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Loving this game!

would be a huge win

Anyone know if cousins coming back?

Hoping Reke will turn it on.
Were are getting that they are missing shots.
Salmons gotta make that shot.

I knew that shot by salmons was going to miss as soon as he dribbled around like he always does, fkn salmons always does that dumb move and always misses.

Loving watching Pop get upset. That is a great sign.
Reke is on tonight!
uh oh too much dribbling there, Reke
Thorton did great on that break
foul that man!
Defense

Is the best offense

What did we do wrong?
3 defenders

Something about the way they all went at Duncan i don’t understand it either

Wow tyreke 8 rebounds 6 assists 18 points. That is DAMN GOOD.

Watching Pop get upset is like watching a volcano erupt.

It’s a thing of beauty. All the shades he turns before he pops his lid.

I know he gets all red in the face

Hopefully cousins comes back though, im tired of hicksons bad shots, and could use cousins offensive rebounding. Also they are missing a LOT of 3s, maybe we should go to the zone D in the 4th qrt. Frustrate them and make them continue shooting those ugly 3s.

Kimberley Crawford just broke my eardrums.
WHAT BALL MOVEMENT!!
salmons for 3?!?!
lol, come on salmons
This is how we pass people. :)
Add a rebound for Tyreke...

Andddd an assist

no

no no no no no no no no no

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
There's 10 rebounds for Tyreke
Wowie. Looking for the pass, I like, but

Keep control.

Reke gets to the line
Tyreke

Got away with an over and back

Ah well

They got away with shit too.

Pop is so pissed. Love it.
And now Cousins only has 3 fouls going in to the 4th
How was THAT not over the cylinder?
Looked like it was to me.

I was extremely surprised when the whistle wasn’t blown

This has been a dandy folk

12 more minutes of good SMART basketball and we win this game

Not complaining, but I would be more comfortable with more cushion in the game
This is where we put nails in the coffin.

NAILS!

Anyone else notice how many great outlet passes JT has made tonite?
16 Ast

Through 3 Quarters

Seems like all the action is back over at thread I

Tyrekes playing his heart out there, so many boards, so many dishes and drives just omg!. If his team made those open shots from his passes and made his ft’s like he normally does he would have at least 20-10-10 right now. That is incredible.

Keep it up Kings
3 quarters led. Now for the one that counts...
I hope these refs don't let the Spurs back into the game this quarter.
See Evans

All that off-season practicing shooting and in-game you go back to the same old crap.

Sweet Jimmer if we actually won this game (long shot now) we'd end their home win streak
Um... DMC only played 17 minutes so far?

Please tell me he didn’t get hurt…

He did. But I bet he'll return.
Then I won't tell you...
He did

but he’s back in

Took an elbow to the head from Blair
Crap, crap, crap
that would have been perfect if IT's 3 had gone in
damn

keep it together Kings

Donte no shot there?
Cuz was out too long.
but the good news is he got some sense knocked into him
Good foul there.
cmon Smart wtf get Salmons out of there
Spurs haven't led yet have they?
Not at all the entire game
FUCK. And now it begins
first lead of the game

goddamnit

never been a fan of Thomas :|
wut
Correction

I was just never as excited as everyone was. I remember the days when people went haywire over Justin WIlliams.

Oh. Phew. Cuz is fine.

Why did he get so few minutes tonight though? Foul trouble?

He was elbowed in the head by Kawhi Leonard. And was in PF trouble.

Got smacked in the head and had to go to the locker room. + 3 fouls
Foul trouble and he got hit in head by Blair

Was it really that beautiful Spurs announces? Tyreke has done that 5 times already..

At least the Spurs arena plays good music.
I was about to say, put Thompson in

but he’s sitting to come in

Shots refuse to go in.
Smart TO if they score?
Splitter just out-DMCed DMC

there getting out played by scrubs.

there is no way Bonner could guard that
JUMP BALL?! The fuck?
give me JT please

Hey cool, just foul him Spurs. It won’t get called anyways.

Foul Foul Foul
If only the kings had an average SF, i say 2 more wins at least.
Cuz gotta follow through on the move can't wait for the call
cousins got raked on the elbow

come on fuckin refs

lol at Spurs homer announcers
Haha I was thinking same thing.

They’re ridiculous

Lol wtf just happened
You guys know more than I do, seems to me Cousins basket should count.

What am I missing?

Welcome to the NBA.

(Not as in you don’t know anything, more so that the refs royally fuck the Kings, no pun intended).

Jump ball called first.
I thought they called it after Cousins hit the shot. Could be wrong.
Refs called a jump ball
Refs hate us + DMC = basket doesn't count
Don't hate us just don't respect us
If the shot was blocked it should be a jump ball.

If he was hit in the arm that should be free throws.
If he wasn’t touched at all then it should be traveling, but obviously that didn’t happen so ignore the Spurs announcers.

Or maybe it's not obvious. I didn't see the replay.
At first I thought he was getting called for a travel, then I thought he got fouled and then I thought they let him make the shot

short answer I don’t know

he got fouled but then called a jump ball.

Oh man we gotta close this game out! I will be devastated if we lose this game after a solid performance.

That was most definitely a travel, let's be real.

We got lucky they called a jump ball

Did you miss the arms hitting cousins when he was trying to shoot?

Are or are you blind? I know Ray Charles was, what’s your excuse?

/Snark

except he got fouled on his way to the travel.

I'm sorry, are your volunteering for the post-game pitchfork victim position?
Sure, why not

I have been rooting for the Spurs this year because I go to SDSU

I have Tim Duncan's face tattooed on my face

You either go big with your Spurs fandom or you go home!

Well this is weird
Kings SHOULD win this game...

Now it’s time for them to finish it!

We are getting absolutely SCREWED FROM THE REFS! So many fouls against us, omfg. We gotta go back to what worked, moving the ball and getting tyreke and thornton to the basket.

This is PATHETIC

First the no call on the hook spin by Splitter

Then the ball got knocked out, NO jump, then DMC gets fouled on the make and the basket is waved off.

THis is AWFUL!

Offensive foul?

It was

Not as in, “WHAT?!?!”, more so, that I missed it.

I think jumping it is the right call
keith smart

decides to play salmons n thorton the majority of the 2nd half while the spurs have managed to turn this into a slow it down half court game. awesome!

kings will lose this game. smart sucks.

these refs sucks.

That was a good call on IT
IT isn't big enough to have offensive fouls
Thank you MT
That was a terrible shot to take.
JT has been in better position tonight
we gotta get this shit
GET THOMAS OUT!

Bad game.

JIMMER

Needs some shooting!

Cold-blooded Thorton comes through
foul cousins some more you losers
Someone remind Splitter this is the NBA and not the MMA
Just heard Thunder out here in Roseville
means it will hit Lincoln soon
Fuck you, Splitter :)
And the Spurs announcer Homers who don't think it can happen.
foul cousins again thats right
Ummm probably should've passed that MT
Cousins to the line - Good
Cuz is a smart kid
come on make a ft though
Gotta hit these FTs

Don’t act like victims Spurs announcers. WTF.

The San Antonio announcers

are awful.

THEY JUST CALLED MATT BONNER

THE RED ROCKET. HAHAHAHA.

That’s his nickname. It’s been his nickname ever since he was a Raptor.

Have you ever seen South Park?

It’s essential for this joke.

Officially the only way he should be addressed from now now
Cousins is in beast mode now
Matt Bonner's face just said exactly that
Fuck these isolation long jumpers.
wow, the red rocket
A guy who's name is 1 letter away from Boner

Shouldn’t be called red rocket

no more IT threes
You would have to think that one of those open 3's would go down...
Tie game incase anyone didn't notice:)
Sweeeeeeet turnover
smart

coaching. kings are moving the ball, hustling on “D”, rebounding…who’d have guessed such a short time ago?

Little man doing it all
nice pass to Thomas by JT, even though he missed :/
im glad i cant hear the spurs announcers some of you gyus are talkin about on that one

I’m deaf in both ears and they’ve found a way to penetrate through the silence. That’s how bad it is.

Poor IT had to take that offense foul
Izzy takes the charge

speeedy little guy

ok ok..... basket time
Finally spurs announcers realize they did something wrong
DMC slipped trying to help Tyreke up
Haha I wanna see that again
hahah saw that
Potential sportsnation jeer
Our poor guys are getting beat up
notice that when a King goes down other Kings are helping him up
Been a trend and a good one. Seems genuine too.
There's no team chemistry!! Trade them all!
Everyone trying to go home sooner.
One thing I've noticed Cuz is really good about
COME ON TYREKE MAKE YOUR SHOTS
To be fair though I don't think he's had a break the entire second half
if we could score we'd be dominating
althuogh i tihnk that philosophy

would work any given game

i also think im' typing way to fast and can't spell

must be anxious

*too

yet another minor spelling error

really just post-count raping myself
Great ball movement there at least
thy just ought to put an octagon under the hoop
F*%& these motherf#&#*# jumpers.
The defense is collapsing, glad Jimmer is in

Hopefully he makes em pay for it.

Take a set fucking three

don’t run around grabbing passes and just jacking it up from wherever someone decided to throw it to you.

Look at that - Bonner and Parker doing just that.
I'm glad Salmons is sitting

Wow open shot missed after open shot missed how the bloody hell are we not making anything?!?!?! Damn these jumpers DRIVE TO THE FKN LANE!!!!!!!!

Could definitely say the same thing about the Spurs though
We're playing good D but we gotta get the ball through the hoop
Kings missing open shots
We have a ball game against a veteran team

Evans is tough as nails, who else?

IT...but he's not in, nor is he having the best of games
IT for sure

DMC too

Salmons! I kid. I kid.
goddamn bonner

we gonna get beaten by bonner

Fucking Red Rocket
Bonner has such an ugly shot
That was poorly contested
Christ. It's raining 3s.
This is reminiscent of the T'Wolves game
nice follow thru by Cuz

And an offensive foul. Fuck, fuck and fuck.

1st three of the season for TP
Are you fucking kidding me?!
offensive foul again omfg

And ANOTHER offensive foul.

Do Thornton's little floaters EVER go in?

Only in his mind.

MT drive me nuts!
Another one. Are you fucking kidding
GAHRHRHRHR

RHRHRHRH

man we were really gonna have this game

spurs were flat

Shit seriously 6 points down NOW?!
Those missed FTs and technicals looks costly right now
smart only has a one year contract.

thank gawd.

It's alright

Salmons will save us

DMC beasting!

Get physical if they wanna get physical!

oh great Salmons in
goddamn at least cousins is pushin some spurs around
and that is a GROWN MAN!!! Fuck yeah DMC!
Cousins scores.

REEEEEEKEEEEEEEEE

CUZ. WHAT A BEAST
FEE FIII FOOO FUMMMM BITCHES DON'T PLAY SMALL AGAINST THE DMC
...

I need to stop cursing in game threads.

I'm like the only one doing it.

Where’s Kfan in Korea? Pookey? What the heck.

Where is Pookey?

I haven’t seen him on the threads lately

He’s always on Twitter.

I can't stop when I'm watching games. I sound like a fucking sailor
If only a sailor
A sailor on leave drunk at a tittie bar?
Aww man. I thought Tyreke was going to add anothe rposter to his collection
There's our Reke!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still doable.
Absolutely, pull that rug out from under them.

Bring on the banana peels and Oranj Cohen

They seriously want to me to pop an artery watching these games

Splitter to the line.

Who wants to cry with me?

My towel is ready
cry?

I’m ready to celebrate! Awful road team, vs. an undefeated home team and we are in it!

Finish this!

Exactly

We OWN this game!
We’re DUE

I cry soda pop. It hurts way too much.

Got a bottle of wine ready to guzzle down in my Kings emergency case

please share! I need some too just incase.

If we win I'm poppin' out the celebration bottle! It's a bit dusty...

Get ready to be 9-1 at home SPURS!

No matter what happens tonight

I’m impressed with the Kings play tonight. Hopefully they can still finish this game and get a W

best game they have played this season regardless of final score
with you on that.
Agreed but I'd love for them to be rewarded for such improved play
Who wants to dance?
No dancing yet!
Not yet, but I'm not ready to bring out the crying towel
Crying towel aka Kings jersey
bamboozled
god what was with that chick?!
Hat to admit it but I don't know how to gif
If you can jimmer you can gif
Teach me how to gif it, teach me how to gif it.

Good Splitter made both. Or else we’d get 3 happy.

No turnovers, no missed shots
OSSIE OSSIE OSSIE

JOHNNY THE FISH

That was a no no no , YES! play by Salmons

Well most of his plays are

me on Salmons shot: NOO!!!!

Woo! It went in!

The Sammy yell. Glad we can unretire that from last year.
Except Salmons never makes it .
HAHA. Me too. Salmons in the clutch.
Reminds me of Dalembert
Huge shot by the fish

WHAT THE FUCK? SALMONS?!

SALMONS!!!!!!!!!!!
Reke is a rebounder
Salmons!!

Great pick up PETRIE!!

ok ok let's close this out
ok children calm down and close the deal
What the what?
What the fuck.

Salmons.

I like this line up

REEEEEKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

we got this!

spurs gonna brick it up

I need to learn another language, I'm running out of curse-words after that last Salmons play!
Fuck just sounds the best
Boyfriend: no no go to the hole Reke! YESSS!!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the Salmons we all have learned to love.
Please play smart guys
EVANSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YA
MOTHER FUCK YEAH!!!!
REEEEKE!!!! HOLD ON KINGS
Well that worked.
Such a big board by Boog
REKE CUZ SALMONS WHO WOULD HAVE FUGGIN THOUGHT
Very important two points right now.
Love the rebounding.
I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.

LETS GO KINGS!

There is still a lot of freaking time on the clock.
TOO much time! We can only get down to about 10 seconds
BEAT S A BEAT SA!!!
I hope Brent Barry isn't walking through that door
PLLLEASE! LETS GO KINGS!
They all look serious
Come on Kings

I have an urge to Dance, so keep it tight

Let's see what Smart has in store
o good kawhi is back
Huge possession to come away with points
That wasn't a foul?
not if refs don't call it
THORNTON YOU DIMWIT YOU HAD CISCO WIDE OPEn
Thornton is shooting 40% on the season.

He is a ballhog, with low bball IQ. He has sucked.

Obviously no foul
NO FUCKING 3'S!!!
should have been a loose board fould
Ah the good old fashioned loose board foul
Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

5.5 seconds

What the fuck was that
Watch out for that Neal guy

If he’s on the floor.

i know they dont call that foul

BUT IT LITERALLY WAS A FUCKING FOUL

i hate this let all calls go at end of game bullshit
foul to give is big
SHIT!

That definitely should have been a loose ball

What is the Spurs home winning streak? 8 games or 9?

im scurrreeeddd

San Antonio was playing Ricky Martin during the last timeout

They’re no longer a NBA city.

Was going to call you a Twitter thief, but that was you on Twitter
Also, horrible play! Come on MT23
I think garcia was wide open
I'm about to piss my pants
OMG longest 5 seconds of my life
KIngs win Amazing

5.5 left. Lets get a stop and please NO 3’S!!!!!!!

im very scared! if anything please dont get a 3. i wouldint mind overtime but dam if they got a 3 it would suck

this is gonna call for some smart play
too nervous! I can't watch!

where’s the smart/salmon bashers?

Stop the effin 3 Kings
Very scary time, very vet team, very good coach
such bullshit

we better win this

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Do we have a foul to give?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

that almost sucked but

FUCK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Whooooo Whoooooooo!!!!!!!!
YEESSS WINN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
MOTHER FUCK YEAH!!

WE JUST ENDED YOUR HOME WINNING STREAK BITCHES!???!!!

PLAYOFF BOUND!!! (LOL)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

KINGS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where's our victory thread?
DANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET’S GO BAMBOOZLE IN THE POST-GAME

Take THAT stupid announcers!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We can all exhale now
Start the dancing gifs on a new thread!
Shitty play Spurs

But just what Kings needed

I don't comment and we win!

2 games in a row.

Never comment again
I'm too superstitious.
BANNED!!!
This means playoffs, right?
you're damn right!
With how often the Kings win, it can't be a coincidence.
If the Kings continue to win, I'll only comment after the before and after the games.

I don’t want banned :’(

haha aww way to take one for the team
Whatever

They tried to piss that one away.

:)

You, you're alright.
One of Reke's best games period
Agreed. Too bad he didnt get the triple dub
Close to a triple double too
23 11rebs 7ast

I’ll take that stat line AND the win

Jesus christ. I'm in shock.

What a fucking game

2 game win streak?!?!
explain what "win streak" means?
I'm still rusty on "win"
Lakers lose, Kings win
Perfect night for bball
DANCE!! YES!!

feels good. feels great

It was less excited with the stupid Spurs announcers
I wish league pass would let you choose which feed you want
It does on direct tv
I want Tyreke to start crying and give Keith Smart a big ol' hug.
Kings are lucky the Spurs missed those shots. Their defense at the end of the game was bad.
Winning ain't luck
Way to go Debbie Downer
Just speaking the truth

Very lucky the Spurs missed those shots.

Great defense the rest of the game.

Enjoy the victory for gods sake

And yeah Cousins sitting out a whole quarter means he's soft.
I would have to ask Grant about that.
Yeah, we can start griping like that when we actually become good.

Right now? Ain’t no wrong way to win!

Especially against a veteran team. It was their game to lose and they did.

It’s on them.

Kings in a roll

Hell yeah. Great win!

I'm waiting for the coaches remarks

Then I’ll all your gifs

Say what you will say

We played a complete game against a great home team!

Great team in general
I wish League Pass showed post game coverage
Poppin champagne tonight bitches!! Where's my five dollars...
that's going to build more confidence
This win feels awesom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!!111!!!
Smart for President
Two game winning streak as well
Still can't get over the no-call on Cisco.

I mean it’s IMPOSSIBLE to miss that BLATANT of a call. It was all for the drama and the home crowd there. That’s what pisses me off about the NBA. They’ll make the ‘wrong’ call for the ‘right’ outcome.

The refs were horrible all night long
I want to see that play again

But it definitely looked like a lot of contact

Gonna say it for the fourth time tonight: Reke's best game

played like a pro

Set up teammates early. Took over later. That's how stars do it.
Time to Bamboooooozllleee the hell out of the celebrate thread!
What a difference COACHING makes!!!
The guys care now

I think that was the major issue. Westphal didn’t have the respect of the team

Yup. He lost their respect.
Dance biatches!!!!
What a game! I don't know what I'm more happy about...2 game winning streak, the win or how the Kings played tonight
Yes. All of the above
First winning streak of the season?
Down the stretch and then...

Clutch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really late to this game but.....

DAAAAAAAANCE!!!!!!

finally understanding the keith SMART system
emphasis on smart
LOL I don't

Please explain it to me.

yeah, it took me a little while too
need to know the SMART system or else kings lose
I think it consists of some passing + dribbling = basketball
I don't understand it, but I can see there is a noticeable improvement
Coach of the year

For Smart IF he can turn this team around and lead them into the playoffs

I'm excited too

but slow down compadre.

Well, he's not wrong.

If he takes THIS team to the playoffs, he’s Coach of the Year.

Coach of the century
Coach of the night!
Ha. Let's just work on coach of the week if he can keep our players from running into each other.
Yup

This win definitely gives this team a boost of confidence. They didn’t buckle under pressure this time and got the win

I am happy that Salmons got it done tonight in the final minutes! He's been out of it a bit but came through when the team needed him
Two miracles back to back for Salmons
definately

i still got some love for salmons… i’m just saving it for when he starts playing better

King's can't afford to not have such a big acquisition not make a difference

whether I like or get the trade or not

Ball movement was great. Shots are starting to go down too. Good to see

Thornton still sticks out like a sore thumb though. That last iso possession was gross.

Piss poor decision to dribble out and take a contested shot at the top of the key
i agree, but lets not get people too angry with thornton now

its been a weird season, fans have went from hating salmons, to wanting to trade tyreke, to hating cousins, and now hating thornton…. we gotta give them a chance

Had his good moments too. He's also very young. He can learn. Has look of great 6th man.
Not me. I still want Salmons to go away. I still want Thornton to play unselfishly. And I still believe the future of this team is in the hands of Tyreke Evans
Three Kings with double-doubles

When was the last time that happened?

Anyone know what the turnover/assist ratio was tonight?
16 ast 14 to

acording to espn box score

16 assists 14 TO's I believe
Westphaul approves

They show us why they are our Kings!!!

Well a little 2 game win streak is nice and great!

Post-Game thread is up for you guys to celebrate

I’ll be working on the recap which should be up within the hour. Kings win!

Thanks.

Party time.

Great Job you doin' there Aykis and thanks!!
THAT. WAS. AWESOME.

Rejoice!!!!

Fun game

Team effort. Happy to see Salmons redeem himself (a tiny bit, but it was significant to our victory) because secretly I hope he becomes the vet they brought him in to be.

Tyreke is amazing. That statement doesn’t even do him justice.

Cisco got one huge board in the 4th

Best game by Reke and Cuz playing together and off of each other

AND the Lakers lost?! Best night ever!!! Time to drink!!
Smart:

“The start was critical for them to come out and chase us.” He gave kudos to Tyreke and Salmons. He sees team as being a running team that can rebound. “Cuz is a thinker and pays attention to what goes on around him.”

Cuz is a lot smarter than the national press gives him credit for

I can’t remember a player learning as fast as he did last season

Agree. A lot of people judge him by his poor decisions.

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