[Game] Kings vs Suns 7:30PM PDT/10:30 PM EDT

[NewArena]

All these big games at home and you can’t win a single one?

 

[Rob-The-Great]

now we have to hope the Pelicans save us and don’t rest all their starters. We choked this away, no bones about it.

It’s really hard to go from the elation of last season to the collapse of this one.

Not much fun being a fan right now, hopefully we can surprise in the play-in or get eliminated right away so we can all have some peace.

The later seems far more predictable

 

[NewArena]

Sabonis was fouled when he turned that ball over. Whatever

 

[The_Jamal]

"Mike Brown isn't a good game manager and unimaginative"

"Monte shouldn't have sat on his hands and ran this team back, it sucks"

"Domas is a choke artist, he can't win important games"

"Fox shoots too many 3's."

"Why isn't Sasha playing?"


If anyone wants the TLDR of what the rest of this thread will be.

 

[SacTownKid]

The worst calls “against” us were non-reviewable no-calls.

Eagerly awaiting that 2 minute report. SMH.

 

[kingdivac]

Sabonis single-handedly gave them the game

Yep,
5 points up 4.......allow for 1 of those mistakes but not all 3

 

[Rob-The-Great]

All these big games at home and you can’t win a single one?

Not one

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

They played hard on a back to back. A 4 point game with around 50 secs left is still any1's game.

Come on man. You can't seriously be OK with what happened down the stretch. The Kings handed them the game

 

[hrdboild]

Sabonis made a mistake on that lazy back court pass for the Beal fast break but once again the officials gave the game away and I don't think there's anything the Kings could have done differently to win. When Sabonis doesn't have position, he's called for an over the back foul on Durant (and the contact on Fox's shot is ignored). When Sabonis does have position and Nurkic jumps on top of him it's also a foul on Sabonis and game winning free throws for Phoenix. Fox was in the shooting motion on that last foul but they give us a sideline out of bounds instead.

I'm not even mad. This is the NBA. We know how it works by now. Booker was garbage in this game though. He should have been ejected after all the antics he pulled.

 

[ESP47]

I started chuckling with a few min left. You can see the collapse beginning in real time.

 

[Rob-The-Great]

Come on man. You can't seriously be OK with what happened down the stretch. The Kings handed them the game

The kings handed everyone the game lately

 

[Elektrik]

Couldn’t even draw up a play to get a shot up. We just give games away.

 

[SacTownKid]

"Mike Brown isn't a good game manager and unimaginative"

"Monte shouldn't have sat on his hands and ran this team back, it sucks"

"Domas is a choke artist, he can't win important games"

"Fox shoots too many 3's."

"Why isn't Sasha playing?"


If anyone wants the TLDR of what the rest of this thread will be.

And....

 

[coolhandluke]

Did Mike brown not have a challenge at all?

You can't challenge a non call.

Kings are not getting a call in traffic. Would it too much to run a play instead of asking Fox to freelance it? What's point of taking a timeout? We have the worst ATO plays in the league.

 

[SacTownKid]

Couldn’t even draw up a play to get a shot up. We just give games away.

I mean, that was a just a great gamble by Beal. He got the ball, it is what it is.

 

[NewArena]

No one trusts this team to win an elimination game. My only solace is that we wouldn’t have beat the suns in back to back games, so maybe it’s best we lose now if we have to play them in the play-in.

 

[ick300]

So any more "for MB haters".... did he process the game well in play? But ok it's an invaluable experience I guess. Also we didn't use all of our timeouts and all of our challenges, because there was no bad calls against us after that early challenge.

Mate we lost more then 10 games , maybe 15 , after leading the whole game and all of them by one and the same way - starting to throw meaningless 3 pointers when the opposite team starts closing up ...
And that is all on the coaching stuff , all ...
Now instead of having one home game and go to play offs we are going to face GS away and one more (if any) away game ...
Do you think we have any chances for play-offs already ??

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

If you can’t make the pass when 3 people are coming at you …….

That's whats sad. Teams know they can triple team, because Fox will be forcing the last play no matter what the circumstance

 

[RoyalDiva]

What's the point in even watching Sunday's game?

 

[coolhandluke]

They are the worst and more unlikable technically kinda good team I’ve ever watched.

Don't worry, buddy. They will lose to the Warriors in the 9-10 play-in to make you feel better.

 

[Tizzy Flip]

Honestly are any of you surprised? If there’s anything we are consistent. Suns looked lifeless midway through the 4th but like multiple other instances this year we show no killer instinct. It’s unfortunately a defining attribute of this team

 

[ick300]

No one trusts this team to win an elimination game. My only solace is that we wouldn’t have beat the suns in back to back games, so maybe it’s best we lose now if we have to play them in the play-in.

We cant beat Suns back to back but we can win GS and Pells/LA/Suns away from home !?

 

[SacTownKid]

You can't challenge a non call.

Kings are not getting a call in traffic. Would it too much to run a play instead of asking Fox to freelance it? What's point of taking a timeout? We have the worst ATO plays in the league.

It depends on what the play call is. For the Kings plays through Domas 6 seconds isn't a lot of time. Fox and Barnes kind of carried at the end because they could make plays in iso.

 

[macadocious]

I’m gobsmacked

 

[KF8]

What's the point in even watching Sunday's game?

Kings can still take the 8th seed if pelicans beat the lakers and the kings beat the blazers.

 

[NewArena]

Sabonis made a mistake on that lazy back court pass for the Beal fast break but once again the officials gave the game away and I don't think there's anything the Kings could have done differently to win. When Sabonis doesn't have position, he's called for an over the back foul on Durant (and the contact on Fox's shot is ignored). When Sabonis does have position and Nurkic jumps on top of him it's also a foul on Sabonis and game winning free throws for Phoenix. Fox was in the shooting motion on that last foul but they give us a sideline out of bounds instead.

I'm not even mad. This is the NBA. We know how it works by now. Booker was garbage in this game though. He should have been ejected after all the antics he pulled.

All he did was fall to the floor and push off all night.

 

[luckytkp]

All these big games at home and you can’t win a single one?

We haven’t won a big game at home since game 1 of last year playoff.

 

[RoyalDiva]

Kings can still take the 8th seed if pelicans beat the lakers and the kings beat the blazers.

Thanks. I can't keep track of these things. Thats good to know there's still a chance.

 

[ick300]

I agree with this point. How many times have we been in this situation. MB needs to game plan for this to happen. Fox was literally triple teamed. People were open. Geez.

You can have put a billion dollars on what was going to happen in thise 8s and sit back and Enjiy the 1$ win ...
It was clear for blind people ...
(yes fox is great , but he cant win that game , surounded but the whole team of Suns)

 

[NewArena]

For my sanity, I’m just gonna have to check out again. I went to the Bulls game recently, Knicks and now this lol my spirit is broken dude