The Sacramento Kings embarrassed the Charlotte Hornets tonight, putting up 140 points on the Eastern Conference playoff hopefuls. Richaun Holmes recorded his first career 20-point, 20-rebound game, De’Aaron Fox put up another encouraging performance, Davion Mitchell was his usual impactful self, and well, everyone played well!
We’ll have a full recap posted tomorrow, but for now, let’s celebrate!
well, that was fun
Kings with a sweet win vs the Hornets!
The Sacramento Kings 5 guards, Fox-Haliburton-Hield-Mitchell-Davis played 132 minutes and scored 88 points, shooting 31-57 from the field (16-32 from the arc), 10-10 from the line, 15 rebounds, and 22 assists. That was so much fun to watch. Devastated the Hornets.
PLAYs of the night…
Metu for 3……….and love the bench reaction
Should’ve shown the buddy shrug after the bank
Boy, it is really fun when your team comes out and just CRUSHES the opponent for a full 48 minutes. Well, maybe 42 minutes but close enough.
Time to dance!
It was a wire to wire win and excellent to watch!
Back over .500 again!
And we beat a team that was over .500 (at least until we beat them)!
Lol, Metu and Jones got in, not Bags. Cold World.
I saw Marvin up cheering enthusiastically for for Metu when he hit his three. Good for that young man. Shows a lot of character to to be happy for your teammate in that moment.
He was cheering throughout the game whenever there was a highlight play. It’s great to see him supporting his teammates.
Richaun Freaking Holmes, 23 & 20!
Happy for him.
A no-nonsense, humble guy, who knows his strength and limitations, works hard each game, plays within himself and within the team concept.
It looked like Fox also played within himself a bit more, staying patient and not trying to force matters.
As others pointed out, Buddy seems to be finding his role and also seems to have caught up the most to Davion’s aggressive style of D. Really fun to see.
Barnes is Barnes, a solid, veteran poresence. He may regress to the mean a bit more, but still very valuable.
Harkless is plus when his shots fall, still looks like a placeholder to me. Same goes for Davis.
Len brings size and physicallity. Good role player.
But Davion and Tyrese, these guys are so fun to watch. They are the future of this team, and that future looks promising. I didn’t expect Davion’s offense to be at the level it is, and hsi lack of size doesn’t hinder him one bit. Amazing.
And Tyrese, just seeing that BBIQ shining. Love it.
Fun game on so many fronts. Very good defense, great shooting, too many turnovers and questionable shot selection at times, and there seems to be a lot of growth still available to this team.
When your Net Rtg increases by 3.5 points after one game, A) it means it’s super early and B) you whooped the shit outta the other guy.
I’ll take it.
Richaun Holmes is 10th in the NBA in PER at 25.61.
Pretty amazing.
Barnes is No. 22
I was horrified in the off-season that Charlotte might put out a big offer to Holmes, but they traded for plumlee on draft night and spent their money. Their loss and our gain.
I can’t for the life of me understand why Richaun never really got a chance until he got to Sacramento. Every time I watched him play for Philly and Phoenix I kept thinking he looked pretty good and the team played better when he was out there. He’s on a 4 year deal and it already looks like a steal. I just love that guy.
maybe Holmes is not tall enough to play against those BIGs………?
But his energy just outplayed those Bigs
He is plenty tall enough for the current NBA game. He neutralizes taller players length with his elevation skills.
He’s essentially on a 3 year 33M deal FKC. (The last year is a player option.) Stick that in your noodle and let it roll around a little.
That deal is pretty incredible. I would love to find out if another team offered him a similar or larger deal last year in free agency. If not, a lot of GM’s were asleep at the wheel. He’s so obviously a very good player. John Hollinger is already pushing the Richaun Holmes all star band wagon which won’t happen but the fact somebody even brought it up is pretty amazing.
If Jamaal Magloire can make it once, Richaun can do it.
There’s no shame in being a one-time all star.
And, Sam Lacey….a product of the Kings elongated organization.
Hey, thanks for your in game notes from GC1, much appreciated.
Richaun is doing it, it’s just a question if the NBA and it’s fans recognize his skills, production and team emphasis.
Thank You Dr. and Mr. Holmes!
Just guessing but I think most teams were scared away for one reason or another. But there wasn’t a ton of money out there (for Holmes) and that hurt Holmes as well.
Really, I think alot of teams are wary of his career ending due to injury. Similar to Isaiah Thomas in a way.
Also means that Monte judged the market perfectly on Richaun and the decision he had to make prior to the deadline.
For me, Monte is starting to rack up quite a few W’s in the “competent GM” category and maybe, just maybe, we should all take a deep breath and give him a touch of runway with instituting what might actually be a coherent plan.
Hali & Davion have definitely made me trust him when it comes to the draft.
Kenny Thomas is also pushing the All-Star bandwagon.
If he’d played college ball at Michigan State or Duke instead of Bowling Green, he’d have had a lot more attention. People around the league assumed he was bench filler (including most Sac fans, including me, when he was signed) because he didn’t have the blue-chip pedigree. He will spend his entire career making everyone who wrote him off for being a “low-D1” prospect look like a fool.
Nate Thurmond went to Bowling Green. Those who wrote him off are paying the price, as you noted. Fun to watch him, no?
When he got here he was playing behind “dead man” Dedmon, who for whatever reason really stunk. Holmes played well enough to steal his job and gained confidence and hasn’t looked back. Who know if this would have happened if Dedmon wasn’t so bad.
Lots of encouraging stuff, who knows where it leads without larger sample size, but to me the most encouraging part is that the Kings are 9 games in and haven’t gotten blown out or embarrassed once. Every game they have had a chance.
That’s actually real progress.
And just think if we have a better coach.
And three of those losses were to the Jazz and Warriors, who have the biggest point differentials in the league. The Kings are the only team the Jazz have not beat by double figures. The Kings are just flat out more competitive than we have seen in years.
And De’Aaron Fox isn’t going nuts either.
Such satisfying basketball to watch across the board. Can’t ask for a much better start with the schedule. If fox catches his stride they can string wins together!
Imagine what could’ve been if anyone but Bagley was picked with that No. 2 pick. Even an MPJ pick there would be genius by this time. Oh well.
KINGS ACTUALLY CLOSED A GAME RIGHT AND WON BIG!!!
Is this real life? I’m very afraid of what comes next, especially KANGZ.
I’m happy for now. I’ll worry about the rest of the season later.
I’ve spent a few years grousing over who we could have picked instead of Bagley or who we could have traded down for and still wound up with better talent but the silver lining here might be that the drafting of Bagley got us a new GM. Without McNair we probably don’t get Halliburton or Mitchell. Today, I’m okay with it.
It’s been nice to see the franchise put Bagley on ice, despite how it may look. Winners don’t give minutes to undeserving players for the sake of “development” or “showcasing,” and the team has apparently decided to finally act like a winner. Also, it’s pretty telling that Bagley was starting near the end of his rookie year and now can’t sniff the court. Assuming he hasn’t gotten worse at basketball over that time, this means the team’s talent level has gone up so much that a former starter isn’t worth garbage-time minutes anymore. Not bad.
Luke Walton, evidently has no idea what constitutes a foul, and what doesn’t. Do they even have a protocol for determining when or what to challenge? None is apparent.
TBF: Referees often also seem to have “no idea what constitutes a foul, and what doesn’t.”
Happy dance!!!!
Keep looking at Celts. Getting pretty obvious that Celts are probably gonna trade either Jaylen or Tatum. Kings likely have enough with some two-player combo of Fox, Barnes, Hield and a first. Do you go for it?
Haliburton and Fox conjuring J-Will and keeping the no look alive and well in Sactown.
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