Go Kings!
Jan 7, 2024; Sacramento, California, USA; Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) controls the ball against New Orleans Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas (17) during the first quarter at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports
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After the Kings’ last loss to the Pels, I have been looking forward to this game more than any other this season.
Go Kings!
70 spray 3s. Let ’em fly!
Thankful I sold my tix.
First team lead 20 loses game
Yuck.
At least the shutout is over.
This could a disaster!
Can they duplicate their feat of getting down by 50 to the Pels?
20
We trailed by as much as 50 in the Jan game.
Zion determined dude
This is gonna be ugly. Need a lot of help to stay in the 8 spot.
We need better ball-handlers.
Kinda had something going then the bench came in
Wouldn’t be surprised to lose by 50 again.
Good night.
20
Kings are fucking done!
Colby Jones needs to sit the rest of this
2 minutes played and -15!
It’s shocking that he’s even getting minutes. Goes to show just how bad out bench is.
There’s your 20 point lead. I’m calling game over now. Cuz History.
The NBA will hopefully learn it’s lesson and go back to giving us only NBAtv games.
Brown really has his guys ready for one of the most important games of the year. On national television no less.
Damn, I thought this game was live, but I watched this movie last year.
Kings have no talent, toughness, or heart. Just pathetic, but hard to not expect when at such a talent discrepancy. Maybe MM will take the blindfolds off and realize this team ain’t capable of winning a playoff series or even making the playoffs as currently constructed.
Refs giving the Pels bs calls they dont even need!
At this point, it wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if we ended up being in the 9th/10th seed play-in game at this point.
My money is on 10th, then one and done.
Then they could only earn the 8 seed and get swept by the Nuggets. Only thing that makes it worthwhile is getting the 1st round pick to the Hawks off the books.
Chip away, Kings. It’s still early.
A fan with heart. Respect.
Yep, still early.
Hopefully the momentum shift continues.
How can we end this early? Every Kings player gets tossed?
GoOd ThInG i TuNeD iN lAtE
We need a “De’Aaron Fox has control of your franchise” graphic, similar to the one you had for Cousins.
Dang that’s a good memory.
Can Sasha please turn into Euro Sasha. Just for one night.
There’s the Fox of old. Just drive it into the lane.
Pulled that to within reason by the end of the first. Ok, I’ll watch when I get home
Getting clogged up on that break, we’re starting to see what Fox looks like now that he’s starting to lose a half step speed-wise.
17 pts on 5 of 9 from the field and 5 of 5 fts in one half. Sounds pretty good.
Back from 20 to win. Barkley gaarunteeee
For as bad as they looked, they turned it around pretty quick, thanks to Fox.
Can’t be missing layups.
Wow, all the national coverage feels like opposing home game calls.
I guess we’re just gonna chuck 3’s, and pray.
That’s actually the official name of Brown’s system.
It’s the only way we can play with this roster.
Might need to see a lot of Len today.
If the Kings don’t start shooting more threes, my TV is going out a second-story window.
Maybe we overhyped Sasha
I would say so.
Keegan, Sabonis, and Fox too.
lol
Time to sit Keon for a while, if Brown still wants to have an outside shot at this one. He’s looking every bit like a UDFA out there tonight.
You gonna be this active in the thread if the Kings start winning this one?
Sasha make some 3. and kick CJ other leg.. I keed
Sabonis really needs to go off this game.
Defense leads to offense. So they say.
The momentum shift continues.
Zion off the court – a chance?
I get matchups and heart and everything, but everytime they kick our asses I get pissed that they’re not a top 3 seed
Our defense continues to be so bad.
Pels shot 57% from deep and the Kings are only down six at the half. No BI, maybe no more Zion.
Barnes has showed up.
Absolutely hated the first six minutes of play, but everything afterward has been superior defense, energy, and heart by the Kings.
Let’s hope it carries over into the third.
Every time they had the Pels on the ropes they’d hit a backbreaking three. They can’t possibly keep shooting like that. Perhaps an inverse of the Thunder game?
Considering how bad we are defensively, I wouldn’t expect NO to not keep shooting like that.
Hope so. Too many good defensive sequences by the Kings ended with deep threes falling anyway.
Persevere
I’ll be disappointed with a Kings win by less than ten. I wanted the Pels to get blown out.
So this first half has been disappointing to say the least.
Hit em with a 3 to start the 3rd! Let’s go!
Zion is the only NBA player I’ve ever heard complimented for running
Keegan’s gotta work on his finishing man
Can’t believe he didn’t score, there.
He’s gotta work on everything. The start to his career has been very disappointing for a high pick.
Yeah, he should have broken two records instead of one
And it got the team what, exactly? It led the Kings to what level of improvement this season?
But yes, great for him personally.
Out of a 16-year postseason drought…?
jfc, dude.
At some point, you’d think the coaching staff and/or front office would address the nonexistent defense this team has year after year.
1 year in playoffs. After year they should
Oh lord it’s gonna be 8v5 lol
If that chair pull was Keon v Valanchunas that’s an and-1
Then on the other end Zion barrelled into HB ‘s chest and it was a foul on HB. Lmao sure sure.
Get Sabonis out of there. He’s a liability.
Hahahahahahahaha
Okay, guy.
Glad I’m not the only one laughing.
This game thread has been all kinds of gold.
Just some wild fucking takes by some of these dudes who get real quiet when they end up wrong.
I’ve been pretty vocal about this team needing some major roster work. We’re watching the reason yet again, tonight.
yep. “Fox, Sabonis and Keegan”. Ok.
Also, the rest of the Kings roster.
Yep. I don’t get it, but then again, I don’t need to. Unintentional comedy is the best.
It’s why I watch Kangz basketball. 5 losses to the same team in a season is admittedly entertaining.
4 TOs and counting, along with getting abused by anyone and everyone en route to a -13, currently.
Domas and his damn turnovers.
All these years later and Zion still runs like he’s pinching a turd
Lol
Sabonis is not a good offensive player. He is absolute garbage
Like Wilt Chamberlain
lololol
Facts
He will miss the free throw. Guaranteed.
Not sure why TNT decided to go with they Pelicans announcers for this game.
They’re much better than ours.
Ugh. Worst PbP guy in the league – and has been for some time – imo.
voice is absolutely grating.
Portland’s guy annoys me also.
I’d rather listen to the sounds cats having sex at 4am.
At least the cats would shut up after one possession.
I don’t see either of these two doing that any time soon, either.
Say what?
The awful Pelicans announcing crew we have to suffer through.
I have Reggie Miller and Kevin Harlan.
Same.
McCollum is a great bullshit shooter, just throws some garbage up and it goes in
No reason we can’t beat these guys.
Caw caw
4 fouls on Herb Jones could be game changing
Zeller sets a moving pick on Sabonis – no call – easy layup for Zion
Why in tf is Duarte in this game right now
Because Mike Brown
Good question. Mike Brown needs to coach us to a win.
You want Colby Jones back after that horror show?
Kessler? Lyles? Sasha? Literally just anyone else
Stupid tech, Fox.
Nice composure Fox
Stupid offensive foul and tech by Fox but at least he’s pissed off now.
Somebody should tell Fox that the 2nd half started.
A pissed off Fox could be a good thing, minus the tech.
Or not.
Kings need to win out. This is getting ridiculous.
They challenged this?
What an idiotic pass by Mitchell.
That Davion turnover reminded me of Keon’s TO against the Thunder when he was sprinting out of control, jumped, and tried to sling it to Fox. Everyone on this team is so deferential to Fox it actively hurts the offense.
yeah, he had a great rebound, tried to do too much and jumped into the air … TO. That one hurt.
Jumped on the Pelicans -10 on the in-game betting.
You can buy a Pelicans jersey over at the NBA.com store too
Not a fan of their jerseys.
That $2 could have bought you a third of a Big Mac.
Congratulations, very impressive
Your team has been outscored by 14 since the 1st, maybe not such a good move.
Huh? They’re down by 12.
Your team was up by 23
??
Kings never led
How are you not understanding HoustonJP’s point?
Betting on a teams doesn’t make them “yours”. Hell, I took the Kings ML against the Wizards, thinking that was easy money.
lol
lol
lol.
So much has become so clear so quickly.
This is fantastic.
Still possible, but need to keep their composure and take care of the ball.
Amen. Zero TO quarter.
Need to stop giving up 30 point quarters.
Ok, Sasha. Here we go.
Hopefully Brown doesn’t pull him the minute he develops a rhythm.
Sabonis needs to be up around 25 points, at least.
Game Over.
Kings folding the tent.
Most important stretch of the season and this team has absolutely collapsed. They’re not making the playoffs.
Well, it just got tougher.
I slept the first half. How the hell did they dug such a hole right out of the gate?
I was out having dinner at a place with no TVs and had the same question
2 points per remaining minute + 6 is my general rule of thumb on a competitive NBA game. This is well within that but the Kings need to get their shit in order quickly here
It’s over, now.
Yup
Fox really needs to work on his handle next year. He turns it over way too much.
McCollum is a King-sized problem
I really like him. Not now.
I have to hand it to him. He is a baller and respect his game a lot.
He’ll have a game where he doesn’t show up at all. But usually is very solid.
All NBA players are susceptible to a bad game. He performs at a high level when it counts the most. Jealously he is fun to watch. Quite a talent. Kings should have taken him as kg and Ars note in their comments. A player. To be sure.
He’s still pissed that we passed on him in the draft.
To be fair, so am I.
I hope CJ McCollum stubs his toe really badly and immediately steps on a lego
Sigh. He’s the greatest player in Lehigh University history. I just can’t wish that on such an alumn
I hope he makes pasta for dinner and it falls into the sink while he’s straining it
Not now. He has to beat the Dubs tomorrow and the L****s after that.
I hope he spills an expensive bottle of red wine onto his white carpet
Warriors are playing good ball.
My TV is off.
Welp! Not gonna happen this year. Monk injury killed us.
We were cooked well before that.
Stick a fork in the Kings, they’re done.
Let’s just hurry up and get to the offseason. McNair needs to show he actually has some sort of a plan to improve the team rather than running it back.
When the game is tight we tighten up. When we’re down big we loosen up and score.
Has the league figured out Sabonis. He just hasn’t been scoring.
To be fair, they’ve figured out the Kings in general. Brown hasn’t made any adjustments.
Yeah, they look pretty disorganized right now.
The team has quit on the season. No Jimmy Butler to pull this team through the play in.
$40 wings
Fans throwing food on the floor, even more embarrassing than the game itself.
Horrible.
This is a sickening loss.
It can’t all be on Fox. Barnes finally had a good game, but that’s about it. Mitchell was good, too, but a lot of disappearing acts tonight.
That vaunted defense was nonexistent tonight
“defense”
Local media really blew that SSSI-approved defense out of proportion.
4 30 point quarters for NO tonight.
This is what happens when the front office refuses to improve the team at all after last season’s playoff meltdown.
Exactly. Idiotic. Myopic. Anyone could see they needed a change.
Not only did they not change, they got worse. Not good
Run it back!
I won’t be surprised if they do it again.
Davion is a scoring machine….just hasn’t developed yet.
Look at Ellis!
Fox is fast!
We have two new G league players you haven’t seen yet…
Just no margin for error with this team. Hit 3s and have a good night from Fox and Monk, we can win. If not, usually not. Keegan not taking over offensively liked I’d hoped when Monk went down. Hopefully Fox can go tomorrow after rolling his ankle.
I had a shitty feeling about this one going in. Down 23, get it to 2, give up a run. Pels hit too many 3s, no one can stop Zion. Sabonis turnovers galore. Why the Pels are not a top 2-3 team I don’t understand. Lose to Knicks, Celtics, OKC and now this. Plus dubs win. We’re destined for the 9 spot one and out. Back to Tankathon. Why isn’t Zach Edey ranked higher?
I’ve been watching it since right before the tourney. I think this draft is a good one to go for a “lottery ticket” reach.
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