VSL game 4: Kings vs. Raptors, 7/16, 3 P.M. pacific

[Tetsujin]

Omri with the nice pass to the other team.

 

[cuad]

Leave it to Casspi to turn the ball over. Thompson wouldn't have done that.

 

[fnordius]

Big Shot Bob is now Big Fat Bob. And that pink shirt? Not flattering.

And yet some people get by that way.

 

[Kings Faithful]

Neither of our SF's are ready to start in this league. They both have good potential, but they are still really out of control.

 

[Dime Dropper]

Casspi continuing to make bonehead plays.

Cousins doing well on his return, unfortunate that the refs were so inept.

 

[ElRey]

Game over now that cousins is out.

 

[Tetsujin]

These refs are something.

 

[annihilator_33]

foul after foul after foul, damn these refs suck

 

[Kings Faithful]

Terrible. Refs are trash.

 

[Tetsujin]

We now present to you the invisible foul

 

[Nighthawk1]

that was good D on greene... refs suck in this game

 

[Dime Dropper]

Apparently any attempts to play defense are now fouls.

 

[Boogie-havoc]

Omri just can't defend fast 3's.. he's loosing them time after time and gets stuck on the first pick like it's a wall... this summer he really lost his speed.

 

[Kings Faithful]

Terrible 3 pt shot by Rice. Way too much time left on the clock for a desperation shot like that.

 

[kingzallday]

Donte > Casspi so far.

 

[Tetsujin]

Omri just can't defend fast 3's.. he's loosing them time after time.. this summer he really lot his speed.

I agree. It almost looks like he's playing with weights on his legs.

 

[Kings Faithful]

Game would have ended different if the refs didn't rape Cousins with fouls. I like Orlando's no foul out policy better.

 

[Nighthawk1]

I agree. It almost looks like he's playing with weights on his legs.

I suspect it's an unintended side effect of his bulking up effort (which it looks like he has)

 

[Hallama]

Nice recovery for Cousins after a tough 1st half. He's a tough kid.

 

[Tetsujin]

Donte > Casspi so far.

I agree. Despite the fact Donte chucked 18 shots and had 4 turnovers, I felt that he at least was more consistent than Omri, which is kind of sad.

 

[ReinadelosReys]

Donte > Casspi so far.

But not by much. Their deficiencies are almost opposite, if we could combine the two then we'd have a maybe legitimate starting 3.

The Kings offensive strategy was almost the antithesis of the first 3 games. It was very guard and dribble-drive heavy, where as the first three games it was Cousins pounding it inside. And it was probably with reason, giving the coaching staff a better opportunity to evaluate the guards/3's.

 

[Boogie-havoc]

I'm not to fussed about the offensive game, it's Omri vs Donte defence that makes the diffrence here.. that is Omri became from an ok defender to a liability, people riding him every time so far in summer league.

In the offensive game like I said, this summer league is more about individual plays and Donte is better in that.. on the real team Omri will be fed out of plays to get him shots and stuff will be more orgenized, which will benefit him.. he tries to find his role at the team and don't quite get what is it, he feels cause he's a 'vet' he should get more of the ball and make plays himself, and thats just not in him right now, and Donte is better at creating his own plays.

 

[Fear the Putin]

though cousins looked flat out there in the first half, I felt good that he actually came back with a vengeance. Have it not been for some ticky tack fouls he may have finished the game for us again as the Raptors had no answer for him before he went out.

 

[cuad]

I just want to say again that we missed Ryan Thompson.

 

[Boogie-havoc]

And yea it was great seeing Cousins taking it on himself and realising if he wants to get himself into the game he needs to hammer his way into the rim, and get to the line.

It's something alot of people here talked about and said they would want him to do, and it's very encouraging he realized it today.

 

[ElRey]

It's been 4 games now, and I have not been impressed with any of our guards so far. I think it's time to look elsewhere for a shooting guard. Hope we resign Ime Udoka too

 

[Martin23kings]

udoka? why udoka? hes an ok player bt hes not any better at shooting

 

[ElRey]

udoka? why udoka? hes an ok player bt hes not any better at shooting

He's a decent shooter, and he's a good defender. He's better than any of our SL guards right now.

 

[Hallama]

It's been 4 games now, and I have not been impressed with any of our guards so far. I think it's time to look elsewhere for a shooting guard. Hope we resign Ime Udoka too

Donald Sloan has been bland. Next level of competition might be too much for him.

 

[ElRey]

Donald Sloan has been bland. Next level of competition might be too much for him.

yeah I know... I'd rather have Bobby Brown, our old backup guard. Sloan is athletic but has a funny shooting stroke (you can tell from his free throw stroke)