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Kings vs. Hornets Preview: Staying Al-hive

COVID-19 health and safety protocols have decimated Charlotte... Can the Kings capitalize?
By | 25 Comments | Dec 10, 2021

The Kings are 5-3 in the Alvin Gentry era, they’re sitting pretty in the 10th spot in the West and that uneasy urge to believe is bubbling up again in the guts of the fan base, so of course, the Kings are due for a let down game! Do I have just the team to do it? Missing their star player and key reserves? Check! Losers in five of their last six games? Check! Terrible defensive team? There literally isn’t a worse team in the league at that end of the floor.

Wait a second – have the Kings previously beat the hell out of them this season? Check!

The Kings are playing the Hornets tonight! Grab your pompoms and your barf bags, everyone! You’ll be needing at least one of them!

Mr. Monte’s wild ride continues!

When: Friday, December 10th, 4:00 PM PT

Where: Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC

TV: NBCSCA – Kyle Draper (play-by-play)

RadioKHTK Sports 1140 AM

For Your Consideration

Stingers Down: The Charlotte Hornets are doing this really fun thing this season where they commit one-thousand percent to one end of the floor and then just dare other teams to keep up, pulling that rare combo of being the highest scoring team in the NBA and giving up the most points to their opponents in the league as well. Even during their recent 1-5 skid, three games of which they were without Lamelo Ball, the Hornets averaged 124.5 per contest, which is 9.1 points higher than their season average. They’re all the way in on turning their games into track meets – running at the third fastest pace in the NBA.

So what’s changed with the NBA’s health and safety precaution taking away a good chunk of talent? Well for one, the Hornets have been starting five forwards the last few games, running out a line-up of Cody Martin, Gordon Hayward, Kelly Oubre, Miles Bridges and Nick Richards. That’s 4 small forward/power fowards and a center. I absolutely love it and if I’m being honest, it hasn’t worked half bad. Sure, they don’t have a large sample size or anything but… the played a healthy Sixers team twice in a row and lost by a combined seven points. Throw in the Kings playing small and Richaun Holmes being out the next few games with a laceration to his eye? This is something that could work for Charlotte. The maximum chaos dream for today would absolutely be getting to see Gentry running four guards out against the all big line-up of the Hornets – but the Kings are rarely that fun (or keen on doing things that I think are funny).

Let’s see here, what else are we going to see tonight? James Bouknight has been getting time with all of these absences and we’ll get to see him confront the man who has haunted his dreams since Las Vegas Summer League, so we’ve got that going for us… which is nice. Overall, this game is going to be decided by De’Aaron Fox and Tyrese Haliburton. If they can replicate the kinds of performances they had on Wednesday night against the Orlando Magic, the Kings will be in good shape. If they revert back to taking turns on which game would be theirs to command… this Charlotte team is still talented enough to whomp Sacramento.

Happy Friday, all!

Prediction

The Hornets need guards, the Kings need forwards, so they strike up a deal to switch around the teams for tonight’s game and Mile Bridges scores 35 for Sacramento to fend off Buddy Hield’s 28 with 7 three’s game for Charlotte. De’Aaron Fox has a game sealing block on Charlotte’s Davion Mitchell with a few seconds remaining.

Kings: 131, Hornets: 129

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RobHessing
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December 10, 2021 11:32 am

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December 10, 2021 11:33 am

Missing most of their starting five 
Charlotte hosts the Kings at the Hive.
Hoping for payback 
After losing in Sac,
Their short roster may let us thrive!

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December 10, 2021 11:57 am

Excellent preview.

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December 10, 2021 12:15 pm

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December 10, 2021 12:59 pm

TRAP GAME.
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December 10, 2021 1:05 pm
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Every game is a trap game for the Kings.

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December 10, 2021 1:23 pm
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You keep this wordplay up, Vivek’s next celebrity guest is going to be Chris Pratt.

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December 10, 2021 1:32 pm

He can be our new PG!comment image

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December 10, 2021 1:34 pm
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December 10, 2021 1:54 pm
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That’s still one of the funniest images in the NBA I’ve ever seen. Maybe the funniest. Keith Smart = hamburgler.

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December 10, 2021 2:11 pm
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Oh Hornets, back it up .. nothing to see here.
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December 10, 2021 1:35 pm

getting excited for today’s game:
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after the game:
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December 10, 2021 1:48 pm
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December 10, 2021 2:04 pm

Nice to See Artest always mention his turnaround in Sac with Adelman when everyone else glosses over that part of his career.

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December 10, 2021 3:45 pm
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I’m guessing PDX or Indy for Simmons.

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December 10, 2021 5:04 pm
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Probably Indy over Portland. With all the chaos here in Rip City, the expectation is that nothing’s going to happen until the offseason unless things get even worse.

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December 10, 2021 3:46 pm
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NBA needs more 4 and 5 team trades. Philly, Kings, Portland, Celtics, Indy, New York, Mavs, and pels should just conference call with a big white board. Shuffle everyone.

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December 10, 2021 4:04 pm
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I want Simmons on this team. Problem is that no matter how you look at the deal the Kings don’t have a top 25 player. In a multi team deal the Kings have players to make salaries work.

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December 10, 2021 3:37 pm

Hope they show out well tonight.

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December 10, 2021 3:49 pm
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If the kings can slow down oubre, they have a very good chance of winning. That’s been the trend for the last several hornets games.

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December 10, 2021 3:52 pm

Why don’t your game day dates match the correct days of the week?

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December 10, 2021 4:37 pm

This team is special in so many ways.

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