[Game] Sacramento Kings @ Los Angeles Clippers, 12/12/2023, 7:30pm PST/10:30pm EST
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Seriously. There's way too much basketball left to check out now. These teams are both capable of insane offensive feats and I don't think the Kings are going to fold mentally in the second half. Never forget the 350 point thriller the last time these two teams faced off in this building.
Vinny Basketballerino
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I started to have a bad feeling when we went down 0-6.
SacTownKid
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Live by the 3, die by the 3. Day to day, year to year.
At full strength the Clippers are like a Super Saiyan version of the Pelicans, inasmuch as they are strongest where the Kings are the weakest. Especially when Leonard plays: the Clippers are 7-3 in their last ten games versus the Kings when Leonard was available, and all three losses were one-possession games. Basically, if Leonard plays, the Kings have pretty much play perfectly to beat this team.
The Kings are not playing perfectly.
HndsmCelt
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I honestly hope Coach Brown seriously tells the players anyone not interested in playing defense can just stay in the locker room. A comeback of this size certainly has been done more than once but the only way can be done is that the defensive end. No amount of improved shooting is going to get the team out of this mess.
Tizzy Flip
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22% road, 41% home. He just seems more comfortable at G1C
Caccia
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Misplaced confidence, after all.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
The Kings need to take that middle paint away from him for sure. He was getting to the free throw line whenever he wanted.
ShastaKingsFan
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Did Mike Bibby already lose his job?
SacTownKid
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Yeah, back to backs is a thing for sure. Have to see what Fox can muster still. Credit to the Clippers though, since that last game their half court offense is miles ahead of where it was.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
The problem is that the Clipper realized that we're putting Keegan on PG13 and have completely taken him out of most of the defense by just sorta having PG stand in the corner, where Keegan has to stick with him on account of him being one of the best shooters in the league.
HB has actually done an okay job on Kawhi but those Trey minutes where he just kept letting Kawhi do whatever he wanted has ignited the guy.
iowamcnabb
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Sounds like they are rotating some of them. Mo made it sound like he was still around
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Mike lives in Arizona so its probably hard for him to do a lot of the games.
ShastaKingsFan
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Who's in the rotation?
No, he's still listed as one of the team on the announcement that Gray had joined
Caccia
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I would not blame McGee. He was 3-3.
Here's what we need to happen in the second half:
Two of the Barnes/Huerter/Monk trio needed to actually contribute on offense or one of them needs to catch fire and put up 20+.
Fox needs to stop yapping about the calls and get his head in the game. Other than drilling three triples he's been part of the problem on both ends. Mix in the mid-range pull up and some drive and kicks, stop falling for Harden's ref baiting antics.
Keegan needs to focus on locking up Paul George. Kawhi is in can't miss mode again and we probably should just let him get his points as long as they're mostly long twos.
Right now the Clippers are shooting 50% from deep. We're overhelping and leaving shooters wide open. Our defense functions best when we anticipate and get over screens instead of trying to rotate everything.
It can be done! Go Kings!
Two of the Barnes/Huerter/Monk trio needed to actually contribute on offense or one of them needs to catch fire and put up 20+.
Fox needs to stop yapping about the calls and get his head in the game. Other than drilling three triples he's been part of the problem on both ends. Mix in the mid-range pull up and some drive and kicks, stop falling for Harden's ref baiting antics.
Keegan needs to focus on locking up Paul George. Kawhi is in can't miss mode again and we probably should just let him get his points as long as they're mostly long twos.
Right now the Clippers are shooting 50% from deep. We're overhelping and leaving shooters wide open. Our defense functions best when we anticipate and get over screens instead of trying to rotate everything.
It can be done! Go Kings!
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Gray, Barnes and Bibby with Mo and Draper hosting.
Kingz19
Hall of Famer
Last season win or lose, the games were almost always competitive. Blowouts were pretty rare either way. Kings only had a few games like this but they didn’t get out of hand so quickly.
The wins this season have been better. Kings have looked better in wins than they did last season. The performances more resounding. The differential more decisive.
A lot of the wins last season were games they could’ve just as easily lost. Not the case this season. Of their 13 wins. Only the third Warriors game was of that type.
difference is, last season many of their losses were games they could’ve just as easily won…not the case this season…and only one of their losses is a a game they could’ve just as easily won. Also against the Warriors in SF.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the playoffs or the Warriors. But they need to figure out why they have been so uncompetitive when they lose this season
Orrrrr not …..Well .... After missing so many 3s maybe they will start going in
Lets fo for a miracle !!!
ShastaKingsFan
All-Star
Can we say that K9 lost his job?
Tizzy Flip
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4-18 from 3 in 1st half… and 2 mins into the 2nd half were now 4-21. Maybe we can work some offense into the paint, please?
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