[Game] Kings vs. Pelicans, 11/03/21 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern

[kb02]

Finally Fox

 

[TaxMan]

FINISH THEM

 

[SacTownKid]

Bringing Len back was a huge move.

 

[kb02]

Are our guards out of their funk?

Too early n playing against Graham and Temple. Not exactly world beaters.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Yeeeeeessssss!

 

[Tetsujin]

Len on any other team = middling depth big.
Len on the Kings = Pretty much Gobert with a jumper.

 

[Woot!]

HOOORAY!!!

 

[SLAB]

Are our guards out of their funk?

would be huge.

 

[kingdivac]

Are our guards out of their funk?

When they play the 1-7 Pelicans minus their 2 best players thy are.

 

[SacTownKid]

Len on any other team = middling depth big.
Len on the Kings = Pretty much Gobert with a jumper.

If more teams go full on guard ball he'll eventually get that max deal just because of his screening ability, ha ha.

 

[Woot!]

This is the closest our supposed team strength - the backcourt (-Davis) has come to looking the part.

 

[Tetsujin]

Len with the hard contest. Garrett Temple almost poofs into a cloud of dust upon contact with the floor.

 

[Sluggah]

Tony will find a way.

 

[Tetsujin]

Nah- That's not flagrant.

 

[kingdivac]

I like the effort from Len....

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Alex Len a bully haha

 

[TaxMan]

Oh please….now we spent ten min looking at a contested shot

 

[iowamcnabb]

Tony New Orleans more like it

 

[Entity]

Len at a +19 right now leading the team. Holmes -9. So we can finally put that rhetoric to bed

 

[pdxKingsFan]

he committed a flagrant foul on himself trying to sell it.

 

[TaxMan]

Welcome back Fox

 

[Tetsujin]

Kings somehow still had 4 time outs. Luke burns one here after Temple hits a baseline jumper.

 

[SacTownKid]

I wonder what it is that keeps the coaches from playing this kind of pressure defense more often? I mean, is it not obviously better than the alternatives???

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

You take a lousy bathroom break...

 

[OffTheWallJamal]

Kings somehow still had 4 time outs. Luke burns one here after Temple hits a baseline jumper.

But why?

 

[Tetsujin]

I wonder what it is that keeps the coaches from playing this kind of pressure defense more often? I mean, is it not obviously better than the alternatives???

It helps that the Pelicans pretty much only have one player capable of getting his own shot.

 

[macadocious]

Garrett Temple. Plays hard, good teammate, great human, not very good at basketball anymore.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

He's serviceable and he'd probably be fine with the Clips but I am not sure he'd ever be Laker quality, whatever they imagine that is. He has a cranky old man voice probably better suited for baseball.

My high school years, we lived close enough to Chicago that we could get WGN with rabbit ears... the first hundred or so times I heard Joel Meyers being introduced, it had me ****ed up, because I kept thinking of the guy who used to coach at Depaul.

 

[Tetsujin]

Luke has timeouts and he's not afraid to use them!

 

[SacTownKid]

It helps that the Pelicans pretty much only have one player capable of getting his own shot.

However, playing the other way will make every G-league level talent look like they can get whatever they want, whenever they want.