[Game] Sacramento Kings (3) @ Golden State Warriors (6) (WCDS Game 3, 2-0) 4/20/2023 7:00pm Pacific 10:00pm Eastern (TNT)
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Oh please. If you thought we were going to sweep the Warriors you’re delusional. They protected their home court just like we protected ours. That doesn’t mean I didn’t expect to win. If we played our A game, we would’ve won. We didn’t. Tip your cap and prep for the next one. I’m not gonna sit here and act like the series is over like a lot of ya’ll because of 1 game.
Literally no one is excusing Murray. Him being a non-factor is a major problem in this series and the starters spacing has been absolutely dreadful. Fox has been far and away the best shooter so far.
Honestly a miracle we're up 2-1 with how important spacing is to our offense and how freaking bad it's been.
Honestly a miracle we're up 2-1 with how important spacing is to our offense and how freaking bad it's been.
That tracks. I spent most of the game begging them to slow down, but if you're going to shoot like they were Dubs could pack the paint and give up 3s all night. Nice that Coach Brown will have a few days to iron things out. I'm not going to be too worried until they beat us at home. But I'd really like to steal Sundays game so we can have two chances to close at G1C.
Well...That sucked. And we couldn't buy ourselves a freaking long ball even if our lives depended on it.
Game 4 is going to be another tough one, but let us all not forget that WE are the ones with a 2-1 series lead. If we get some of those bounces from behind the line that we weren't getting tonight, this series could very easily be 3-1 coming back HOME.
Game 4 is going to be another tough one, but let us all not forget that WE are the ones with a 2-1 series lead. If we get some of those bounces from behind the line that we weren't getting tonight, this series could very easily be 3-1 coming back HOME.
True, but hey. You're a starter on the 3 seed in the West. Once the regular season ends, I think you should be judged on a different scale than you normally would for a rook.
He looks overmatched right now. Which is fine, but it's still a big blow as he's been such a huge contributor to our team all year. Add in Huerter/HB bricking 3's all series and Lyles/Monk forgetting how to play tonight as well.... there's your reasoning for the score.
He looks overmatched right now. Which is fine, but it's still a big blow as he's been such a huge contributor to our team all year. Add in Huerter/HB bricking 3's all series and Lyles/Monk forgetting how to play tonight as well.... there's your reasoning for the score.
I'm not excusing him, but I'm also not all that surprised. He tends to be a passive player and he's not strong enough to be an effective NBA playoff guy in the trenches yet. We can't have everyone struggle with their shooting and win road playoff games.....one or two guys, sure, but not everyone shooting bad to below average
It wasn't much of an opportunity - they never got under 10 pts deficit. It was a sh1t sandwich. The 3pt shooting was skewed in garbage time. They didn't bring the intensity and hustle and paid for it. You'd think they'd have learned from their 2nd game what was needed, but they got cocky and over-reliant on shooting especially early. Davis played bonehead defense and hurt the 3rdQ chances....good to see him get time, but he needs to do better on defense. IN the 4th it was curtains Thompson hitting 3s and the Kings body language was down and out.. In earlier games the Kings answered offensively, but they were toothless tonight, and didn't get their defense together enough to make a difference. Definitely think the Warriors are tying it up. Kings looked defeated much of the game. Monk was forcing drives expecting calls, and Sabonis as well looking around. Brown talked about Pace and Physicality but they brought neither especially lacking rebounding and physicality. Sabonis getting outworked by Looney for rebounds was bad enough, but the lack of help on the boards was noticeable. Fox was trying a little too hard to answer 3s - more out of control this game. In earlier games he was taking what the defense gave him and calmly breaking down Warriors for 2s. Frustrating watching both Huerter and Murray miss a large majority of 3s, and Mitchell missing early. I'm sure it'll be a closer game, but the need better games from Sabonis and even Len as well. Lyles had several good rebounds but was 0-6. Offensively only Barnes had a decent game. ONLY. And the team shot 69% from the line. It was a team loss earned. Monk was probably the biggest fall-off looking much too impatient.
Hopefully they can get their hustle back collectively
Hopefully they can get their hustle back collectively
So? That's not a prerequisite for being a mod.
I am still a mod here because I love KingsFans.com. That does not require me to love the Sacramento Kings. And, by the way, I'm still more pro-Kings than at least ten percent of the self-proclaimed Kings fans here, in spite of the fact that I don't root for the team anymore.
Your working definition of "judging" is too broad for me to get behind.
No it ain't.
I am still a mod here because I love KingsFans.com. That does not require me to love the Sacramento Kings. And, by the way, I'm still more pro-Kings than at least ten percent of the self-proclaimed Kings fans here, in spite of the fact that I don't root for the team anymore.
Your working definition of "judging" is too broad for me to get behind.
No it ain't.
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Give me a break it’s playoff time! Emotions run high. You should have stopped when you said he doesn’t need anyone to stick up for him.
next game is gonna be harder than this game. I wish green never got suspended personally. Sobonis isn’t playing like the man child he’s been playing all season he’s timid smh
Give me a break it’s playoff time! Emotions run high. You should have stopped when you said he doesn’t need anyone to stick up for him.
next game is gonna be harder than this game. I wish green never got suspended personally. Sobonis isn’t playing like the man child he’s been playing all season he’s timid smh
This was the reason I was kind of hoping we would see more of his Iowa post game put into the playbook during the season because part of that is the system has disappeared too and I don't think that's necessarily on him as much. I mean, Domas right now is seeing his assists cut in half as the team has moved towards more pick and roll. This team is almost a mirror of the Vlade/Webber teams that were able to adapt once the playoffs came and those little trick plays weren't as easy to pull off. Defensively Keegan's been finding his way but yeah, him chasing down SG's ain't happening. They have to sink it into his head that he can rely a little more on the length advantage he has. He doesn't need to get into a foot race every time.
No doubt but Miller, Vlade, and DC had a huge part in that too. That's been debated a million times over as to whether Webber should have been put back into the rotation but once the playoffs came, that system dried up a bit too. Stars take you over the threshold in the end. The last few years have given hope to great shooting teams though. That Peja team in this era? Probably gets a ring if they ran with hit for a few years.
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