stop the tease !
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On December 4th 2001 Kings beat Sixers 94-84 to improve to 14-5 for the season. The game wasn't pretty but Kings were able to once again survive the absence of Webber and DC. The game itself was remembered as the shooting duel between Bobby (7-25) and AI (9-30) with the difference that the Kings team had other players who actually played well. Pedja lead Kings with 20/12/3/1/, Bibby had 18/5/6/1, Bobby had 16/6/4, Vlade had 11/6/3/1 and Scott had 6/13/1/7bl/2. Bench was solid even considering that Bobby abd Scot started the game. Hedo was superb with 15/3/3/1 and Mateen
was perfect from the field for scoring 4 pts in 7 minutes.
Jackson helped limit Iverson to 24 points on 9-of-30 shooting. He was particularly effective in the second half, when Iverson was just 3-of-12
and the 76ers surrendered the lead.
"The guy is extremely athletic and knows how to get to the basket and draw fouls and make baskets," Jackson said. "My teammates did a great job with me and having my back. I just had to come out and contain him and make him work hard."
Jackson also found the time to launch 25 shots, making just seven.
"We told him to ice his right arm down," joked Kings coach Rick Adelman. "I thought maybe him and Allen had something going there. ... I think he was just really revved up and ready to go and emotions took over a lot of the time."
"(Jackson) was terrific defensively on Iverson. So was Mike," Adelman said. "They really made him work. That's all you can do with that guy. That's a tough job."
Coleman was ejected for arguing with 1:07 remaining.
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Kings with a 2 game losing streak on a quick and very unsuccessful Texas trip - still holding 8-7 record which is good enough for the middle (mediocrity) of the Western Conference. Kings will have to try hard to stop the free fall (gravity is a witch when You are not in control) in the last two games on this 5 games tough stretch where we are currently 1-2 (expected). With Magic and Suns coming up - we desperately need to beat at least one of them and it won't be easy.
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Who are we ? What is our identity ? I have no clue either other that we are still located in Sacramento. When You go trough such radical changes it is a normal consequence that You would lose the identity as a team. It takes time to define Yourself as a team again but I there isn't a real plan (and I sure as hell don't see one) it will never happen and it will result in sucking and losing a lot. I am even not sure what we can be. We are too slow for "run and gun", we are too short to be a "really good half court offense" team. We have Mike Bibby so we can't be a great defensive team either. At this point in time - we will have to wait this one out.
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Coach isn't helping much either at the moment. I don't know what is going on but the "rotation" makes no sense to me. All different starting lineups, bringing players slowly from injuries, benching, overplaying, not calling plays, having no strategy - You can only get away with that if You have a great team that is kinda running itself and is winning a lot. You can't do that with a mediocre, midget group of guys who asre so acustomed to losing that it doesn't take much to slip. Wake up man!
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Nice to see Brad Miller actually contributing again. I am not sure whether he is too tall for the starting lineup or KT and SAR are eplaying so superb (there might be a parallel universe out there- You never know) but we need him to playe there because he is actually 6'11 tall and even with a negative value on his vertical leap he is still taller than the rest of the hobbits. Hopefully, Brad will regain his shooting touch soon because we can really use that too. He needs to start and he needs to start now.
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Well, looks like Ron is getting frustrated. His CD only sold 343 copies in the first week. Mussleman both 250 of them. His clothes suck too. Noone would want to be caught dead wearing them. So all that is left is Basketball where Ron is the best there is but only in Ron's mind. Ron will never realize/accept that he isn't ofensively as good as Kobe, TMac, Lebron etc. Ron will also never stop giving useless and stupid comments. Now, we will continue to disregard it simply because we need him and we want to stay sane but I am beginning to wonder whether the coach and the player can do the same in the long run. The ticking bomb is making me nervous - but that just might be me.
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I hate being teased. Not in my nature. Unfortunately, in the last 8 years or so that is all the Kings really were - on big tease. I am kinda getting tired of it. In the past - there was at least hope that the tease may turn into something more but now seasm like we are even happy to be able to get teased. For example, last night - there was no doubt on my mind that we will lose the game - not for a second. Kings played well enough to tease us into the last minute of the game but when all was said and done - we ended up with nothing as we usually do. Some of You will probably look for positive things to hold on to it, or create some kind of "parallel universe" where thing might still turn to be fine. Nothing wrong with either one but it doesn't change the fact that all of it is just a tease because when all is said and done - we usualy stand there with nothing to show for. Almost winning is a euphemism for losing
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So Kings gave Spurs a good battle but as so many times anded up short. We played poor second quarter and tried to come back late and we did but then we played stupid in the last minute. Spurs didn't play well and had only 3 players in double figures. All stats were favoring us except the fact that Spurs made 11-22 threes mostly because ther were WIDE OPEN. Maybe we can build on this performance but that remains to be seen
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AWARD TIME
TDM award went to Bruce "almighty" Bowen who almost had a career game. The performance was sponsored by Kings perimeter defense.
LW - VC award went to Brent Barry and it is my specialy pleasure to give it to him with the hope that he can keep it up.
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Magic are next and they are the best team in the East et the moment. They are currently 3-0 on the 6 game road trip playing Clippers tonight which should make them tired for the game on Monday night. It would be their 4 game in 5 nights. We need to take advantage of that because if the game is close - we will be in trouble. Magic are great defensively, they are too tall for us and their bench is the best in the league. Their back court is not great and if we can get some of their bigs in foul trouble we can win this game. If their big man han play their usual minutes we will have a long night. It will be painful to watch our midgets guardnig Howard. Very painful.
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Mike - come on man - You sucked enough already
Kevin - we need You in the attack mode
Ron - get well soon so You can shut up and play
Brad - good luck man - You will need it
SAR - oh boy
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KT - main candidate for another JHA
Salmons - very nice
Corliss - will get murdered on the center position
Price - inconsistant
Cisco - what can I say ...
rest mateen
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Muss - I wonder what RA is doing these days ?
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Magic are very good and when they figure out how to maximize their bigs they can get scary. Their bench is immpressive. They finish games with Nelson/Hill/Ariza/Milicic/Howard lineup whenever they can because that is their best defensive lineup. They are very tall, very athletic and can be a real nightmare. We can beat them if we can shoot well. Hope that they are tired. TDM is going to either Darko or Carlos Aroyo. LW-VC award will go to Hedo hopefully or to one of our "midgets". We really need this game.
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Can someone, anyone please beat Lakers !
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On December 4th 2001 Kings beat Sixers 94-84 to improve to 14-5 for the season. The game wasn't pretty but Kings were able to once again survive the absence of Webber and DC. The game itself was remembered as the shooting duel between Bobby (7-25) and AI (9-30) with the difference that the Kings team had other players who actually played well. Pedja lead Kings with 20/12/3/1/, Bibby had 18/5/6/1, Bobby had 16/6/4, Vlade had 11/6/3/1 and Scott had 6/13/1/7bl/2. Bench was solid even considering that Bobby abd Scot started the game. Hedo was superb with 15/3/3/1 and Mateen
was perfect from the field for scoring 4 pts in 7 minutes.Jackson helped limit Iverson to 24 points on 9-of-30 shooting. He was particularly effective in the second half, when Iverson was just 3-of-12
and the 76ers surrendered the lead.
"The guy is extremely athletic and knows how to get to the basket and draw fouls and make baskets," Jackson said. "My teammates did a great job with me and having my back. I just had to come out and contain him and make him work hard."
Jackson also found the time to launch 25 shots, making just seven.
"We told him to ice his right arm down," joked Kings coach Rick Adelman. "I thought maybe him and Allen had something going there. ... I think he was just really revved up and ready to go and emotions took over a lot of the time."
"(Jackson) was terrific defensively on Iverson. So was Mike," Adelman said. "They really made him work. That's all you can do with that guy. That's a tough job."
Coleman was ejected for arguing with 1:07 remaining.
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Kings with a 2 game losing streak on a quick and very unsuccessful Texas trip - still holding 8-7 record which is good enough for the middle (mediocrity) of the Western Conference. Kings will have to try hard to stop the free fall (gravity is a witch when You are not in control) in the last two games on this 5 games tough stretch where we are currently 1-2 (expected). With Magic and Suns coming up - we desperately need to beat at least one of them and it won't be easy.
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Who are we ? What is our identity ? I have no clue either other that we are still located in Sacramento. When You go trough such radical changes it is a normal consequence that You would lose the identity as a team. It takes time to define Yourself as a team again but I there isn't a real plan (and I sure as hell don't see one) it will never happen and it will result in sucking and losing a lot. I am even not sure what we can be. We are too slow for "run and gun", we are too short to be a "really good half court offense" team. We have Mike Bibby so we can't be a great defensive team either. At this point in time - we will have to wait this one out.
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Coach isn't helping much either at the moment. I don't know what is going on but the "rotation" makes no sense to me. All different starting lineups, bringing players slowly from injuries, benching, overplaying, not calling plays, having no strategy - You can only get away with that if You have a great team that is kinda running itself and is winning a lot. You can't do that with a mediocre, midget group of guys who asre so acustomed to losing that it doesn't take much to slip. Wake up man!
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Nice to see Brad Miller actually contributing again. I am not sure whether he is too tall for the starting lineup or KT and SAR are eplaying so superb (there might be a parallel universe out there- You never know) but we need him to playe there because he is actually 6'11 tall and even with a negative value on his vertical leap he is still taller than the rest of the hobbits. Hopefully, Brad will regain his shooting touch soon because we can really use that too. He needs to start and he needs to start now.
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Well, looks like Ron is getting frustrated. His CD only sold 343 copies in the first week. Mussleman both 250 of them. His clothes suck too. Noone would want to be caught dead wearing them. So all that is left is Basketball where Ron is the best there is but only in Ron's mind. Ron will never realize/accept that he isn't ofensively as good as Kobe, TMac, Lebron etc. Ron will also never stop giving useless and stupid comments. Now, we will continue to disregard it simply because we need him and we want to stay sane but I am beginning to wonder whether the coach and the player can do the same in the long run. The ticking bomb is making me nervous - but that just might be me.
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I hate being teased. Not in my nature. Unfortunately, in the last 8 years or so that is all the Kings really were - on big tease. I am kinda getting tired of it. In the past - there was at least hope that the tease may turn into something more but now seasm like we are even happy to be able to get teased. For example, last night - there was no doubt on my mind that we will lose the game - not for a second. Kings played well enough to tease us into the last minute of the game but when all was said and done - we ended up with nothing as we usually do. Some of You will probably look for positive things to hold on to it, or create some kind of "parallel universe" where thing might still turn to be fine. Nothing wrong with either one but it doesn't change the fact that all of it is just a tease because when all is said and done - we usualy stand there with nothing to show for. Almost winning is a euphemism for losing
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So Kings gave Spurs a good battle but as so many times anded up short. We played poor second quarter and tried to come back late and we did but then we played stupid in the last minute. Spurs didn't play well and had only 3 players in double figures. All stats were favoring us except the fact that Spurs made 11-22 threes mostly because ther were WIDE OPEN. Maybe we can build on this performance but that remains to be seen
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AWARD TIME
TDM award went to Bruce "almighty" Bowen who almost had a career game. The performance was sponsored by Kings perimeter defense.
LW - VC award went to Brent Barry and it is my specialy pleasure to give it to him with the hope that he can keep it up.
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Magic are next and they are the best team in the East et the moment. They are currently 3-0 on the 6 game road trip playing Clippers tonight which should make them tired for the game on Monday night. It would be their 4 game in 5 nights. We need to take advantage of that because if the game is close - we will be in trouble. Magic are great defensively, they are too tall for us and their bench is the best in the league. Their back court is not great and if we can get some of their bigs in foul trouble we can win this game. If their big man han play their usual minutes we will have a long night. It will be painful to watch our midgets guardnig Howard. Very painful.
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Mike - come on man - You sucked enough already
Kevin - we need You in the attack mode
Ron - get well soon so You can shut up and play
Brad - good luck man - You will need it
SAR - oh boy
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KT - main candidate for another JHA
Salmons - very nice
Corliss - will get murdered on the center position
Price - inconsistant
Cisco - what can I say ...
rest mateen
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Muss - I wonder what RA is doing these days ?
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Magic are very good and when they figure out how to maximize their bigs they can get scary. Their bench is immpressive. They finish games with Nelson/Hill/Ariza/Milicic/Howard lineup whenever they can because that is their best defensive lineup. They are very tall, very athletic and can be a real nightmare. We can beat them if we can shoot well. Hope that they are tired. TDM is going to either Darko or Carlos Aroyo. LW-VC award will go to Hedo hopefully or to one of our "midgets". We really need this game.
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Can someone, anyone please beat Lakers !
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