where's Tonya Harding when you need her and her henchmen.
......
THIS IS NOT A GOOD WIN GUYS.

Oh well.

 

[kingjatt]

Not to mention it makes it hard to truely evaluate your own guys development when they are going up agains the likes of AJ Hammons and Jared Uteoff.

 

[206Fan]

I can't get excited about this win. Mavs were clearly tanking today, and didn't bother to run any real sets down the stretch. Not sure what we get out of this win... maybe playing experience for the young guys? That's always good.. but the Kings are screwing their own draft chances.

I can't say that anyone on this current team is a franchise player. We desperately need one going into next season.

 

[Tetsujin]

Not to mention it makes it hard to truely evaluate your own guys development when they are going up agains the likes of AJ Hammons and Jared Uteoff.

Our bigs at least got to go against Noel and Powell, who are two solid rotation guys.

 

[biltalent]

So the Mavs "young core" consits of undrafted players that got easily beat by our young guys who are all first round level talents being in their first or second year as well. Their franchise player might retire this year and their biggest FA acquisition in the last years was paying Harrison Barnes a max deal. And still, their pick is likely to be worse than ours. But of course the Kings are the second most hopeless franchise in the NBA

 

[hrdboild]

So the Mavs "young core" consits of undrafted players that got easily beat by our young guys who are all first round level talents being in their first or second year as well. Their franchise player might retire this year and their biggest FA acquisition in the last years was paying Harrison Barnes a max deal. And still, their pick is likely to be worse than ours. But of course the Kings are the second most hopeless franchise in the NBA

Only because Marc Cuban consistently gets free agents we can't get and they didn't recently give away a franchise player for a return that their own GM openly admitted was subpar. Our talent/asset situation is better than a handful of teams (Lakers, Suns, Knicks, Nets) it's the context around the actual on-court talent that's terri-bad. Actually, the Lakers and Nets should probably be below us in any ranking. The Lakers front office is arguably in worse shape than ours plus they have an unproven head coach, may lose their pick this year because of the freakin' Steve Nash trade and one of their brightest talents also seems to be a world-class knucklehead. What else needs to be said about the Nets. They have no picks, their best player is a 29 year old Center who averaged 5 rebounds per game this year, and the only other guy in their rotation who's league average missed almost 50 games this year. But reputations are earned and we (read: Vivek) have done plenty to earn ours. What we do this off-season will say a lot about where we're going as a franchise.

 

[The Hammer]

Jerry is calling him Gorgeous "yourgus".

That is absolute gold.