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Kings vs. Pistons: Open Game Thread I

Sacramento Kings at Detroit Pistons, Feb 17, 2012 4:30 PM PST


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This

Is the starting 5 i wanted to see them experiment with

DMC

What back spasms?

Great lineup tonight.
Why the hell is KHTK broadcasting hockey instead of this game?

This sucks, was looking forward to listening on my ride home.

Is that the online feed?

Should be fine in the car.

I ride the bus, was hoping to catch the ALP feed from nba.com

that is just dead air. Online feed is the Sharks game

me too, stuck listening to Pistons feed
Cuz....dumb, dumb
Anyone else got a weird buzz in their broadcast?
where are you getting the broadcast? I'm on Audio League Pass and the Kings feed is dead air.
DirecTV with Comcast Sports Net HD
Oh, thought you meant audio broadcast.
Piston's arena is a ghost town
Detroit is a ghost town
when homes are now selling for less than the average car in Detroit,,,,

ya gotta problem…

Stay classy Sacramento! I still am pissed about the burning car/crack house montage you guys put up when the Pistons visited a few years back

And yeah, city of Detroit is emptying, but the greater Detroit area is still a top 10 market in the NBA…

I was just joshing, meant no offense, Boourns.
no worries...I still have sour grapes, that's my problem :-)

and you didn’t say anything that isn’t true.

and I haven't lived in Detroit in 10 years...I left the state for greener pastures (literally and figuratively)

and have been in Seattle for the past 5…now if only we could get an NBA team back here not named after royalty.

You guys will get the Hornets

And when a public vote is held for the new team name, you will forever be known as the Seattle Honey Badgers.

hahahaha...

When the Pistons were up for sale, I used to joke over at DBB that if/when I win the powerball, I’d email Steve Ballmer (I work at Microsoft) and convince him to buy the Pistons and move them to Seattle.

I’d do it on two conditions:

1 – I would be the Mark Cuban on-camera “spiritual leader” of the team
2 – The team would do a mash-up of the two names and be known as the Seattle Super Pistons…

Seattle Super Hornets has a pretty good ring to it too.

I bet salmons plays terrible off the bench

not that he doesnt play terribly starting too

Thornton with 2 steals, nice. Keeper up
wonder how sore Cuz is feeling
hard to tell so far
Cutting to the basket

OMG Movement without the ball

Amazing

how much better they look without a black hole at the 3

A fast break???

Awesome!

Id rather Jimmer start

Not that he’s better or ahead of isiah but a sparkplug like that off the bench is very hard to come by. Love me some isiah as our 6th man.

In my opinion I prefer Isaiah much much more.

Isaiah is much more of an actual point guard and his speed and toughness cant be matched by Jimmer.

agreed

It wasn’t a knock on isiah at all- just good 6th men are hard to find, as long as he finishes the game is all i care about.

Oh I definitely agree with that!

Hopefully jimmer can step up and be more of a force off the bench to fill the Void of Isaiah now starting. That also goes with Smart giving him reliable and bigger minutes.

Another note

Read some rumblings this morning of a possible salmons for stephen jackson deal.

Oh god I hope that's just a rumor.

Don’t want Jackson anywhere our young guys.

10 million dollar expiring contract to play with in the offseason.
We already have plenty of cap space.

Jackson is a malcontent that whines his way out of every town.

He gets rid of Salmons contract and expires

There is no way I would pass on that deal. I’d do it in a flipping heartbeat, even if we just ditched Jackson.

That's interesting

Kings playing much better with a PG starting, much like the Knicks.

I'll track it down and post it.
mmm isiah
bad pass right after i type that though
When IT brings up the ball it takes 2-3 seconds to get into the offense compared to
Reke's 10 to 15 seconds
Actually looks like a real pg out there.

So far so good.

3ornton
IT could be our Lin
easy

if he was our lin he already would of been our LIn.

to be your Lin, you need Smart to be your D'Antoni when it comes to offense
Our Lin

If anyone’s gonna be our Lin, I’d hope it’d be Jimmer next year.

Similar type of player with similar first year run under Smart.

Here’s to Jimmer LINning next year

OMG great kickout to MT
Damn.. in the face haha

Whoa heck of a shot by MT

woo hoo

dunk that shit cuz!

Isaiah is a lot more willing to do that... most times Tyreke would have tried to finish..
Look Ouut Below

DMC Flying low!!!

Cousins looks like he is feeling okay:)
Cuz throwin it down big time!
Sounds lke you guys are pretty happy with Thomas thus far...

As a Pistons fan, I really wanted us to go after him with one of our 2nd round draft picks even with us taking Knight in the 1st. I watched him a fair bit over at UW and was always impressed by his ability to manage his team.

I honestly wish you guys end up with the steal of the decade with him…if only because it might mean Detroit has more lottery balls at the end of this season.

Thanks. Who knows... he might even be our answer at PG haha
I thought it was funny that the Detroit feed listed Thomas as your SG and Evans as your PG...
They did? ... hmm...they actually listed Tyreke as SF tonight...Isaiah and Thornton G's
I think Fox Sports Detroit is thoroughly confused by all the combo-guards/combo-forwards on our team

that they can’t figure out what positions other teams are slotting their players in…We’ve got Boston next, it makes me wonder whether they’ll have Rondo listed at PF and Garnett at PG…

This should be the starting lineup from now on?
Little too early to judge, but this is encouraging!!!
If IT keeps it up it will be. How could Smart do otherwise?

Way to go Isaiah!

This has got me excited man!

Excited for a pistons game? UNHEARD OF!

Wow, a point guard starting at point guard.

Is that even allowed in basketball?

What is this you "point guard" you speak of?
I vaguely recall something like this when Doug Christie played here.

But not since.

Ahhh, the good old days.

Brings back good memories…

This is fun

Fast breaks, DMC dunking, no Salmons. Yay!

7 assists on 10 shots!

This
Is
"The Main Event of the Evening!!"

Think Bruce Buffer

I need to be filled in.

I tune in and i see no salmons and DMC playing? WHATS GOING ON?

Isaiah thomas starting over salmons

DMC toughing it out playing well

Back Spasms?

What Back Spasms? Throw it down DMC

Tyreke, Isaiah, Thornton can all run

Thats going to help us get the assists we need. Instead of having John Salmons and then Isaiah coming in to play with other bench people… he plays with these guys.

Also, I hope you all don't mind me crashing your game thread for a bit...

not only is the city of Detroit a ghost town, but so is Detroitbadboys.com’s game thread :-).

What's happened with the fan base?
Joe Dumars happened...

Detroit’s economy happened…
The Palace of Auburn Hills being 45 minutes outside the city happened…
The Red Wings, Lions, and Tigers all being near the top of their respective league happened…

I think that’s probably a pretty good summary.

At least you get to see Isaiah Thomas kick some ass
6,513 days since someone with that name has played at the Palace!
We'd love to hear what you have to say.
careful what you wish for...we're down by 9 and I'm 3 beers in,

at this rate I may be speaking gibberish by halftime.

Then you are right at home here.
hey guys

Can anybody help me out with a streaming link?

No can do good buddy
nba.com
That one has the best picture.
And is the only one we're allowed to promote on this site
Someone might be able to help you out if you had your email up on your SB profile
I wonder how Salmons feels about coming in off the bench?
You wont tell by his facial expression... always the same you know?
Don't really care how he feels. He can rot there for all I care.
Wake up call to play to his salary level
IT nearly averaging Salmons numbers in the first quarter alone.

This starting 5 has chemistry.

Agreed, but this is a pretty weak Pistons squad.
It's a tempo and chemistry thing among the Kings, not the opposition. Something is different...for the good.
Jeez, Thomas is also better at rebounding than... Skip it.
Salmons. Ill finish it for you
Take the assist.
I like how Isaiah is also

Rebounding the ball already has 4 Reb

Knock on wood. This is so exciting, so far.
Caught up in the game already

Love what I’m seeing. Now if we can keep this up I’ll be in a happy happy mood to start the weekend

Hey look Tyreke is starting to look decent again.

Man, Ben Wallace balls.
Every NBA player could beat the shit out of me

But out of all of them, Ben Wallace has always been one of the few I’d REALLY not want to piss off(Zo and Robinson are a few others).

He is pretty stimulating.
Wow you can't BREATHE on Stuckey
gah, come on

great offense so far….. defense still isnt great

Wow, IT. I am blown away.
Some weak ass fouls
However, I do wonder...

Do you think Salmons will try to do too much tonight and following nights?Trying to earn his starting spot back…or will he continue to look like he has a lack of interest?

The only reason I care is because it can hurt us. If he continues to try and do things to make Smart happy and get that spot back and not take it for advantage, this could really hurt the team.

I predict he will be about the same.
might as well bring donte off the bench and get rid of salmons now

…..i wish

Yea.

Donte is obviously more of the future if he has ANY future with these team out of Salmons and Donte… give hime more looks. I don’t know what the hell we should do with Salmons.

Beat on Salmons during his first stint in Sac

He always had trouble figuring out the rhythm of games when he came off the bench and just disappeared.

Ya, this is what I worry about

I really hope him coming off the bench doesn’t mess up his rhythm….

Great start for IT!!!
Does Thornton EVER pass going to the rim?
Didn't learn the three-man weave in 8th grade basketball camp, unfortunately
Can somebody get a gif of that guy crawling around on the ground for that loose ball just now?

How freaky.

Isaiah Thomaaaaas

The reason Cuz is playing: he got Salmons off his back and the spasms

went away.

Thomas>Lin
I won't go that far

But if this were Lin’s line through 1 quarter, it would already be on the ESPN homepage.

Its only one quarter

but it was a good quarter

Mainly joking

It’s just fun to see the dude play so well in his first start.

Don't get carried away!
Flat shooting fish
jj hayes and salmons on the court?

time for no offense!

Or defense either
Wow our bench sucks so much

Salmons chucking already… plz bench him, put in Donte. He’s bringing the whole team down.

im predicting a blow out win by the Kings

and IT drops 30 points

if this happens and Stuckey scores 50, I'll be content...

one step closer to Uni-brow.

love hayes and hickson
Salmons comes in and stinks up the place
JJ Butterhands

bench will get pistons back in this game

Maybe Isaiah Thomas should get a rest. Yay now Jimmer is coming in, unfortunately he’s got to play with garbage Salmons and Hickson.

im watching Comcast Live and for some reason...

the broadcast is lagging at least 10 minutes behind live radio broadcast with Jason

I will say though, I was dead wrong about Salmons.

A while back(about 10 games into the season) Salmons was playing horrid and I said a few times "Just give him 8-10 more games and all will be well and figured out… The only thing I figured out is it just wasn’t working.

I honestly thought 8-10 games would do it, and he would find his role and his shot back. He just doesn’t fit on this team anymore, period. He was solid for us back when we last had him, but things change, rosters change. He isn’t the same player he was then and even if he was, honestly, I still don’t think he would fit well.

I was dead wrong about him. I hope he can just endorse his role on this team though, not pout, and just play within himself and the minutes Smart gives him.

Right. Salmons not pouting
People say the same about Cousins
and he finds ways to play within himself, and better.

I was dead wrong about him too, but I didn’t know him that well. Now I know that he doesn’t care about basketball or his team mates. The dude needs to be amnestied so he can work on his crappy fashion line.

Yeah, I think you told me that when I was complaining about him:)
Sounds like something I'd do... I tend to over-reassure
Love!!!

Keith Smart coach up IT every opportunity he gets its awesome to see a coach like that

Detroit radio crew discussing Grant/Webber-gate

Basically said it was unfortunate that C-Webb didn’t own up to the mistake when he had the opportunity.

12-2 run omfg

thank you salmons

And salmons kills the possession
Almost killed it twice
mmmm jimmer, good shot
Jimmer is smooth.
Seems like everyone always bites on his head fakes
Not sure whether all of you are watching the Kings or Pistons feed

but they just interviewed this 50-60 year old woman who two weeks ago, had her leg run over in the Pistons parking lot, broke her leg, and rather than going to the ER, insisted on going to the Pistons game. Now THAT is a die-hard fan.

Let me know if she does die.
LP Pistons feed here
Grant Napear once caught the Ebola virus and did his broadcast still
For twenty years

Without ever receiving treatment. What a hero.

Thank you Jimmer
goddamn, thats the one shot that salmons always makes
Salmons comes in and our lead dwindles to 1. love it
THIS LINEUP SUCKS
hey hayes can score

holy **** Salmons is SO bad. BENCH HIM AND PUT IN DONTE.

CHUCKWAGON

Hickson magic

GET SALMONS THE HELL OUT. PUT IN DONTE
why would the team play an athletic 6'10" who can defend the perimeter?

why?

salmnos WITH AUTHORITY
HAD ME JUMPIN OUTTA MY SEAT
ITS OVAAAAAAA

GO HOME LADIES AND GENTLEMAN GO HOME

lazy hickson
Salmons the hero; JJ in the doghouse
I love that Hickson didn't follow Hickson

Because it means his ass is getting taken out of the game

Hickson

Enter Dog House Now

Good job Jimma and Thornton! You’re lucky you didn’t miss that dunk SLAMONS.

I expected for Salmons

to somehow miss that.

man thornton, lol, he really doesnt like passing

but honestly i dont mind, everybody has one on their team

Huge three by thornton and a great find by Jimmer

Totally stopped the Pistons momentum

Say what you want about Thornton

but he is so far and away our best long-range threat that it isn’t funny. I’m hopeful that Jimmer can start competing with him a bit for that role moving forward.

Garcia is pretty damn good

but yes, when you account how often they play and other things they do, I completely agree.

Garcia's good

But he’s not in Marcus’s league right now.

I never said he was?
I was simply talking about effectiveness at shooting a 3.
Countdown to Whiteside... :)

In all seriousness though I hope Whiteside gets some extra minutes tonight..8-10 would be nice…

Thornton going 1 on 4, but gets to the line

I almost wish he wasn’t rewarded there

Thorton would go 1 on 5

without hesitation

he's got more balls than brains
though just made the nice swing pass to jimmer
turns off brain completely

when going to the rim

he does have alot of balls though, hes got an extra pair in his skull

Dear Thornton,

don’t ever go for a 1 on 3 layup. wtf.

FUCK YA JIMMAAAAAH
great shooting
WOW that didn't even touch the rim

Nice Jimmer

He hasn't hit rim yet
Smart may have been waiting for JJ to mess up. Gave the hook pretty fast.
Smart mad at JJ

Jason Jones @mr_jasonjones
Hickson is coming out after not running with Salmons on tha fastbreak. Salmons still scored but it should have been a 2-on-1

Jimmer and Thornton both hitting asists off each other

Got to love that!

if jimmers happy we r all happy
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Fun game so far...hope this continues.

UNH look at that post D by Jimma. Isn’t Jimma playin’ so much betta at his natural position: PG?

Didn't know position determined how good he is on defense...

I think it’s just the matchup.

Stuckey is a one man team
I was really critical of Jimmer in the beginning of the season

But it looks like he’s figuring out his role now, and he’s not trying too much. Which I hope continues. When he’s able to do more, he can do more. Now, I’m fine with his role.

The two game benching might have been the turnaround.

He has shown a lot of patience and heart

Many guys would have half-folded under the pressure and expectations already. He seems like a hard-working, unassuming guy.

It’s actually him not being forced to play SG next to Isaiah Thomas.

i believe in jimmer

not just cause he’s on the kings, i never thought we was the “next adam morrison” i’m pretty sure he’ll make it

Thompson!!!!

great move, HORRIBLE shot

Why in the hell do they do the "______ of the game" segment when we are not even half way through the game......
to ensure the people that pay for the ad get it out while majority of people still watching the game.

I learned that from a buddy of mine.

If they did it at the end... a LOT less would see their ad.
DMC = DeMarcus Cousins

not Detroit Medical Center!

58% of their shots. We haven't done that too often as late.
brandon knight GTFO
Someone stop Knight, sheesh.
Jimmer should have shot that
HUMZ

Wish we’d taken Knight and kept Beno…

I saw earlier that the Pistons had the lowest attendance %

Holy shit that arena is EMPTY

Detroit is not exacely going through a golden economic period atm
But-But-But the commercials are telling me otherwise
Salmons

If we will plau without the ball and play within the offense im not saying he will be good but he can be useful. But he should not be playing the majority of the minutes for this team

Pound sand salmons
he's been playin alright since that first few minutes
and now he's not
i love it when we play like this
JT block and finsh!
Running a break? Our team?
What a beautiful full court pass from jimmer
That whole pass was No-no-no-YES
Yeah he's real lukcy that didn't get picked
no reason to bounce the ball there, JT.
Yeah, he could've dribbled it off of his feet.

I have no problem..He made it

That was just a great pass
Salmons hesitated twice there...thank god we finished that.
Our guys are all looking alert and focus.
Great pass?

Really? Lucky pass… That was like Tyreke shooting a three…. “no no no no… well, I guess it worked”.

dangerous and bad are two different things....
That was both

It just worked

Comcast schedule must be wrong...

I tuned in to watch the Kings and I see some other team wearing purple…

Damn they are getting too many second chances.
come on guys this was our chance

to build a big half time lead

Cousins is REALLY being affected right now

Looks like crap

ooooo! tyreke nice pass
he made up for it

NOW THAT WAS A THROWDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thiss Is What this team was suppose to be

I Like

Fantastic pass to Cousins.
WTF team am I watching?

Jimmer just got his ankles broke by Knight

salmons why do you pullup jumpers always fucking miss
lol. salmons
Cousins going up strong tonight

Bill Walton is crying tears of joy.

He had his one soft drive, where he got called for a charge...

Now it’s all throwing it down

SALMONS is the ultimate lead killer
Let's not let this lead go to waste.
we were about to open up that lead too....

now we gotta do it the old fashioned way

OMFG TRAVEL BY PRINCE...

lmfo how they miss that

Alright Jimmer it’s time to go to the bench. Oh my god Salmons.

Amen, he missed one shot

The nerve of him

Salmons

Is the worst player ever.

That's just science
That's it. Salmons is BY FAR my least favorite Kings player ever.
i feel bad for him when i start hating him sometimes

he looks so sad……

Then you remember that he's getting paid roughly 8.5 mil a year
Antoine Wright?
Plays shit and then talks shit about kings once he leaves?

Just asking

Worse than Kenny Thomas?
KT at least was benched

Kenny Thomas was always hated on for no good reason. He was a total professional and even contributed some in Evan’s first year.

Wright didnt kill the team. Salmons does
Really? Lin has 7 good games

and Reynolds would pick him #1??? GTFO of here with this shit LOL

exactly what I was thinking
WHAT

JERRY SAID WHAT

I'm right there with you...

perhaps what’s ticked me off more than anything is that in all of this discussion of “great undrafted players” people seem to have forgotten all about Ben Wallace who arguably is the greatest undrafted player of all time.

lol Jeremy Lin was 5 TOs in the first quarter against the Hornets.

He had 6 against us and another awful number the game before
8 the game before
I almost said that

but wasn’t sure

Jerry said that the list was based on what the scouts he talked to would have done.
I dunno... there is some truth to this..

dude is playing like a stud. didnt Wall go first that year? has Wall even come close to this kind of production this year?

He's probably had more than 7 good games though.
John Wall plays for the Wizards...

I would pick almost Jerry’s entire list before Lin. Come talk to me about Lin after he’s done this shit for longer than a week and a half.

Didn't John Wall have a trip doub in his second pro game?
His stats right now are

PPG 16.7
RPG 4.90
APG 7.6

You think Lin would be doing what he's doing now on the Wizards?
Yes

The majority of the games Lin succeeded in were with a line up of Chandler, Shumpert, Fields, and Bill Walker. Not exactly an all star team.

True... I mean that's pretty close to

Wall
McGee
Young
Lewis
and
Chris Singleton….

pretty comparable, I’m sure Lin would be tearing it up

Plus the type of offense Wittman runs would definitely produce similar numbers for him
Oh of course... easily
But what about Antoine Wright? The guy pissed me off...acted like he was somebody in this leauge.
outlaw sighting!
where the hell is Donte

Oh now outlaw is coming in..This game is DOOMED!!!

wooo thornton, for all your shitty D you sure can steal

Thornton the Thief!

Thornton came to play tonight, nice.
Thornton wants to be the thorn in their side.
That was so bad, it was good. lol
Salmons before Donte? okay.... but OUTLAW BEFORE DONTE??? AHHH
Do not like Tayshaun
brandon knight cant shoot 3's

he’s lying out there

Chuck Hayes is so fate

If by fate you mean

As round as a crystal ball, then, yes.

Thrornton huge game so far!

LMAO!!! you hear the ref?
What?
Ha

Thompson ran over Prince and got called for foul and started going like “WHAT?” to the ref and the ref was all “Stop! I AM DONE! I AM DONNNNNE WITH THE COMPLAINTS!!”

I could hear it on the TV, not crazy funny, but made me laugh.

jason thompson's interactions with the ref's

always make me laugh

Ha ha

I saw the first part, but missed the part with the ref.

O0o0oh... it was just more of hearing the ref say it, I didn't see him though.
He's always been a habitual whiner and probably has that kinda rep with the refs in the league.
What got into Thornton?
I needed him to own for the DraftStreet contest

So he’s doing me a favor

only ahead 4.....

shouldnt be a problem though, play a good 3rd quarter we got this

Outlaw in - FACEPALM

Outlaw in for Cousins – DOUBLE FACEPALM

Cousins didn't get a foul

Lucky shot Marcus.

He's been hot though

Why not put it up.

Should be riding a much bigger lead into the second half

Shakey defending, especially on the three point line.

D has been shakey, but shot 56% for half
Everybody but Salmons playing well
except Hickson..

Help out Salmons young man!

More of joking..

Lin is "Strug-uhl-ling" as drunk Joe Namath would say
that was good. lmao
HOLY SHIT...

you saying that made me check the box score….

Lin has 5 TO’s in 10min …lmfao

He has LINdigestion
Great job by Fat Lever there
You know... for Football being a lot bigger than Basketball...

And Tebow coming into the Leauge a lot more known that Lin was(barely even known).. I am so surprised how much attention Lin has got.. more than Tebow was getting.. its incredible.

Now, I know Lin is having good “games” and is in NY while Tebow is just finding ways to win and is in Denver…but STILL

The Kings are assisting the ball pretty well so far, nice team effort.
See 16/7 for the half

They duplicate that in the next half, should . . . . win

Just went to nba.com lookin at box scores

headline “race for change” about lin shattering stereotypes….

…..its finally going to far. Race really is an inescapable issue these days isnt it… i’m pretty sure there was no stereotype anymore to anybody that had half a brain. Anybody any race anywhere can learn to play basketball… there have been plenty of asian players already

and i like Lin he’s been playing great basketball…. but goddamn

"Jeremy Lin is shattering stereotypes"

I’m glad it’s Jeremy Lin who’s doing that and not Yao, who was 100x better than him

Thats exactly what im saying.

Everyone is forgetting about Yao.

Not that I entirely disagree

But Yao is a different situation. With all of the resources the Chinese government put into Yao, and this is generations of resources not just Yao’s, it’s a different scenario than an Asian American kid making it to the league and dominating.

The real racists are always preaching to those they think are racists
lol, are you referring to me because i bothered to post that?
not you, the article and those like it

seems like the media is always talking about eliminating racism that doesn’t even exist

haha ok sorry

ya i totally agree, real fans arent the ones focusing on the race issue, its the media mostly

Haha nope

The real racists are racists.

The race issue is potentially great for the future of the NBA

I am at Stanford, which as you probably know has a large Asian and Asian-American population. It is incredible the general interest in basketball and the NBA that the Lin phenomenon has created. I play alot of pickup hoops here, and the number of Asian guys (and gals) who have been showing up at the gym over the past two weeks has been extraordinary. And many of them have a very solid game!

It was different for Yao because he was 7’ 6". Lin looks a bit more like an “average Joe”, which makes him more appealing to follow (for a general audience).

Also, Lin is American born. Easier to relate to than Yao.
Hard to tell if the Kings look good

or the Pistons are just making them look good. I’m leaning toward the latter.

Yeah. More likely the Pistons.
Im not sure making open shots (The ones they usually miss) has anything to do with the pistons.
No but the Pistons giving up fast break points like they were the Kings does
That may be, but the kings are shooting and playing better and deserve some credit.
Hate to be Holly Hindsight and I love Jimmer and all but,

Knight would have looked nice in Purple.

I still wonder if privately the Kings were kicking themselves when Knight was there at 7
He's playing pretty well against you guys, but he's been very underwhelming so far...
I was kicking a lot

I was all for Jimmer because I thought Knight was going to be gone. Too bad I can’t predct the future yet.

It’s the former. Kings are playing much better with an actual PG starting. Tyreke is playing the Kidd-Gilchrist role tonight and he looks great.

I still want Kidd-Gilchrist anyways

That guy can straight up do everything we need

So you dont think we will get the number 1 pick
Late to the thread

Love the fact that Coach started IT, moved Evans to 3 and Fish is out of the starting line-up. Could that have anything to do with a 60 pt first half for the Kings? I say YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just noticed Reke only has 2 points

and we’re winning

Tyreke is playing well, just not scoring
Glass half full thought - He fills it up in next half
i hate that i worry about tyreke's stats but i do...

i just want people around the country to think well of him, not that it should matter, but he deserves respect

Unfortunately the media doesn't give the Kings much exposure so it wouldn't matter if Reke had 15 assists.

Evans’ post game is so ugly.

JT found his jumper

HIT THAT **** JT!

Yeah, the Pistons are getting too many second chance opportunities.
IT!!!

Defense i love it!!!

IT is a lil badazz
Ok, Thomas is just pumped up.
Good start Kings!
IT is probably my favorite King this season.

tied with Cousins maybe

It is interesting to me that Jimmer is averaging more PPG than IT

It doesn’t feel that way having watched this season, but the numbers don’t lie.

I’m not passing judgement on your IT feelings, by the way…I’ve enjoyed watching him too.

I still can't believe we got him so late in the 2nd round
The a lot of teams are kicking themselves for passing him over I bet.
5' 9"
Yeah

And he’ll always be a liability on defense because of it.

But dude can ball.

Not really..He has been doing pretty well on defense

yeah he also won't be playing 6'5" 210 pound point guards every night.
I never get tired of Rekes Eurostep

i could watch it all day

i love it,

i can feel the G-forces in my ankles just watching it

Looks like vintage Barry Sanders on the gridiron
Got home at the beginning fo the half.

But from what I’ve seen, IT is an excellent defender for his size.

You Shouls watch

the 1st half when they replay

Did he make mistakes? haha
ooh, if monroe didnt foul cuz

he would’ve thrown that down

Airball that STUFF, KNIGHT!

11 points, love it
goddamnit they always score after i post the lead size
Taeyshaun Prince can't be happy there.
Maybe he'd be happier In Sacto.

I’d give up Garcia and Outlaw. LOL

IT is so impressive
I hate these pistons announcers.
Sounds like a high school game in there.
everytime we get it to 10 or over we start messing it up
You know, DeMarcus has come a long way fitness-wise since his rookie year.

Just noticing the up-close shots on him are so much different than last year… His demeanor is so much better too..

both he and JT went to the next level fitness-wise, and it shows

Much more aggressive in the paint.

Monroe playing rough
IT is killin it
These Pistons announcers are pretty good

Not huge homers.

Evans is getting in on the passing action now!

From that angle I couldn’t tell if Evans faded back, lol

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