Caccia
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Danny Ainge.
[Game] Los Angeles Clippers at Sacramento Kings, 11/29/2023, 7pm Pacific 10pm Eastern
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ShastaKingsFan
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Bfreeman
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Radio honks styles and goober, I dunno
Kingz19
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7-26 from three
7 turnovers and only forced 1 turnover.
Domas is officially in a funk. This will be his 4th sub par performance in 5 games since the win streak..barring a strong second half of consequence... He needs to get it together.
Really only Fox was good but even he’s getting caught flat footed in spots, especially near the end of the first half.
Monk and Trey ice cold.
Should’ve looked for Sasha to see if he could get hot but didn’t touch the ball again on offense after hitting his first shot.
Duarte and Davion both had moments but then some bricks too.
Huerter and Barnes non existent
Not feeling a comeback is in the mail tonight. Just hope it doesn’t get as out of hand as the first New Orleans game for the home crowd.
Kings need to play better on back to backs
7 turnovers and only forced 1 turnover.
Domas is officially in a funk. This will be his 4th sub par performance in 5 games since the win streak..barring a strong second half of consequence... He needs to get it together.
Really only Fox was good but even he’s getting caught flat footed in spots, especially near the end of the first half.
Monk and Trey ice cold.
Should’ve looked for Sasha to see if he could get hot but didn’t touch the ball again on offense after hitting his first shot.
Duarte and Davion both had moments but then some bricks too.
Huerter and Barnes non existent
Not feeling a comeback is in the mail tonight. Just hope it doesn’t get as out of hand as the first New Orleans game for the home crowd.
Kings need to play better on back to backs
ShastaKingsFan
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He wants to trade Keegan Murray? How does that work
it looks like 0 out of how many we play …
kingsboi
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part of it may be that they are exerting themselves on defense more, since that was the emphasis from Brown going into the season and as a result, those three's sometimes drop and other times don't because the team is still trying to adjust to building that lactic acid capacity. that can purely be speculation on my end but it's a thought nonetheless.
SacTownKid
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The odd thing is the offense with Fox is actually scoring better than last year. The offense without Fox however is 7 ppg less than last years team up to this point.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
They mostly don't though. The only reason it feels like that is because the great shooting performances against us also happen to be the three times we got blown out these season. You could make an argument that our numbers are ever better on defense without counting the time Brandon Ingram went 5 for 5 from three against us despite shooting 29% behind the arc on the year.
I haven't been able to watch as many games this year vs last few years. What do you think it is? Is it Barnes' regression? Is it fatigue or laziness?
kingsfan_4Life
Bench
I mean it's POSSIBLE to come back when you think that they only need to get 10 more points than the Clippers in the 3rd and 10 in the 4th. Normally you would think that's totally manageable, but unlike last night, I don't think the Kings have the energy to make that happen tonight.......I would love to be proven wrong though.
reptilexcq2
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Sabonis playing out of his character in my opinion. Barnes and Mitchell need to be traded for better defenders. The Kings lack size. They're just having a hard time stopping anybody and it's too easy for the other team to score. It's hard to watch because it's helpless and even against GS it was hard. GS struggled with making shots is the reason we won but also turnovers. But if we constantly have to depend on team to miss and self defeat for us to have a chance...then it is a long night.
ShastaKingsFan
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I'll say it again. Move Barnes to the 2nd unit, where he's forced to shoot more. It will help his game and the team
SacTownKid
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It's another version of last year too. The Kings actually aren't that bad in the paint with Domas, however up to this point they're still bottom 7 in opponent 3 point percentage.
Can’t understand the game today , players are selfish and looking to make the point , but are totally out of doing it …
Vezenkov scored his first , then he had 3/4 open looks , but none to pass him
You see way down in result you subs shooter with defende (Sasha to Edward’s )
Lyels is out of magic it seems
Sorry for an all back ups of Mitchel but this guy HAS to go out …
Sabonis is in low performance mode …
If monk and fox did not do something to keep that one close will be ugly game
Vezenkov scored his first , then he had 3/4 open looks , but none to pass him
You see way down in result you subs shooter with defende (Sasha to Edward’s )
Lyels is out of magic it seems
Sorry for an all back ups of Mitchel but this guy HAS to go out …
Sabonis is in low performance mode …
If monk and fox did not do something to keep that one close will be ugly game
Just found the stat to back up my earlier comment. In terms of WIDE open 3pt shots (no defender within 6+ ft), the Kings have the 4th WORST shooting percentage at just 36%. Only Toronto, Memphis, and Portland are worse than us.
To contrast that, Brooklyn leads the league at 46.2% followed by Miami at 43.1%. There are 14 total NBA teams who shoot 39% or better on wide open 3s.
Terrible.
To contrast that, Brooklyn leads the league at 46.2% followed by Miami at 43.1%. There are 14 total NBA teams who shoot 39% or better on wide open 3s.
Terrible.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
It could work but the issue is always that Barnes will try and fit in. Turning him into the new Carl Landry/Corliss Williamson is well within his skill set but he's too much of an in the flow type of player.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
More than anything though, this just points to an eventual progression to the mean from the Kings though unless you assume that our guys are going to continue to be great at shooting with guys in their face but terrible when deadass open
Caccia
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Ainge says, "We'll send you Talen Horton-Tucker for Keegan Murray, straight up. You will save $2.6 million in salary."
iowamcnabb
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i think its partially on Brown. He drills it in their heads that if you are open “let it fly”. Typically a good thing but you can sense when things are not going well, I’d like to see them go to a different look like they do on defense. I don’t see as many adjustments on the offensive end.
It’s also with noting that we are 10-6 and most of our wins we shot less than 35 percent from 3 as a team
Checks score... looks like they are all going to get their 25...
SacTownKid
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The next question is whether the other team is forcing those wide open shots to spots on the floor the Kings aren't comfortable shooting.
It's somewhat reassuring that they are shooting a low percentage on quality shots as this may imply we are actually better than our record.
It could also mean we just don't have the legs or collectively are not in the right headspace.
Do they have an equivalent opponent stat?
iowamcnabb
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I didn’t hear which radio station was talking about trading Keegan but they were likely referencing the hoops hype article that said teams want Keegan in trade talks and the Kings are not interested in doing so.
notoriousBEN3
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This is a game where you really miss Keegan. Duarte and Mitchell are just too short and too inconsistent on offense to be effective vs the Clips right now.
ShastaKingsFan
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I don't see much reason not to try it. Can always go back if it doesn't look good
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