[Game] Kings vs. Hornets, 11/05/21 7pm Pacific, 10 pm Eastern

[SacTownKid]

That game? Hang stills up in Luke Waltons office. Run it on repeat on his phone, computer, whatever. That was the template of the style of attack the middle basketball that will give this team a real shot to be something this year.

 

[Entity]

In the words of VF21...


I LOVE THIS TEAM!

Man how much would she have loved Davion Mitchell.

 

[EIM86]

Kinda feel bad for bagley

Don’t tell your agent to throw the team and organization under the bus. #welldeserved

 

[New Era]

I'm liking Headband Buddy! He needs to stick with that look.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Nice win.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Well that was fun!

 

[SLAB]

ABOVE .500 AND NOT EVER LOOKING BACK YALL

 

[NME]

Safe to say Holmes isn't complacent with his new contract.

 

[NME]

ABOVE .500 AND NOT EVER LOOKING BACK YALL

For reals this time.

 

[EIM86]

that was fun to watch!

 

[Kingz19]

That was a good team type blowout.

Great balance.

Three straight double digit scoring games for Davion off the bench. With Bench Buddy and possibly a resurgent TD. Kings may have a bench worthy of a nickname like “Bench Mob” soon.

I’m also glad Kings haven’t been getting cooked by backup point guards anymore. That’s been the 15 year long constant that hasn’t happened this season.

 

[Woot!]

If I'm not mistaken, Holmes had 12 and 10 in the 1st half, 11 and 10 in the 2nd.

A double-double in both!

 

[whitechocolate]

I don't off work until 10 pm, so I haven't seen the game, but I'm starting to think having four starter quality guards going forward isn't a bad idea. I wanted to see how we could improve the front court by trading a package including Buddy (who's always been a favorite of mine); but now I say "let's just dominate the back court 48 minutes a game". If I was the opponent, I'd be pretty worried seeing Buddy and Davion playing against my backups.

 

[Entity]

That was a good team type blowout.

Great balance.

Three straight double digit scoring games for Davion off the bench. With Bench Buddy and possibly a resurgent TD. Kings may have a bench worthy of a nickname like “Bench Mob” soon.

I’m also glad Kings haven’t been getting cooked by backup point guards anymore. That’s been the 15 year long constant that hasn’t happened this season.

Bench put up 58 almost had 2 with 20+ points buddy with 26 and davion with 19

 

[Das_Boot]

Remember when we all lost our s**hit when Monte drafted Davion? Oh, how wrong we were.

I like my crow barbecued, thanks.

 

[The_Jamal]

I mean... yeaaaah buddy (the literal Buddy and all the buddies on the Kings and Kings fans honestly).

This game was yahtzee for everybody. TD hit some much needed big shots to spark the early lead and offense. Fox with the 21 points on 15 shots with 7-7 from FTA and 9 assists to 2 TO. Amazing how we drop 140 when he's himself. Holmes sent Plumlee into the shadow realm. Davion is finding a consistent offensive game developing into a great playmaker/scorer off the bench all while being the best defender on the team. Sweet. Buddy launching 17 3's is incredible... especially if he wants to hit it at a 46% clip.

This shows the offensive upside of this team when everyone decides they all want to be awesome in the same game. Pretty dang cool.

 

[kingdivac]

Didn't see the game, but anytime you DOUBLE UP your opponents rebound total, you make a win close to a foregone conclusion unless your team shooting is abysmal.

 

[The_Jamal]

Oh and Harkless deserves props for his quick early 7 to help us jump to an early lead. Him becoming a consistent spacer and chipping in 7-10 points regularly drastically changes the trajectory of this team.

 

[Kingster]

It's a good game to compare last year's team with this year's team. Last year's team was fairly equal to the Hornets. Not this year's team. They left the Hornets in the dust.

I love Mitchell so much. He doesn't care if the Kings are behind by 20 or ahead by 20. He's going to play defense, play hard, and play with brains, no matter the score. He exudes "winner."

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1456842640901607424

Gotta love a GM who’ll tweet his Ws after the game.

 

[EIM86]

We have been surpassingly excellent at free throws!

 

[SLAB]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1456842640901607424

Gotta love a GM who’ll tweet his Ws after the game.

and there were people that said he shouldn’t tweet more.

 

[206Fan]

I like my crow barbecued, thanks.

I don't think I was too far off when I said this back in the draft:

I have a feeling Mitchell is going to be an instant fan favorite when we watch him play. He gives 100% and doesn't back down. He's going to be like Quincy Acy with Haliburton's talent.

He's already an instant fan favorite and can only get better from here. Mitchell has been a complete game changer for the culture of this team. His defense is infectious

 

[NME]

He's already an instant fan favorite and can only get better from here. Mitchell has been a complete game changer for the culture of this team. His defense is infectious

McNair has done a pretty good job improving the team's defensive potential considering he was just tinkering around the edges. Then Davion is the kind of catalyst that can make it stick.

 

[Das_Boot]

I don't think I was too far off when I said this back in the draft:



He's already an instant fan favorite and can only get better from here. Mitchell has been a complete game changer for the culture of this team. His defense is infectious

I was definitely in the why are we drafting another guard camp. Very happy to have to admit I was wrong about this one!

 

[kingdivac]

It's a good game to compare last year's team with this year's team. Last year's team was fairly equal to the Hornets. Not this year's team. They left the Hornets in the dust.

I love Mitchell so much. He doesn't care if the Kings are behind by 20 or ahead by 20. He's going to play defense, play hard, and play with brains, no matter the score. He exudes "winner."

He reminds me of Baron Davis a bit in his physicality of play.

 

[NewArena]

I literally almost lost my voice tonight. Gladly!!! My first live NBA game since before the pandemic hit. Wow, what a night i chose to come to with my father. VF21 is likely somewhere special cheering us on with so much joy. I LOVE THIS TEAM!!!

 

[steelevt]

Is there a Bagley chant?

Edit: was apparently for Metu

Yeah. I believe they were chanting “we want mezie!” I can see how it could sound like we want bagley

 

[NewArena]

I can’t wait to watch on tv next. I’m not sure if this was during a timeout or not, but the crowd definitely began chanting “BUDDY BUCKETS” and i had chills Lol! What a love fest tonight was. These guys really really love playing together and rooting each other on and you can tell. You can’t fake this chemistry and the fans can sense it!

 

[steelevt]

I know we didn’t have a good chance of getting Ben simmons for buddy or Barnes + bagley and picks, and thought monte was saving face when he said he wanted to see what we had in the team he built. But after being over 0.500 after this strength of schedule and seeing buddy and HB balling, I gotta admit, there’s a reason he’s the GM and I really need to stop questioning him.