If we shot 28% or higher from 3 this game, we would have won. Thats how bad we shot the 3 ball today…
all teams shoot a ton of threes now. The best team in the league takes more than we do. We aren’t just a shooting team either, we have two paint monsters as our best players we just need our role players to make their shots
all teams shoot a ton of threes now. The best team in the league takes more than we do. We aren’t just a shooting team either, we have two paint monsters as our best players we just need our role players to make their shots
It can work if you have the players to do it, but at the end of the day it comes down to defense to fall back on if your 3's arent going.
My concern is that Fox has turned into a player who settles for the 3 too often. It's great that he has improved there, but I don't know that shooting more of them is the best strategy, when his elite skill is getting into the mid and short range
That's true, but that's where the defense and other things come in. The Celtics shoot more 3's than the Kings but we can all guess what the difference is. I think it's that the Kings are far more dependent on 3's since on defense they are so inconsistent and are as reliant on Fox as they are to create individual offense. They can't close the gap on a bad Fox game with anything other than someone other than Domas showing up big time. The Kings this year have a 0.4 net rating which is 17th in the NBA and puts them right about where they usually are at somewhere in the 10-13 range as a team league wide in terms record on any given day.
At this point the Kings just need to keep it within range of the 6th, 7th, and 8th slot. There is no use to try and risk injury to force it to 5. If Fox is going to have to burn himself up again, let it be in the playoffs, not now. Once the playoffs start then burn it on both ends. Until then, play it soft and easy as possible! lol.
At this point the Kings just need to keep it within range of the 6th, 7th, and 8th slot. There is no use to try and risk injury to force it to 5. If Fox is going to have to burn himself up again, let it be in the playoffs, not now. Once the playoffs start then burn it on both ends. Until then, play it soft and easy as possible! lol.
In all the previous matchups against these two teams, it wasn't really all that egregious.
The opposing FG%, the 2P FG (so I'd assume PitP), and rebounding against the Pelicans stood out a lot more.
"A ton" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and everything is relative. Sure, all the teams in the league are shooting "a ton" of threes, relative to the "glory years," but when you're shooting a ton of threes even compared to your contemporaries, you should be shooting better than the Kings are. Sacramento came into this game 14th in the league in 3pt% but 4th in attempts. Something seems out of alignment there: all three of the teams that attempt more threes than the Kings shoot significantly better from that distance. A three-point shot is not more efficient, if you can't hit them.all teams shoot a ton of threes now. The best team in the league takes more than we do. We aren’t just a shooting team either, we have two paint monsters as our best players we just need our role players to make their shots
Time to start practicing some mindfulness. This is going to be rough.
"A ton" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and everything is relative. Sure, all the teams in the league are shooting "a ton" of threes, relative to the "glory years," but when you're shooting a ton of threes even compared to your contemporaries, you should be shooting better than the Kings are. Sacramento came into this game 14th in the league in 3pt% but 4th in attempts. Something seems out of alignment there: all three of the teams that attempt more threes than the Kings shoot significantly better from that distance. A three-point shot is not more efficient, if you can't hit them.
This has all the makings of an infuriating loss. Playing a young, active team that plays hard tough nosed defense. Team that seemed to completely have our number (at least early in the year). Bad team on the road that is likely out of the play-in picture, coming in with the 27th ranked 3 point percentage as a team. Early Sunday start time. We are coming in with a two game win streak and I’m just now sorta forgetting the collapse against the bulls. On the bright side, I haven’t heard of a key injury that will cause the rockets to be short handed.
Now that I’ve gotten all of that out of the way….Go Kings!
Too accurate haha
"A ton" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and everything is relative. Sure, all the teams in the league are shooting "a ton" of threes, relative to the "glory years," but when you're shooting a ton of threes even compared to your contemporaries, you should be shooting better than the Kings are. Sacramento came into this game 14th in the league in 3pt% but 4th in attempts. Something seems out of alignment there: all three of the teams that attempt more threes than the Kings shoot significantly better from that distance. A three-point shot is not more efficient, if you can't hit them.
This team is meant to win one and lose one only. Beat good team, lose to weak team. Win on the road, lose at home.
It's wild how the window has shifted to the point that you think that all the teams shoot "a ton" of threes, but you don't think that 4 is a lot.we are taking 4 more than the team with the 14th most and 9 more than the team that takes the least.
Unfortunately its looking likely this team will be a play-in causuality this year, especially if playing at home.....inexplicable lack of motivation at home. They're starting to remind me more of pre-2023 Kings - unable to put together 3 to say nothing of 4 quarters of good baskeball.
Mike Brown is an average coach. How do you consistently allow these lackluster efforts. When your team is this inconsistent, that means you aren’t a consistently good coach. He’s average.
It's wild how the window has shifted to the point that you think that all the teams shoot "a ton" of threes, but you don't think that 4 is a lot.
Their coaches have last names that are five letters long. Both franchises had CP3 and Carl Landry.
I skipped the 4th quarter, but did keegan tweak something ingameI haven’t seen anything on Keegan. Do we have any reports of an injury?