{"id":20394,"date":"2022-11-07T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2024-04-28T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T14:19:09","slug":"kings-vs-warriors-preview-san-fran-sans-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/articles\/kings-vs-warriors-preview-san-fran-sans-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings vs. Warriors Preview: San Fran, Sans Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s game night in the Bay Area as the Sacramento Kings, winners in three of their last four games, square off against a Golden State Warriors squad who hasn’t won a game in their last five tries. Surviving their previous contest against a young, superstretched Orlando squad, the Kings are now facing off against one of the older starting units in the league. Can De’Aaron Fox continue the best start of a season in his NBA career? How will Keegan Murray respond to the worst game of his rookie campaign? How far into attempting to find humor in the Green-Poole situation do I lose access to the non-denominational afterlife? Let’s not push it far enough to find out, but let’s do talk about some Kings basketball!<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Monday, November 7th, 2022, 7:00 PM PT
\nWhere:<\/strong> Chase Center, San Francisco, CA
\nTV:<\/strong> NBC Sports California
\nRadio:<\/strong> Sactown Sports 1140<\/p>\n

For Your Consideration<\/h3>\n

Only Human:\u00a0<\/strong>I missed all but the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against the Magic and as such, I missed all of Keegan Murray’s minutes. Mike Brown’s decision not to play Keegan in the final frame of the game is his to make – they won in overtime on an improbable buzzer beater from Fox<\/a> so hey, a W is a W… I am, however, curious to see tonight’s allotment of play time for young Keegan. After playing a team high 39 minutes against the Memphis Grizzlies in the fourth game this season, poor Keegan has basically lost 4 minutes of playing time a game coming into tonight. Dialing back from 39 minutes for your rookie is only natural, but when you start getting into 24 minutes a game against the worst team in the East, the muscles in the very corner of just one of my eyebrows begin to lift. Yes, the Kings are claiming they’re in a playoff hunt this season, so, hey, the coaching staff is going to do what they have to do to win. Yes, Keegan has struggled of late too, shooting 32% from the field and just 25% from deep in his last three games. But those triggering thoughts from Kangz of old tell me that confidence and playing time for young players can be a feedback loop that ends in disaster. Kid starts off a game slow, he gets yanked early, he tries to make up for it and overdoes it, gets yanked late. Starts off the next game trying to make up for last game and winds up getting yanked early… on and on it goes.<\/p>\n

Now do I expect that for a kid as calm and collected as Keegan seems to be? No. Would I expect that from a coaching staff that has only ever given Keegan the utmost praise? Probably not. But, the kid was the 4th pick in the draft, was an above average starter in those first four games of his career and is by far and away the best option the Kings have at his position. Not a single minute or so could be found in the 4th\/OT for the kid to cut his teeth in a pressure situation?<\/p>\n

This is by no means a THING – probably won’t ever, but definitely not yet. We’re heading into Sacramento’s ninth game of the season and there’s still a lot in flux obviously with playing time, rotations etc. It’s just a curiosity, something of interest that I’ll pay a little extra attention to tonight and then forget it was ever even a worry.<\/p>\n

Prediction<\/h3>\n

Mike Brown plays The Keeganator 42 minutes, he shoots 15-17 from the field and someone screenshots and crops this preview somewhere that makes me look like a hater and posts it to Twitter. 4 likes, 2 retweets – half of those are from their burner.<\/p>\n

Kings: 118 (+50 good vibes points), Warriors: 112 (+250 abyss stares back damage)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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