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Kings vs. Grizzlies: Open Game Thread II

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Man we suck

How the hell do you, as a coach, allow a nine point run right there before calling a time out?

well, it was less than 3 minutes into the second half

So?

it happened fast and furious at the beginning of the half
Stunned that Conley is running this team the way he is

pretty darn good player now

Had a really strong year last season

three years ago Poookey was going on and on about how the Kings for Conley. Couldn’t convince anybody

Always been a big Lowry fan so I always thought of Conley as frustrating
That was a horrible situation for both of them.
A young player developing into a very good player

What a freaking concept

Wally, I still got the pitchforks.

Just let me know buddy. Just let me know.

Man how are we tied and in like 2 mins go down by almost 10.. COMEON WTF

if you dont like that

then you dont like kings basketball

This might be my favorite comment of the week

Well there goes the video

gaahhhh.....

i was hoping for a much better 3rd

This game is further proof that Westphal needs to go

Everytime we have a lineup on the floor that is working, he changes it. Hayes is getting ABUSED, as is Salmons. Neither of them should be playing. Put Outlaw & Cousins back into the game. Play JT more as well

We get all the wat to a tie

And go down by nine that quick, Typical kings shit.. Come on guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Salmons is garbage.

GARBAGE.

Hella weak
Yup

His roommate is Oscar the Grouch!

No surprise

Westphal pushed for the Salmons acquisition

That arena is scary empty
Cousins to Westphal

I’m taking away your head coach title.

Gamethread no no
No gifs in game threads plz.
Ah

Apologies, sirs.

no gifs
Is there a way

I can remove it?

Dance, dance the night away.
nope just an admin

it’s alright, you know now that’s all that really matters. Don’t sweat it.

Yep

No biggie.

crap

you snuck up on me there

Goddang it wally, I have my pitchforks ready!

Now I got to go outside to the barn, put them down and stuff. This sucks Wally, totally freaking sucks.

don't worry, he's old

gotta fall asleep soon

You tell me this after my boots are already on?!?!

Your timing is absolutely horrible.

Yeah,

but I’ll wake up every two hours.

I lurk,

therefore I am.

If we fire Westphal

Can he take Salmons with him?

give me Cousins
Hayes needs to work on those outlet passes
come on hayes

you “great passer” you

never heard that he was a great passer

I think somebody on the Dreamshake said he’s got a big ass

Every Houston fan raved about his passing ability
This is 15% fact and 85% exaggeration.
I know, but he is a pretty decent passer
There we go :)

A couple Rockets fans came here and said “you know he’s not half bad a passer” and that was it. No raving, not every one ;)

Oh shut it with your truthful, logical ways
Is it just me?

No Randolph in the game, but our team looked better last season against the Grizzlies than they do now.

Not surprised that we are this flat coming out of halftime.

PW had ample time to demoralize the team further by calling them out for making one mistake at the end of the half.

This

It seems like they come out of every time out and half like this.

Chuck just got used
Outlaw with the nice save
whew

thank you again outlaw

Great play by Outlaw there...
Kings are just sloppy right now including Hayes
come on!!!

what happened to the energy and intelligence out there

PW needs to go
Sigh.

Do we not practice shots in practice?

Our shots from anywhere in distance are a crapshoot.

They haven't looked much better

Up close! Its so frustrating

we spent so much time working on our FTs

we forgot that there’s other ways to score.

Coach can't make open shots

May come down to the players Kings buy

evans finishing a bit now though
Jeff VAN gunDY clap clap lap-lap-lap Jeff VAN gunDYYYY clap clap lap-lap-lap
Too-Expensive

Ma-loof-loof-loof-loof.

Plus doesn't he have a reputation of not being a great young player coach?

Can’t remember but I think I read that some where.

i would rather pay Van Gundy than Salmons, give him all 8 million or whatever John makes
If only coach contracts would count against the minimum!
BAAANK-RUPT-CY clap clap clapclapclap
Two-o Per-cent

Clap-Clap-Clap-Clap-Clap-Clap.

Bur-Kle clap clap clap Bur-Kle clap clap clap!
Burkle and Van Gundy!!!!!
Burkle and Balki?
All for it. I wanted Mark Jackson

But I’ll gladly settle for Jeff Van Gundy

I wish the Kings defense would perk up a little, jeez.
wow

we have no interior d whatsoever

Let's Go Quings!
My stream went on NBA.TV game break and never came back.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

can we get rid of Salmons next year?
We can amnesty him next year
Man were hella weak

But I still ride for them

Come on why arent we seeing cousins post up :(

Just think what the score would be if Zach Randolph were playing...
DUNK IT COUSINS
Cousins blows

make a f ing lay up

I will consider seppuku..

If we end up the Chicago Cubs of the NBA. We need management that will put us in a damn good direction.

Bur-kle. Bur-kle.

guess what...Cousins just missed another gimme
Outlaw is shooting good this game
The third quarter of doom as returned!
Cousins fucking sucks at 1 foot shots
Inclined to tip instead of rebound with a put back

easy for me to say!

If anyone needs to watch all free sports events

Including ppv events, & all nba games go to vipbox.tv… Thank me later

Please stop posting streams.

You’re putting this site in danger.

Wow
seriously you are
Crybabys
We're the crybabies

you are the one taking it personally. We aren’t.

Grow up.

*We're the crybabies
Ug meant to throw in a "?"

so bad.

Just stop doing it IHGN

I flagged him

Make sure you do the same.

Oh, right. We can actually do something about this.
yeah I really need to remember to do that
Nothing personal man just trying to help fellow kings fans

Sorry for bending the rules a little bit.. Make sure u always drive 65 mph on the freeway they’ll catch u. Kings Lost I’m done with this blog anyway & u guys cry about everything goodnight.

Dude

you are literally putting the site in legal and financial danger. How dense can you possibly be? And to get bent out of shape because people dare not want the site to be in legal and financial danger? You sincerely suck.

You say "nothing personal"

And then take it personal when they are just trying to help you. Lighten up dude.

You are being a dipshit.
Dude look wat I did

I posted a freakin website so that if u guys couldn’t watch, it was there for u.. U guys need to calm the hell down.. In mad the kings are losing 2..

*im
Just tell people to e-mail you or something

Don’t put web pages up. That’s all we’re asking man.

You fixed the "I'm" out of all that stuff?
I don't care your reasons.

Nock that crap off.

You dont understand, man...

The website could be taken down for that.

And you have no concept what you are really doing

and it does not matter if you are mad or not. This isn’t about you and your troubles.

I'll never post again

Just cause u guys sit here all day posting doesn’t make u more of a kings fan then I’am. So whatever, sorry if I hurt anyone’s feeling not trying to get ur site banned .. As if it really was going to happen.

lol bro

Let’s go get some beers.

Anytime
Everybody's too angry

We’re supposed to be mad at the team! NOT EACH OTHER!

Come on GUYS

Demarcus quit posting while the game's going
Dude

this isn’t about you. The fact you can’t comprehend this comes off looking like you are old enough to still possibily wet the bed.

This isn’t about regulars ganging up on the new guy. This isn’t about anyone disagreeing with your opinion. This isn’t about hurting anyone’s opinion. This isn’t about what you try or not try to do.

Get over yourself and just don’t post feed links. G.R.O.W.U.P.

Bro,

I don’t know how you can be more clearer with ‘losing’, ‘financial’, and ‘trouble’ in one sentence.

Please stop. Abide by the rules. We are all stricken with poison here for rooting for the Kings.

Everyone is welcome to post. Just be respectful. That is all we ask for.

Thanks.

He's serious. NBA pushes DMCA takedown notifications to any website posting illegal streams.

You could literally shut the site down.

I predict an outlaw game winner tonight

and then we all start love-hating him

Cousins is missing so many close shots
Outlaw is finally ballin
And it ain't

fo’ free. This clinic is at the King’s dime.

Cousins sucks
Set a pick Cuz!
By the way, that bear at center court is terrifying

looks like he is shooting lazers out of his eyes

Westphal released a statement during halftime saying the Bear is demanding a trade
Our offense is the ugliest

Paul Westphal needs to gtfo, now.

That wasn't a goaltend
yes, it was

Cuz needed to grab the 1st one

he looks kinds sucky

Can Cousins not able to go up strong?

Seriously?

Idk about that

Wasn’t the ball still going up?

We can't hit shit right now
aghh

we’re giving this game away, late christmas for Grizz

damn man we suck
Let Jimmer shoot it
why doesnt Jimmer shoot more?

start jacking it up

He tried that earlier

Wasn’t really working out

someone tell me why we think we can do well this season!!!!!!
cause the kings rule!

and suck

When Tyreke starts shooting 3s the game is close to over
Ball movement!
When Jimmer starts shooting 3s we get back in the game
Uh

He’s shooting 26% for the season coming in.

Just got home. How is Cuz playing?
nothing special.
Nothing good really.
Ball

Was definitely going up on that block.

Wow

Grizzlies announcers are lighting into Cousins.

yup was thinking the same thing too
What are they saying?
talking about his demeanor
fuck

poor jimmer

thses ref suck
Grizz announcers are talking about Cuz right now...

and are spot on…

what are they saying?
that he has no fire on the court and looks like he doesnt care...

then they said that he wants to play somewhere else so bad, but no one wants a player with an attitude like his…

man

we arfe tough to watch

Meh

At least he’s going for it.

Sam Young's got some confidence tonight

wow poor jimmer..hes been struggling from 3point range. man always missing :(
i feel sad..just so sad…very sad

Thompson would miss that
man PW needs to go..
This team needs an enema.
because we're full of shit?
I was thinking we need to be cleaned inside and out...

…but your explanation works just as well.

No he means literally give the players enemas so that they're lighter on their feet and can play with more energy.
If we're gonna see crap on the floor, then I wanna see CRAP ON THE FLOOR!!!
omfg. I hate, uhhh I can't say it

lets all cry together guys…we lost this game..terrible night for us :/ >.<

Losing by 20 is getting to be a common thing for the Kings.

I’m pretty sure doing that consistently isn’t a good thing.

we win, or get blown out of the water

Nothing in betwen

SMH - Wonder what PW will have to say tonight?
Jimmer is demanding a trade back to BYU
Jimmer wants to make a pilgrimage to the Jazz.
wow....

we just got new york knicked again

Jimmer is the best player on the team
Don't know about that

He’s played pretty poorly too

Rager of a statement.
Though that was a good defensive play just now.
Somewhat sarcastic

At least he keeps himself composed when things aren’t looking great.

Too young and dumb to realize he's supposed to quit on his team and coach and just play lazily looking for the easy shot to increase his percentages and contract value.
We're the Sacramento Kings and we have no fucking clue how to rebound.
Knicker

Bockered.

Memphis anounces saying Cousins seems disinterested in playing for the kings
we have only 8 assists?!!!!

Westfail……

we are

without a doubt the worst team in the league- maybe new jersey is worse

New jersey knows how to pass the ball
how do we not keep either thornton or evans on the floor?

Westphal is a dumbass

What does that mean?
Cousins later went into the coach’s office, Greig said, and asked Westphal why he singled him out. Greig said Westphal told Cousins, “I don’t have time to talk to you about this.”
Yea that's a great coach for ya
It means Westphal doesn't have the time for Cousins

Which is extremely irresponsible of the coach to blow off a player like that.

Because I am writing a Press Release right now. By the way, how do you spell ornery?
42.8% assisted baskets for the Kings
no point guards will do that
Cisco in

Time to win.

this may be the worst we've ever been in the last two decades.
06-07 Kings?
That team was way better.
worse. no doubt about it
This is hard to watch tonight.

Brings out the masochist.

Cisco is in. 1-0 when Cisco plays
Definitely

Pulling MT23 from my Fantasy league tomorrow. He’s like my one gamble, and he’s screwing up.

How does a team get older and more talented

Yet worse on the court?

were not more talented

hayes is a downgrade of daly. Jimmer is a downgrade of beno, salmons and casspi are a wash they both suck.

That last Cousins turnover...

Though technically that turnover goes to Cousins…. LOOK AT THE SPACING….All 4 Kings players are within 10 feet of Cousins. TERRIBLE spacing. Terrible coaching. Terrible effort.

Where is Thorton in all this?

2-7 FG, 5 pts

Lost in Westphal's nonsense of an offense
Kings getting worked on both ends of the court.
Grizz D looks like a knock out punch
Oh maybe yet,

I’ll take someone every night who plays the Kings.

Sound philosophy.
Welp, I'm good with watching the rest of this crap.

It’s been real.

Miss a shot.

Give up a fast break basket.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Reminds me of 07-08 season, when the Kings would lose 3rd Qs by 20-30pts

On our way to 18 wins that season.

17
See, things are so bad now, I'm remembering the worst days as better than they were.

Nostalgia. Natt-stalgia.

Is that blog Third Quarter Collaps still around?

I feel like I haven’t seen Ben Q Rock in forever.

They changed the name to reflect the fact that their team is good now.
He came up with that name here
we should change it to: full game collapse

That’s how bad it is.

Fire Westphal and trade Cousins.

We need to change the chemistry of this team IMMEDIATELY.

Just fire Westphal. That will make an immediate change.

What about Cousins?
What are we going to do about him?

Wait around for him to get fat again
No no no

Be proactive dude! Team Dinners at McDs! In N Out burger in the practice facility1 Free Carls Jr fries for every shot!

1st pick here we come!!
Never will Stern allow that to happen.....never.
nah, NO is getting the 1st pick. Its already preordained.
Cousins is giving it about 30 percent out there

a true pro

He has to go.
Oh shush

He is having a bad game, he is still our highest potential player.

Potential, yes.
Malcontent, yes.
Not giving 100%, yes.

4th best rebounder in the league? yes

Stop over-reacting. You’re embarrassing yourself.

The small sample size approves

He can play one half of the court – when he’s bothered to try.

Please man. Don't give me that 'embarassing yourself' bullshit.

Is he really the 4th best rebounder in the league, or just currently 4th in rebounding after… what less than 10 games?
He gives no effort.
Do you not understand what we are upset about?
You have blinders on apparently.

I guess we can all use small sample sizes

I’ve decided that we are better without DeMarcus based on the game the other night.

Don't think your sample is small enough.
MY SAMPLE IS PLENTY SMALL ENOUGH

Wait…what???

Hey Peaches

Didn’t know you had an account on this blog.

Isn't that what the Clippers said about olawakandi?
Nah it looks like he's playing hard, but he's all wrapped up in his head, not in his feet.
Got within 20

Watch out bitches…Kings on a role

shame shame shame shame
Hate to say it...

but the team needs to either trade Cousins or fire Westy soon… Not sure any of us can go through another season like this….

Problem is, they both are playing/coaching like hell…

And I meant "soon" as in "sooner rather then later"...

and not wait until after the season is lost (in February)…

Get rid of them both
You guys are crazy

No way I’d trade Cousins…no way in hell.

I wouldn't either

His attitude and demeanor are just annoying right now.

I hate to say it as well. Believe me.
Game plan

Fire Westphal, trade Cousins for Greg Monroe plus draft pick, draft Anthony Davis. #winning

Good thing Cousins won't be our future big man

We’re on our way to Anthony Davis

Coming back from a disaster 1st period, almost tied the game at recess.

Team goes in to listen to Westfail at halftime, and proceeds to get destroyed in the 3rd period.

It’s not hard to see where the main problem is.

Cousins just looks so bad

totally demoralized

Trade Cousins?

As awful as he looks hes doing a better job then Tyreke and MT23 currently.

The whole team looks like shit.
Given all that has happened, I wouldn't judge Cousins by this game tonight.

Can you really blame him for playing poorly?

If I judge him by the rest of the season

He doesn’t look much better.

oh, waaaaaaa

he needs to grow the fk up…

not there
god jimmer cant guard anyone
He may be roughly the size of a hand puppet

but I love Isaiah’s game. Absolutely fearless. Also, really missing a shot blocker right about now.

Yea, balls of steel
where the hell is tyreke or thornton?!
PW might be conceding because of the b2b2b thing.

Saving their energy for Denver tomorrow.

how about they try to actually win this game before worrying about tomorrow?
The way this team is playing

Thats kind of a hard thing to do

People calling for Cousins to be traded

Are just being purely illogical and over-reactive. You don’t trade a sophomore after a bad start to the season. One who is the 4th best rebounder in the league, by the way.

Illogical!?

“Bad start”!?
You honestly don’t understand where someone would be coming from on this issue!?

Ziller keeps mentioning this as well

Who gives a crap is he’s (currently) the 4th best rebounder in the league. His efficiency is laughable, he has absolutely no game awareness, and his attitude is crap. Being the 4th best rebounder trumps all this?

Don't forget most of his rebounds are his own misses
Oh well if Ziller mentioned it then it MUST be true.
Stats back up his lack of efficiency

You can also see he misses alot of easy shots

It is also kind of hard to make “easy” shots when the whole team collapses on your center because your starting PG SG SF and PF can’t make “easy” open shots. It works both ways. Utter failure from the whole team.

Highest usage rate makes him the most glaring though
They don't even need to collapse on him

He really struggles to convert relatively easy opportunities down low.

In regards to Ziller mentioning this

I was saying that Ziller keeps mentioning the rebounding rate as some sort of proof that Cousins is good. Not what I said in the post.

The whole teams efficiency is shit, Coincidence?
Cousins has the highest usage rate

So he’s currently the biggest culprit.

I'm not saying we should def trade him

But he is not a good player right now

Aww shucks

I thought we drafted an instant superstar at the age of 21. I mean, he is all grown up, he can’t possibly have growing pains!!!

Lots of sucky 28 year olds were sucky at 21

He could go either way, right now I’m not overly optimistic on his future.

Welcome to a game thread

First time?

By the way

You keep spouting about him being the “4th best rebounder”. Means nothing at this point.

It doesn't mean nothing.

It means he’s the 4th best rebounder.

Sorry Team

Watching Cousins slumping around and Evans bricking shots makes me sick Jimmer ended up with sorry group. I know he has his weaknesses but I’ll bet he didn’t believe his NBA experience was with such a group of misfits. This team stinks, really stinks, they are a 15 to 20 win team at best.

To be honest Jimmer hasn't helped too much either
Maybe Jimmer also asks for trade
It was like watching a bunch of 8th graders playing against college kids tonight.
I don't know how much more I can take

this is shaping up to take the crown of the worst season ever if this keeps up

isiah has some tyreke in him

does not like to pass

Except for that assist he just got.
fire Westphal tonight
after this timout!
Petrie needs to walk to the bench and grab Westphal by the throat and drag him off the court
If the Maloofs were there I would hope Petrie would do them that way too.
We'd need someone to wake him up first.
Ice Water or Baseball Bat?
Ice water to wake him up 1st

Then baseball bat

And trade Cousins before the post game interviews
That possession Highligts Demarcus' disinterest
Rookie connection

Nice.

give the ball to Jimmer
OMG Passing!
Jimmer 3-5 from deep
time to initiate

a crazy comback

No Brockman or Udoka this time
Time for Jimmer to shine
lol, Grizzlies announcers

“Kings back within 16!” right before commercial break

It's the small victories in life that keep you going.
Would anybody else bet excited to see something as basic as a high pick and roll on this offense?!
I bet PW would be excited,

of course, he might also be mad because that’s not what he taught this kids to run in his imaginary offense.

Jimmer and IT are the only ones that care about the team apparently
Nope. they care about their careers and trying to compete.

If they cared about this team, they would lock PW & DMC in a broom closet and get on with the business of trying to play some actual basketball.

IF cuz's gets kicked off the teams

at least Jimmer’s used to it from his BYU days..

No call on rook
How the hell does that not get called?
Thank you Garcia.
Getting a set shot is probably overrated anyways...
Awful shooting tonight.
At least they moved the ball that time.
Bowling shoe ugly
Westphal is the worst head coach I have ever seen in my entire life
this
You clearly haven't been watching the Kings for an appreciable amount of time
I dunno did you see the Musselman era.

Then again it’s like that south park episode, Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich…

Did you miss Mussleman?

How about when Theus gave Quince Douby the game winning shot like 3 times in a row when he was sitting the whole game?

Or Kenny Natt. Or Dick Motta. Or Bill Russell. Or...
St Jean...
Jerry Reynolds.
Motta and Russell

Were the absolute worst IMO. They came in with so much hype and then straight SUCKED!

I vote for Natt
bring back

dick motta

Cousins can't score for life

everybody says he scores double digits…he takes 13 shots to make 13 points…it’s annoying as hell when he does gay reverse layups instead of just slamming it in.

Freaking ridiculous. Why does this team make me want to cry

Fire Westphal

Before he does any more damage..

PLEASE!

To everybody calling for Cousins to be traded

Lets trade Tyreke too. And Thornton. They are having bad games, so they MUST be traded, right? Tyreke especially isn’t having the best start to the season. Lets tear it all down since 21 and 22 year olds are being inconsistent.

I need to take a break from this website soon. You guys are embarrassing yourselves.

You don't know why some are saying trade Cousins right?
Doesn't understand at all.
Look, I understand he is immature and his inefficiency is terrible right now

But we drafted him knowing this would be the problem. That is the only reason he fell to the 5th pick. And if we trade him, at his point of lowest value, we’re going to be screwed. The entire team is volatile right now, there are serious chemistry issues. But some of you need to be logical for a second and think of the big picture.

Trade Cousins now at his lowest value and destroy our franchise’s future? Sounds fun.

Westphal is obviously on the way out, we need to wait and see if a new coach can reach out to Cousins. If he can’t, then you gotta trade Cousins. But from everything written, Westphal has been an asshole to Cousins (and yes, Cousins is guilty of being immature too), but you need to understand why he must be disgruntled.

If a new coach with pedigree came in and said Cousins needs to go

I’m fine with it. That is about it though.

Those two Cousins-bashers are just so disillusioned right now

This is a team, no, a franchise that is terrible from the top to the bottom. We need new owners, we need a GM with a spine, and we need a coach who knows what he is doing. We’ve got a young, talented team that is ready to be molded one way or another. They can either become great, or absolutely horrible. We know which way they are moving now.

You get way too worked up about what you see in a game thread

Logic is out the window and venting or irrational cheering is the order of the day.

If you want to actually debate the subject in a logical manner, the game thread’s not really the best place to do it IMO.

I'm not saying we should trade Cousins

I’m just saying it didn’t look like you understood where people were coming from

Welcome to a game thread

First time?

btw, subplot of the season

DG is slowly watching the end of his own career. Sad.

Donté looks turrible.
PW throwing in the towel
I think it's time to set Jimmer, Isiah, maybe Tyreke loose on the perimeter

and hopefully scare Memphis into playing bad if we make a small comeback

man...

we’re going to have better games again, lakers and hornets games are not 100% flukes…. but our losses have been baaad so far

JIMMERRR
I didn't see him do anything...
Westphal should audition his whole team for that new series "The Walking Dead".

Bunch of effin zombies out there…

They call them walkers on that show.

That may or may not still apply.

Yeah, "crawlers" would be more fitting I suppose.
Kings won't win more than 18 games this year.
I like this jack up 3s offense, why not
As long as its the guys with the lowest salaries, then it'll turn out good
Selfish team

This is the worst passing team I’ve ever seen. Green and Outlaw are launching threes with Jimmer stannding wide open one pass away. This team shares the ball more poorly than any team I’ve ever seen. Does anyone on this team know what their teammates strenghts and weaknesses are. Sorry sorry group,

you like jimmer huh
I think he's a BYU fan
Replace the word "Jimmer" with almost any other teammate and it's still true
Jimmer's not without fault either

Which is what we are thinking

fire westphal?
You must not have seen the Bibby/Martin backcourt
Outlaw is my new Luther Head
Am I crazy in thinking...

Evans and DMC for Dwight Howard (provided he agrees to a sign and trade at the seasons end) and Jameer Nelson

I’d go to more games and I think we would be better, Thorton and Evans are the same player so we’d get a real point guard and a superstar.

Why would Dwight reup here?

To play with Jimmer?

no re-up

Just rent him… then sign and trade him at the end of season

bro... would you like to retract your statements?
nope

I think it’d be worth it.

Yes. You are bat shit insane for thinking this
I'd love to hear how you think Jameer Nelson is a real point guard....

LOL

I am sure you can do that in your NBA2k12 franchise mode if you want
If you override the trades...
Nah

I’m 5-1 so far in 2k12 with this team, hehe

Untapped Potential Jimmer!
Jimmer's averaging 12 points off the bench for me

At 60% 3’s

You're clearly not using him to his full potential!

Stop freezing him out of the offense, man! FIRE RAIDERKING21!

Well he is averaging 5 assists

I’m usually the best offensive team in 2k12 no matter what team I use haha

Cousins

trade value is destroyed, in a desperate attempt for Westphal to gain control of his team that he never had. Maybe before this whole situation. But also 0.00 percent chance Howard would resign here

Westphal can't depend on a make-believe trade to save his job

he needs wins now.

no resign

He wouldn’t stay here but we sign and trade him to Nets, Lakers, etc.

For what? Brook Lopez's stress fracture? Bynum's knee problems?

Why not just straight for those straight up?

*trade for those
because

for a year when Sac needs the stage to build an area and stay in Sac we would be relevant…

I'd just skip the middle man and trade Cousins straight up for Bynum

Of course, the Lakers would laugh their asses off.

why jimmer?!

shoot it!!! don’t dribble drive it

So Sam Young is the winning Grizzly to blow up on us
With that

I bid you all good night

Worse than Knicks game
I take it you didn't see the Knicks game
Still five minutes to go
The minute distribution in tonights game is rediculous.
If I were a player on this team, I'd want to get a trade.
I wish they would trade me
has anyone suggested we fire Westphal yet?

cuz we should do that

this team should not be this bad
The broncos have a better passing game than us.........
Glad that this game didn't win

Fan Night. It is embarrassing

fire westphal

If we put early to start and start of 3rd we wouldn’t be losing. I’m so sick of westphal.

No matter how we got to this point right now

Westphal has to go. Any competent front office would see that the team needs a new coach. We have time to decide Cousins’ fate. But now, Westphal HAS to be fired. No other option.

fire westphal!!!

Come on light up jimmer from the 3 range. WE CAN WIN!!!!

Jimmer apparently cares more about passing now than shooting...
I heard he's been working on his passing range.
Maybe PW lost on purpose to make Cousins look bad

PW is crazy/stupid enough to do anything

Maybe the team has lost on purpose to make Westphal look bad.
Then they all need to go
Maybe they see what a crappy coach he is and want a change.
Players dont have the right to make that decision.
There is power in numbers and with no individual accountability.

Could be they are just pissed off.

So what?
If Westphal gets fired, they get someone else to coach them.
This is a silly conversation

There’s nothing redeeming on the coach quitting on his players, nor the players quitting on their coach. It’s unprofessional douchebaggery, no matter how you slice it.

Just saying, Otis.
Just see how the mutiny turned out in Detroit last year. Not good

They just wound up wasting the season.

So they'd lose on purpose?

Sounds like a great group of guys to build your future with.

Amnesty this franchise.
New Orleans called first dibs
pretty sure New Orleans already got amnestied
This

is actually my mother’s theory. No joke.

What excuse is PW going to make tonight?
Spotlight shining off too many empty seats

made it hard to coach.

Haha

Yahoo sports is calling the score 103-80 the FINAL

The players will never play consistently

If this coach PAUL WESTPHAL will stay with this team. How can a player be hot if he will not be given enough minutes. And on a bad note, he gives more minutes to wrong players.

Paul Westphal is a big ***hole.. xD

Thompson just

drunken mastered that

Is that 3 offensive fouls for Thompson?
Ugh, why is it when JT makes a mistake he looks SO MUCH WORSE at it than anyone else?
Its the awkward way he moves
When the sum of its parts are better than the whole,

where does the blame lie?

Does anyone else notice

How we often dribble down the court like we’re on a fast break when in reality we’re not?

petrie's number?

So I can scream and say fire westphal!!! He is ruining the chemistry of this team.

so we have 4-5 SFs still, and nobody thats any good
Haha

Napear just laughed at that shot by Outlaw

I am sooooo looking forward to Westphal's comments after the game.
Goddamn, im starting to feel everyones Westphal hate

he’s just standing there hiding behind his new beard… i almost feel like he wants us to lose just to prove that our players are shitty and its not his fault

Got to admit...

Starting to lose my “Wait until Westphal’s contract expires” mento…

I lost it after the Knicks game
it feels like Westphal vs players now

and once that sentiment spreads, even in fans, it starts to sorta become true

You guys want to put up a billboard that says: FIRE WESTPHAL! ?

I worked for broncos fans. sort of………

Just spray paint it on all the buildings around Sac.

Much cheaper.

I'd pitch in for a billboard...
That would be awesome!
New goal for this game...

Jimmer gets 20!

That Gasol guy is something special
they should start isiah...or jimmer...or both...or NOT salmons
We are making a run early 4th quarter

And yet no signs of Thornton and Evans coming back?
What the heck is wrong with this Westphal coach?
Too much EGO kills you.

A run early 4th quarter?

The games almost over

We we're down by just 16 early 4th and that is very manageable.
He meant to say "The Runs"

Meaning we look like shit.

I say start Thomas

with Thornton, Reke at 3, Hayes, Cousins—-or Hickson, Hayes
depending on DMc’s mood that day.

PW may agree with that
Isiah and Jimmer

If that were the Kings starting backcourt, would you still watch?

I would more likely watch even more.

kind of funny

after we (myself) included complained about them being in together against Portland

I don't know if I want to see them together a lot

But I like both of them.

Hell yes!

I can remember a stint where it was Randy Brown and Jim Les. How bad could it be!?

yes, they keep scoring, but the point differential stays the same
In spite of everything else going on

Kudos to Isaiah and Jimmer for doing their best to make this respectable.

Their effort was respectable, the game, not so much.
promote keith smart as a coach and petrie if you reading this fire westphal as soon as this game is over
So should we get Davis, Drummond, or Barns?
Barnes

Then amnesty salmons.

No Barnes!

I’m surprised he is still in the league. He has to be the dirtiest, (not in a good way), player out there. I have lost all my respect for that guy after seeing the crap he pulls.

He means Harrison Barnes
Not matt

Harrison we were talking about the draft ;)

It is pretty sad you are talking about the draft 6 games into the season...
I could've started talking about the draft after the first game

I love the draft.

The unibrow.

Just the unibrow.

WE NEED BURKLE
I'll mow your lawn if you leave, Westphal
I'm currently doing a lawn job in his yard
Man...

I need me a T-shirt that says “Being a Sacramento Kings fan is the hardest thing I’ve done in my life”. Sheesh. I love the Kings but I’ve never seen anything like this.

It’s actually become commonplace the last few years.

Playoffs? I just wish we can win a game!
Because I want to know more of what Jesus felt like, I've decided to become a Kings and Cubs fan
I'd like to see Jimmer play more like Isaiah

That is how he usually plays when he’s not overthinking it. The passing is nice, though. IT and Jimmer would be a good backcourt, at least in college. Not sure if they could both coexist in the NBA.

They're coexisting well enough right now.
It's hard to win on the road in the NBA.
I know our defense is absolutely pathetic right now

But teams really are on fire against us so far this year. Just draining jumpers.

Confidence

Every team comes in with their coach telling that they can score so easily against this team while PW doesn’t say that. Then when the other team misses their confidence doesn’t go down, but when the kings miss it confidence goes down the drain.

Jimmer unleashed!
I just popped a Jimmer
Just goes to show: You can look good on paper

and still have no offense, no transition defense, and no interior defense—very little perimeter defense. Basically nothing.

But Isiah is a badass.

Jerry is going crazy
oh do tell
Were you not listening?
Jerry said our Isaiah T. is better than the original

He was having fun because the game is not.

Garcia

is another one of our ‘good shooters’ that never makes an open shot

His career numbers say different
He has off games too

He made them against NO. He is a good career shooter

How could a coach keep his job after a pitiful performance like this?

He did a horrible job tonight. He is just waiting to get fired at this point, so lets not disappoint him, Petrie.

This blowout loss is a blessing

Maybe this will light a fire under some Maloof ass to get some major changes in place.

maloofs ass isnt capable of having a fire lit under it

unless its by money or something…. ed hardy shirts

light that 2% fire
So I guess if a team gets blown out before they play us...

…be prepared for them to do the same to us.

I need a 3 at the buzzer Jimmer...

I wanted 20 =(

Jimmer + IT = fun
Know what, I need to watch another game because that just did not quench my NBA fix at all
Only one left is Lakers-Rockets?
That HAS to be better

Lets go Rockets!

Redwings Stars

the NBA pissed me off after that game

last sec of bulls hawks
Wow did you just see Derrick Rose?

good ending to that game

not over yet but good
wow

ball don’t lie!

Did that Bulls announcer just say "Drive home safely, Beep, Beep"??
One positive from the game

Maybe Jimmer has built a little more confidence.

Good news...

We get to relive this all over again tomorrow!!

TRADE EVERYONE!!!

Except Jimmer

Sounds like the four grizzlies fans in attendance

Enjoyed that game.

It's a pretty bad NBA town
What do Memphis folk enjoy over there anyhow?

I think college basketball is much bigger there, isn’t it?

They have the college
I'm sure fishing is pretty big there.
Nashville is really close

Nashville is good times

Kinda want visit over there someday.

Heard the people are laid back as can be.

plus you can spit in spitoons at bars
winner winner chicken dinner!

The spittoon’s sold it for me.

Branson?
Oh wait that's Missouri.
Was Westphal waving goodbye to his team or the Grizzlies?
lol, Grizz announcers

apparantly Memphis had a 17 point first half and Sacramento had a 30+ point 3rd quarter

The bench had more minutes than the starters
Our starters suck so the bench got time
It was for "disciplinary" reasons
to me

this felt like Thorntons first true “dissapearing act”

Our best player tonight:

Isaiah Thomas.

Seriously the 9th guy on your team should not be the

Player of the night.

Just decided not to renew League Pass

pos min fgm-a 3pm-a ftm-a +/- off def tot ast pf st to bs ba pts
J. Salmons F-G 13:45 1-4 0-0 0-0 -7 0 2 2 1 4 3 1 0 0 2
J.J. Hickson F 23:08 3-9 0-0 6-6 -10 2 8 10 1 1 1 1 1 0 12
C. Hayes F-C 19:48 3-4 0-1 2-2 -9 1 2 3 0 1 1 3 0 0 8
M. Thornton G 24:07 2-7 1-2 0-0 -19 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 5
T. Evans G 26:21 4-11 0-1 1-2 -6 0 3 3 4 2 1 4 1 1 9

Woops!

Just found out that the space key does something! lol! Sorry for posting this crap

That's what the space key does?

Now I wanna try it.

Anyone else think our team is loaded!!!

With possible sixth man of the year candidates on playoff teams?

goddamn

hey this is how we felt after the knicks game…. then we had a decent bounce back…

so i’m going to keep my hopes up a bit, i’ll be excited when tomorow’s game is coming up no doubt

Or you may be getting used to watching Kings basketball!
Paging Mr. Thornton...paging Mr. Thornton
No kidding!

He is my favorite player, and I am starting to question why. He has been about as inconsistent this year as anybody. I’m hoping its just due to this horrendous offense.

He has the mentality like he needs to do everything...

Not a good component to winning basketball there.

Are we still the 8th seed????
No but Cusins is still the 4th best rebounder in US history.
/bill walton'd
The good news, we're tied with the defending champs right now

The bad news, it is for last place in the West.

forget about us not wanting to watch

our players look like they dont want to play

seriously

they were like a bunch of salmons out there

Cool venting wiff youse guys.

Take it easy. The Kings will live to fight another day (someday)

There's always tomorrow!

Have a good night…

NO

WE MUST TRADE EVERYBODY. TRADE COUSINS, TRADE TYREKE!!!

TRADE SLAMSON! HE HASN’T BEEN AS ACROBATIC THIS YEAR!

See, now you're getting it!!!
For reals though.....FIRE WESTPHAL.
LOL I went all dyslexic and read Salmons from Slamson.
I'm going to jump on the Rubio bandwagon again and start watching the Timberwouauaaahggggu

Sorry, threw up… just couldn’t do it

Kid looks good though doesn't he? So confident with the ball
Not as confident with a steak, though.
It is nice watching a floor general PG, isn't it?

Kinda makes you wish we had a chance to get a player like that.

Good Lord

Even the “Play of the game” was sloppy!

oh shit

westphal speaks

"never make serious inroad"
fire westphal now

dont waste any more time

Nice

“and whoever it was” kudos PW

That was great

He could barely remember Isiah’s name and the went with “whoever else was out there”. Classic!

Im hella depressed about our team bros.

We are terrible. Reke looks like a chicken with his damn head cut off. Thornton was non existent and is a chucker. Cousins has regressed since last year, and quite frankly looks awful… as has Donte. Hickson and Thompson are decent but almost the exact same player. Hayes is a decent third big on a contender, nothing else. Salmons & Outlaw – see Hickson & JT. Jimmer plays atrocious D and isn’t athletic enough to play the 1, IT is Jeter 2.0. The sole bright spot = Whiteside. Fuck.

Westphal:

“We just had a hard time shooting the ball tonight.”

That’s an understatement.

he's so irresponsible
He also said: "Some nights are going to be like this" Like about 60 nights (losses) or so , maybe less this year with the short season.
You know who played too many minutes tonight?

Cousins.

Wound is still fresh apparently

He seemed a bit “distant” tonight.

He has looked terrible this year.
DaMarcAss Cousins

haha

Don't understand the minutes distribution tonight...

The bench played a lot, starters, not so much. PW didn’t even try — could have sent the starters back in for a final run.

I dont think the starters played at all in the 4th
Kept waiting to see Evans, Hayes, Thornton check in

No dice, it was a 13 point game I think with lots of time left after Jimmer hit a 3, could have tried to make a game of it…..

Maybe that's why he didn't put them back in

and kill the run

PW

Claims it was because the second string was playing better and it allows the starters rest for tomorrow.

Yeah

the bench sure carried us through this one!

he sent Salmons in with 3 minutes left in the 2nd half. But why?

So he can close out the half cold as ice? Makes no sense to me. Either put him in with 7-8 minutes left minimum or not at all, unless there is a personal foul issue.

That is odd. Defies logic.
Paul Westphal is excellent at defying logic

He’s just not good at proving logic wrong

With that said

I wouldn’t have put Salmons in at any time.

PW minutes explanation

"(I did it) for two reasons," Kings coach Paul Westphal said of playing the bench. "One is that we had a lot of offensive firepower on the floor with Jimmer and Isaiah and (Francisco Garcia). We were able to spread to floor and have a lot of 3-point shooting and get penetration. I thought the best chance to get back in the game was to crack open a few steals and get some threes.

"If that did happen, we would have our starters fresh for the last 5 or 6 minutes. If it didn’t happen, they would be rested for dinner."

ok shit....

this game sucked, if we lose to denver this incredibly badly, i’ll officially start my freak out

PW

How about running the pick and roll offense with shooters spread around the perimeter all game….not just in garbage time.

Because IT did that

not PW

PW

took credit for the strategy in post game comments.

Oh

so he had “whatshisname” run the pick and “that other dude” drive the lane?

He's the Lou Abbott of the NBA
This team is officially checked out

Everyone is to blame. Coaches, players, management, owners. This shit sucks

No, this one is on Slamson. He didn't even show up tonight.
I heard he requested a trade to the sahara
I really don't think we are "checked out"

I think we are just bad.

Nobody was trying (rookies excepted)

the coach didn’t even remember who was on the floor. I think both bad and checked out

I give these guys the benefit of the doubt when it comes to "hustle",

as they are paid millions to do so. I really just think the team is less talented this year than we were last year. And we were pretty disparaged in the talent department last year.

I would love to think getting paid millions would motivate guys to hustle their hearts out

but there are hundreds of example to the opposite

With the way things are going the fans will start to check out.
I am sick, sick, sick.

I’m afraid this team is no better than last years, maybe worse. Plus they all have their heads on the floor. Morale low, coach poor, etc. etc

Our winning percentage is a little better

and it’s against 6(last year) play off teams. I’d say that’s better, however… Our bad, just looks soooooo bad

What killed us was that 3rd quarter

Stretch where Hickson was fouled on the dunk but we inbounded missed a shot.
Gasol flopped and got an and-1 over Hayes
Hayes got another and 1 foul on Conley
And I think there was one more and 1 for the grizzlies after that.

Westphal shouldve called a time out when they made the 1st and one. Might have kept this game close

Yeap.

3 and-1’s in a row.

Tyreke never tries to fight through screens.

Pick and Rolls kills us.

I understand that being a mistake every now and then

But on a gamely basis? That is poor coaching.

so do

pin downs, flex screens, etc etc

Sounds like I missed a good game.
Yea, if you like the Grizz
I'm out.

Time to sit in my shower in the fetal position while washing myself slowly.

G'night y'all!
Kevin Martin has put on some muscle

Still probably too soft

Last one.

Smokescreen!!!

Put in Jimmer and Isaiah rotating as point guards

That might help the distributing problems. Isaiah looks more like he wants to shoot than pass, though. Surprisingly, Jimmer doesn’t. IT can definitely ball, though.

I honestly think Jimmer could do 18-20 pts every night (and Isiah too) if he felt the leadership was needed or that he was allowed to take it.

He started off shooting badly, and recovered. That was common of him in college. He’s a high volume shooter, but when he’s free to shoot high volumes, his percentage goes up and he produces. Before this game, I don’t feel like he had the freedom to shoot, so his percentage was usually low and he didn’t score too much. Isiah seems to thrive when he’s given more freedom as well. Jimmer’s D, on the other hand, more of a “long-term” project.

Imagine if this team was Anaheim's first impression of the Kings

That would have been a complete disaster and hilarious at the same time. This is also the reason the Kings should thank their luck stars they’re in Sacramento. A season like this (at least the start) will not change the dedication that the fans have for the team.

Well this, and the fact that they'd probably be named "The Anaheim Kings of Sacramento in L.A."

Which would also ruin any credibility they may have had

This gave me a good chuckle
If the Maloofs ended up in Anaheim, they would have spent more money for players.
or here with a new arena

until they are out of Arco though, they won’t

How do you watch the postgame interview? I wana see what westphal says.

I watch them with the sound down and my eyes closed

but where?

It's already over. You missed nothing.
I get it on the Comcast telecast

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