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lets get it done!
I am at the city council meeting.

We got a FULL HOUSE!

Awesome, keep us updated
Just now tuning in...what is the status so far, impressions?
On the whole, the team has been playing real well.

Especially against the Bulls. I’m impressed.

Nice strong move tyreke!
See you in the 4th, Boozer.
Good stuff to see Boozer out.

Ride em, Cousins.

How many boards for cousins?
Tyreke with 7 straight.
Tyreke knows Watson can't guard him

Think back to the 35 point comeback

That was a late whistle
Lin has 27 and 11 and the go ahead 3, damn!
Pretty much a buzzer-beater. The legend grows...

…and dwarfs another monster game by Jose Calderon.

Yup. Linsanity continues!
First call I've had a problem with all game.
That was a fucking stupid whistle.

Cousins had every right to be pissed.

Salmons can't hit anything right now
If salmons fell out of a boat he'd hit the dock
And be out the rest of the year with an injury? Im ok with that
New York City?!!?

Get a boat.

Cousins played great D on that possession, that may turn out to be a huge call.
We have an old geezer

…talking about probes now.

Probes?

I know it’s valentines day but come on leave it in the bedroom not the councilroom.

Donte is scoring the bulls-why isn't he playing.....
Cuz fish needs to rot on the court some more
I dont get it, Donte has been way better than Fish
We are still in this game.
Why the hell is Ryan Gomes in that ad?
From Daily Dime:

Sac running a bunch of ISO against Chicago’s defense. Works with ’Reke. Not so much with John Salmons (1-7). Predictably: Bulls 78 Kings 71.

Fuck their snarkiness, but right about the iso.

Hayes in

Rebounding out

Salmons, good ole' John Salmons...
Imagine if Luol Deng was our 3
(drools at the thought)
That Ashby chick kinda

…looks hot in person.

Lotta fouls on the bigs tonight.
Come thornton its almost 4th quarter

time to start gettin in the game

Good Noah has 4 fouls - kinda evens things up
Yeah but that means more time for Gibson to burn us
Wow. How many 2nd chance points do the Bulls have?
Get thornton out, if jimmer can play
get in there thornton
BLOW A WHISTLE!

wow

omfg... defense
Hope this is the beginning ot Thorton getting it going
TAKE OUT SALMONS HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
salmons and his good friend the front of the iron
The Bulls have already been to the FT line 5 times this quarter...
FUCK SALMONS

FUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONSFUCK SALMONS

DAMNIT SALMONS REALLY??
Taj Gibson

Is on fire.

Shorthand Salmons.
Gibson is hurt... Hate to see that.
8 pts... PLAY SOME DEFENSE
Things are beginning to heat up on both sides.
Things look stone cold on our side, unless you mean tempers.
I REALLY dislike

Salmons, Garcia, Hickson, and Hayes

What about Outlaw?
Doesnt play enough to piss me off. Yet.
Hickson particularly blows. How this guy averaged 13 and 9 last year is beyond me.
Easier to get good stats on a really bad team
He is everything I hate about NBA 2K12. I said that last game thread, it is still true.
it seems like we just need

Cousins/reke/thornton/thompson to play ALL game for us to win

I'm all for helping out on D

But this team doesn’t know when to double and when not to double

Salmons cannot hide his excitement
He'd be better I bet if he shaved that ugly ass goatee.
Just Need A Run

…. hope Tyeke takes over right now!!!

Guys I want to never see isos for

Anyone not named Tyreke, Thornton, or Cousins. Any questions?

we started out playing a good quarter again too....

shitty run, back to 11… have to start all over

I would prefer it to be single digitis but 11 not that bad.
These announcers do forget that comeback game though.
Yeah but we had Kenny Thomas rooting this team to victory :)
But back then we had paul westphal

all we have now is keith smart, this guy doesn’t know how to comeback from 35 point deficits.

We're playing like absolute shit :(

Need cousins Dammit.

I've seen a lot worse.
DMC needs to learn to not rack up two fouls almost consecutively.

It would help the team immensely. Not putting this on him at all, since Salmons et al. are sucking.

If he hadn't he'd have stayed in, without any interference from Boozer.
One of them was a really bad, pivotal call. In fact, the only bad call I've seen all game.
Good job being on pace to 100.

However, bad defense allowing 88 points already.

Smart needs to be quicker with the hook when it comes to Salmons.

Whatever his gut was telling him about Johnny boy tonight was wrong.

Im so sick of Salmons

I wish him injuries and food poisoning

Everytime Deng has got the ball outside 3, i close my eyes and sigh, and hes made it
Seriously. Imagine our team if we had a Deng instead of Salmons.
Just think on that for a second.

I have to hide a chub just thinking about it.

Greenhouse gases

…now the topic.

Stinkin' 3rd quarters doing us in again, crud.
Kings passing...

why does it look like an accident everytime?

Blocked by korver

lol

and then 3 omfg
Everyone looked lost
That was a terrible set.
Good god JJ should never shoot
That phantom Foul on Cousins

Changed the game.

This x 1000000000000000
yyyep..... 77-93
This got ugly fast
Slipping Away...

Sigh….

Time to make a change
Yup, reverting back to one on one basketball.
Time to shift focus to a city council victory
we're horrible without cousins
Well

What do you expect when you run offense through Hickson and Salmons?

DeMarcus facial expression says it all
DMC has EVERY right to look disappointed with this team.

They blow shit.

The Bulls don’t even have Rose, and they still manage.

Just think if Rose was playing.
Why the fucking hell is cousins sitting on the bench

When he single handedly kept us in the game in the 1st. Fuck you smart use your head. Hickson is utter shit, salmons is utter shit, tyreke doesn’t know what to do when his teammates are shit and greene doesn’t get the ball enough. Need cousins to decimate omer asik and destroy thibbs offense.

Because we have one more quarter

And DMC picked up 4 fouls.

HERE WE GO!!!!

Parking now on the table.

Linsanity continues. He wins game with 3 tonight. 27 points, 11 dimes.
Hickson is a retard
Who was the genius who traded for him?
I'd much rather have Omri.
Cousins back in!!!!!!
With a huge hole. I feel bad for him
Me too. He has worked so hard in this game.
ONLY THING KEEPING ME WATCHING NOW
How is that not a travel?!
Hickson is just sooo soooo bad
Stone Hands Hickson
JT and JJ should NOT be this close in minutes played
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
ugh have to get rid of hix, outlaw, salmons somehow
DMC Reke

too little too late

Discussion has started.

City rep explaining what has been done so far.

Hickson looks unmotivated out there
every time i see hickson on the court these days

i get a bad feeling about the game

Same feeling I get when I see Outlaw on the court
and cousins is still doing it
Why is Thornton pouting like a little bitch?

He’s part of the damn problem.

Thornton is a complete idiot
I wana punch all of omer asiks teeth out

and get that disgusting smile off his face.

Hickson, Outlaw, and Salmons honestly bring down this team so much.

Why the fucking hell did we resign Hickson? I would almost rather amnesty him.

Fuck em all'
Can you cut down on the language? I understand your anger but try to keep it clean
You mean trade for?
Hickson getting used

totally lost on defense

Cousins having a great game. If we can just pull out a win.
LMAO all of a sudden were down by about 20
IT stops some of the bleeding.
Hey announcers, fuck you.

DMC can say whatever he wants to the Bulls bench. We don’t need your unathletic asses commenting on telling him to getting back on defense.

Pass the ball to Cousins.
He had great position in the post.
Isaiah Mr '4th quarter' Thomas is about to light up this bulls crowd!!!
STOP THORNTON DAMNIT
The big comeback starts now.

The Kings shut up the Bulls again…s’do it.

Cousins has to be our #1, and touch the ball EVERY time we have the ball
Our finishing lineup should be IT, Reke, Donte, JT, and Cuz.

No exceptions.

wat bout our captain hayes!?
This is going to be a while.

Stay tuned.

any update on the city council stuff?
Scott Section 213 has been msging from city hall
Time for Kings to go beast mode and take this game back.
Cousins to the foul line.
Reke hasnt had a great game, but he was not at all the problem tonight

Reke Cousins, even Thornton for all his bullshit are great for us, Thompson works, Donte/IT pretty much work

the rest of our roster is bringing this team down so much

Still have a chance if the defense keeps up.
Tim to count down - 12
When is the trade deadline this year?
Not like we will do anything anyway
seriously, just wish for once we were in talks with someone good
Thanks. I hope Petrie makes a smart move at or before the deadline
IT never gives up
This

Down to 12, plenty of time.

comeback time baby
MT23!!!!

Back fukin time

Mr. 4th Q again! Love his energy.
Get some stops Kings

Oh my god I am going to die

oh man Isiah gettin to the line
Biggggggggggg Basket!!!!!!!!!

8 point game

MT23 should pretend every quarter is the 4th quarter
need every free throw
Anything can happen
agh dont just leave noah
look salmons out and this happens
I am soooooooooooooooooooo sad
Good new from @ryan_lillis (retweeted by Carmichael Dave)
Word from City Hall insiders is a 9-0 council vote is coming on #NBAKings arena item. Might go 8-1.
Wonder who the 1 is
I'll bet money on the 1 being Sheedy
Probably the Wicked Witch of the West
you all will need to hear her quote before asking to hurry up for the vote...classic
@CarmichaelDave shocking
Sandy Sheedy says she will vote yes tonight. Understand this merely pushes D-day to 2/28, but I also believe I just saw a Pig fly at Mach 4
lol the kings passes look like they're all on accident
because they are :(
More FT...nice.

Those passes look accidental, definitely. And in the penalty for Bulls? Nice.

back to 10, make free throw fools
Thornton loses his guy SO OFTEN on defense
screwing over their comback
Lol make a run then fuck up. repeat process
Why IT

Would you give the ball to Cousins at the 3pt line. What do you hope to accomplish?

8 public speakers agsinst.

A WHOOPING 30 PUBLIC SPEAKERS IN FAVOR!!"

4 minutes enough time

defense!

This is so sad.

I’m crying so hard right now. I can’t believe this. This is just so sad. Man why is this so sad.

Scotty, take it downnnn a notch.
Cuz, keep that off arm down!
8 point game still time
Cuz continues to foul with off arm
Omg evans is so incredible. TYREKE YOU CAN DO IT
Hopefully smart tells the team to run the ball through DMC
In the post Please
What, you don't like Cuz running the pick and roll?
Not my favorite of his many talents
And tell Cousins that he is NOT a point guard
Isn't it Bill Walton that says "Dribble it around big man"
I would love to see some of Isaiahs 3's

That would be epic<33333333 Back to back 3s from Isaiah to win us the game?!

Cousins moves to #4 in the NBA in rebounds/game tonight
Salmons is 1-8

Fire him now

Fire?

I prefer Salmon braised.

omfg korver
Korver's man left him to double Jenkens. ??
ok now dont let them score this time you idiots
MT knocks down a 3
I'm sure Noah didn't lower his shoulder
Thornton silences the crowd love it!
If MT played like every quarter was the 4th,

He’d be an all star.

Noah is money from the FT line
just l;eave korver open some more
Cousins is insane...
This whole game has just been a painful hope

A hope that slowly lights up and quickly deminishes

still alive...score the BALL
How was that off Sac?
beautiful take reke
tyreke is amazing
Need a stop here
Still doable. Let's do work!
continuous bad fouls from mt23
Can this team defend anyone beyond the 3 pt line?
why do we let em make a 3 every time

….then tyreke bails us out with 3 point play

losing too much time though

Tyreke knocks the dagger out

and keeps the game alive

I was yelling at reke to attack like this in the Phoenix game
This is stupid and ridiculous.
If the Bulls hadn't been red-hot from deep tonight, this would have been a heckuva game.
But as it is, it's just a regular Kings game.
guard the 3 guard the 3 guard the 3.. every single game
This isn't the time to trade baskets
Seeing the same thing
noah miss, you cant shoot that shit like that
Does Noah miss a damn FT?
HOW THE FUCK DID NOAH GET THAT
Joakim Noah, the fish flopper.
Please please please win!
We need to get constant stops and back to back 3s
we've been lettin noah get open deep all game
Wow, Noah's just been everywhere.
Little mistakes are adding up
This has been the toughest loss of the year
this has actually been an encouraging game

at least cousins and reke are awesome

Yep, on offense at least. Defense could do better
DMC has a nice up-and-down jumper

Jimmer range.

Cousins gets that 3!!!!!!
whoa reke almost got the 3 point play
Clear path? There wasn't a defender in front
nvm. The defender has to be in front of the offensive player
We left at least this many points on the board in wide layups
We need some high quality free throw defense now!
I like how we have not just laid down and quit
Honestly, the foul on DMC was the game changer.

The refs might not have made many mistakes, but the ones they did was crucial.

Seriously

I HATE when i want to know the names of the officiating crew

DMC is so fucking impressive
Tyreke has been good too

28 points 7 rebounds 7 assists and 0 turnovers?

4 point game AMAZING
Seriously. I can't even believe we made it competitive. Love it.
If we win this - this will be a remarkable finish
3 Point game.

Love how our guys have continued to play

PLEASE GET A STOP. PLEASE
This is dumb as hell that we are only down 3.
Calling it now

Cousins will get an inbound steal pass it to an open thomas for the 3 to tie!!!!!!!!!

I want some of whatever you are drinking
Three to tie?

IT or MT, where are you?

Thomas if contested

If open thornton

Close game and those missed FT's are big
Wow. Well Good Tyreke showed up tonight.

Need a stop now.

if only he did saturday too
We need more of it. Jumper will help too.
Man if we made some of our FT's earlier this would be so much easier
Even with a loss,

these guys kicked some serious ass to keep the game alive. Nicely done.

Good game despite the loss(potential loss)
Yeah. Win or lose. This was a good game tonight.
gotta foul kutcher
maybe he'll think its a 3 and brick it off backboard
WTF League Pass just crapped out on me
Ah. Korver to the line :(
Demarcus 16th in PPG/48min, 4th in boards/game

All-Star Reserve snub.

Crap, we had to foul
Not the guy to foul
No choice

They need to not let him receive the ball

I am happy about this game win or lose
Never happy with a loss
A 3 and immedite steal and a 3 for the win?
Please thomas you can do it we believe in you!
I like this plan. I'm excited to be a part of it.
2 and immediate steal and 3 to tie is more likely.
Needs to be a 2 or 3 and then shutdown Defense.

we need to be much better off the bench

We need some production from Hickson, Hayes and last but not least, Salmons.
man you know we really could have won this game

the door was open earlier in the 4th

Watch us get a 4 point play here.

Just watch. Watch it be JT too, with the way this game has gone.

oh man thornton

our bench players let the lead go up to 17

Just couldnt get a stop

Shot well enough

thornton you crazy fool
MARCUS THORNTON!!!!!!!
thornton baby!!!!!!!!
Why do announcers say Hickson has talent??
well.... he "has" talent
Because Hickson is American, and America's got talent.
No matter what happens...I'm proud of our guys
WTH Thornton shoot like this all game
Goddamn basketball.
This is like an old-fashioned Western Conference shootout

Reminds me of Kings/Jazz circa 2001

False hope

Sigh..

We're kings fans. We live on that
What's the strategy. Immediately foul or try to steal the ball?
No time. Go for steal, then foul.
Still a game!!
lol jerry reynolds called him kutcher too
That whistle was way too quick!!!
No my plan failed

Gosh guys I’m so sad I just wana cry

...Really?

All in all, a good game. If one of our players played better, or a better third quarter…

We win. Not bad.

please miss atleast 1!!
MISS I HATE YOU

JASON KAPONOS BETTER

I don't think Smart should have called a timeout. Run back for a quick basket. That timeout will be huge if we need it later
Yeah. good call.
ok well hit another 3, foul em again

hit ANOTHER 3 and overtime baby

I love the way you think ;)
Or hit a 3. foul anyone but Korver. One missed FT. Three. Gametime. Dance thread.
Dammit I hate kyle korver so much!

Man why is he so mean to us? come on at least miss one, dammit you meanie kyle korver.

Im sure if Korver was on the Kings, he wouldve missed 2 of his last 4
They wouldn't have even called the fouls.
If it hadn't been for that Fish Hickson time on the floor...
Hickson gotta go
seriously we went all bench/shit for like 8 minutes and it screwed us over
we're gonna end the lin train tomorow
I believe I heard Grant say on his radio show that the Bulls opp ppg is 89?

At least the Kings dropped another 100+ point game

yes, offense has been our problem too
Most points allowed at hone

In like 2 years yea? I was watching on my phone and couldn’t read the stat

Horrible Call

Game over hell of a game by our guys

I would be so happy to see Tyreke shut down Lin tomorrow
My HEART IS BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thornton noooooooooooooooo

Damnit. back to earth
Wait

I think i see Reggie Miller walking through the door

Good to see scoring down stretch

Just needed to get stops, loss to a good team even without Rose

horray for not getting blown out!
Salmons -9 and Hickson -14

Pretty much sums up how I feel about them

I wouldn't have done that trade

I rather have a streaky Casspi than a guy that can’t catch a ball

What was hayes? and garcia?
Yep, Salmons, Hickson, and Hayes.

If it wasn’t for Donte, it would have been -20.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk
Kings didn't give up

Monster game for Cousins and Reke

Bulls announcers being very kind to the Kings, giving full credit for their ass-kicking ways.
Yup. That's what happens when you fight for it and never quit.

The announcers tend to recognize good stuff. At least the Bulls announcers.

Would that were true -

I’m in MA and the Boston goons take shots at every team that comes to town.

man... if only we'd BEAT PHEONIX

that game pissed me off not this one

Great effort tonight. Now we need to bring this same effort tomorrow.
Never play salmons and hickson again!

Until they learn how to make shots.

They lost us this game.
I have to put part of this one on Hayes, too

He missed three shots in the paint within four possessions, and on two of them failed to get back on defense and made Boozer look spectacular both times.

Either way, most of us expected a loss and our expectations were definitely exceeded. I’m not mad at this one. Hopefully it’ll pound some sense into these kids about free throw shooting.

Hell of an effort there in the fourth quarter...

I’m not too stoked on Salmons or Hayes in this one, we could have won if either of those two pull their weight.

Tyreke 27-8-8

beautiful.

glad to see us put up alot of points atleast.. but hix salmons outlaw gotta go
lol, Outlaw hasn't even played in like forever, but you're actually spot on.
thats how bad he is... hes bad in games he doesnt even play in
The New York Lin's tomorrow
Can we crown Linsanity tomorrow?
Should be fun to watch either way...
lol jim gray only talks to opponents
and gets paid by Kings to do that
I really dislike Jim Grey, a bunch.
I really dislike the Maloofs for hiring him

…and to rehire him this season.

Happy VaLINtimes Day
We needed a couple of Jimmer3 bombs tonight.
Not really, we shot 53% from behind the arc
a couple more threes wouldn't have helped?
Most points scored on the Bulls at home 115

and they’re 10-1 at home. Sucks to lose, but they’re really tough. Moral victory, I guess.

well.... BUILD THAT ARENA
James Ham

Nailed sheedys ass to the wall loved his comments,

God dammit Salmons and Hickson...

Should have played Donte more minutes instead of Salmons sucking it up.

Carmichael Dave killing it in front of the Council right now
I think it's safe to say our "vets"...

…are awful. The guys management went out and got because they thought they would help our team are AWFUL! And Hickson is just as bad. Play Donte over Salmons and give Honeycutt Donte’s old minutes.

I blame management for getting Hickson.
And bring back Whitside while you're at it....

…because he can’t have as awful hands as Hickson or be less of an offensive presence as Hayes.

Tempting fate isn't the best of ideas, friend.
I like Smart but some of his line-ups are baffling. Why do we see so much of

Salmons? If you watch the game you can see he doesn’t deserve the minutes he is getting.

Who is he going to put in? His players need to rest.
Iggy once we trade for him :P
let's be serial
im super cereal
it ain't happening
unfortunately not but, i can hope
I just wonder if Honeycutt is doing that bad at practice that he's not even considered for minutes

…because there is nothing Salmons is doing out there besides that one game that has warranted consistent minutes.

At least Salmons is a known quantity.

Pretty scary to throw Honeycutt into this game.

what's scary is that Salmons still starts...

You’ve got to be real though… you don’t think he’s at least warranted a coming off the bench role for his play ?

Fred Scmertz would work.
Carmichael Dave

just spoke at the city council meeting. Good stuff

Blake Ellington killing it as well.
Many kills across the board. Blood all over the floor.
I love hearing these people speak
Who is this guy talking right now?
LOUD AND CLEAR KJ!!!
KJ just asked everyone in support to stand up.

Huge turnout!

Nice showing. It's very obvious where KJ stands on this matter.
KJ: Knows how to work the crowd
Rec

All Speakers in favor of the Arena tonight awesome job wish i could have been there

Smart: Having to take out Cousins changed the game.
if you arent on the stream.. It passed!!
HELL YA GUYS!!

Great! Love this. Love the showing

Feb 28 - Im driving and taking all kings fans from the East Bay with me!!
In class right now

Can someone please update in Thr meeting?

It passed!?!?

i wanna gif up this game thread

What did Carmichael Dave say?

And James Ham? Want to know what he said to Sheedy.

Check the Ziller post. I put up "highlights" there.

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2012/2/14/2799190/sacramento-city-council-kings-arena-parking#comments

If you’re coming on FEB 28—do or die—you MUST get there early. They have LIMITED seating in the council chamber. You may have to sit in an overflow viewing area. I think Carmichael Dave had to sit there today.

i will fill u in when i get home!
wonder when itll be frontpage storied
Can we get a dancing thread?
Feel free to use the fanshot on the front page.
If Fish hid his excitement, we could win this game
I hope salmons steps up

How isn’t he embarrased…….it’s like he’s okay with taking ugly shots and going 1-8 every night. What is wrong with him not only as a nba player but as a human being….salmons needs to take a cold hard look at himself in the mirror and realize he is playing garbage basketball.

It doesn't make any difference how he plays. He still gets the same big check on payday.
He doesn't care.

If he did he would take some pride and come in earlier for pregames to put in work to get his shot right. No excuse for him to shoot this poorly for so many games.

Exactly, and that is why I HATE him

Hate is a strong word yet it sums up everything that we feel for him. He is a disgusting human being, who accepts failure and settles for defeat, not even attempting to reach for the stars. He needs to look at cousins work ethic and do the same.

Exactly, and that is why I HATE him

didn’t salmons have a hand in beating the thunder a couple games ago?

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