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Oct 17, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; Sacramento Kings forward DeMar DeRozan (10) is defended by Los Angeles Clippers guard Jordan Miller (11) and guard Amir Coffey (7) during the third quarter of NBA preseason game at Intuit Dome. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images
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Fox with 2 quick fouls. might need Keon tonight to guard Harden.
Why?
Harden getting dogshit non-foul calls. Must be a day that ends in Y.
Amazing that the league condones this.
Gonna be a long night, fellas.
I’m optimistic.
Brown made no substitutions on that time-out. Clippers have mismatches in their favor everywhere.
now Keon is in
So Harden is gonna get the starting five to foul out by the second quarter
Lack of defense + fouls called on every clipper miss means the Kings are cooked in this game.
Can’t be giving up 30 points a quarter
30 points in 9 minutes
11 (and counting) from free throws.
Monk bodied on that layup – no call.
Domas just got swatted in the face on a layup, also no call.
He meeds to grow an unkempt beard, that might change his luck.
Regarding the Powell foul, how can that be a shooting foul when nobody in the entire freaking league shoots like that?
They gotta change that type of Olay next season. Offensive players just putting their arms where the defender has their hands. Offensive player created the contact, should be an offensive foul.
Keon with two quick fouls also. could tonight be an opportunity for someone else on the bench?
Colby? Hope not.
He’s in Stockton now (where he should be for an extended period of time).
Looking at something…ah, there it is. Scott Foster game. That explains a lot.
Kings can’t defend the 3 point shot, again..too easy
Kings playing the refs again.
2016 Harden out here. What a killer to end that quarter.
Fox missing everything inside 10 feet, careless with the ball. I appreciate the guy, but I’m kind of over him at this point.
Kings look like a better team to me in between the moments the are refs escorting the Clippers to the line
Another Monk no call? WTF
Batum went straight up, which I think he is allowed to do even in the restricted area.
Will the refs eventually swallow the Clipper whistles and start calling random things for us in order to balance the FTs, as they usually do?
someone should go right at Powell
This Harden and Powell foul-hunting stuff is such a bastardization of the game. Terrible to watch.
It’s been a problem in the league for seemingly two decades now.
Trey needs to figure it out soon.
Trey is a large negative on the court this year.
Kings continue to get little from the bench outside of Monk and their 3PT shooting is dreadful
Trey’s 3 is broken right now. run some plays for Keon
Kings first 3 of the game came on their first possession. Their second came at 5:22 in the second quarter.
Powell gonna injure himself with how hard he tries to sell fouls with these flops to the floor.
The Harden iso game is very cringe.
Making FTs at the expense of making 3pts
Kings need type of sacrifice for their bad 3pt shooting.
Powell hitting off balance contested 3’s and the Kings just keep missing wide open corner 3’s
It’s never enjoyable to watch the mobbed up ref work games.
All 3 are terrible. They need to be reprimanded
Kings are 2-16 from 3, and only down 6. They gotta figure out how to make 3s during half time.
Or abandon it for shots they can actually make (15-22 inside the arc).
ooh boy, that 1st half was rough.
Very ugly….but only down 6 at least.
That feels like at least the 5th time already this season alone where we see an end of quarter possession end with Fox driving into the lane just to have the ball stolen away from him
early fouls got in their heads.
Worst officiated half I’ve seen this year. Kings are better than the Clips on the floor but not with the whistle. Kings creating tons of great looks and playing solid defense. The whistle and the three ball has so far been the difference with this game. Get a couple more shots to fall in the next half and I’m taking the Kings.
Foster trying to get the under to pay
make or miss league …
not sure there is an ounce of offensive consistency to Keegan’s game
we can talk about his defensive progression, but its been met with offensive stagnation, and statistical regression since his rookie year
Lemme guess….it’s imprint.
maybe a little… Imprint is motor, though I think Keegan has a naturally better one than Fox his aggression could also hold him back to not being a factor offensively in his career
I utterly disagree
on what? him regressing offensively statistically since his rookie year or his glaring inconsistency on that end?
Fox has a 0 to 4 assist to turnover ratio thus far.
Powell and refs immediately back on their bullshit
l think Jerry Buss had a huge amount of money in trust fund to perpetuate the referees screwing the Kings for eternity.
It has nothing to do with the Kings. All the referees taking bribes from dead people.
Rebounds are the difference. Clippers are out rebounding us and have more second chance points. The correlation is magical.
If they don’t overturn that bullshit, Mike needs to promptly get himself ejected, and then fined for his postgame comments.
Bring out the laptop again!!!
I’d make the entire presser about how shitty these refs are. Maybe even discuss Foster’s game fixing.
Foster is the one cashing checks from the Buss secret trust fund?!
I knew it!
Nah, bookies.
Here we go Hunter hunting and gets the foul now Brown calling out the Refs corruption.
Clippers entire offensive identity is just Harden/Powell taking turns at foul baiting on every possession. Insufferable type of basketball to watch
Should be easy to beat.
This type of foul calling is not true to the spirit of the game. It’s an exploitation of a technicality and should be eradicated.
Ok. I see it.
Very tough to win against a team that gets these kinds of crazy calls.
FU Scott Foster
Get rebounds. Play with a physical presence. Shoot the ball.
High school strategy to beat bad referees.
Maybe the Clipper fans think the referees suck too?
Kevin getting sporty on the D
Hardon is nowhere near as good when you don’t buy his flops.
He sells them cheap though. Every one is buying.
That’s why he sucks in the playoffs. They don’t call this shit.
We are killing them with points in the paint. Let Sabonis do what he does.
Stop jacking up threes guys.
I know it’s a team wide issue but it’s especially rough seeing how poor Keegan’s been from 3PT. Thats a part of his game this team is relying on and it just continues to not be there at all
It’s basically the entire team this season. It’s an epidemic
We are crushing them in the paint. The box score doesn’t lie. That is Keegan and Sabonis.
Thank god I sold these tickets. This has been a piss poor played game by the Kings.
2/20 from 3PT. My god
How about Sabs shoot some threes… Zubac is camping.
Someone was saying earlier that this team is great at defense because the other team only shoots 000.98% when Pluto was a planet but since Pluto is now a gas ball the other team only scores 44.9876% from the third speck of paint on the left elbow.
Is that still holding true?
Down 2 or 3 and they miss open 3’s on multiple possessions and are back down by 8 immediately again.
so … I discovered a couple movie gems this week …
Let’s go Demar and Monk. Get us back
Who is Powell and why is scoring at will?
He might be from Pluto.
Damn it!
Can we draft guys from there too?
Bicycle Thieves is amazing. a classic that I recently watched for the first time. worthy of the label – classic.
Need to get Fox back in for Keon so the score stays within reach.
Kings ain’t bringing it tonight.
The game is in reach. This is a typical third quarter. Nothing out of hand.
would be nice to see a turnaround … I’ll keep watching.
Two decades of this. You got one more in you.
Good to see Derozan go at Harden. Nobody else is doing it.
the other recent find is Wes Anderson’s first. and Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson’s first also. Bottle Rocket. fun flick.
That got heavy rotation on HBO when it first came out.
Maybe somebody should yell at the others again. That seems to be one of the few things that wakes the team up to get them to start trying.
Whenever I hear anything about the opponent going to the bench I feel jealousy consume my soul.
What is it like to have a bench to go to?
If they lose tonight it’ll be because they literally shot only 10% from 3.
Two no calls on made shots for Domas and Demar, Domas called for a touch foul on defense. At least try to hide it, guys.
I Venmoed the wrong ref. Sorry guys.
Harden to the bench. Kings gotta erase the deficit now
We emptied the floor too.
Sabonis can only rest for one play. Need him back in now.
This team puts no pressure on 3pt shooters. It’s actually impressive to see how little they try to disrupt shots.
I’m totally fine if Keon tries to go one-on-one again tonight. tonight would be the night for that.
1 v 1 is not going to win.
I mean, I’d be okay if he gets aggressive on offense. It’s because tonight is weird already. The Kings have not been playing well all game. They are off. Not expecting them to all of the sudden start hooping.
We are ok. We can win. It is ok.
They can! Give them 4-6 more 3s and a better whistle and we’re talking about how this has been one of the Kings most dominant wins of the season. I firmly believe LAC is being outplayed – one quarter to prove it.
It is in reach. Don’t worry about the whistle. Clippers think it is garbage too.
If the Kings shot 30% from 3 instead of 10%, they would be up by 7 now. Fox made the first one then 1/19 since.
Not a typical third quarter. That was the only quarter the Kings won tonight. We can with the fourth as well.
Between execution, the clipper’s referees, and the bricks from all the open 3 shots… The Kings are in this horrible game because of effort.
Shoot the ball from three harder and higher. More effort.
Naw just dunk!
Worked.
I’m still not convinced Brown needed that extension when he got it.
If Brown had a bench would he be more likeable to you?
Would they still refuse to defend the 3 like this bench and starting unit has for 3 seasons? If so, then no.
That requires a complete rebuild. Currently two players willing to do it.
Sounds good to me.
Get within 2-3….back down 8. Been the story for most of the game now
2-21 from three is a little more than an “ugly” aspect of the game Kayte. It’s f-ing horrendous. It’s a train wreck insides of a dumpster fire.
THREE POSSESSION KAYTE IN THE HOUSE
Kings App. Radio Feed. Free. No complaints.
Doesn’t sync with pirate feed but gee thanks for the tech tip.
It is free without pirating anything. That isn’t going to get any street cred though.
You have to refresh the pirate video often, so you can’t sync it without hanging yourself from a tree.
Does the kings app radio feed work out of state?
It is an app. They play the 1140 feed.
I tried streaming from 1140 website and it didn’t work. Guess I will try the app
It is either the Kings app or the G1 center app. The icon on my phone is the Kings logo.
Can’t trade 2 for 3s
Missing the Black Falcon right now.
One foot in yesterday, one foot in tomorrow, pissing on today.
Jimmer made a few threes?
I can’t stop staring
The void space in the middle
Cannot be denied.