[Game] Kings vs Mavericks 2/11/2023 7pm Pacific 10pm Eastern
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coolhandluke
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At this rate, the NBA may have to rename that Jerry West Award to De'Aaron Fox Award. That's your All-Star, folks!
Wood absolutely killed the Kings on offense both games - how he couldn't notice that is beyond me.
Kingz19
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surprised he kept with Powell. Out of all their bigs, he’s the only one that doesn’t eat against the Kings…but chances are Wood and McGee are regularly not the guys and coaches won’t deviate from that just because of a certain matchup. Kidd wants Powell out there in general so Powell is going to be the guy.
SacTownKid
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It's not the answer people wanted but it's the one we get. That TD we saw for a stretch last year before he went down coming back is more needed than ever. That talent margin in the middle of the pack is 3 deep at every turn after the deadline and TD is the best shot to get a shot.
OK, let's steal one in Phoenix and then get a week of rest!
They decidedly were not at the shooters on the catch early on. But they did step that up in the 3rd and 4th.
LoungeLizard
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Unbelievable performance from D Fox. So hard to overcome the deficit of 3PT FG made that Dallas had on us but somehow we did. Gutsy performance.
That was a huge team win. And obviously we saw super mega clutch Fox in action. I don't know how they steal the clutch award from him. But I guess the rest of the world was watching the Lakers and Golden State tonight?
Ozymandias
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We're comin!!!!!
That is a damn good team we just beat tonight.
De'Aaron took that game over at the end vs a team with Kyrie and Doncic. How bout that?
Masterful showing from Terence Davis off the bench.
In a game where Murray and Huerter struggled to shoot the ball for most of it we sure looked like a playoff team out there, or even a team that could win a series in the playoffs.
That is a damn good team we just beat tonight.
De'Aaron took that game over at the end vs a team with Kyrie and Doncic. How bout that?
Masterful showing from Terence Davis off the bench.
In a game where Murray and Huerter struggled to shoot the ball for most of it we sure looked like a playoff team out there, or even a team that could win a series in the playoffs.
Also Lyles small-ball C in crunch time. I just think it's the move... he's a better rebounder than Metu and he lets you play 5-out on offense where Fox can either kick to him or have a a wide open paint with the rim protector drawn on Lyles. I think he's just better suited to battle with bigs because of his frame than Metu as well.
It's better offensively, it lets you experiment with more Huerter/TD at the 3 type lineups, it lets you find a role for TD once Monk comes back. Just no downside imo
Tetsujin
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We also saw Mike Brown go small with Lyles at the five after Domas fouled out and it once again left the other team in shambles. I appreciate Metu's been giving good effort of late but Trey is probably the answer at that spot right now.
SacTownKid
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Powell is a solid defender but Wood with Luka and Irving is the combo that's going to take them somewhere. They have decent defensive personnel trickled in but Luka and Irving is kind of like the Kings, good luck going with defense first, lol. Brown at least knows where his bread is buttered.
Tetsujin
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And Fox is at least capable of playing monster defense at the point of attack as well, which is a better situation than the Mavs who are going to have to deal with having two of the worst point of attack defenders in the league when games get tight.
We're probably not going to win the championship this year but god damn this team is resilient when we're so used to seeing them fold. We're going to give any team a tough series because they do seem to get better the more familiar they are. Even if teams "figure us out", we're figuring them out too.
Just be nice if we could have 2022 Huerter back.
Ozymandias
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Yup. This is one of the real silver linings from the trade deadline passing, the FO is comfy letting Lyles handle the 5 for us.
To an extent what you saw with Wood, we can recreate with Lyles. Either you leave Wood open to help on the Luka/Kyrie drive, or you give them a wide open lane to the rim. That's tough to stop and we couldn't during that stretch where Wood was on fire.
What's nice with Lyles is he can put the ball on the deck a little bit too. So if someone closes on him too hard, he can give you a straight line drive to the rim.
2002 and 04 playoffs vibes
SacTownKid
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Yeah, with Lyles you can be far more effective on that draw and kick play. Sitting him in the corner is the concern. The Mavs were able to hide Luka on him in the 4th and it crunched down the paint. If they learn that they have a skilled small ball C and how to use it, it will take some pressure off of the others for sure.
Won't someone think of the children!?
but the Lakers are going to be the 2 seed. lol
Did we not have the beam when we demolished the Nets?
What I see that Huerter's game is evolving - he is not only 3pt shooter, but he is spacing the floor with moving to the basket and lately he has more close basket points.
Maybe this is Brown idea or maybe teams are trying to defend better red velvet at 3pt line ....
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