[Game] Kings vs. Jazz, 10/22/21, 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern

[kingsboi]

Mitchell's defense all for not when Kings don't take care of the ball

 

[pdxKingsFan]

god DM so effing good. ALMOST makes up for totally blowing the bagles pick.

 

[TaxMan]

Unbelievable

 

[dude12]

The turnovers have been ridiculous

 

[LoungeLizard]

Oh Buddy

 

[kingsboi]

that's a wrap

 

[Woot!]

I'm developing some real animus toward Gobert.

 

[dude12]

Pissed this one away

 

[SacTownKid]

Late with the homework again. They didn't play Mitchell/Fox/Haliburton together much in preseason and this is obviously a lineup that didn't get much burn in practice either.

 

[TaxMan]

Offense just terrible in the 4th. Good effort and I love the D.

 

[Das_Boot]

So frustrating to watch them throw the ball to the other team time after time after time after time...

 

[KingsCitizen]

Walton not sitting Davion for like the whole 4th and going with 4 guard and Barnes is the crap show

 

[SacTownKid]

Offense just terrible in the 4th. Good effort and I love the D.

The individual defense is there. I didn't like them playing off screen and roll like that. The Jazz got wide open looks all night that they simply didn't hit.

 

[mac]

Tough one. Guys competed but shots just not falling. Fox 5-19 with only 12 points; Buddy and Barnes our leading scorers but shooting <50%. The fact that this was as close as it was is a testament to our improved D.

Get this - we only made 8 3's all game - and 6 were from Buddy, the other 2 Barnes. Fox/TD/Hali/Mitchell combined 0-15 from 3.

 

[SLAB]

Should have won this. Played like garbo in the 4th. No “moral victories” because we stuck with a team that owned us in recent years, we wNt to take the mythical “next step” we win games we should win.

 

[Woot!]

Not a single 3 from anyone besides Buddy and HB. And no one except Buddy hit a 3 after the 1st quarter.

Wow.

 

[TaxMan]

The individual defense is there. I didn't like them playing off screen and roll like that. The Jazz got wide open looks all night that they simply didn't hit.

Baby steps…

 

[SLAB]

Also, Bagley should never step on the court ever again. My lord his third quarter stint was embarrassing.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Frustrating. This game was there for the taking.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

It is what it is.

De'Aaron could not hit a jumper today, Richaun got in foul trouble. Even with all that we just lost in the last few minutes. Was a good 40-43 minutes.

 

[SacTownKid]

Baby steps…

Unfortunately those steps were backwards tonight, haha. They even busted out some helping back off the corners tonight.

 

[SLAB]

Pro: Davion Mitchell’s defense is downright stupid. So at least there’s that.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1451767912130220034

 

[TaxMan]

Davion’s confidence in his shot has disappeared…. He needs to be a consistent threat if he’s going to be out there down the stretch.

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Also when did Gobert started to hit free throws??? He missed even one today?

 

[LoungeLizard]

I just can’t watch the postgame show. I know we’re just gonna get the “moral victory” narrative and I’m not here for it

 

[Kingster]

They played very hard defensively, but you just can't have Fox play so poorly AND have a zillion brain-dead turnovers to win against Utah.

 

[Das_Boot]

Also when did Gobert started to hit free throws??? He missed even one today?

I think he went 0-2 his first trip iirc.

 

[The_Jamal]

Tough one. Guys competed but shots just not falling. Fox 5-19 with only 12 points; Buddy and Barnes our leading scorers but shooting <50%. The fact that this was as close as it was is a testament to our improved D.

Yep. Fox 5-19
Mitchell 1-8
TD 3-8

8-36 from 3PA

Randomly just threw the ball to Utah like 12 times.

And Richaun couldn't get a rhythm all game because of foul trouble. So once again, had 4 of the most important guys not play well on O, but still hung around a top 5 team till the last 5 minutes.

Lots to clean up, but for the first time in awhile, I think there's a base of a winning team here. Need our good offensive players to play good offensive games together and we should see success.

 

[parker]

Also when did Gobert started to hit free throws??? He missed even one today?

And Whiteside even hit a pair.