With all the discussion about the Kings only being "a few games off" where people thought they'd be this year, I agree, but those are a BIG few games. I don't think the Kings needed to win 10 more games for this to be a successful season, but if they had managed to hold 20+ point fourth quarter leads against the Suns and Bulls, hold a 5 point lead, with the ball, in the last 30 seconds against the Bucks, and win one (just one) of the games against the Wizards, Pistons, or Hornets, we'd have 49 wins, be on pace for 50+ wins, be safely in the playoffs, and no one would care that we might be the 5 or 6 seed.
So while I understand that every team ahs ups and downs, and everyone loses games they shouldn't, I don't think it is out of bounds to be upset that the team had three historic late game collapses or that we went 3-3 this year against teams (Hornets, Wizards, Pistons) that are a combined 48-191 this season. Yes, everyone loses games to bad teams - the Bucks, Heat, Cavs, Wolves, Thunder, and Celtics all lost one time to the Hornets, Wiz, or Pistons this year. We lost 3! The only "playoff" teams to lose more than one such game this year are the Kings, Bulls, and Hawks.
We are paying the price now for those bad losses.