Amen to that!I’m still having so much fun reading about a playoff series rather than lottery odds.
Dude we've watched the Kings under perform against the Sonics while letting Danny Fortson beast, let a wolves team with nobody but KG beat them, and seen All Star players not able to make shots and close out games they should have. This is par for the course, not cynicism.lol, it’s funny. In daily life I’m shockingly optimistic. About everything. Family. The world. Relationships. My work. You name it, I have a sunny outlook.
Sports tho? The one single thing I expect to be let down by.
Yeah we could be talking about our head coaching/front office vacancy or who we are going to pick at #7
Huerter‘s only saving grace so far has been inside the arc. He’s been ok there. Outside of it has been dreadful.
All I know is 11-47 is almost never gonna get it done. That’s just WAY too many attempts for a team that not only wasn’t making them this game, but started out terribly from 3 the two previous games. Then factor in Dray and Payton’s absences — it makes the decision/strategy much much worse.
For better or for worse, that is who the team is. A team that shoots a lot of 3's. Brown continues to tell them to let it fly and it looks like he's more than willing to take his chances with it
For better or for worse, that is who the team is. A team that shoots a lot of 3's. Brown continues to tell them to let it fly and it looks like he's more than willing to take his chances with it
Live by the 3, die by the 3.
I feel like we're still getting our guys open looks, they just have the playoff yips.
This series might go 6 or 7, you have to figure our guys calm down and start hitting shots they normally do eventually!
Huerter Barnes & Murray shot a combined 39.6% from 3 during the regular season and are collectively shooting 19% this series. You can't reinvent the offense in three days just because they're in a slump..
Consider the Kings lucky. It could have been worse. Imagine Wiggins hit that 3 in Game 1 and Green didn't get ejected, Kings could looking at 0-3 deficit against the defending champs. It's 2-1, Kings lose Game 4, this series is over to be honest with all momentum on their side. Only chance is the home crowd and winning all home games.
I’m still having so much fun reading about a playoff series rather than lottery odds.
Yeah, unfortunately, those with that argument all seem to have forgotten one very important fact...WE are the ones with a 2-1 series lead, and NOT THEM. WE are the ones who took a 2-0 series lead, winning both games at home.I cannot understand, let alone relate to, this thinking at all. I just really, really don't get it. With all due respect, why even bother to be a fan if you are willing to throw in the towel if the series is tied? Seriously - is this what you teach your kids? Where is you heart?!? I mean honestly. If they players had this attitude, we'd be a 20 game winner every year.
I rooted for the Kings through 20+ odd losing seasons and never once did I give up on them by having this attitude. We screamed our patooties off almost no matter the score of any game back in the day. And I mean the DAY. Like Arco 1 days.
This new breed of doomsdayers seems like a foreign species to me. Makes me sad.![]()
Davis is unplayable right now
How can one logically be "not comfortable" to wait 2 seasons for a rookie to get good?As I said I like Keegan but not as comfortable as some waiting up to two seasons to determine if he's a legit third option. If I had the choice, OG same draft class as Fox and established star please.
Do you have to like Macintosh computer and personally be using a MAC to work for Apple?You aren’t a kings fan and you are still a mod here judging current kings fans. It’s odd.
My thoughts exactly. He is constantly letting his man go by and is just jacking up shots hoping he can make one so he doesnt get benchedHe’s regressed hard. At one point he was a microwave with some playmaking ability who at least tried on defense, almost like a Monk-lite. But that’s long gone.
Wait until I tell him about my Pepsi-loving cousin, who works as a supervisor at the Coca-Cola bottling plant...Do you have to like Macintosh computer and personally be using a MAC to work for Apple?
Not really. Steph was Steph and Looney was incredibly effective. A few guys hit big shots when we went on a small run but it was basically a two man show. We stunk but even after the third quarter which was a total disaster it was still a 12 point game - same as the half.
The funny thing about this post is that this series reminds me a lot of the start of the Adelman era, when the Kings met up with Utah in the first round. The Jazz were not quite done, but were clearly on the tail end of their relevancy. And they were ultimately able to rely on guile and experience to get past the Kings in that series, but every time they met after that, the Jazz got smacked.I know they were down GPII and Dray, but man. This just isn't the same powerhouse Warriors club. They would have buried us a few years back if we came with this effort in the playoffs and it would have been over by half-time. We still had a shot to go win this game in the 4th quarter, despite an absolute refusal to hit a shot.
Really comes down to the Kings league best offense showing up and I think we win this series. We're just the better team if we play up to the standard we've set this season. Nothing I've seen from the Warriors so far this series is that they're just far and away better than we are.
The big difference here is Kings have home court so they have a legit shot at advancing, but otherwise it parallels 1999 perfectly.The funny thing about this post is that this series reminds me a lot of the start of the Adelman era, when the Kings met up with Utah in the first round. The Jazz were not quite done, but were clearly on the tail end of their relevancy. And they were ultimately able to rely on guile and experience to get past the Kings in that series, but every time they met after that, the Jazz got smacked.
I think, like that series did for those Kings, this series will make these Kings a much better team, in the long run. And in three years, when Fox and Sabonis are at the respective peaks of their prowess, and Steph and Klay are dried up husks of themselves, and Draymond is getting overpaid by some other team, and they're counting on Poole, Moody and Kuminga to keep the torch lit, it's going to be a whole different story.
I'm sorry but LOLthey're counting on Poole, Moody and Kuminga
The funny thing about this post is that this series reminds me a lot of the start of the Adelman era, when the Kings met up with Utah in the first round. The Jazz were not quite done, but were clearly on the tail end of their relevancy. And they were ultimately able to rely on guile and experience to get past the Kings in that series, but every time they met after that, the Jazz got smacked.
I think, like that series did for those Kings, this series will make these Kings a much better team, in the long run. And in three years, when Fox and Sabonis are at the respective peaks of their prowess, and Steph and Klay are dried up husks of themselves, and Draymond is getting overpaid by some other team, and they're counting on Poole, Moody and Kuminga to keep the torch lit, it's going to be a whole different story.
I think, and to @pdxKingsFan's point, Monte knows very well what he currently has, and what the potential is of what he currently has. It would be nice to be able to acquire another perennial all star to put next to Domas and Fox (i.e. create a "Big Three"), but I don't expect Monte to be the type who will throw ALL of his "young" chips into progressing such a deal. He is a lot more conservative than most general managers out there. And, it has seemed to have worked out well for him up until now, and I don't really see that changing in the near future.The big difference here is Kings have home court so they have a legit shot at advancing, but otherwise it parallels 1999 perfectly.
The wild thing is I said at some point we advanced past that 99 squad - and that's reflected in the HCA - so let's see what we can do with it. I ain't gonna cry either way though because barring some major career suicide move by Monte I expect him to play things at least as cool as Petrie did for the next year or two rather than be a cautionary tale for future GMs like we've seen with orgs that pushed all their chips in a season or two too early.
btw this part:
I'm sorry but LOL
I think, and to @pdxKingsFan's point, Monte knows very well what he currently has, and what the potential is of what he currently has. It would be nice to be able to acquire another perennial all star to put next to Domas and Fox (i.e. create a "Big Three"), but I don't expect Monte to be the type who will throw ALL of his "young" chips into progressing such a deal. He is a lot more conservative than most general managers out there. And, it has seemed to have worked out well for him up until now, and I don't really see that changing in the near future.
We are, indeed, well past that 99 squad. I think we're a lot closer to that 2022 Western Conference Finals squad than we are to any other squad prior to that year. Even if we fall to the Warriors, we're still well past the 99 squad.
I think that this is the part that is warping everybody's brains. If the seedings were reversed, I wonder if people would be freaking out like this?The big difference here is Kings have home court so they have a legit shot at advancing, but otherwise it parallels 1999 perfectly.