[Game] Kings vs Houston Rockets, 3/10/2024, 3:00p PT/6:00p ET
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SLAB
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Beans, Beams … idc … I just want a team I can be happy to watch instead of this yo-yo nonsense. I know we beat San Antonio, but my lord these last two games haven’t done a thing for me. Like I said before the Minny game, I get so far out on the season … then they drag me back in. So that drag-back game is on the horizon at least.
Dime Dropper
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The Kings and embarrassing losses to Houston. Name a more iconic duo.
Again, we absolutely suck at home. I don't think I'd want home court in the playoffs even if I had the choice.
Again, we absolutely suck at home. I don't think I'd want home court in the playoffs even if I had the choice.
Vinny Basketballerino
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I agree. Let's bench the bean.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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I saw how the 3rd quarter was transpiring and just turned it off. Was surprised to see they kept it within 20 by the end.
Team is pretty predictable sometimes. As soon as teams start clamping down on defense, the Kings just fall apart.
Huerter and Murray's inconsistencies are getting pretty annoying too. Murray gets a pass for this being his sophomore season but Huerter is just inexplicably hot and cold for long stretches. He's a borderline NBA starter when he's hot and almost unplayable when he's not.
Team is pretty predictable sometimes. As soon as teams start clamping down on defense, the Kings just fall apart.
Huerter and Murray's inconsistencies are getting pretty annoying too. Murray gets a pass for this being his sophomore season but Huerter is just inexplicably hot and cold for long stretches. He's a borderline NBA starter when he's hot and almost unplayable when he's not.
ockingsfan
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This is the problem with Huerter. He shouldn't really be starting on a playoff team, but if you demote him to the bench his confidence and play would likely get worse.
If Huerter could just embrace a 3 point sniper role off the bench, the Kings would have a much more potent bench and we could start a more potent offensive threat (Monk) or defensive stud (Keon) at SG.
Tizzy Flip
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So now even the NBA scheduling algorithm is against us?? I can guarantee you the Lakers have had just as many of not more back-to-backs than we have. But you know, the world is against us
Vinny Basketballerino
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It did have a good run... but...It had an admirable run...
It's better to burn out than fade away...
It could never hold a candle to the real beam...
Looks like we're having a fire sale on beans...
Kingster
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They aren't playing team ball, and Brown said as much in his presser.
ShastaKingsFan
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The trials and tribulations of a player who relies almost exclusively on deep 3 point shots. Lots of his attempts are well behind the line. It's always going to be up and down, which is why many don't like it for a playoff run, unless you're Curry or Thompson in his prime. If he doesn't happen to be in an "up" swing in the most important games, then you can get next to nothing from that player, as we watched in last seasons series
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I don't know if I can think of any other team that starts the game playing team basketball, sees it be successful, and then abruptly stops doing it in the middle of the game as many times as the Kings do.
Kings are 25-17 vs the West this year.
We're 0-7 vs the Pelicans and Rockets
We're 25-10 vs everybody else LOL.
That's some truly mind-blowing stuff. I'm not sure I recall a team with that sort of split vs an insanely hard conference, but we're somehow beating the better teams and just getting worked by 2 mid-tier teams?
We're 0-7 vs the Pelicans and Rockets
We're 25-10 vs everybody else LOL.
That's some truly mind-blowing stuff. I'm not sure I recall a team with that sort of split vs an insanely hard conference, but we're somehow beating the better teams and just getting worked by 2 mid-tier teams?
SacTownKid
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I know, it definitely looked like it dislocated. Maybe it set back on it's own or when they set it there was no real structural damage? Anyway good for him, but he's probably out for the season with an ankle that badly turned regardless.
Yeah, this has been a bizarre phenomenon -- usually when a team gets off to such a good start on both ends of the floor they have the ability to take a time out, regroup, and return to their tempo before the other team's run gets out of control. Instead we've seen this year's version of the Kings completely go away from what was working for an entire quarter or an entire half while guys just freelance and throw up terrible shots. It's hard to figure out which version of this Jekyll and Hyde team is for real.
I don't think it's just coincidence. Our Kings have a lot of guard depth and an All-NBA big man but they're extremely thin at the forward positions and both the Pelicans and Rockets are particularly flush with supreme athletes at the SG, SF, and PF positions who we just have no answers for.. Keegan Murray feels like the X-Factor for us, if he's struggling we're in trouble unless Fox goes supernova -- doubly so when going against a team with so many young forwards. Monte really needs to work on adding some better athletes at the SF and PF positions in the off-season.
megapoxy
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No help, Cavs had many missings (E.Mobley, Mitchell, Strus, Wade), Bulls got destroyed by Mavs in the 1st period and never got back in the game (ironically I remember them coming back from -20 against another team in the West) and Spurs fought but wasn't enough. It's time for Kings to rely on themselves and not letting other teams do their job on behalf of them.
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Kingster
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It does seem willful, doesn't it? It reminds me of this kind of thinking: "OK, I've done my job, we're ahead in the score, now I can do my thing."
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