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Feb 22, 2024; Sacramento, California, USA; San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) controls the ball against Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) during the first quarter at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports
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Monk out. This is why they signed McLaughlin, right? Emergency minutes in case of injury. See what he can do the next 2 weeks.
yup
Sochan is sporting quite a hairdo
Monk out at least the next 2 weeks.
Wemby shooting 28% from 3PT so of course he’s a quick 2/2 tonight
Doesn’t help that Domas is leaving him wide open at the top of the key in transition
I loathe watching this team shoot 3s instead of getting to the basket.
Kings 3PT shooting update early on today: More airballs than makes.
It’s gotta be mental now, right? Nobody is shooting well from 3.
and Huerter has more steals both of those stat categories
How much does it change a player’s shot when they add muscle/weight?
I asleep because Keegan has added weight and his 3pt% has gone down from season 1, to season, to season 3 as the muscle/weight has increased.
De’Aaron got his one made three, now we get to see him chuck 8 more bricks without ever getting within 5 feet of the basket
Wemby got to do his cute little 3 point display but the Spurs have not been able to score since that early flurry. Sloppy with the ball, confused on offense, young and inexperienced. Kings are clearly the better team.
They don’t care about winning games. Obviously tanking. No structure for Wemby or the offense, just basically getting reps for the future.
Yup. Kings need to take care of business.
Wemby gonna really struggle trying to get to his spots in the mid range with Domas defending him. The strength difference is just too much
Was about to comment about how ridiculous Keegan on Wemby looked…and then we got a steal off him.
Once CP3 hits the bench, Spurs have no legit facilitator out there and that offense just becomes a mess. Kings getting a whole bunch of batted passes/steals
Tre Jones would help with that, but he is injured.
Do most of the Kings 3pt shots look flat? They look flat to me. Not just tonight, but most of the season.
With Monk out 2+ weeks, Keon really cannot keep passing up open looks. He needs to shoot it
You kidding me? Wemby shooting 28% from deep and he’s hitting 30+ ft 3’s this whole half vs the Kings because of course he is
Should we expect anything different?
This isn’t even a Kings typical perimeter defense issue vs him though. They got guys defending him, he’s just pulling up and shooting 30+ foot 3’s anyway and so far is hitting all of them
Exactly, some opponent tends to have a hot night against the kings
EVERY shitty 3 point shooter has career nights against the Kings. It’s insane.
Our stellar perimeter defense strikes again.
One of my favorite things about Mike Brown is he wears Vans to the game. 😉
Arguably my only favorite thing about him.
It’s like groundhog’s day watching every team shoot 40-50% from three against the Kings. I guess this is who they will be all season.
I’m sure the broadcast team will remind us that Brown is an astute defensive mind. ????
It is crazy the difference between what constitutes for Sabonis v. against Sabonis
another end of quarter collapse.
This team just makes so many mental errors; bad passes, dribbling into heavy traffic, miscommunications on D lead to the obligatory wide open shot every possession
Kings down at the half but I’m still not really worried about them losing this game at all
Horrible take
Rough half for Keegan
Him, Huerter, and Ellis need to step up. On the other hand, Lyles seems to have started to figure it out.
Keegan is playing scared. Hopefully someone lights a fire under his a$$
It’s more than a trend.
Spurs at 11 3pt makes at half. They average 12 per game!
They average 37 attempts per game, and they are already at 23.
The word is out on the Kings. They don’t defend the 3.
I don’t care who you have on the floor for offense because it means nothing if you don’t defend.
The word has been out on the Mike Brown school of perimeter defense for 3 seasons now.
Definitely believe there is truth to this.
Kings just leave their guys wide open to give unnecessary help
Kings are going to 3PA their way to a 20pt deficit.
These Kings 3PT attempts aren’t even close man. They look like they’re trying to break the rim with these misses
They need to hire a shooting coach or 4.
Paul’s such a tool, De’Aaron pulls that shit and he’s lucky if he doesn’t get ejected
So what, do the Kings have three players that Brown refuses to play or what? This would be a good night to go a little deeper on the bench. One would think.
Postgame clip: “We just didn’t come into this game properly prepared”
“We needed to take 10-15 more 3s tonight”
While the reality is 15 fewer a game would be so much better.
Just pathetic. Can they score sometime or what? I am so ready for Keegan and or Huerter to be traded. Keegan can’t shoot. 10+ games is more than enough of a sample size.
We have a 167 game sample size on Murray.
Almost everyone is tradable on this play-in bound lottery team.
Disagree about the almost.
Well, I’d like to see them build properly around Sabonis.
It all started with a charge
The Kings are rebuilding the Alamo tonight with all these bricks.
Thus why the Kings need defensive wings to keep games close while in offensive lulls
Yep.
Trey Lyles doesn’t have any redeeming qualities at this point
Hasn’t had much since the playoff year.
Kings got lucky last night vs Suns coming back from down 8 or 9 under 4 mins to go. Can they do the same tonight?
It’s going to be like this all season unless the teams gets an upgrade. A lot of close games with the Kings pulling out a win vs a good team and lots of disappointing loses against bad teams.
Just wait until we run it back, yet again next year. Assuming McNair isn’t canned this offseason (which I wouldn’t mind).
No chance. He’ll get until the end of next season at minimum.
I do think if the Kings miss the playoffs and McNair makes one major change or fewer (which seems like sort of his thing) he will lose his job at the end of next season.
Well the celing on this team isn’t very high given the can’t-shoot-3s, can’t-defend-3s, have-no-bench situation.
They absolutely shot themselves out of this game by continuing to take 3-pointers.
4th quarter plan: take more threes!
Give the ball to Demar every f’in time. Tired of the 3 ball jacking
Not having Monk hurts. McLaughlin and McDermott are actually productive when they play. That is a good sign.
Devin Carter can’t get healthy fast enough
I don’t expect him to move the needle much, and certainly not from 3.
His on ball defense will. Mark it down now
I expect him to be about as much of a contributor as Davion. So the bar is very low.
Kings need to make a Dallas Gafford/Washington Jr. type move.
Bless Kayte’s heart for continuing to pretend that Brown is a defensive coach.
Fox finally drives into the paint… straight into Wemby. Face-palm.
This F-ing shit show of a team is embarrassing.
Curious to hear the excuses after this loss.
Kayte still has 8 minutes to get them going. Just wait.
3-pt shooting league.
San Antonio has twice the assists we have.
Wonder how that hurts us?
Pick any coach and the defense stays exactly the same.
The West is too damn stacked to lose games like this one. Just pathetic.
Most coaches would have the team play to it’s strengths, but Mike Brown isn’t most coaches.
He did during his first season in Sacramento.
Alright folks, time for football. Have a good night.
yeah, all one has to do is look at the way the Kings closed out the 1st half. game over.
“Sometimes you are going to hit a team on an on-night from 3” -Kayte
That’s every night for the Kings. Stop homerism and excuses. Call the poor defense out. That’s what analysts do. Analyze the game, not make excuses.
Can’t stand her. The gloating is ridiculous. I don’t know why they couldn’t hire someone else. I would love to see Ron Artest or Mitch Richmond take her job.
In league pass I just listen to the opponents NBA broadcast feed. Rather listen to them.
Huerter get hurt or just played poorly? Haven’t seen him much in the 2nd half.
Was not getting it done. Hopefully that is all it is.
Come on Mark, Kayte has something to say. Lol
…she literally just interrupted him.
Hard to win in the NBA if you can’t defend the three and are a bad three point shooting team, but that was the design.
Down 16 with 1:30 left in the 4th and Brown has Domas, Fox, DeRozan still in the game, and it’s a back-to-back. Just makes no sense. Says he wants to lower their minutes, yet here we are.
Destroying us in assists and rebounds.
Funny how that equals a loss in the fourth grade and the NBA.
4 Kings players in the top-11 for minutes played per game this season in the NBA.
We had seven players and now we have six. The trend is not going to change.
Huh? I was referring to minutes played per game in the NBA. Looks like the Kings have 4 of top 10. No idea what you’re talking about.
We play the four players more than anyone else because there is nobody to back them up.
Keegan and Huerter are useless. Trade for Jerami Grant, Lauri, LaVine, Kuzma, Cam Johnson, DFS, etc. Don’t care who. None of them other than DFS because of skill set and usage, will crap the bed against inferior competition the way they do. Let someone else pay Keegan. 3 f’in boards? That’s it. No steals, blocks, assists? Good bye please
Grant, Kuzma are most likely. Avail. Kuzma is out with injury.
Grant is empty stats. Has never been a winner and would not be an upgrade over Keegan. Grant’s D is pretty bad. Grant would make the Kings D even worse.
Kings cannot get Lavine, Lauri without going well into the second apron.
Nets are not ready to do anything.
i don’t think Cam is avail. Same for DFS.
why would they. They are a playoff team in the East. East is weak this year.
Like I said before. I see Fox getting moved at some point. I see Miami, Hou, Pels,
Spurs, as possibiltles.
You’re not getting much of anything for Keegan or Huerter. Keegan has literally regressed. Huerter is a defensive sieve.’inconsistent offensive production.
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