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Apr. 19, 6:30 PM
SAC @ NOP
Go Kings
Just read an article saying our first half schedule was hardest in NBA…
Heading for another rough first quarter. Not seeing a sense of urgency.
Another poor performance…
16 pts by the Knicks with more than 7 mins left in 1st Qtr…
Just keep TANKING !!
Down early again..more reasons to start Hali
GFunk do you have a link? Thanks.
Been fixing neighbors pipes and have been out of touch with the Kings games.
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/kings/kings-second-half-schedule-easier-after-nbas-most-difficult-first-half
According to Tankathon the remaining schedule ranks 23rd.
Thanks. This game is really bad.
Hield air ball? No wonder he’s not looking for his shot, it’s not there.
Holmes just a few inches from making a fine poster
CoJo in there for his defense of course
I didn’t see who committed the foul at first but my first thought was ‘What an atrocious, unnecessary, foul. Who would be so totally unaware as to give that foul up?’ and then pan to Sacramento’s very own “Defensive Specialist.”
fucking cojo
Cory Joseph here to save the
tankday!lmao the whole thread was cold til that Joseph gaffe.
Nothing like the Kangz to get Kings fans going
No name Star of the night. Quigley with 8 already for the Knicks. Starting Rose was a smart decision by Thibs. Elfrid is terrible.
It should be a misdemeanor if Joseph plays over 10 mins a game and a felony whenever Hield dribbles the ball.
38 points in one quarter and 70% shooting.
Sooooooo, what are the chances we will lay a goose egg on this road trip?
God dammit fox…make a free throw
Damn Hali! Flamethrower arm assist to Holmes
Wide open 3’s for the Knicks.
Man nobody would be watching the Kings without tyrese
Lol CoJo is so bad it’s incredible
Another Joseph gaffe, lol
Second 3-point foul by CoJo
I can’t believe how much money they gave to CoJo for this kind of shit show
joseph is a pure clown
Bagley overhelping Jeffries there leading to an easy putback dunk for NY.
He thinks he can get every block smfh
I’m about to cut the experiment
BBIQ, as we’ve seen with McLemore is innate though
Can we trade for Quickly? He’s torching our backcourt
CoJo, Barnes, and some pick? I don’t know that much about trade logistics, sorry.
Why in the actual f would the Knicks trade him? He and Tyrese are the two biggest steals of this draft
Quickly has been much better than their No. 5 pick Toppin ! Happens every draft !
Fox still on his three week no imprint foolish act..
im pro tank but want to see a game
Kangz in true form tonight, Fox missing free throws, Buddy chucking, and CoJo comedy of errors.
the fuck was that barnes?
Can Tyrese play the rest of the game for Buddy
This is good
Looking like another 70+ point half for another Kings opponent and likely another 120+ points allowed for the game. Kings putting their mark in the history books for all-time worst team defense in a season. They are an unfathomably terrible defensive team
How is Taj Gibson beating up on Bagley right now?
Bagley’s baseline is to be tossed around like a rag doll, same way Bam Adebayo did to him in his first summer league. There might be flashes of average defense, but don’t let it fool you.
Rose is absolutely torching Fox.
Buddy and Bagley = dumb and dumber
Good lord Fox how do you botch that alley-oop setup
He’s terrible at lobs
Bagley took 5 steps hahahahahaha
Okay, Buddy!
The Kings are all about defense.
Kings overhelping on everything except the shooter.
Kings are being MSG’s jesters right now.
Turn the sprinkler systems on Reggie Bullock is on FIRE!!!!!
Why wouldn’t the Knicks get a season 1st half against us?
Almost looks like a final score, back in the day.
77 points allowed on 66% shooting from the field and over 50% from 3PT for the team who is ranked DEAD LAST in PPG on the season. It’s honestly amazing the Kings have 12 wins with how utterly useless they are on the defensive end
Walton is the defensive coach of the year!
Missed the 1st half. How’s the game so far?
Tyrese and Quickley
Think CoJo but a basketball game
Our worst defensive effort this year…
Woah woah woah…Kyle and Kryste telling it like it is
Especially Kyle…needs to be done. Call out the coach too
Lol meant Kayte
Tankathon race
As someone who is pro tank, we’re playing too poorly to let Luke continue to coach the team
even if they Monte doesn’t want to he is going to have to fire Walton
which will alter our tank
Agreed. Even if you want the most ping pong balls, this is too pathetic to continue. Luke has got to go.
any rebuild that includes Walton remaining as head coach is a non-starter imo
And I’m worried that his poor coaching will affect the young guys development.
Meh. I think if the team breaks the losing streak against Detroit, which they likely will, they’ll have enough justification to keep Walton on board.
If Luke has a job after the ASB my opinion of Monte will take a dive
I am so zen about this season. I watch these Buddy air balls, CoJo’s make-a-wish minutes, Whiteside pickpockets, Marvin blown defensive assignments and smile. Thinking, of the incredible trade deadline and offseason that awaits us where we bring in an entirely new coaching staff and set of young prospects built around Fox-Hali-Bagley. A full year more of development for Guy, Ramsay, DaQuan, Woodard, Metu all ready to step up once Joseph, Buddy, Barnes, Bjelica, and Holmes are jettisoned within the next year. Trying to figure out just which player among this year’s top 5 is gonna fall to us if we go at this rate. Oh yes, keep the bricks coming. It’s just the receding before the tide swells again. ….right?
Maybe the next Obi Toppin !
You know what came to mind today? After getting destroyed in the bubble, Luke Walton saying two or three times we just gotta get some stops, and I also remembered how he says he wants a switching defense like the Warriors had. It would be ironic if he won’t play his 5 switchable defenders together (Fox, Haliburton, Jeffries, Barnes, Holmes)
Or just go full Grinnell system if you want to play defense like this
All of Bagleys 16 points are more than offset by the amount of points he’s given up
You can say that about literally every King this game.
He’s the worst of them all though
Wrong
He comes out, the lead shrinks to 5. He comes back in, it balloons back to 17
broadcasting crew featuring Gentry, getting us ready
Bagley is a clown on drives
straight line drives to the left that usually result in offensive fouls or him getting the ball stripped
Friendly roles kill us
I saw three possessions. (1) Bagley fumbles ball and gives to Fox with 6 seconds on shot clock. (2) Bagley gives Barrett a wide open lane for a layup (everybody should see that one), and (3) same predictable move, Bagley offensive charge. Thanks for the comedy. That’s all I need to watch for the night.
6 seconds is plenty of time to get a good shot….esoecially for Fox. And that wasn’t a charge. That was an awful call
When this team plays below average defense they win 7 of 9. Too bad the default is “worst defense in NBA history”
Dont scapegoat Bagley for the teams poor defense. It hasn’t gotten better when he sits
I mean, he’s still terrible, but so are a lot of other players on the Kings. You don’t get to be tracking to be the worst defense in history by just having one terrible defensive player
That’s a bullshit charge
This is hilarious
https://twitter.com/johnschuhmann/status/1365119467840286720
I get what he was trying to do with the first one, even if it didn’t pan out….he came from defenders blind spot. 2nd one is bad team defense as well as poor defense on Bagley and Barnes. If he comes up on the driver, it’s just lobed up to Noel to be dunked on everyone
Yeah, poor communication between him and barnes there. See he sealed off his man looking for a rebound? Looks like he expected holmes to rotate over, which was the wrong idea since someone has to stop ball.
Let’s not sugarcoat it. It was an embarassingly braindead play by Bagley. He’s improving here and there, but he’s the anti-Tyrese as far as BBIQ goes.
Dammit Richaun
Buddy completely abandoned his mid-range game.
incredible play by Fox
4th quarter CoJo minutes. Hell yes Luke keep that tank rolling on
Walton brings CoJo in and Hali out…dumb fuck
Can’t wait to hear Golden 1 filled with “fire walton” chants after we start another 10 game skid
Jeffries my GOODNESS!!!!!
121 points allowed and there’s still 7 minutes to go in the game. Incredible
Buddy the TOnk commander
If we lose in Detroit and Walton is not fired, I will begin to have my doubts about our new GM
I’ve see coaches fired in other leagues for a lot less than what Walton is doing.
Losing to Detroit tomorrow will officially be rock bottom for this team. I didn’t think they’d suck enough to be a bottom 3 team in the league, but a loss tomorrow would change that real quick
No Fox and CoJo is getting crunch minutes…fucking Walton
EMPTY THE GODDAMN BENCH LOSE
Just flipped over from the 76ers game, what’d I miss?
Alec Burks: 19 points in the 4th, with 4 threes.
Building a team around 3 players who play defense as poorly as Fox, Bagley and Hield is a fool’s errand.
Major changes needed to make this team competitive.
Knicks, one of the lowest scoring teams in the league, if not the lowest, with 132 points with 3:46 remaining.
Season high in points! You’re welcome Knicks!
COJO with his typical 20+ minutes and 4 points.
Veteran presence > getting our young guys solid minutes
Oh shoot, the Kings were without Jabari tonight? ð
They really let the Knicks hang 140 on them lmao
I feel so bad for Gary Gerould… He deserves so much better. Imagine trying to be optimistic for the last 15 years as the team fumbles around.
In 36 years, he’s had about 4 or 5 years to be optimistic about
How quick can Monte clean up this mess Vlade left behind?
I’d say minimum 2 years. Only hope for the rest of this season is him finding a way to shed CoJo, Bjelica, and Buddy somehow. Follow that up by firing Luke after the year and letting Monte find his HC
Fox/Haliburton/Holmes/Jeffries are the only players I care about keeping. The stigma around Bagley will always remain while he’s here and I just can’t ever see him figuring things out defensively. A big who is that terrible on defense is just unplayable
Well Bagleys not the only one……………………………………………………………………………………………………
WALTON HAS TO GO….NOW!!!!!
That would be a good start.
I’m actually shocked waking up every day to see Walton’s still coaching.
Commentators saying offense isn’t the problem.
Clutch offense is a big problem. Playing catch-up doesn’t mean the Kings offense is clicking.
It isn’t the personnel. It’s the coaching and system. Poor defensive communication. Poor and inconsistent rotations. Poor on ball defense. It’s almost like some guys are playing help rotations, some guys playing stick your man. Just so uncohessive.
100%
Nah, it’s also the personnel.
You’re just leaving the players blameless because it sure is convenient to just be able to replace the coach and everything will be golden.
Much easier to reconcile that with the more painstaking process of improving a bad roster and coming to the realization that one of the young cornerstones isn’t all that.
This. It’s both.
I think there’s a difference between having 2nd tier players who aren’t great and put out a poor, even league-worst, defense and putting out a defense that is so bad it that it approaches an historic level of defensive ineptitude.
Unless we have assembled collectively the worst defensive players in NBA history (possible but statistically unlikely) it seems to point at a lack of preparation, game planning and effort resulting from bad leadership/coaching that take a group that is bad and propels them to worst.
I’ve watched the NBA since the early 1970s.
It is very possible that we’ve assembled one of the worst defensive NBA teams in history. Many of them don’t have the knowledge and/or the skills to play the defense required in the league now.
I’m not saying the roster doesn’t have it’s holes but that it’s massively underperforming with the talent it does have and that comes down to the coach leading the team.
Looking towards the future…
Went on YouTube to check on the Austin Spurs and Robert Woodard II. They were down 23 in the first half and came back to take it in overtime. Woodard finished with 28 points, 17 boards, and 3 steals. Many of his points came late in the game and in crunch time, which seems to be a theme this far. I know it’s G League, but he looks solid.
Ramsey is also starting to play better in what I’ve been able to see.
Wow, what are we waiting for?
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