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Mar 12, 2024; Sacramento, California, USA; Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard (0) controls the ball against Sacramento Kings guard Keon Ellis (23) during the second quarter at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports

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TerzoM
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January 14, 2025 5:06 pm

Xfinity not working. Anyone else same issue?

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January 14, 2025 5:09 pm
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They announced recently you have to pay for their most expensive tier to get NBC Sports Network games. Try YouTube TV or Hulu

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January 14, 2025 5:25 pm
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Fking bastards. Signed up YYTV free 10 days while I figure it out. Thanks for heads up

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January 14, 2025 5:21 pm

Kings don’t seem to be getting a friendly whistle early.

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January 14, 2025 5:24 pm
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Yep, Keon barely touched Dame

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January 14, 2025 5:27 pm
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Meanwhile, all sorts of contact from Bucks defenders and no calls.

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January 14, 2025 5:26 pm

Kings have zero answer for Lopez + Giannis, plus the shots aren’t falling and a bad whistle. Gonna be a long night

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January 14, 2025 5:28 pm
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Bucks are highly focused after their blowout loss to the Knicks a couple nights ago

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January 14, 2025 5:42 pm
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This

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January 14, 2025 5:30 pm

Kings announcer annoying af. Shut up with the damn cute comments “like rotisserie chicken” its way overplayed and not what im teying to hear going down by 14.

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January 14, 2025 5:34 pm

Fox needs to push the damn ball up the floor. Come on man!

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January 14, 2025 5:35 pm

Yeah, and that was a lazy ass rotation to let Green hit a three to end the quarter. There’s being physically outmatched, and then there’s just not trying.

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January 14, 2025 5:34 pm

Giannis is unguardable, maybe try some Len minutes?

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January 14, 2025 5:36 pm
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Maybe try to stop him or make it more difficult for him a little earlier.

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January 14, 2025 5:39 pm
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Another big body – even Isaac Jones – would be good against Milwaukee.

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January 14, 2025 5:36 pm

I forgot how much ball watching Fox does defensively.

Also, the offense looks bad without Monk.

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January 14, 2025 5:38 pm

Just need to keep ‘em under 40 per quarter lol
Welp ya can’t come back if you’re not down

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January 14, 2025 5:40 pm

wow this is ugly

jwalker1395
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January 14, 2025 5:41 pm

they aren’t even playing all that bad, just absolutely nobody can make a shot and the Bucks can’t miss a shot

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January 14, 2025 5:41 pm

Again, Fox showing us he’s not a leader. I hate to say it. And maybe take less threes?

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January 14, 2025 5:44 pm

Man you have a bone to pick. What does this have to do with fox’s leadership? Why stop at fox. Sabonis clearly not a leader. Christie clearly not a leader. Monk a terrible leader since he can only lead if he’s playing.

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January 14, 2025 5:44 pm

Fox doesn’t get calls. But he also has never learned or doesn’t want to learn how to draw fouls.

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January 14, 2025 5:43 pm

Kings building a nice MVP case for Monk tonight

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January 14, 2025 5:44 pm
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Monk would not make much of a difference in this game

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January 14, 2025 5:47 pm
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I jest

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January 14, 2025 5:43 pm

Did Mike Brown group text the team this morning or something?

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January 14, 2025 5:44 pm
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January 14, 2025 5:45 pm

The Velvet Ouch….

goodness

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January 14, 2025 5:49 pm
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-24 to start and the eyeball test matches the stats there…

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January 14, 2025 6:14 pm
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Had to login to comment. Never been a fan of Huerter. But I’m thoroughly done with him. At one point had as many shot attempts as Derozen and Fox while making none.. err.. 1. Why he keep shooting if they never go in? Why he keep playing when it’s a free defense-to-offense possession for the opponent? Kings need to ship him out fast.

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January 14, 2025 6:33 pm
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You’re absolutely right Baker. It is PAINFUL to watch right now. Especially as he is target on defense

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January 14, 2025 5:51 pm

Well, they were bound to lose at some point, I just hoped it wasn’t like this.

They get tomorrow off, then a home game against a tough Rockets team. That’s going to be a pivotal game for the season, the big question is how will they respond? Don’t need to win that one but do need to be competitive.

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January 14, 2025 5:53 pm

crazy that the Bucks need Dame and Giannis to be elite every game for the team to simply not be terrible

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January 14, 2025 5:56 pm

That foul on Deebo’s an and-one if it was Dame

TheFNG
January 14, 2025 5:57 pm

What’s up with Monk?

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January 14, 2025 5:58 pm
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Sore groin, if I remember correct

TheFNG
January 14, 2025 6:01 pm
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Well, shit.

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January 14, 2025 6:03 pm

It’s just all falling for them, man

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January 14, 2025 6:03 pm

the basketball gods are frowning on the Kings tonight. Missed shots, bad bounces, long rebounds, bad calls – just the works.

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January 14, 2025 6:06 pm

Keegan, Keon, KH, Carter, and Lyles are a collective 5/20 and 3/13 from deep. Yikes.

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January 14, 2025 6:14 pm
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Fox has 15 pts on 7 of 11 shooting. Why isn’t he letting those other guys make more of their shots?

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January 14, 2025 6:18 pm
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Let Fox keep shooting. Ride the hot hand

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January 14, 2025 6:33 pm
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Good point jman!

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January 14, 2025 6:11 pm

Came out slow and sluggish, poor ball movement, defensive rotations looked pretty bad. Maybe some fire in the 2nd half and they can get back in to this one.

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January 14, 2025 6:19 pm

Christie about to uppercut some bodies in the locker room at halftime

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January 14, 2025 6:19 pm

Bucks bench outscores ours by exactly 21 points. We’re down by exactly… 21 points

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January 14, 2025 6:19 pm

giving minutes to Huerter over Ellis is not good for your job security Doug. There’s no world where Huerter should get the same minutes as Ellis.

Only a small part of the reason they are down at half, but it’s concerning that Ellis is getting his minutes cut last 2 games.

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January 14, 2025 6:21 pm

Ellis picked up two early fouls and a quick third one when he came back in.

Hobby916
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January 14, 2025 6:22 pm

Who are these players in white jerseys? Did Monte make some trades or something?

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January 14, 2025 6:23 pm

Your classic Fox 1-9 from three game.

BradMillersHeadband
January 14, 2025 6:32 pm

1-5 but okay. Also add in the 10 rebounds and 4 assists. But go on with you bias

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January 14, 2025 6:23 pm

Respectable 2-1 roadtrip. Bucks too good

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January 14, 2025 6:26 pm

Fox setting up a great drive and kick play without the kick

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January 14, 2025 6:32 pm

DDR is absolutely soul sucking to watch. Fox and Domas are useless when DDR has the ball.

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January 14, 2025 6:33 pm

Just started the game – ugh. Clear from the jump that this was some Mike Brown-era crap. After a few mins, I decided to fast forward to live and here they are down 20. Looks like today is the crash back down to Earth.

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January 14, 2025 6:36 pm

Having Len on Giannis is kinda pointless if you’re gonna pull Domas and leave Keegan on an island against Portis or Lopez to get dunked on. (constantly screwing up rotations and switches also doesn’t help)

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January 14, 2025 6:38 pm
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If you’re gonna try and match Giannis’ athleticism with Len’s sheer size, you need Domas out there to just keep another big body on the other PF/C the Bucks are gonna have

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January 14, 2025 6:39 pm
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Domas has 4 fouls

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January 14, 2025 6:37 pm

Giannis gets so many calls. Dude travels, no call.

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January 14, 2025 6:40 pm
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There’s that one hilarious video where he literally took one dribble across the whole court for a dunk and the refs swallowed their whistles. It wasn’t a travel at that point, it was a journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KafEc2bR_OM

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January 14, 2025 6:39 pm

Honestly the Kings have fought pretty hard. Shots haven’t fallen. Defense has been pretty bad, but a lot of that is the fact that Giannis and Dame couldn’t miss early and have had two black holes’ worth of gravity since the 1st. Totally distorting anything the Kings have tried to do on defense.

Giannis is a better passer and decision-maker than at any point I’ve seen in my career. I was on the Jokic MVP train until tonight. He’s made me reconsider. He’s made the right play all night, either taking it himself or feeding the open man, while playing DPOY caliber defense. Freak.

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January 14, 2025 6:41 pm

If the deficit is too big, I’d say just wave the white flag and pull the starters and get them rested and ready for the game on Thursday. Kings just haven’t been in it this game, no sense in playing them heavy minutes if the game continues to be out of reach.

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January 14, 2025 6:43 pm
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Looks like a completely different team in this game

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January 14, 2025 6:45 pm
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Giannis is just cooking them. No answers for him.

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January 14, 2025 6:44 pm

Mark Jones is so freaking bad. I don’t get why he is employed as an announcer. Corny one liners, forces words that nobody else ever uses. I hope the Kings find someone next season and let him go back to ESPN full time.

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January 14, 2025 6:50 pm

Not a flagrant, just a sloppy hard foul

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January 14, 2025 6:50 pm
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Given how this game’s gone, the hands on the face are gonna be enough

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January 14, 2025 6:52 pm
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The fact that Fox hasn’t gotten the FT line says it all. He is in the paint drawing contact and no calls.

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January 14, 2025 6:52 pm

Well, at least the Sun lost today.

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January 14, 2025 6:55 pm

It’s without Giannis, but there’s a glimmer of hope kinda creeping back

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January 14, 2025 6:56 pm
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They gotta deny him the ball and make someone else take the shots. It’s too comfortable for him all game.

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January 14, 2025 6:59 pm
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He just dribbled to the elbow with no resistance and made a middie. What are they doing out there?

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January 14, 2025 7:01 pm
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Trying to stop him from driving straight to the hole, because Domas isn’t fast enough to recover and best case scenario with Keegan down there is free throws. I agree though, it’s annoying as hell to watch him walk straight into that

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January 14, 2025 6:55 pm

Who can stop Giannis when he gets back in? Key

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January 14, 2025 7:05 pm
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No one.

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January 14, 2025 7:06 pm

Starting to think Mark Jones isn’t capable of calling a game straight up. He seems to lean on increasingly ridiculous metaphors because he literally cannot call an NBA game without them.

God I miss Bill King.

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January 14, 2025 7:08 pm
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The only thing that can stop him is a restraining order!!!

It’s just tired. He is terrible

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January 14, 2025 7:42 pm
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I only miss Grant! A breath of fresh air in media. No filter.
Had no issue calling out players,
coaches, ownership, GM’s etc.

He was the best. A hardcore fan. But not a tiring homer.
Met him while he was living in Miami.

Love that guy. Will always support him.

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January 14, 2025 8:51 pm
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I “met” Grant inside the media cafeteria in Arco back in the 90’s, long story, but short version I didn’t know I’d be be down there and dressed like a normal fan in a Kings T-shirt instead of more professional attire. Anyway, he basically berated me at the table I sat at, “I guess they let anyone in here nowadays.” The dude is an ass, he was an ass on the radio, an ass on twitter and an ass in person.

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January 14, 2025 7:15 pm
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Luckily S T R E A M E A S T has the Bucks broadcast crew tonight.

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January 14, 2025 7:24 pm
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I could have used the Bucks broadcast on League Pass. I usually have the game fairly low volume, but his voice was piercing my ears tonight for some reason.

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January 14, 2025 7:11 pm

Oh well, it is what it is. If someone told me the Kings would go 2-1 on this road trip, I would’ve gladly taken that. Just get ready and rested for the game against Houston Thursdays (on national TV too). Just not our night tonight.

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January 14, 2025 7:12 pm

Why are the starters still in?

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January 14, 2025 7:12 pm

Sabonis only had 9FG attempts?

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January 14, 2025 7:22 pm

Over the last decade no player has owned the Kings more.

Giannis 17 wins
Kings 1

That’s all Folks. Dbl him triple him. He will beat that azz every single time.

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January 14, 2025 7:24 pm
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We haven’t won at Milwaukee since 2015.

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January 14, 2025 7:25 pm

No size…no length…it matters…wings still needed. What happened to I. Jones?

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January 14, 2025 8:24 pm

Can we pretend this game been postponed and be ready for the Houston game?!

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