Kings sinking like the Titanic as the game threads are turning into obituaries. Kings are now 5-15, LOSERS of 8 straight and 8 straight at home. Overall 11 losses in the last 12 games some of them bad some of them worse some of them really, really ugly. The losing streak will most probably climb to 10 games as the Kings are playing lakers twice in the next week or so. After that the games against the Knicks and Wolves at home where Kings are pathetic 3-8 will present last opportunity for the streak to end before reaching maybe even 20 or so.
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Piksi's pow(d)er rankings
5th worst record at this moment going on the 3rd worst by the end of next week is the only real good thing about all of this. Still the taste in the mouth is very, very bitter.
Playoffs ??? - we wouldn't even make the college NIT.
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This is not a season for retiring any jerseys. Period. Those guys deserve it but some other time, some better time. This is PR stunt/desperation act to sell some more tickets. I find it appalling that Kings legends like Vlade and Chris are used for that. How far will this go ? How many uniforms will be retired before there is a product on the floor that is deserving of being watched for what it is ? We can keep retiring jerseys every night. How about retiring "0" for Greg Ostertag and while we are at it - why not have him sing to us in his underwear ? Don't even want to predict what might happen when it is FTM's turn. At the end players will play in uniforms with Roman numbers. Maybe then Dickie B. will have some sympathy since this numbers remind him on his childhood.
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We (I) have blamed the players and "coach" extensively for their shortcomings and there are plenty of those. After watching a 33 pt home loss tonight - I am going to blame people more responsible for this "situation". Someone has to be accountable for picking the coach and putting the team together. Someone has been giving MLE's each year, drafting players we don't really need, not taking more chances and most of all not being in touch with reality. Even last season they were talking playoffs. It is more than sad that fans have a better picture and idea of what the hell is going on. And we don't even have a clue
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This might be off topic but I too am going to complain about Angela Tsai or whatever name she has. I am not trying to offend women especially since there are plenty that are more than capable of doing a great job reporting or being a part of a broadcast. But she is something else. I am fortunate enough not to watch too many Kings broadcasts so I don't have the "pleasure" too often but when I do - well... Man, games are bad enough as they are - why make it more aggravating ? Can't they just put the GEICO commercial instead during that time ? Are those her ideas ? Being me - I always think - can this be worse in any way - and I realized - barely. What else can they do yo us ? Make us watch Horry's shot over and over and over again.
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The next 2 games have a potential to be brutal beyond words. We will score more than 4 pts in each quarter but it looks like there would be a fair amount of garbage time. Whether we lose them both or win them both - thing won't change in the big picture but an improbable win would do so very much for the morale of everybody who cares for the Sacramento Kings. Sure we would have threads celebrating the playoffs and talking about all the things that won't happen but man - we really need that. Way too many people sound like me these days and that is not a good sign. This has nothing to do with lottery, rebuild, etc. It has nothing to to with Basketball at all. We need a win badly and it would be a small miracle. Do I believe in it - of course not. I never thought I would say this but I really wish we would have a Troy Murphy on our team.
BEAT LA !!!
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Hell yes - I am going to watch it and I am going to support Kings to the bitter, bitter end. It is part of being a fan. You take the good times, the bad times, the ugly times as a part of being a fan. At the end - it is just basketball in a world with way bigger problems and challenges. It will hurt but it will pass. Imagine the absolutely worst kind scenario in the next 2 games. Will it ever come close to horrors from 2002 and 2003 playoffs, ones that some of us still have nightmares about ? Of course not. It won't even be close. I will sleep like a baby no matter what happens. And I remember being unable to sleep in Summer of 2002. Untill we are good again - nothing matters.
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Nice to see players saying good things about "coach" in the media. They sure came out to back up that statement. The horse is dead and there is no point of beating it anymore. Talk is cheap and our players have plenty of that. what they don't have is credibility after such statements games. Such games make me wish that contracts were performance related. Our players would then have to pay just to be allowed to play.
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Danthey had something to prove at least in his mind. He is what he is. No offense - good defense. We had no purpose for him. He wasn't going to make us defensive team. Not even Ron could do that. We knew all of that. There is no problem with the decision of cutting him. The problem is talking about defensive philosophy and then cutting defensive players while throwing MLE's to players that either never heard of defense or have a bad alergy.
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We shot below 30% at home despite 3/4 of garbage time. It is much harder to do than You think. What else can You say about this game. We came out ready to suck and we did it hard gor 4 quarters deserving the big fat L. Nuggets have not had a practice in which they had it easier - ever. We weren't ready - physically, mentally we had no game plan and no clue. We didn't even play hard. Nuggets lead by double digits for over 40 minutes and not once did we get close to cut this and attempt to make this a game. Sad.
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AWARD TIME
TDM went to Mr Balkman. He had it so easy and took advantage of it.
LW_VC went to Carter. He could play for us right now.
JHA went to Kevin Martin. That was a lot of nothing.
SAR - Methuselah award went to the whole team who looked older than Mutombo
Mikki went to Brad who almost scored
WTF moment of the game - the game
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Lakers are next and they are scary in our situation. They are 16-2 and they have the second lineup as good as our first. If we don't come out to play - it will be fugly on a level known to only to SFM. If we play great - we might lose honorably. In order to do that we would have to do all these unknown things like defend, play smart etc. It is to be expected that lakers will once again have good support at ARCO so get ready to MP3 chants.
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Kevin - stay out until You are 100%. No need to rush. We can't even win the golden pineapple.
Brad - If You are hunting the way You are scoring - stay close to civilization because You will starve.
Hawes - Starter in his 2nd year - good enough for now
Salmons - maybe a good game for a change
Beno - not good at all
Mikki - playing better and better and when his minutes are cut altogether - he will be perfect
Thompson - 10 offensive rebounds would be more impressive if they didn't follow so many missed layups. Make a layup kid.
rest - mateeen.
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When You play someone who is 16-2 and 7-1 on the road - stopping losing streak is a tall order. They have the depth that will most certainly wear us down. TDM will go to Sasha to ad insult to insult. LW-VC will go to Odumb. It is a tall order for us to even compete and since we don't have a chance anyway - might as well take advantage of it.
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Piksi's pow(d)er rankings
5th worst record at this moment going on the 3rd worst by the end of next week is the only real good thing about all of this. Still the taste in the mouth is very, very bitter.
Playoffs ??? - we wouldn't even make the college NIT.
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This is not a season for retiring any jerseys. Period. Those guys deserve it but some other time, some better time. This is PR stunt/desperation act to sell some more tickets. I find it appalling that Kings legends like Vlade and Chris are used for that. How far will this go ? How many uniforms will be retired before there is a product on the floor that is deserving of being watched for what it is ? We can keep retiring jerseys every night. How about retiring "0" for Greg Ostertag and while we are at it - why not have him sing to us in his underwear ? Don't even want to predict what might happen when it is FTM's turn. At the end players will play in uniforms with Roman numbers. Maybe then Dickie B. will have some sympathy since this numbers remind him on his childhood.
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We (I) have blamed the players and "coach" extensively for their shortcomings and there are plenty of those. After watching a 33 pt home loss tonight - I am going to blame people more responsible for this "situation". Someone has to be accountable for picking the coach and putting the team together. Someone has been giving MLE's each year, drafting players we don't really need, not taking more chances and most of all not being in touch with reality. Even last season they were talking playoffs. It is more than sad that fans have a better picture and idea of what the hell is going on. And we don't even have a clue
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This might be off topic but I too am going to complain about Angela Tsai or whatever name she has. I am not trying to offend women especially since there are plenty that are more than capable of doing a great job reporting or being a part of a broadcast. But she is something else. I am fortunate enough not to watch too many Kings broadcasts so I don't have the "pleasure" too often but when I do - well... Man, games are bad enough as they are - why make it more aggravating ? Can't they just put the GEICO commercial instead during that time ? Are those her ideas ? Being me - I always think - can this be worse in any way - and I realized - barely. What else can they do yo us ? Make us watch Horry's shot over and over and over again.
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The next 2 games have a potential to be brutal beyond words. We will score more than 4 pts in each quarter but it looks like there would be a fair amount of garbage time. Whether we lose them both or win them both - thing won't change in the big picture but an improbable win would do so very much for the morale of everybody who cares for the Sacramento Kings. Sure we would have threads celebrating the playoffs and talking about all the things that won't happen but man - we really need that. Way too many people sound like me these days and that is not a good sign. This has nothing to do with lottery, rebuild, etc. It has nothing to to with Basketball at all. We need a win badly and it would be a small miracle. Do I believe in it - of course not. I never thought I would say this but I really wish we would have a Troy Murphy on our team.
BEAT LA !!!
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Hell yes - I am going to watch it and I am going to support Kings to the bitter, bitter end. It is part of being a fan. You take the good times, the bad times, the ugly times as a part of being a fan. At the end - it is just basketball in a world with way bigger problems and challenges. It will hurt but it will pass. Imagine the absolutely worst kind scenario in the next 2 games. Will it ever come close to horrors from 2002 and 2003 playoffs, ones that some of us still have nightmares about ? Of course not. It won't even be close. I will sleep like a baby no matter what happens. And I remember being unable to sleep in Summer of 2002. Untill we are good again - nothing matters.
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Nice to see players saying good things about "coach" in the media. They sure came out to back up that statement. The horse is dead and there is no point of beating it anymore. Talk is cheap and our players have plenty of that. what they don't have is credibility after such statements games. Such games make me wish that contracts were performance related. Our players would then have to pay just to be allowed to play.
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Danthey had something to prove at least in his mind. He is what he is. No offense - good defense. We had no purpose for him. He wasn't going to make us defensive team. Not even Ron could do that. We knew all of that. There is no problem with the decision of cutting him. The problem is talking about defensive philosophy and then cutting defensive players while throwing MLE's to players that either never heard of defense or have a bad alergy.
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We shot below 30% at home despite 3/4 of garbage time. It is much harder to do than You think. What else can You say about this game. We came out ready to suck and we did it hard gor 4 quarters deserving the big fat L. Nuggets have not had a practice in which they had it easier - ever. We weren't ready - physically, mentally we had no game plan and no clue. We didn't even play hard. Nuggets lead by double digits for over 40 minutes and not once did we get close to cut this and attempt to make this a game. Sad.
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AWARD TIME
TDM went to Mr Balkman. He had it so easy and took advantage of it.
LW_VC went to Carter. He could play for us right now.
JHA went to Kevin Martin. That was a lot of nothing.
SAR - Methuselah award went to the whole team who looked older than Mutombo
Mikki went to Brad who almost scored
WTF moment of the game - the game
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Lakers are next and they are scary in our situation. They are 16-2 and they have the second lineup as good as our first. If we don't come out to play - it will be fugly on a level known to only to SFM. If we play great - we might lose honorably. In order to do that we would have to do all these unknown things like defend, play smart etc. It is to be expected that lakers will once again have good support at ARCO so get ready to MP3 chants.
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Kevin - stay out until You are 100%. No need to rush. We can't even win the golden pineapple.
Brad - If You are hunting the way You are scoring - stay close to civilization because You will starve.
Hawes - Starter in his 2nd year - good enough for now
Salmons - maybe a good game for a change
Beno - not good at all
Mikki - playing better and better and when his minutes are cut altogether - he will be perfect
Thompson - 10 offensive rebounds would be more impressive if they didn't follow so many missed layups. Make a layup kid.
rest - mateeen.
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When You play someone who is 16-2 and 7-1 on the road - stopping losing streak is a tall order. They have the depth that will most certainly wear us down. TDM will go to Sasha to ad insult to insult. LW-VC will go to Odumb. It is a tall order for us to even compete and since we don't have a chance anyway - might as well take advantage of it.
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