KainLear
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But you are The Effort Police! How can you sign off on such an operation?
[Game] Kings vs. Suns, 12/27/20 6PM PST, 9PM EST
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The Effort Police
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But you are The Effort Police! How can you sign off on such an operation?
My username goes back to the DMC-Rudy Gay days where a million people thought they were the premier judges of how hard a player was playing. It's ridiculing that mindset.
I didn't talk about tanking much last year even after it was a lost season because I just assumed Vlade would blow it regardless.
KainLear
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You just broke my head-canon...
SacTownKid
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Shots are short. They're toasted. Another downside of playing players short stints is you are taking their warm up from hot to cold, to hot, back to cold. They are basically on a yo yo. I can't remember which coach in the Kings carousel of the last 15 years did this but we saw this some number of years ago with similar short term success and long term burn out.
SacTownKid
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The Kings were punched out and couldn't swing back. Monty started doing what any coach watching is going to do. Simply middle pick and roll, dish back out, rinse repeat. The opponents legs will go full rubber sooner and sooner each game.
KainLear
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Yeah definitely. By all counts, this is the Kings team we didn't expect to get, even with the high hopes of our rookies and general direction our GM seems to be pushing. I like the overall effort and how disruptive they have been in the first 3 games. Gotta have short term memory as an athlete and move onto the next game.
kb02
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Just think the Suns got physical on the Kings. Gave them a taste of their own medicine and it threw off their rythm.
SLAB
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That’s an outlier. Probably won’t happen again all season long.
KainLear
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That tells me we are spoiled by our guards getting rebounds on the regular.
Thats kind of the problem tonight. We should have played more Whiteside when our guards couldn't rebound. Too many times, the Suns just walked in for a put back.
The Effort Police
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Fox (F)
Bagley (D-)
Buddy (D)
Haliburton (A-)
Fox (F)
Bagley (D-)
Buddy (D)
Haliburton (A-)
kb02
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Suns started defending that high screen. Jumping it with their guards. And got a few cheap offensive foul calls.
Kingz19
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Bench got destroyed and the Kings didn’t get a big game from any of their starters
Stretch In the third with turnovers and second chance opportunities for the Suns broke the Kings back.
Fox was tired. Rushed out of rhythm shots on fast breaks, and lost his body control sometime in the second quarter. Hopefully that’s just a result of it being the only real back to back to this point. Booker and Paul were a little slow too but Bridges and their bench had a lot of energy,
Whiteside and Bjeli seemed slow too.
Haliburton had the best game for the Kings.
Stretch In the third with turnovers and second chance opportunities for the Suns broke the Kings back.
Fox was tired. Rushed out of rhythm shots on fast breaks, and lost his body control sometime in the second quarter. Hopefully that’s just a result of it being the only real back to back to this point. Booker and Paul were a little slow too but Bridges and their bench had a lot of energy,
Whiteside and Bjeli seemed slow too.
Haliburton had the best game for the Kings.
SacTownKid
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Partly but Monty Williams and his staff deserve credit. They played the long game and kept the Kings on a string with the drive and dish. The Kings are relying on run outs where the only even marginal success came with them playing at an unsustainable energy level. It's like setting a land speed record. Yeah, you might get it and walk away once or twice, but go for it every day and you're going to burn up, guaranteed.
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