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NBA: Dallas Mavericks at Sacramento Kings
Mar 26, 2024; Sacramento, California, USA; Sacramento Kings guard De'Aaron Fox (5) dribbles the ball against Dallas Mavericks forward Derrick Jones Jr. (55) during the third quarter at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sports
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Let’s go Kings!!!!
Should be a fun one.
Or it could be two hours on the verge of nausea
Go, Kings !!!
always love the mosh pit intro
Old man Barnes needed a few days off. Looks spry tonight.
That frenetic sequence is why the Kings are going to win this one.
Just gotta keep up the effort and energy.
this is good basketball
Loved the focus so far….
they are intensed…..
Keep the intensity !!!
Isolating Doncic on Kings offense. I like the adjustment.
So far, they’re not falling for Dallas.
Luka passing like a maniac but the missing open shots bug has bitten the Mavs now.
Luka’s an idiot.
why?
well, I guess we’re all idiots
For not making Vlade pick him, I suppose
A lot of Malik’s misses during his cold streak have been off to the left. Maybe some sort of undiagnosed injury?
Hope Monk can return….
Kings are like 35-4 when they score 120+. Gotta get the offense going because the past 4 or 5 games they haven’t scored well.
is Sasha still out?
Yup
Sure is taking long
Sprained both angles, one was grade 3 which basically he jad some bad ligament damage. Takes time, hopefully he can get back soon.
Fox is hustling but 2 points from him in the opening quarter while going 1-4 from the field after the last game is not acceptable.
at least he is hustling, and not just settle for 3 pts shots
True.
his first bucket was a good tone setter
BS call on Mitchell.
3s not falling for Fox. Need him to stop the Harden impression and get to the rack
Here’s a great idea: Leave Hardaway Jr. for a wide open three to close out the quarter.
It was like a 28 foot 3..
And there wasn’t a Kings player within 10 feet of him for some reason. And it looked more like 24 feet.
Yahoo said 28, so I went with that.
It’s like during that first quarter the Kings started to remember that they’re the better team.
Monk out. Fox needs to explode.
dang. who’s your 9th player after Duarte? Kessler?
Keesler……
Colby Jones.
Welp, guess we’re out of shooting guards.
That’s actually very inaccurate. Regardless, hope Monk’s alright
Monk is out for the rest of this game. Guess that means more Duarte???
Ok. I’m interested to see what this team can do without Monk.
One of those Domas 30 point games would be nice.
I’m hoping for a clear defensive identity.
Or maybe Domas will be the one exploding
What a coast to coast dunk that was.
No reason it should take Keegan this long to get his first two shots.
That’s a question for the coach.
Good chance for him to just be aggressive on O and pay attention/focus all game.
They need Keegs to start being their more often- this game particularly
Come on, Durate need to play better.
otherwise, let C. Jones play
Great way to get Keegan involved.
Duarte is bad, Jones needs to play..
Monk better not be hurt…
Can’t say flawless from the foul line. I like the way we are talking care of the ball. Get Keegan some DHOs
Harrison fucking Barnes.
a couple days off helped him
Caw caw
Let’s go Fox!
Let’s keep this up and get the win. Phoenix lost today so we can gain on them.
If Fox didn’t take that three, my TV and I were about to have a wrestling match.
flat screen?
Yeah.
Jones just said “Fox has that giddy up in his gallop tonight.” Is Jones watching this game?
Sounded accurate to me.
Yup. Faster pace for him.
Don’t want to incur KZ’s Kurse, but…goddamn, Keon looks like a potential future DPOY
Harrison Barnes revenge game
BS call on Ellis
Swiped down and barely touched anything. Part of the ball maybe, but no contact with kyrie.
Refs gotta make it close, apparently.
More BS conduct by NBA refs. Dallas has 15 free throw attempts. Kings have 5.
Won both quarters minus Monk.
excellent 1st Qtr, not bad 2nd Qtr…
Keep the aggressiveness for 3 Qtr and 4 Qtr
I think I saw at least three Keon steals. Curious to check the stats.
3! You were right!!!
Any word on Monk?
Out for the game with a knee injury
Yikes. No bueno
We’re gonna have to play edwards. Otherwise we’re gonna burn out.
I’m okay with that … as the 9th guy
Did Drapes get called out by the higher ups? Why did he change his gear?
Man this garbage start we’re seeing is coaching. WTF are the Kings doing?
Domas can’t dribble the ball in the paint when double teamed. He gets stripped too often, for most of the season.
yeah, pass out of the double-team … generally speaking
one of those plays looked like a good dunk attempt that missed. Another, maybe Keon passed to him when he should not have … but yeah, when Domas is ineffective in the post, it reminds me of last year’s playoff series …
Sabonis need to beware of that double-team
Seriously. This is one of issues he needs to fix. It’s like he decides what he’s doing and does it
Stop feeding sabonis in the block, unless you’re running action
Keegan got hit in the eye and Kidd wants to challenge that?
Successfully aparently. F these refs man
Please Sabonis. Please figure this out. Calm down- think-adjust.
Keegan needs to work on his dunk game. Just does the same approach to the rim for every dunk. Sometimes gotta disguise what you are doing on the way up.
like the aggressiveness though
Yeah, that’s nice.
Playing good was fun while it lasted. Same shit, different day
*points at scoreboard*
Fair point, the negative shift in energy between halves just felt kinda similar to Tuesday
Fox take the ball to the rim!
I can’t stand it when Fox passes the ball after taking a few steps past half court for no apparent reason. It’s absolutely useless.
If Fox doesn’t get aggressive, we ain’t got a chance.
LOL
Mavs keep doing the same pass to the big out of the double team, and no Kings defender is even close, just giving them a runway to the rim.
Bill Kennedy is either an idiot or a Mavs fan
Mavs getting soooo many more calls
Kessler!!!
yes !!!!
Our 2nd unit / 3rd unit definitely need to step up
Kessler and Duarte on the court?
We’re in foul trouble
Annual late season Kessler Edwards explosion!
After the timeout, they drew up a play for . . . Kessler Edwards?
Kings are smiling. They look like they’re having fun out there.
At least Kessler stepped up.
We need that desperately…..
Fox and other starters also need to play better
What’s going on in here?
Draw in the third. Now just finish them off.
Monk is hurt?
Fat guy fell on his right knee
Damn
Take care of the rock, break the paint and lead with your chest. Let’s win this.
9 FTA vs 26 FTA after three quarters. Wonder if they’ll try to smooth it out a little more this quarter.
questionable defensive rotation by Kessler
Edwards bringing a positive impact!
The K’s are going off!
Kessler, Keon, luKa
Damn. Kyrie.
Wow. What a shootout.
Come on, Sabonis,
need to grab that loose ball
Jones is annoying. He sounds like what he is, a national TV play-by-play guy.
The JV team is about to get run out of the gym.
Please get us a bench Monte.
The bench is injured
That bench sucks too.
Amd just like that, the lead is down to 3.
Uh oh…
“You’ve mentioned that sooooo many times about Kyrie” said Mo to Jones. LOL!!!
No need to guard the guy in the corner.
Kessler keeps leaving them open
Kessler doesn’t belong.
Not enough to overturn that.
Ellis did get the ball first.
Come on, Fox…
Need to hit those jumper
Bad challenge. Mavs up 2 or 3. Falling apart once again.
Bad challenge, Keon got all forearm
Mike, what are you doing??? Awful challenge.
Ball first. Successful challenge.
This looks like a bad challenge, but you never know.
About to be 31-11 in favor of Mavs in free throws. In a tie game.
Corruption
The long view looked like ball first. The closeup looked like ball first.
Mavs on a 10-0 run
C’mon Harrison, make this to make it an and 1.
Keegan 29 minutes and 6 points.
Why do we keep missing rebounds?
Effort = Rebounds
Who cares about the triple double stats..
WIN A GAME!
how many point-blank shot did Sabonis missed ?
With nobody on his team helping him rebound.
It’s about point-blank shot
Uh oh, something up with Sabonis’ ankle?
Sabonis has to make that. Fuck!
Fox needs to get to the free throw line more. 2 attempts isn’t going to cut it. He’s just not aggressive and, yet again, the Kings look better with him off the floor.
His game revolves around the not open three now.
Davion is the best guy to guard Kyrie
Kyrie will only score 35 on him.
Freaking horrible turnover there.
Fox on Kyrie now instead of Keon
Have you watched Kyrie play before?
dude, just stating a fact. Fox is guarding Kyrie now. Not Keon.
And that’s all she wrote….Broke my heart
STOP LEAVING EXUM OPEN AT THE THREE
Why the fuxk Fox opt to go for iso-3 ?
My nerves be a-frazzlin’
Fox, why do you keep trying to shoot three’s instead of driving to the basket?
Why fox? Why?!!!!
That was one ugly runner. It almost looked like he could have gone for a dunk or layup.
Surprise surprise, Fox bricked a three in clutch time
Fuck……………………………………………………….
Fuuuccckkk
Jesus Christ. Yeah, let’s just keep leaving Exum open at the three point line.
Left Exum wide open from three for 4 straight possessions, and behold, the consequences of our own actions
Fox was fouled on the floater miss… no call
what floater miss? not the one with inside a minute
This Kings team isn’t serious, it’s low BBIQ, and it’s not well coached.
Welp
What a fucking idiotic play by Barnes
Fox too, we are a play-in team
Both he and Fox were so nonchalant on that. So awful.
Fucking hell.
Fucking game over.
Shit!!! Game 9th seed
This fucking team
that’s three jittery plays by HB this quarter
Play in team. Maybe….
Play-in exit. This roster needs significant turnover if they want to make a playoff run.
The Bjelica 4-point play from 4 seasons ago gives me the faintest glimmer of hope every time we’re realistically fucked.
The offense since Kevin got hurt has been terrible (outside of playing the terrible Grizzlies and the G-League raptors team they faced). Sure the defense has been better, but this team can’t fucking score anymore.
They scored over 100.
Defense matters.
Kings are 35-4 when they score 120+. Sure defense matter, but they still have to score the ball.
35-4 don’t add up to 80.
Defense matters.
Not to the Kings players and coaches, unfortunately.
We played well, except Fox
You have never seen a basketball team play defense.
Kings did it to themselves for sure, especially opening the 3rd and end of the 4th.
But you can’t tell me a 12 vs 33 disparity in free throws is fair. A lot of the one’s they gave Dallas I’m not quibbling about, the Kings sure did foul. But the Kings couldn’t get 15 attemps? 20 attemps?
No reason to freak out. This ending was inevitable when McNair decided to run it back with the exact same group in the summer and then made ZERO additions at the deadline. Changes have to be made and maybe now his eyes are open.
We ain’t holding the 7th or 8th seed either with the schedule coming up and the injuries we have.
That sucked. The second half was once again bad.
Opposing teams adjust and Brown & co seem to have no real counters.
Hate to say it but Kyrie is a better finisher than Fox.
I’d love to see a comparison of Fox’ 4th quarter stats of this year vs last year.
looks like my schedule will be pretty free starting April 20
Yeah, postseason looked like a big draw but may end up a BigDrew.
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