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Dec 13, 2022; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Sacramento Kings guard De'Aaron Fox (5) drives past Philadelphia 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle (22) during the second quarter at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
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We are absolutely winning this one.
I do not care for your confidence, Sims.
No Harden, no Embid , no chance ! Roll Kings
They wanted to watch the Eagles game.
They have a chance. They are NBA players.
Always so positive.
Better a cheap win than a proud loss.
Could be a trap game, be alert Kings
NBA Gods really blessed us with not having to watch Embiid and Harden’s miserable style of play.
They play such a soul-deadening version of basketball.
Imagine having to be a Sixers fan.
And you just know come playoff time, they aren’t gonna get all those foul baiting calls like they normally get in the regular season. It’s why they still can’t sniff a finals appearance
They really are really bad to watch. Really
Love to see Keegan getting to the line. More please, rook.
Absolutely the start you want to see.
Wait, Hardin and embiid are resting?!?? What a fckin joke
This is why teams like Philadelphia and clippers will never win a chip. TOO SOFT and a weak mindset!!
Kayte sounds so bad when she talks about what people need to know, what people don’t know, and “what people forget.” It’s ridiculous to continually make these sorts of comments.
Kings in the bonus already.
Hopefully tonight is the start of Monk playing well again.
I’m ready to see good Malik Monk again.
So they’re calling 3 seconds in the key tonight I guess.
Tonight? How many years has it been since they’ve constantly called 3 in the paint. I think they stopped calling it years ago.
The only team who has an excuse to rest this year are the Warriors
LMAO Davion
LOL
This is going to be a fun game LOL
Honestly plz put In Holmes for Metu I think he’s ready to come off the bench
I think the Kings are holding him out so he doesn’t get hurt and can be traded.
Davion draws the most obvious charge of the year. No whining from the Sixers on that one.
Great shot
Lol every bounce going the Kings way. Fox gets stripped and the ball goes right to Metu for the easy dunk
Sixers won’t score 100 tonight.
11 points off Philly’s 6 TOV’s for Sac. So I’ll give Kayte a style point for saying that should be something the Kings should try to do tonight.
Yep. It’s an understatement to say that Kayte doesn’t get enough credit.
Not a big fan of hers, but I’ll give her credit when she’s deserving of it. I would like to enjoy her commentary more….but I struggle with it.
That’s fair. Where I am, I have a choice of streams. I prefer the Kings commentators about half the time.
There are other poor color analysts out there, that’s for sure.
Just talks too much and while game is happening !
She doesn’t get enough credit because we don’t understand.
sorry niner fans but you guys are in for a rude awakening tomm
Wow, what a rush that was.
I’ve never seen HB so dialed in omg his stroke is so wet right now
Agree with Kayte. Blow these guys out.
Good Monk so far today and HB being steady as always. Huge run to start the 2nd. Kings looking like a team that knows they gotta take care of business vs a team missing their 2 best players. Not messing around out here
Love to see it.
Kings really just scored 11 points in a little over 1 minute. Sheesh
Oh no.
Oh crap. Non contact knee injury for Metu?
That didn’t look good at all.
Hopefully you’re okay Mezie.
dont jump to conclusions
That does not look good
Hyperextended his knee.
That looked like the Giannis knee injury in the playoffs vs Atlanta
Kings should really give Sabonis a scheduled off day or two. he is so critical for us to win but I would sacrifice some losses like today when embiid and harden sit. maybe the next road trip
28 to 18 paint points for Philly advantage. That’s not a good thing for Sac.
Monk is having his comeback game.
Domas is amazing when he gets shots up.
HB feeling it from deep
Jeezbus. That was a very deep 3 by Keegan.
(allow me this please)
Title game baby, at home. Hell yes.
cool baseline juke by Barnes
Way to get to the line to be perfect
Where are we gonna find a better wing than HB? Extend the man.
Harrison’s shot looks so good
That was not a good ending.
Really bad finish to what was a good half prior. Too much sloppiness down the stretch and they let Philly shrink that 21 point deficit to 10.
concerned about Metu’s knee injury.
I am enjoying standings watching for playoffs placement instead of which lottery pick we may get next year.
Brown needs to lay into them for ending the half as they did and come out strong in the 3rd.
Philly’s up 40 to 26 in paint points. Sac has the advantage in Points off TOV’s 21-8. Kings have hit 9 3’s to Philly’s 4 and 13 made FT’s to Philly’s 8.
40 of the Sixers 64 points came in the paint. Kings gotta be better there in the 2nd half. Don’t give this short handed team any life.
Think they already gave them life. Now they gotta take it back in the 2nd half.
Trez was talking a lot of trash with Fox at the end there
think we’ll see Holmes get some PT in the 2nd half?
Not the best start to the 3rd qtr.
Ugh man….Kings really dropped the ball. Let Philly get some confidence and now they’re running with it. 21 point lead down to 3 in basically 6’ish minutes.
Smart timeout by Mike Brown. Philly’s gotten all the hope they need. They think Sac will fade due to this being a b2b. Don’t blame them, either.
One guy is wrecking the entire Kings team right now.
Just focus on Maxey at this point. Throw some doubles at him.
Too bad. I was looking forward to a 119-99 kind of blowout.
This Kings team is all about drama.
With you.
All Sixers for the past 8 or so minutes. Kings defense getting eviscerated
Where would this team be without Barnes?
Thank goodness for the Black Falcon
Barnes has been playing the best basketball of his career recently
Extend him.
He might not want an extension. He might wish to wait until July to sign a new deal.
I’ve seen people talking about signing Barnes for 14-16mil/year and idk any reason why this man, in the prime of his career about to sign likely his last big contract, would take anything less than the 4yrs and $80mil he’s coming off. If anything, he’s probably gonna want $100mil, no?
Or a championship team offers him a starting job.
No reason for him not to wait.
Are you suggesting he stays then? 😉
Good point, I just don’t think he’s going to get 100M and I’d be pretty surprised if he got 80M, too.
But your point is important. He could be wanting one last big deal.
I actually don’t know that for sure but my eye test and my heart say yeah baby!!!
Domas struggling with Trez physicality. Kings getting beat up on the boards
Holmes’ energy might give the team a boost
Vintage 3rd quarter blues and can’t make a free throw.
Sixers missing over 50 points of offense and they’re gonna hang over 100 points in 3 quarters.
Kings are looking tired.
out of gas
This is the issue of not having a great bench, but also just the fact that Mike Brown is going to play his starters.
Looking like it. Starters all played around 36-39 minutes yesterday. THey got that early big lead that gave you hope they could put this away and rest them up but they’ve just completely cratered in the last 15 or so minutes
56 to 36 paint points advantage Philly now.
yeah Holmes!
Horrible shot by Monk.
Outscored 50-23 since going up 21
Outscored by 17 in the 3rd quarter alone. Yikes.
is no one else going to comment with me, that since his hot start monk has been garbage?
Garbagz is an overly broad term that I can’t even come close to agreeing with
Kings have had a number of fourth-quarter comebacks this season.
Question is whether they have enough gas for this one.
whoever has legs, play him
Kings are in slow motion
Yikes man….Kings might go from up 21 to losing by 21 at this rate
Alright…let’s go!
I would leave Holmes in for the rest of the game
Hopefully that gets them going. Lot of standing around by the Kings
Great to see Richaun still capable of playing. Kings still have a shot at this game, as crazy as this run has been.
is TD unavailable?
Small Market Big Heart. Let’s go Kings!
Kayte says point paints
Gotta secure rebounds
Kings in the bonus.
Kings finding their 2nd gear. Don’t let up
Monk singlehandedly threw away that run
Monk just needs to dribble that out and reset the offense….never had a good angle on that. Just led to that transition 3
Kings just can’t get stops and can’t prevent Philly getting into the paint
Terrible foul by Huerter. Just yikes.
Way to go Rook
Clutch defense by Keegan there. Just got Tobias to foul out.
. . . But then a huge three by Huerter. Nice.
Happy to see the Kings haven’t quit and given up. That’s a big, big difference with this team and prior years.
That Fox slow step layup through traffic was special.
Kings locking in defensively in crunch time.
Not for nothing but Sac has 2 TO’s left and Philly 1. Might make a difference in terms of a challenge Mike Brown wants to use.
Back breaking turnover there….
Domas needed to score there and not kick it out like he did. Egads.
Glad the Kings are done with Philly. Team has given Domas fits. 2 bad passes in that final minute for turnovers
They aren’t the best team but i think their length and physicality makes them one of the worst matchups for the Kings in the league
Trez really gave Domas fits and we saw what Embiid did in that 1st matchup.
King have got nothing from their bench tonight.
Wha–
You just knew he wasn’t making all 3
That’s game.
Wow. Did HB really get fouled shooting a 3? WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.
That frogging House 3 pointer before the half was the difference.
Well…that sucked.
That was entertaining
I didn’t think Barnes would drain those free throws. Especially with the way the team has been shooting free throws.
Fun game to watch!
But tough to see the Kings play down to the competition again.
No beam indeed. GG
That’s a top 5 frustrating loss of the season so far. Really needed to pull that one out with them going @ Memphis on Monday. They just couldn’t stop Philly whatsoever from getting into the paint and got destroyed on the boards and 2nd chance points
The game on Monday is here.
Yeah I totally botched that lol. IDK why I thought it was @ Memphis.
Lol Philadelphia looking like genuises.
the kings starters playing 35+ mins on the a b2b and the bench giving just nothing in like forever isn’t going to bode well, especially as the season winds down. IF the kings make the playoffs, they might be too tired to make any noise
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