"You shouldn't be playing 20 minutes a game and not get a rebound. I mean, the Coke machine can get a rebound some nights," Karl told reporters – Williams being the only player with such a stat line in the game. "Sometimes we have guys play 20, 25 minutes and don't get a rebound, and I don't understand that."

Well, OK then.

So was this his response to the coach? It sure sounded that way.

"I don't think me having zero rebounds last game is the reason why we lost. We had too many turnovers. But yeah, I wanted to make a point. I actually wanted to get 12, but it is what it is – I got 8," Williams told Sactown Royalty.

"Sometimes. Big fella is going to get rebounds. We want him to get rebounds, we want him to get as many as possible, but at the same time we've all got to rebound," Williams said. "Sometimes we get caught in the style of play that we want to do, which is get out in transition and run."

The Kings are currently seventh in the NBA in rebounding at 44 per game. Cousins, who sat out of Tuesday's game with a sore right foot, is averaging 12.7 rebounds per game this season and 15.4 over the last 10 games. Karl has advocated for group rebounding. As Williams said, the Kings want to get out and run, which utilizes guys like him sprinting up the floor and scoring off a rebound – usually from the hands of Cousins.

Karl was asked about Williams' rebounding after Tuesday's game.

"He just has to stay focused. When he plays four, he's got to have a bigger presence as a rebounder and also as a defender of the paint. Cuz [DeMarcus Cousins] – we're so reliant upon his defense and his rebounding," Karl said.

Williams knows regardless of whether the team relies on Cousins to rebound, he needs to push himself to grab more boards.

I wonder what the Pepsi machine has to say about all of this.