I am not big on reading the fine print (not on "site rules", not on my credit cards or Kings season tix forms either), so, I honestly don't know, but is there some rule against actually anylzing the game, both while in progress and the next day (today)?
Because other than the home win over Celeveland (and the resurgence of VC), this was the best game of the year.
I sat with three different groups of people I had not previously met and there was nonstop interest and amazing focus on the stuff we were seeing.
And I just don't see ANY of those points made on this thread, so, I must conclude that no one on this thread actually visited an absolutely electric arena last night - am I incorrect on that?
And all the "Go Kings" and "BOGIE" comments just don't say anything at all.
I have some serious yardwork to do before it gets hot today, but seriously, is it worth the in-depth analysis, or would that be either not allowed, too frustratingly (for some) long or otherwise not desired?
Regarding "commenting as the game progresses", does any one use Dragon Naturally Speaking?
(I bought it maybe six years ago but, not being tech oriented, have never even unwrapped it).
So, just one (of potentially many) observations from the game:
Did anyone notice that for most of the first half and part of the third quarter (until "their Bogdonovich" pulled away at 15-10), every time one of the Bodonovich's scored, the other demanded the ball at the other end until HE scored?
Seriously, it was like "our" Bogi had "5" (points) while "their" Bogie had "4", so "their Bogey demanded the ball, scored, took the scoring lead, 6-5, then a play or two later, "our" Bogi takes over to score and lead 7-6, then it kept going 8-7, 9-8, 10-9 until their Bogdonovivh pulled away at 15-10.
I assume they played against each other (or together?) in Europe and I was big on us signing "their" Bogey to play WITH "our" Bogi, which easily could have happened, since no one apparently thought much of "their" Bogey during free agency - back then, did anyone on this board advocate for signing "both Bogdonovich's"? If so, link the thread, stand up and take a bow because SF is where we were/are weakest anyway.
Because in my mind, whoever is running the show now in Indiana is runaway "Executive of the Year" and although the main reason is that he made lemonade out of the lemon that was Paul George announcing he would be in LA next year (diminishing his trade value) and got TWO major talents for him (Oladipo, Sabonis), his pickups of Darren Collison AND Bojan Bogdonovic have turned out to be brilliant.
HOW brilliant?
Well, Vegas preseason odds were 28 1/2 (over/under) total wins for Kings (they will fall JUST short) and 31 1/2 for Indiana (last night was their 45th win).
The Kings connection is that in 2016 WE could have drafted Sabonis (we had #8 but traded down to #13 and OKC took Sabonis at #11) and could have kept Collison and signed Bojan. Could have but didn't. (In fairness, trading down brought "our" Bogi but who is to say that we could not have gotten his rights in another way, since Phoenix apparently couldn't or wouldn't sign him)?. I know we also got Papa in that trade (big bronx cheer) and Skal, but might we could gotten Skal anyway at #22 (instead of Malachai)? Sure, hindsight is 20-20 (hey - let's take Mitchell and Kuzma in the 2017 draft while we're at it) and Bogi is a keeper for sure, but I do wish we had done better in that trade (or just drafted better at #13 and #22). Our loss is Indiana's gain.
Geez, I got to get outside and get some work done.
More later, but only if it isn't violating rules or people's preferences.
Check the left hand side (Game Leaders) on below link - I think it is safe to say that you may never see this a box that looks like this again:
http://www.espn.com/nba/game?gameId=400975873