[Game] Kings v. Spurs - 2/24/16 - 7 PT, 10 ET

[kingsboi]

Rondo keeps going under Parker screens and just giving him practice jump shots...Gay can't stick to his man to save his life and Cousins starts getting aggravated because he isn't getting calls. Great effort, play Acy and Trill more please, oh wait...Karl's still here, nevermind.

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

Rondo trying his best to make those All-Defensive Team selections look like typos on his resume.

 

[kingsboi]

Where is Casspi???

He is probably thinking mentally how many lay up drills he should do next practice

 

[kingsboi]

Rondo trying his best to make those All-Defensive Team selections look like typos on his resume.

When things don't start going in the Kings' favor...this is the type of effort we see from Rondo. It's been consistent at least. Have to hand it to him there.

 

[parker]

That escalated quickly. I went to go grab a bottle of water and they were only down 6 when I walked away. Their bench >>>> ours.

Yes, this was largely a loss because of poor bench play at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth. Same as last night, but the King's had the lead last night before the meltdown.

Maybe time to mix up the rotation a bit.

 

[kingsboi]

Adversity is a big beast to kill off....the team has no idea how to

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

I feel like Belinelli is a worse version of John Salmons.

 

[Larry89]

 

[kingsboi]

Alridge is no Duncan and Pop can't coach forever. He's the mastermind.

I read somewhere before the season started that Pop was still planning on coaching for another 4-5 years so expect the dominance to continue until he hangs the coat up.

 

[Merdiesel]

Ummm they have some guy named Leonard whose pretty damn good.

Definitely.
But Pop is the reason they are who they are. the respect of the players and the control of the locker room is all Greg Poppovich. Take him out of there and you're looking at a completely different team.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I think it's already proven that we're not going to beat the Spurs slowing it down. How did dumping it down to Cousins in the post go for us eh? I interpreted his comments more as whoever gets to play at their pace. Spurs want to play slow. They want to kill you in a halfcourt game. A fast pace may not be a viable strategy overall but against this particular team in this game I dare say it's our best shot.

I don't. Fast pace just happens to be the only play in Karl's playbook. I blame the first half on Karl not being any good at coaching halfcourt offense. What we were running was so pedestrian and transparent that a far lesser coach than Gregg Popovich could have shut us down.

 

[kingsboi]

In all honesty, Duncan was better off sitting this game out, he didn't score a basket and barely played at all in the second half

 

[Merdiesel]

Wide open layup after wide open lay up.

What are we doing out there?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Of all the major American sports, NBA has by far the worst referees.

I disagree with this entire sentence.

 

[Merdiesel]

Call a ****ing foul!

 

[kingsboi]

Rudy shows up when he wants to. That's why he's good and not great.

That's also why he has never been an All-star and teams that traded him got better for it. That's not a coincidence.

 

[sdballer]

Wide open layup after wide open lay up.

What are we doing out there?

The almost play like w team that doesn't focus on defense

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Crazy George, why are cousins, Rondo etc still in the game?

 

[kingsboi]

Of all the major American sports, NBA has by far the worst referees.

Do you watch the NFL?

 

[parker]

I see Casspi is benched in the 2nd half. Was he that awful in his 7 min. on the court? Or is it because Acy/ Gay/ WCS are playing good tonight?
(I didn't watch the game)

Acy has played well and casspi played a bit out of control. Likely not fully back from his time off.

 

[Merdiesel]

How you lose by 15 points when your starting point guard has 18 assists completely blows my mind.

 

[Double-K]

I disagree with this entire sentence.

Care to elaborate?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Johnathon Simmons, aka Mr. "Can't Go Back".

 

[Bosnian Diehard]

How you lose by 15 points when your starting point guard has 18 assists completely blows my mind.

But that same point guard could give. -5 craps about defense...

 

[hrdboild]

Welp...

Quincy Acy had a nice showing anyway. He's a player. I hope we keep him for awhile.

 

[kingsboi]

How you lose by 15 points when your starting point guard has 18 assists completely blows my mind.

Kings usually lose when Rondo has these high assist games...those numbers are too inflated. I'd rather him have 15-18 points and 10 assists than 6 points and 18 assists

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Care to elaborate?

I think that the sentence is axiomatically wrong. NBA refs are the best in American pro sports. This is not the same thing as saying that they're particularly good. But, they're better than the other guys.

Basketball is the fastest sport played in the US. No other sports' referees could be half as accurate when trying to deal with the speed of this game.

 

[kingsboi]

all the Spurs had to do was play good for a 3-4 minute stretch and that was good enough to seal the game....seen this time and time again versus these Spurs match ups. It's like punching in and out day to day.

 

[parker]

But that same point guard could give. -5 poopoos about defense...

He's also trying to make the spectacular pass.

 

[kingsboi]

Welp...

Quincy Acy had a nice showing anyway. He's a player. I hope we keep him for awhile.

I'd love for the team to bring in another player or two with the fight and heart of Acy or something of that mold. I can root for that and go to war with that...but this? this is just torture.