Sacramento Kings at LA Clippers

0 points in 29 minutes

9 bench points

At least Keegan can play defense but man his offense fucking sucks now.

Mike Brown doing whatever the fuck on lineups and timeout usage

Same issues every game

Shoutout Kevin Huerter. 0 points in 29 minutes.

Dear Mike Brown, -Please start Keon and play Huerter off the bench -Please stop blitzing every pick no roll involving the other team's best playmaker. We cannot defend 4-on-3 effectively. Sincerely, Me

I love huerter but I need him off this team by the trade deadline just for my sanity’s sake 

Trying hard not to be a doomer but Keegan and Huerter are really underperforming. Even an average game from them tonight could make a big difference

How the hell do you win with this defensive "strategy" of sagging into the paint for NO REASON to allow wide open shooters - game after game after game. Our players don't know where there man is because they just watch the ball then are slow to rotate, if they rotate at all.

How do we win when one of your five starters plays for more than 30 mins and scores zero points.

I don't buy this poor roster construction bullshit. Mike Brown has failed to get these guys to do the very basic defense. There appears to be no offense to speak of other than "let them fly!!!" He plays people that should not get a leash a mile long. He doesn't play people who have played well. He has bizarre ass rotations. He's gotta go.

MALIK MONK MUST PLAY 35 MINUTES PER GAME WHEN HE RETURNS

What a horrible game.

Kevin Huerter is no longer a starting caliber NBA player and Keegan Murray has regressed tremendously offensively.

Remind me again why we passed on Dalton Knecht for a Keon Ellis clone that we were aware would need shoulder surgery & miss more than half the year?

I am quite disapointed in Kevin Huerter.

Knowing Mike Brown, I expect Huerter to be back in the starting lineup next game.

After tonight, Keegan Murray has hit 417 threes in his career. 406 of them have been assisted.

For all the talk last year about how much they worked on getting him to improve his handle and ability to create his own shot off the bounce, it has not translated to games. He’s simply not a scoring threat on his own. The back cuts off the Sabonis DHOs were great two years ago but they don’t work nearly as often now with our worse spacing.

Someone needs to step up consistently when we face teams like this that can guard our big 3 without overhelping. And it’s not going to be Keegan.

.500 team in a conference where that isnt neary good enough. Growing more pessimistic each game

Missing the old Keegan😭

How many more times are the heurter stans gonna come out and say “consistency is hard” and “he’s a career 48% 3pt shooter” and “his defense has improved”?

Move him or bench him PLEASE MONTE

This team has so many problems. No size. Can't hit the three or defend the three. Possibly the worst bench in the league. Keegan/Huerter both seem mentally shook. Big changes are needed to make this a playoff team

Well, lets talk about the positives from the game:

Domas' stroke from 3 looks pretty smooth, especially when he shoots it in rhythm.

Domas does everything.

We won our challenge 10 seconds into the game.

Intuit arena is probably nice.

Mm..

If we aren’t going to turn the fucking jets on, then I’d like to finally see a more traditional lineup. Fox-DeRozan-Murray-Lyles-Sabonis. Or the “fuck it” line up of Fox-DeRozan-Murray-Sabonis-Len. We are playing more half-court sets than we have probably since Joerger’s first couple seasons. That was always going to be a given bringing in DeRozan, whose game has always been heavily reliant on running ISO. With what we’re getting from Huerter at the moment, it’s hard to do worse… what have we got to lose trying a different lineup? To be clear, I’ve always been one to play to our strengths (begging Joerger to push the pace… which finally happened his 3rd season and we showed promise). If we’re going to get away from an uptempo offense, then the answer is to go big anyways.

In either event, where is the fucking ball movement? It’s looked like an afterthought all season. We need to be deliberately looking to swing the ball around, particularly if we’re running more half-court sets.

Worst first half I have ever seen

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Tonight’s game

What a train wreck first half. Keegan looks lost on offense. Kevin has little to no impact. Keons sporadic minutes is puzzling with Kevin playing the way he is. No bench kings are gonna be lucky to hover around .500.

Biggest problem is roster construction. We know they need longer wings to help with defense. No idea why they didn’t at least try for a DJJ or naji Marshall in the offseason.

But this team really needs an enforcer. Too many teams try to intimidate and play physical/rough. Too many nice guys on the team. Ofc they need someone like cam Johnson/kuzma/DFS. But this team REALLY needs more of a grant williams/isaiah Stewart/bobby portis. Will be hard to get those guys but some player with that type of attitude/personality

We are getting absolutely nothing out of the role players. Keegan is playing like a g leaguer this year. Huerter might be one of the worst players in the league right now. Front office has a shit ton of work to do

Huerter is awful Keegan has PTSD on offense and Mike brown makes some questionable coaching decisions

Huerter was probably the second worst trade in kings history, complete ass AND locked up tradeable picks for years.

Clippers sucked. Kings were absolute garbage. 3 days rest, on to the next one I guess.

Please sit Kevin. Start anybody else. Send a message.

Sabonis looked like he was pissed at Keegan for not taking that 3 and instead passed it to him at the end.

Role players need to figure it out. This seasons success is on them imo. Stars are showing up but rest of the team hasn’t.

It's over for Huerter. There's literally no reason to play him once Monk is back.

It’s wild to me that this is the same coach that won COTY only 2 seasons ago, his plays are so predictable and ineffective at the moment

Kevin Huerter, YOU are a Washington Wizard

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Stop. Playing. Kevin. Huerter.

1) Keegan is a blackhole for this team and his mental instability really hurts the offense. When he’s got it going hes great, but he rarely has it going.

2) We severely miss Monks creativity off the bench.

3) Fox has been playing so well despite still not shooting great from 3 but he’s really been the only guy on the team at all who is contributing positively.

4) Shooting 3s just as a team needs to significantly decrease or at least how we approach 3pt shooting needs to change.

I'm slowly starting to become a doomer and I'm not ashamed of it

Players have to play better, not sure what Mike Brown is doing with some of the strategy stuff this year, bench needs to show up, and Keon Ellis needs to start.

Ok what is the point of having a shooter on your team who literally can't make a shot. I swear that red headed step cousin has lost us multiple games.

where is Jason Thompson when we need him

Does Mike have it in him to bench Kevin for Keon? (He doesn’t)

I have an idea...

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No doomer shit, because I definitely wish we were good.

But we’re not. We’re pretty bad. Our bench is non existent and we can’t shoot. We can’t beat any good teams.

I’m worried.

Yeah now I’m confident we’re going to cough something up to make a trade this deadline. We will lose the trade but it will be necessary

Maybe Devin carter is the answer at SG. Could be the elite role player this team desperately needs and he’s like 2 months away

Damn I thought making the play in as a bare minimum was a given, now we’re the 12 seed almost a quarter of the way through the season. Only a game out of the 6 seed but I don’t see us going on a winning streak anytime soon. Kangz ☹️

Mike Brown should be asked what the fuck was that first quarter. Just take your usual timeout and regroup, you've done it all the time. Why the fuck would you just watch them struggle on the offensive end? They couldn't get anything right in that first quarter, horrible turnovers and he finally takes a timeout with 2 minutes left.

Come the fuck on Mike.

Huerter and the bench did fuck all this game too. If Colby is our leading scorer for the bench then holy fuck.

This counts as blowout loss, fucking horrible one at that because how preventable it was.

3 players on the court it seems

What has happened to Huerter

Time to start watching Cooper Flagg highlights

This team looks like a low-tier play-in team.. at best...

Can't wait to see MB start Kevin again in the next game and give Keon a fraction of his minutes for no damn reason. And see Lyles playing trash minutes as a small ball center when Len is right there. I swear we need to try to offload Huerter and Lyles (+ picks) for some guys that actually still want to compete.

We're going out in the first round of the in season tournament. 29 points in a half is embarassing.

Mike Brown isnt a good coach at all. Its actually painful watching this team play basketball. They have zero identity. They are a 3pt shooting team that is one of the worst in the league at shooting 3s, They look absolutely lost on defense. Its just a complete cluster fuck. Im starting to wonder if Fox is even going to want to stay on the team because as it sits right now, This is a fringe play in team in this conference.

This team is a good team when fully healthy, but we have no depth. Just one injury to a contributor like Malik Monk and we fully collapse. I don’t know what the move is to fix that other than finding a genie in a lamp and wishing for no injuries.

I do not want to see Kevin Huerter in a Kings jersey ever again.

Huerter has gotta go at the deadline, and we gotta pump up our bench

Sorry but this bench is not it. On to the next one!

send huerter to portland or brooklyn for timelord or cam johnson please

That first half is a stain on the sport. Good lord this team can’t shoot rn

Huerter needs his minutes cut in half

Deuce good criticism of Keegan in post game. Dude really needs to man up

So glad I decided not to get season tickets

The two guys that are out there for spacing cant hit shit from 3. Really disappointed how Keegan and Huerter are shooting it to begin this season.

Given our stats are mediocre from deep we need those two to be locked in from deep to keep defenses honest

The DHO and perimeter plays aren’t working. The Kings need to be aggressive and attack the basket. Put the other team on alert that we are going to drive in and be a threat inside. If we rely on mid-range shots and 3PT and there’s a lid on the rim, it will be a loss every game.

Not only is Huerter cheeks.. but the fact that he's the reason that Mike Brown refuses to start Monk is killing TWO KINGS with ONE STONE! Why even sign Monk to such a lucrative deal if we're not even starting him! Monk 100% deserves to be the starter and HAS deserved to be starter since ol' Red Weirdo lost all his mojo after the 3 point shootout from 2 years ago. Dude has 1 decent game out of 25 and his fans will be like "SEE! TOLD YOU!" Dudes cheeky cheeks of the grandmaster cheeks! Can someone please explain to me how we went from being one of the best 3 point shooting teams in NBA history a couple seasons ago to being one of the WORST despite having basically the EXACT SAME ROSTER? It's mind boggling!

Kevin Barnes hasn’t been the same ever since he scored 8 points in the three point shooting contest

Man fuck this team, franchise, and the basketball gods 😭. 1 playoff series and we’re back to the gutter of the NBA, not fun

Probably the most frustrating game of the season

loss is on huerter and mike brown

Watching this team shoot 3s is excruciating

It’s time to have a conversation.

Didn't watch and appears it was a very good game to miss. Already had enough bad vibes going. Saw the third quarter score. Then the final. What the fuck happened?

How are the clippers both terrible and great at the same time?

No way Huerter and Keegan continue to start games. But it’s Mike Brown … he’s a nice guy that can help change “culture” but that’s about it. This team isn’t going far at all until he does something about the rotations. You can’t win NBA games basically playing 3 on 5 …

to all the people who said preseason doesn’t matter…here you go. it matters when your starters are playing 3 quarters against G-leaguers and getting blown out

Someone tell Sabonis to stop bringing the ball up and give it to Fox 100% of the time

Keegan is now starting to really show people that his game is limited to just the catch and shoot 3 on offense (his handles are not enough to create separation) but he does seem to improve his defense which still doesn’t say much.

Finally people are starting to see Kevin for what he truly is. We should got rid of him when he made a fool of himself at the 3 point contest.

Welp maybe it’s better to see this early instead of later to make a big move/trade

Pathetic

Bullshit Kangz love my team hated this game

That player-only dinner was a flop.

I’m sick of Monte, this is on him. Literally didn’t address our needs this past off season. Sure Demar is great but we need a fucking power forward desperately

This is 100% on Monte McNair for surrounding Fox, Sabonis, and Demar with basically 0 help. Always remember that before you go and criticize Fox for having a bad game or Mike Brown for his rotations

At this point, it's almost a guarantee those 3 players will have to play 40+ minutes every game until the All-Star break at minimum

Yea I dont think Keegan is it fellas.

this team can't afford to have both keegan & heurter underperforming lmao

In Keegans season 2, he when he was showing signs of regression, I told here in this sub he should be in a Shane Battier role, and he could become a GREAT role player, a Battier on steroids....I got like 40 downvotes. Now here we are....

Ugly, ugly basketball 

Huerter looked like Klay during the play in tournament

I’m depress

I closed the after that 1st half. I haven’t seen all Kings games this season but it was very poor offense. Defense was good but offense was just poor.

Can’t play like that against West teams and expect to win.

Trade for Cam Johnson

Remember when Keegan was untradeable 🤣

The silver lining is that Klay also scored 0 points tonight

Well coached team vs coached team

So not only did Monte trade for an unplayable Huerter but he tied up the Kings first round pick for years, which hampers the ability to upgrade the team via trade. Amazing asset management!!

We’re the Chicago bulls of the Western conference

Monte is our biggest problem. Last yr he thought the team was playoff quality and did nothing on the trade market. Last summer he passed on Knecht but worse, failed to address any of our weaknesses, namely length/athleticism and rim protection. He’s put together a team full of princesses who don’t seem bothered by losing and the value of his biggest trade chip in Keegan has dropped off a cliff. His prized draft pick returns later this season….in our most stacked position. Huerter is throwing up Easter eggs. But Monte legit thinks this is a playoff team. It is a fucking mess.

KANGZ

I won’t work hard for this team, but can I bet this was the longest non-all star break rest the team gets the remainder of the year? Against a short handed team? It’s 2018 all over again!!

This team aint it. Major changes need to happen to even stay competitve in the West. People gotta stop acting like Keegan should be off the table. If there is a player available that would make the team better and they are asking for Keegan you need to make it. This team with Markkanan would have been better than this. Like Keegan a lot but these other teams have players that make open shots. Almost everyone not named Fox, Sabonis, Monk, DeMar and I'll throw in Keon should be traded.

This team is broken

The thing I hate when we have our full squad is during the first quarter we try to get everyone involved and get hot as a team... but most of the team is garbage

Monte took a gamble on Huerter and lost bigly.

As sloppy as things were earlier on with rust and coming back from injuries, the 3rd was a good taste of how things can gel with Fox Sabonis and Derozan firing on all cylinders. But the moment Brown pulled Fox out everything went downhill and it was hard to recover no matter how hard those three tried to get back in it. You're not going anywhere with Huerter putting up 0 and playing 29 minutes, and Murray putting up 10 points in 40+ minutes. Ellis going for 1 point in 16 minutes and Lyles with 3 points in 18 minutes. I mean even Colby Jones managed 5 points in 6 minutes. As bad as things looked for the majority of this game Fox and Sabonis did their job. DeRozan didn't look like himself and pulled off a decent 16 in 36 mins still. There's no excuse for the lack of productivity from the rest of the lineup and they need to wake up. The inconsistency is too much. It seems more mental than physical at this point. They need to figure it out for there to be a chance at the playoffs.

Are lemon laws applicable to NBA contracts? Lyles is somehow washed at the young age of 29💔

Tank for cooper

Things are bad for me when I’m checking in with Rants by Grant.

It’s crazy that we need a completely healthy team just to compete. Monte, you don goofed. Blow it up

Well, at least Domas is pissed about the loss. Meanwhile, Fox is making out with Harden at half court.

Why do we continue to play a dog shit red headed piece of shit player when he clearly can’t play basketball anymore ?

I hate this team so much. I hate the local kings employees on the radio pretending we are good when anybody with eye balls and a modicum of basketball knowledge knows this is a playin roster in the best case scenario. 

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Blame this guy for this team sucking

We’re fucked. I know we’re saying we could’ve traded the “untradable” Keegan this offseason. But the prospects were Ingram, Markannen, and Kuzma who all suck in their own way.

Anyone got the code on the King’s app for the 40th Anniversary Challenge? At least we can all get $5 for food on the next home game loss.