[Game] Kings vs. Raptors, 11/19/21 7pm Pacific 10pm Eastern
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I went to the game, second of the season. Crowd is a fraction of what it was two years ago.. is that Covid related? or because the Kings are trash?
Man, that last year with Joerger (with all his faults) was fun. I went to 11 games that year and that place was rockin. The Yogi chant was phenomenal, and the team played inspired basketball. This current version is boring as all get. The most exciting part of the game was the Fire Luke Walton chants toward the end of the game. It's just sad, man. Even Luke gave up half way through the game and just sat on the bench while Gentry and Doug talked to players during whistles, etc.
Man, that last year with Joerger (with all his faults) was fun. I went to 11 games that year and that place was rockin. The Yogi chant was phenomenal, and the team played inspired basketball. This current version is boring as all get. The most exciting part of the game was the Fire Luke Walton chants toward the end of the game. It's just sad, man. Even Luke gave up half way through the game and just sat on the bench while Gentry and Doug talked to players during whistles, etc.
It isn't about blame at this point, and never should have been. It should have been about common sense. What coach has ever lasted as a holdover when his GM got ousted by another power player like Dumars? Both of these things are true, one should have been corrected the moment Vlade was shown the door and so far it doesn't matter any other mistakes Monte makes. That one will always been the one you're stacking on top of.
With a very difficult schedule at that. Walton is the incompetent one and i wish to God he’d never been placed in that short interim stint with the Warriors because he wouldn’t even be here right now without that distant memory. Even as a player he was praised highly for his basketball IQ and i didn’t see it back then either.
That isn’t the full story though. This team was playing hard and playing like a team on both ends. Even when a defensive assignment was missed, we didn’t get too down on ourselves because the effort was there and the lineups made more sense. A couple losses and Walton began to panic, basically playing Bagley at the 3 now. Smh
I've been thinking about this. There was something mentioned somewhere about Bagley/TT being a valuable trade package as expirings. Which is besides the point dumb since expirings haven't had great value for years by themselves since teams have given up on FA as a major build route, but I think they are trying to increase TT's trade value lol. I hope that it isn't the case because showcasing players like that on losing teams will only hurt.
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