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kgdobter
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November 23, 2022 4:24 pm

This has been quite a ride, let’s keep it going…go Kings!

Yakshi
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November 23, 2022 4:33 pm

Hooray for basketball!

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November 23, 2022 4:44 pm

Gallo del Cielo likes our chances.

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November 23, 2022 4:46 pm

Keegan Murray is o-2 with a turnover and my patience with him is zero

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November 23, 2022 4:46 pm

I like seeing Keegan shooting early.

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November 23, 2022 4:54 pm
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He’s so shaken right now. Not himself in the slightest

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November 23, 2022 4:49 pm

Too many turnovers early

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November 23, 2022 4:49 pm

This one could get ugly.

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November 23, 2022 4:52 pm

Whut

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November 23, 2022 4:51 pm

Had a physical game last night that came down to the wire. Kings, not unsurprisingly, looking very sluggish these first 6 minutes. Hope they find their legs soon before this deficit grows

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November 23, 2022 4:52 pm

Great sub by Brown.

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November 23, 2022 4:55 pm

Can we have Matt Barnes do this forever?

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November 23, 2022 5:01 pm

I cannot deal with listening to him and Dumb Ass together.

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November 23, 2022 5:38 pm

JUst got home and turned on the game and suddenly I realized that the noise coming out of my TV was not Kayte. I think Matt’s doing fine. Kyle is just so overhyped he can’t shut up

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November 23, 2022 4:56 pm

Davion and Metu should be banned from attempting any 3’s

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November 23, 2022 4:57 pm
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Davion is so disappointing offensively it’s offensive

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November 23, 2022 5:03 pm
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Agreed on Metu. Davion I believe will work it out one day like Fox did.

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November 23, 2022 5:04 pm
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Any time Davion can spend on the court is good for the Kings, especially early. He turns it on in the second half, and the more he plays now, the better it’ll be, I think.

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November 23, 2022 4:58 pm

I like Barnes as Color Commentator

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November 23, 2022 4:59 pm

Keegan Murray turnover the ball over again and he is a mess, capital m

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November 23, 2022 5:03 pm
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Maybe wait for a full year.. or not since you thought Fox was not very good or that Wagner wouldn’t be a good NBA player…

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November 23, 2022 5:04 pm
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he might have to focus on defense, rebounding and dirty work.

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November 23, 2022 5:00 pm

For the first time ever watching the game on mute. Cannot stand the Barnes/Dumb ass combination.

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November 23, 2022 5:04 pm

Interestingly enough, I don’t like Matt Barnes, but he seems to be doing OK so far. Or maybe I’m just happy that it’s not Kayte

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November 23, 2022 5:06 pm
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I think the reality of what Barnes is does bother me too much.

Kayte is smart in my opinion. She is forced down to the level of her partners too often.

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November 23, 2022 5:13 pm

What “is” Barnes? You’ve said that it’s because of what Barnes “is” twice. What do you mean?

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November 23, 2022 5:35 pm

He is not someone I want to listen to. He is a jack ass,

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November 23, 2022 5:04 pm

Why? I think they’re doing great!

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November 23, 2022 5:07 pm

Barnes is just what he is.

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November 23, 2022 5:12 pm

Which is what? That’s not really a reason.

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November 23, 2022 5:35 pm

The guy is a jack ass.

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November 23, 2022 5:29 pm

I like Draper. I think they’re doing well considering they’re not even in the same location

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November 23, 2022 5:01 pm

I had no expectation for the Kings to win a back to back on the road against this Hawks team.

But the longer I watch, the more I think the Kings are going to smooth it out and cruise past them. This seems like a very inconsistent and disjointed young team.

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November 23, 2022 5:02 pm

Both teams look sluggish. At least the Kings have an excuse.

Still early.

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November 23, 2022 5:03 pm

Keegan played three games and the scouts figured him out. The NBA is making him work. He will figure it out.

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November 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Yeah, I hope in the huddle they’re telling him to shoot more.

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November 23, 2022 5:08 pm
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He is going to have to understand that completely open shots no longer exist.

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November 23, 2022 5:08 pm

well, as much as I like Keegan, he’s not bringing it tonight. priority is to win. Monk and Lyles playing better than him thus far.

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November 23, 2022 5:09 pm

Have a feeling Keegan, Davion, Monk, and Metu are going to get a lot of minutes tonight.

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November 23, 2022 5:12 pm
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What has Holmes done that he can’t get some minutes in the second game of a back to back?

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November 23, 2022 5:14 pm
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It’d be great to see Holmes get some minutes.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:13 pm

This has the makings of a blow out. Sloppy.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:15 pm

if Keegan doesn’t score, he doesn’t bring much else to the team. Maybe we should’ve left him as a reserve. Playing heavy minutes vs. starters and he looks lost.

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November 23, 2022 5:21 pm
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May be time for Monk to join the starting 5 and let Murray be the #1 option against backups.

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November 23, 2022 5:17 pm

Wowww Draper said Métus dunk package may be the best in the game.

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November 23, 2022 5:18 pm

Damn Fox didn’t even show up tonight. Pretty weak sauce.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:19 pm

Hawks getting to the paint at will. That’ll be the formula teams use against us until we get a rim protector. Our guards can’t keep their guy in front of them.

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November 23, 2022 5:20 pm

It’s a game of runs. Coach Brown will need to press some buttons

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November 23, 2022 5:24 pm

Davion smokes two at the hoop.

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November 23, 2022 5:24 pm

Davion sucks

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November 23, 2022 5:28 pm
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No.

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November 23, 2022 5:52 pm
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I’m not as big a fan as some are on here

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November 23, 2022 5:25 pm

At this rate Brown is going to run out of timeouts.

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November 23, 2022 5:26 pm

I get Fox is probably tired but the way he started the game is inexcusable for a player of his caliber.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

NBA officiating is such crap. No other league has two different set of rules for stars vs. other players.

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November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

JFC sit Fox.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:32 pm

Keegan’s lack of athleticism has been glaring. He can’t finish at the rim at all.

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November 23, 2022 5:33 pm

The doomers seem almost happy.

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November 23, 2022 5:33 pm
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The Kings are playing like shit. It’s a fact and nobody here is enjoying it.

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November 23, 2022 5:35 pm

When you aren’t whining, what are you doing?

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm
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Watching the Kings win for the last 7 games. Don’t be a jerk.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:35 pm

Let him be . He probably grew up in era of participation trophies. đŸ˜‚

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November 23, 2022 5:37 pm
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One of the nicest consolations of the seven-game win streak was Chippy having nothing to say.

Chippy23152
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November 23, 2022 5:42 pm
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In your head rent free. Loving it.

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November 23, 2022 5:37 pm
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Lol. Everyone’s a winner! No complaints allowed!

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm

good defense by Okpala there

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm

The negativity in here is weird. Did you see last night’s game? Did you hear the team’s plane touched down in Atlanta at 2:30am?

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November 23, 2022 5:38 pm
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Umm we’re losing … that’s why?

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November 23, 2022 5:40 pm
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You were expecting to lead every minute of every game moving forward?

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November 23, 2022 5:42 pm
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JC can we not complain at all now? You’re complaints about complaints is weird.

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November 23, 2022 5:46 pm

a complaint about a complaint about complaints?

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November 23, 2022 5:48 pm
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No, just a complaint about complaints.

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November 23, 2022 5:43 pm
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its just negativity in the moment cause we’re getting beat badly

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November 23, 2022 5:44 pm
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The Kings play is negative đŸ¤£

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November 23, 2022 5:41 pm
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I didn’t hear that about the plane touching down late. I bet that’s never happened in the NBA before. This game sucks so far. That is all. Let’s see how they handle the 2nd half! Go Kings!

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November 23, 2022 5:42 pm
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You’re right. Have missed games and the next morning while I was going thru the game thread finally realized the Kings had won. As I was working the thread I thought it had been a bad beatdown loss by the Kings

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November 23, 2022 5:44 pm
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I’d get it if it seemed more rational. Sit Fox. Sit Murray. Davion sucks. It’s just a waterfall of pouting. And they magically disappear when the Kings stage another comeback, like in Charlotte, Orlando, etc.

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November 23, 2022 5:45 pm
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Been here for every game. And have cheered when they played good. Brown did sit Fox đŸ¤£

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November 23, 2022 5:49 pm

Uh huh. Funny how whenever you have anything to say, you sound like you’re reaching for a tissue.

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm

Well, this is ugly

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November 23, 2022 5:46 pm
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Can you please not be negative? đŸ¤£

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November 23, 2022 5:50 pm

Just keeping it real, đŸ˜„

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November 23, 2022 6:00 pm
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Your reality sucks

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm

Need Fox to find his game in the 2nd half and the defense to tighten up to give them any shot at pulling off a comeback

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November 23, 2022 5:36 pm

I now
remember why I do not come onto game threads that often especially when the game isn’t going well.

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November 23, 2022 5:38 pm
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Think what a Knicks or Philly thread must be like.

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November 23, 2022 5:41 pm
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For real.

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November 23, 2022 5:47 pm
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Good point.

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November 23, 2022 5:40 pm

Feels like the Kings are losing rather than the Hawks winning.

Haven’t been super impressed with what I’ve seen from the Hawks, and I think this is a win in Sacramento.

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November 23, 2022 5:45 pm
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Hawks have mostly been pretty average so far this year both offensively and defensively, so that makes sense.

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November 23, 2022 5:50 pm

I had this one chalked up as a loss anyways but let’s see if they can make it close

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November 23, 2022 6:14 pm
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So, you appear not to like our chances.

Step right up.

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November 23, 2022 5:55 pm

Hoping that lights a fire on Fox. Takeover time.

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November 23, 2022 5:58 pm

DAmn poor Keegan. That 3 looked pure from the release and it rims in and out. Can’t catch a break

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November 23, 2022 5:58 pm

Did someone put a hex on Murray or something?

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November 23, 2022 6:00 pm
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Something ain’t right

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November 23, 2022 6:02 pm
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The good news is that this shooting slump is so cartoonishly bad that I’m certain it will regress to the mean eventually

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November 23, 2022 5:59 pm

So you can put your should into a defender and push them 5 ft, but you can’t try and contest the shot after that? Thanks NBA

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November 23, 2022 6:00 pm

Fox really just does not get the same calls the other star guards get

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November 23, 2022 6:01 pm
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Ja and Trae get a lot of soft foul calls.

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November 23, 2022 6:02 pm
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Guess Fox has to make an all star team + Kings make playoffs before the refs start giving him that kind of respect

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November 23, 2022 6:05 pm
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That is exactly how the NBA works.

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November 23, 2022 6:03 pm
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Yup. Breathing near Young and Morant is called every time. Fox will drive through a forest of limbs and get nothing.

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November 23, 2022 6:00 pm

If we can keep it in a 10 point range heading into the 4th, I think we’ll make a run and get the W

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November 23, 2022 6:01 pm

Based on how many minutes the starters played last night, might need a bench crew to get them back in this one tonight

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November 23, 2022 6:01 pm

Fox gets ZERO respect from the refs. If he got the calls like Ja, Steph, Trae get, dude would average 30 easy.

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November 23, 2022 6:03 pm

Got to make a move now!

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November 23, 2022 6:05 pm

Davion upping that defensive intensity. Hopefully that rallies the rest of the guys

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November 23, 2022 6:05 pm

Down 6 playing this sluggish? Interesting.

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November 23, 2022 6:05 pm

We got this. Team is starting to wake up

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November 23, 2022 6:07 pm

Sabonis looks huge in person
Compared to on tv

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November 23, 2022 6:09 pm
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What if Sabonis is only 4 feet tall and you have a gigantic TV?

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November 23, 2022 6:12 pm
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I have a good size tv and Sabonis goes about a foot and a half or it

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November 23, 2022 6:14 pm
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On my laptop, Sabonis is only six inches tall. I bet I could dunk on Sabonis, if the hoop was two feet high.

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November 23, 2022 6:16 pm
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My TV isn’t all that big……..but it’s smart. Occasionally I’ll get a shot of Domas with the perspective that shows just what a big man he is. He isn’t carrying a lot of extra weight

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November 23, 2022 6:16 pm
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im talking about his girth and size. No homo

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November 23, 2022 6:40 pm
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What are you talking about again?

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November 23, 2022 6:11 pm

Kings not going away. Feel like this would be a 20+ deficit by now in past years, especially being a b2b.

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November 23, 2022 6:13 pm
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Yeah. I keep seeing Davion do things that stats don’t pick up. Or that stats don’t credit him with.

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