Matt George reacts to a disappointing night inside the Golden 1 Center, where the Sacramento Kings’ offense failed to show up in a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Clinching the playoffs is inevitable for the Kings, but tonight’s celebrations turned into all too familiar frustration.
The Sacramento Kings Blow Opportunity to Clinch Playoffs At Home
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48 Comments
What a wanker
We as fans appreciate the work that you do. This game was significantly magnified about clinching a playoff berth in front of the home crowd. It's a great storyline for a magical season. However, Minnesota felt disrespected and overlooked when they relished the moment of playing the "Big Bad Hungry Wolves that stole the Kings' Clinch-mas."
I thought the Kings played hard; however, their shots didn't go down. As you mentioned, credit the pack of hungrier wolves (fighting for their playoff lives). I thought the Kings got outcoached too. Either Coach Brown felt like he had a lot of freedom by going with a different lineup this game, or he didn't want to show his "hand" too early and save it for the playoffs when they meet again 😉. He didn't unleash his top defenders of Davion and Kessler, where they should have got more time in this game.
This game is a great opportunity to learn from and move forward. Get some rest and don't blame this loss on your wife, 😆. Make a trip to Portland because you don't want to regret it.
Keep up the great work! We appreciate your coverage and analysis on the Kings.
We couldn't BUY a three point shot this game!!!
T wolves exposed kings , we better hope we don’t get them in playoffs
I’m mad at brown for how he is disrespectful to Holmes and Davis
Why didn’t play Davis
T wolves better only because brown doesn’t use Holmes and Davis
Kings will miss playoffs
Kings haven't had a game with this much anticipation and electricity in the air since game 7 in 2002. In that game we shot 2 for 20 from 3 lol so I don't cry out loud smh. This game is going to make us better in the long run and I still feel fine with facing the Twolves in the 1st round. I'm just happy Fox looks healthy. Red Velvet's foul trouble was brutal for us in this game when our outside shooting was miserable. I don't like how we've been trending in our 4th quarter game plan is my bigger worry. We need Fox to touch the paint and set up his midrange jumper in the 4th quarter. We have gotten away from 4th quarter Fox that has been pulling these games out all season. Fox initiates the offense and never touches the ball again or the shots that he is taking is too 3pt heavy which I have said before. And I get why Brown gets pissed at Metu but Alex Len just can't be on the floor and his minutes were brutal. I love our coaching staff and I think they will learn from this also b/c there is a lot of film on how to attack Gobert and we need to focus on making him unplayable by pulling him away from the basket. We looked our best against the Wolves this season with Trey at the 5 in the overtime when Sabonis fouled out. Nothing to worry about overall, this team always responds
It was set up perfectly for the kings to clinch against a team , they didn't have a losing record against – I never had a problem with the warriors helping the team out , but they're gonna clinch 👍
How are you talking like KAT was in the lineup? We haven't played them once with KAT, you can already see the difference he has made with his two games back from injury. The timberwolves sweep the kings WITH kat honestly and they have so much veteran experience in the playoffs. Also idk how you didn't notice that ANT obviously didn't have a good game and he doesn't look 100% back from his injury. This possible matchup between the Wolves and Kings in the playoffs isn't about stats as you make it out to be, and you'd be a fool to think that Kings fans shouldn't be more than worried to play them. Let's keep it 100% real, the Kings are a regular season team with no playoff experience where its a completely different ball game, we're easily a 1st round exit no matter who we play and I think we're being a little too naive as a fan base to not see that.
Better hope warriors get wolves and win
You would be a great preacher
That's what you get by talking like in previous videos, as if victory is in a bag already. Jinxed. Never fire up the oven while moose are still in the forest.
We can still get the 2 seed if Memphis loses 3 games and for us no loss the rest of the regular season it can still happen.
Is their still time for them to clinch
Reid and McDaniels are beasts this guy doesn’t know basketball. Sleeping on those 2 guys in a good team.
Yall were acting like you already clinched lmao humble yourselves
Kings has at least 2mil Lithuanian fans all around the world following them
Man I would have liked to see metu and kessler edwards get some minutes and maybe change up the game. Did they even play? What is up with that?
The wolves do scare me in a 1st round match up. Fox and sabonis did their thing, I guess the wolves ran us off the 3 point line or got good contested 3s on us.
Our 3 point shots weren't the usual kick out open corner 3's to keegan. We were running huerter hand offs to keegan and he is more of a spray out catch and shoot conrer wing 3 point guy. Huerter is the hand off 3 guy. Huerter was taken out due to foul trouble too so that was a problem. Monk also has been forcing it a little too much also. His bounce passes are more crisp in the 2 man game. Sometimes his air passes aren't on target at all.
Respect the Wolves role players for actually showing up with no KAT and a non 100% Ant. This Kings team is not ready for the Wolves in the playoffs.
Lol this is why I’m not buying the hype, I already know the kings are out in the first round
Few things I didn’t feel you highlighted enough this game.
1. I feel like you didn’t touch enough on how bad our defense was this game. The entire team was awful. They blew right by our guards to attack the centers then drive and kick for open 3s almost what felt like every possession. I know fox had plenty of points but didn’t feel any sense of passion or urgency’s on defense.
Brown rotations were horrible. I get he has been searching for a back up big but why decide the day we can make history as an organization to finally activate Alex Len!?!? And maybe Len wasn’t horrible out there but when the guards are off and he isn’t making any impact either it’s gonna be worse. Monk was off and he left him in way to long.
You people put to much pressure on this team to meet YOUR expectations. Who guaranteed a win for you to celebrate? NO ONE! You guys will make guys not want to play for you because of the pressure you place on them. There are NO guarantees in a sporting event. Sportscaster are the worse in hyping events and when things don't play out the way they forecasted, they start the blame game. Shut up and let the guys play. You guys give off bad vibes. Keep this up and you're gonna lose your best players. Who needs the added stress? I suppose if they lose in the first round, they should go shoot themselves.I'm going to stop watching any of you sportscasters.
sportscaster You hyped the Timberwolves into giving extra energy to beat the Kings. Great work!
Kings fans thought for sure y’all gonna beat my timberwolves! Not happening! Go wolves!
Bruh look at the standings….they threw the game.
Broken Heart 💔 but good 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Nah. Malik did some dumba** passes. And we should’ve stopped shooting 3s after the 3rd. They just weren’t going in. And they kept forcing them. When their inside game was working very well.
And all these channels have way too much pressure to Keegan just to make his threes that he barely tried to go inside and make inside shots. Just let them play. Jeezus.
That’s why I wanted the kings to clinch way earlier
Am I the only one who saw Rudy punch Domass in the face? Why is knowing talking about this. I was at the game and it seemed like Rudy punched him on purpose.
The Finch who ruined Clinchmas
Wolves win season series 3-1 and could've easily swept 4-0. You better pray you don't see the Wolves in the first round. You straight up disrespecting Jaden and Naz when you said "no disrespect". Do you take a look at actual game logs of these dudes?
1 the kings dont have a homecourt advantage there road record is better than there home record. 2 I am concerned that when the team could feel how much the fans wanted the win n could not make a shot (reminds me of a game 7). Lasty im hyped for the playoffs but i think the kings are showing they are 1 to 2 players short of making a deep playoff run.
Probably the first time in a long time that I'm not disappointed by the Kings losing this game. The KINGS will clinch a playoff spot. Not a matter of IF but when. If this was the last 16 years, yeah I'll be pissed as hell but not this season. We still have 7 games left to clinch a spot and we might even clinched while not playing.
We also have to give credit to the wolves. They matchup well with the Kings and you might say that the Kings and fans took the wolves for granted in this game.
Kings have a better road than home record…so home court advantage may not be favorable…
NAZ REID
You expect the Sacramento Kings to win, I expect them to lose. The reason is simple: The Sacramento Kings cannot depend on that bottom rank defense to fall back to when their offense goes awry. If the Sacramento Kings do meet the Minnesota Timberwolves in the playoffs, just hope that their coaching staff could implement some sort of above average defense. Otherwise, it will be a very painful exit to a wonderful season. That would be deflating to their fanbase who expects more.
This was the 1st time this year the team has failed the fans imo.
Was so freaking bummed but I know we got it
Don't forget the Clippers can give us a fight
Western conference pretenders this year lol
The players already know they’re a playoff team. They didn’t need this game to know they’re a playoff team. Fans and media hyped for no reason.
I think the kings were too e😂🎉xhausted thinking of their accomplishment. They should win the game against trailblazers with Lillard’s limited playing time. Go kings. You made the playoff already. Play the game be smart play defense and everything will be ok.
I was there near the arena having drinks ready for that beam to be lit…but it wasn’t…and that’s ok.
We gotta remember, Minnesota needed it way more than we did.
As a long suffering MN sports fan, I feel your pain. This is the most raw and yet respectful recap of the game I have heard. Thank you for the positive vibes for both teams and mad respect for the season the Kings have had so far. I think a 7 game series with these two teams would be so awesome.