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NBA: Sacramento Kings at Minnesota Timberwolves
Mar 1, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Sacramento Kings guard Malik Monk (0) works past Minnesota Timberwolves guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker (9) in the first quarter at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-USA TODAY Sports
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Go Kings! Light the Beam! Well wishes to everyone here. Let’s have a great season! Cheers!
J-Mac revenge game!!!
Go Kings!
Happy October-Fest
NBA League Pass officially reactivated….let’s go Kings!
Here. We. Go.
I’m ready
I know it’s just insignificant advertising, but goddamn, that sponsor patch is ugly.
Looks like a sticker they just threw on, lol
Sabonis damn near air balls the first free throw. ????♂️
At least he made his next three. But it definitely gave me flashbacks to last year.
Wolves are doing their damndest to switch Keegan off of Edwards, that’s awesome
please be for real please be for real
Have good energy to start, much better than last season.
The Kings are imposing their will on both sides of the ball so far.
I’m glad I kept reminding myself that preseason doesn’t matter.
These are the Kings that I remember.
Rim hates us tonight, two in-and-out buckets already
Derozan been off since his first two preseason games..
Kings are consistently getting better looks than they are allowing their opponent
Three Possession Kayte is back.
She is in mid-season form
Wolves hanging in with hot 3pt shooting. Need to figure out how to slow that down
They are creating FTs but missing them.
Hopefully when the bench comes in it won’t be a repeat of what we saw in preseason…
Lol Joe ingles
Lol Joe Ingles
heads-up play by Lyles
Monk saw he was guarded by Ingles so he took it in for the obligatory dunk.
Three dunks in a row!
Monk is as exhilarating as ever
Do you know that King means Malick….
In English?
Sactownish
Gotta do a better job guarding that three…
Wasn’t Randle terrible from three for like the last two seasons in New York?
Any Randle three is a strategic win for the Kings.
Until he played the Kings, lol.
Great challenge
Kayte, wow. This game is an all-timer for talking over the action.
She hasn’t stopped talking for more than a few seconds at a time.
Ball movement has stopped for the Kings
I fear that Monk, Huerter, and Lyles are not in game shape and will run out of gas down the stretch. Starting to see cracks. Maybe some JMac minutes?
0 points from Ellis and Huerter thus far.
Huerter is picking up some rebounds.
Kinda iffy but from my completely unbiased viewpoint that looks like a good charge.
Keegan was there first
Keegan is our real glue guy.
What a weak challenge successful call.
At this point I am so damn happy that Derozan is here. His basketball IQ is unlike any this team has seen in years.
Also at this point praying for the most basic level of defense.
It is good to hear Kayte again. Her basketball knowledge is top notch. Loose the clown next to her and that silence will be enough.
By no means a perfect first half, but they were in the WCF and we’re winning, so I’d say that’s not too shabby. Defense needs work though, and I’d like it if we had at least one starting caliber SG
Hoping one of the SG either plays into the role or gets back to what they have been before.
Kings are losing this game with HB. The Sabonis System™ tends to ebb and flow with periods of fast-paced, efficient success, and other periods of slow sucking. DeMar is a vibranium thread of steady, reliable production that carries the offense through such its peaks and valleys.
Murray is playing with confidence. He knows this team needs him to be aggressive looking for his shot and he’s delivered. Defense is solid and versatile, but Randle is handling him with physicality. The defense has no answer for big, skilled forwards. Looking at you, Monte.
Sabonis and Fox are awesome. Monk has been great but looks to be getting tired. Keon and Huerter are both doing a good job of fitting in, but neither are standing out.
Defense started strong but seems to be coming apart as the game drags on. If they can keep being aggressive defensively, making the Wolves uncomfortable and creating TOs, they will win.
I saw three or four real attempts at defense.
I had to look up “vibranium”
That is next level
I feel a lot better about the Kings than I was feeling during the preseason! Keegan looks ready to be in beast mode this year.
Don’t want to name drop him through only 26 minutes of basketball, but if Huerter doesn’t provide 3 point shooting then what is his purpose. He has competed defensively though thus far. But a legit defensive wing would be so much better in his spot.
He is about to go on a tear now. Let them fly!
I was hoping that wide open corner one was going to drop haha
Rooting for the guy in the Kings jersey.
Has none. Hopefully trade will occur at some point. He’ll hit some 3s
Nothing yet to trigger any third quarter trauma and PTSD.
Hoping!
Edwards has a terrible attitude, I’ve seen him throw his hands up and act all defeated after at least 3 Kings makes today
Or he just whines to the refs
The whole Wolves team just complains honestly
Death, Taxes, Biting on a DRoz pump fake.
Keegan got clobbered at the rim, no call, Wolves transition 3
These 2024 Wolves << Them 2023 Wolves
These 2024 Kings >> Them 2023 Kings
Naz Reid complains about every call.
So many open 3s. Same as last season.
Kings, as Kayte said, were getting good shots to close the third but they were acting frantic and chaotic.
KEEGAN…
Playing like Dennis Rodman with a jumper atm
No call as DeMar gets clobbered
Minny with four fouls. Gotta take advantage of that and get to the line.
I feel like we should be winning. Why aren’t we winning?
20 vs 11 3 pointers
Also they are enormous and we are not
Allowing the T-Wolves to shoot open 3’s.
That was a nice spin move by DeRozan.
That’s the difference that DDR will make late.
Missed free throws….again.
Did you know that Malik means “one of two from the line” in Arabic?
Now make your free throw Monk and take the lead!!!
Dang it. 25.7 seconds and Minnesota has the ball…
one team has a killer, one still doesn’t.
De’Aaron “I’m waiting for the Kings to be a championship contender but I’ll brick a mid-range with the clock running down even though we had more time on the shot clock” Fox.
The idea made sense (2 for 1), but the execution was definitely lacking.
If they were doing that he should’ve taken the shot 5 seconds earlier.
I’d have to go back and look, but I think they were at 32 seconds when they took possession. Minny collected the rebound at 25.7. So the shot came pretty quickly.
Keegan was put on ice in the last 4 or 5 minutes of the game. He was hot too
Ugh, of course he gets fouled.
Wish Keegan had a faster trigger on that
Welp. Sucks that Keegan’s last shot was short, but oh well. Minnesota is the better team. On to the next one.
Felt like Fox and DDR hero balled us out of that one
If we were contending for a championship Fox would be playing different.
Here we go again…another season of you berating Fox lol! Mid- season form.
Huerter the weak link. Worthless 20 minutes of basketball
He was drifting too big time on his three attempts.
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