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Dec 20, 2023; Sacramento, California, USA; Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray (13) defends against Boston Celtics guard Derrick White (9) during the first quarter at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports
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Phrases for tonight’s drinking game:
Kings blown out again on national TV
Mike Brown can’t make adjustments
Chucking threes
Kings aren’t built for playoff-level basketball
Drive the lane, Fox!
Go Kings!
if the Kings were in the eastern conference, they’d have a losing record
If the Kings were in the eastern conference, they would be winless on the season.
Your turn.
Easy win tonite . Celts best in league and rested . Trap game !
Keegan just passed up an easy two for a missed Fox 3. Stop doing that!
God, this is ugly!
Stop watching Sabonis back down his defender! Cut to the hoop and look to get a pass.
Great example of how not to play basketball…by both teams
on pace for the lowest scoring game in the last 40 years
Kessler let’s go 3s
Kessler off the bench before Duarte today …
As a defender in basketball, is it hard to defend with your arms up, as opposed to what Keegan just did against Tatum?
HB whiffing on threes. next man up.
Whichever team leads by 20 first will lose the game 😁
Why do we think we’re a 3-point team. The team that we’re playing turns into the 3-point team.
Here we go again with a first quarter challenge!
1st quarter challenge! 🤣
Who ever bet the under tonight is gonna win some cash
The percentage who bet the over is somewhere around 90 percent, if the data on Yahoo sports is reliable.
Keep shooting 3s until down 20, then get hot 2nd half 3s for the win. Woot
It’s ok, Fox will drop 30 and go for 37% from three. And they’ll lose.
You’re in trouble when you let Korner put in a put back dunk. Good lord.
Runway was clear!!!
Kings have turned into a pretty boring team.
They run the same plays over and over. You’d think they would almost be good at them.
Vez let’s shoot those (non airball) 3s!
Kings shooting is pathetic.
Logged in to say that Fox has no business taking FOUR 3pt attempts in the 1st quarter.
Gotta help fill MB’s quota
But were they spray 3s?
Listen, what you need to understand is…
For sure, not his game last year
But no comment on the 4 out 5 he made in the 2nd qtr
Fox is sleepwalking out there. giving up open threes. giving up that put back dunk by a no-namer. not contesting Tatum on that dunk.
Take it to the rim. Two’s are okay. Tell ’em MB, please!
Will Len getting DNP CD today
He’s already played three minutes.
Oh ok thanks it’s so bad didn’t even notice lol
Lol
Let’s make Kornet look like a freaking all star. Why not?
Sasha bricking. might as well give Slawson a run.
Everyone is bricking
true, but Sasha is also a negative on D. If he’s not an offensive weapon, he’s not helping.
Think you’re right.
Slawson isn’t with the team is he?
not sure
He’s not listed.
I’ve got a bad feeling that the steak ends for Sabonis tonight.
4 more for 20 point comeback
Hate to say it, but Mike Brown needs to go. No 1/2 court game, stated he would like to see 40 3’s a game. It’s a matter of before player ask to be traded. Hope for a long term coach, Brown is not it.
It’s bizarre. He had a winning thing going last season and this season, the team looks like a different team.
Ever since Huerter went down, the team can’t score. The body language and chemistry also looks off the past few weeks. Can’t handle the pressure, maybe
Maybe they’re keeping the 1/2 court game a secret. Will unleash it in the play-in?
I can live with a loss, just don’t let it be by 40.
Team feels like it’s given up. Has MB lost the locker room? His nonsensical insistence on getting burned by blitzing Brunson at half court the last game can’t have inspired confidence.
Showing some signs of life
3s over 2s. Let’s go
This is the team that’s favored to win it all?
What a down year in the NBA.
Stop the 3’s! Please play BB, this is not a game of pony.
Watch Divac/Peja highlights before the play-in, Brown. Have Sabonis/Keegs do that.
looks like I picked the wrong week to quit binging on Ruffles
Even the basic passes by the Kings are off target.
This makes me want to watch the women’s final four.
Rain those 3s baby
Malik downloaded 3s to Fox
The comments don’t match the score. Kings down by 4.
Not anymore. That first about 20 minutes was ugly
Nice comeback.
28 3-pt attempts in the first half—more than halfway to MB’s goal
3pt is our identity. It works until it doesn’t.it doesn’t work until it does
Yep. Monte came from Houston, where he helped build a team around the three-point shot. Then he came to Sacramento, where he built a team and coaching staff with the goal of shooting many, many three-point shots.
Anything else they do is just to help them make more threes later.
Wow didn’t know MM came from Houston, Brown from Warriors, Owner from Warriors. 3 point mind set. Play BB and win, play the 3’s game and lose. Wow
Funny that, coming from a guy who was just complaining about a team designed to take 40 threes wanting to take 40 threes. Wow
Fox detractors can take the night off.
This
Imagine where the Kings would be in this game without Fox shooting the three.
Ha! They’ll focus on only 1 assist—“He doesn’t trust his teammates!”
nice run there. I was about to turn off the game and eat an entire rotisserie chicken.
Costco!
“sometimes you’re on the right train but the wrong track” – Mark Jones.
not sure what to do with that one.
Kayte’s commentary on Porzingus not starting the second was hilarious.
Time to die by the 3.
Dude Kayte, Kristaps Porziņģis is either hurt, resting, or they’re not playing him because they can win without him. Come on….lol
at least it’s mathematically unlikely to fall past the #10 spot
Holy cow Boston’s broadcast team is sleepy. Who needs words?
Yeah, this broadcast team is almost as bad as the one for the Clippers.
I actually really liked the Clippers broadcast, Fratello is great
That’s cool, glad you liked it. Personally, I thought Fratello needed a rubber room.
Much better than our talkathon crew .
Never liked their broadcast. Scalbrine is sometimes okay, but their PBP guy is awful
Tragic start to the 3rd
Domas double-double streak continues.
Hey my son just yelled out Pordingus lol
Domas made Porzingis look like the fool on that pump fake.
Then he misses both free throws.
Yeah, the Boston broadcast crew must’ve used the phrase “Ball don’t lie” at least three times in ten seconds.
More threes!
42 so far
WTF is Fox doing? Stands on the sideline near half court and passes to Lyles for a long three then Boston gets the rebound and beats him down the floor because he’s standing on the sideline.
What Fox is doing is keeping the Kings in the game.
So we want to give up spray 3s on def? Is that our strategy?
after Sasha swished one 3, the team should have been looking for him.
lack of awareness
It’s the system. They go away from keegan, too.
Makes no sense to me.
Keegan took two shots in the first, three in the second, three in the third, and four so far in the fourth.
Sick of seeing Fox take twice as many shots as the rest of the team. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
He’s 11 for 21 from the field and 5 for 11 from three.
You seem to prefer the Kings losing by far more than they already are.
Fox is the only guy not laying bricks
It’s more than a little odd in a game where every single Kings player except Fox has underperformed, you find yourself complaining about the guy who is carrying the team.
He only has 1 assist in 37 minutes.
And there it is again!
that’s significant … and he could have got the ball to Sasha after he made the first 3 …
LOL
Wow .
Fox has as many shots as Ellis, Sabonis, and HB combined.
They are 8 of 21 combined; he’s 11 of 21.
Fox also only has 1 assist.
And there it is!
Jman1949 about 45 minutes ago:
Ha! They’ll focus on only 1 assist—“He doesn’t trust his teammates!”
Everybody drink.
I prefer 8 to 11.
Checking in on the game and the Kings looking pretty good tonight.
Do the kings only shoot 3s during practices?
If so they need more practice. Under 30% ain’t gonna cut it. Also need to overcome that FT defense.
Fox is not the only guy not laying bricks. Sabonis is 5-11. Not great, but not bad either.
Every single King except Fox is laying bricks tonight.
By the way, have you heard that Fox has only one assist?
It’s hard to play team ball and get people out of their offensive funk when your PG isn’t getting assists. Oh look, Fox has 30 again.
30 is a good thing. You seem to like lower numbers over larger numbers.
You’re literally complaining about the only King who played well tonight, and strangely enough, you are not complaining about all of the Kings who shot poorly tonight, which is everyone except Fox.
1 assist and 2 free throws.
Golden State is keeping it close, trying to help us not lose any more ground on Dallas.
Slawson/Jones time.
maybe we need Slamson
So if the Kings miss threes they lose. If Boston misses threes they can still win. That’s how Kayte needs to describe it rather than saying the Kings “shut down” Boston from three. Come on…
Fox is putting on his best Cam Thomas impersonation tonight.
Because of Fox, the Kings are down by four at a minute to go.
Two. Thanks, Fox. WTF, Fox?
Ahead by one. WTF, Fox?
LOL. I’m happy to be wrong.
You should be happy a lot it seems
What does crow taste like?
It tastes like a loss.
Did not see a 16-1 run coming.
Holy shit, two point game.
FOX WITH THE THREE
Oh my God. 7 seconds left, down one. I’m sweating bullets.
Murray had that rebound…shit!
Why did keegan close out hard on Tillman?! Fuck.
Here comes that fade away 3 pointer by fox.
God dammit.
Wow! What a game!
Play-in/no playoffs here we stay!
If you don’t like that you don’t like Virginia Beach.
Certainly was a hell of a game. It’s still a loss in the end, unfortunately.
Yep. Bad result, but a very entertaining comeback in the second quarter, and a gutsy fourth.
Why wasn’t Tatum in at the end? Injury?
Kings had a good comeback after Boston emptied the bench to end the game
exactly
Hope we can hold on to 8th.
Spurs leading the Pels by 3 with about 4 minutes to go. If they can hold on, that would help.
Need a Mavs win too.
Not bad with 51 3s, amirite? 😁
My prediction was down 20 then come back win, off by 1 point. Down 19 almost made it
Huh, and the Pelicans lose to the Spurs.
Need the Warriors to lose as well.
And the TWolves to beat the Suns
CJ should have shot free throws at the end.
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