Fox 40’s Sean Cunningham and The Kings Beat’s James Ham join forces for coverage of the exciting Sacramento Kings.
Topics include the Kings’ preseason opener loss to the Toronto Raptors, Sasha Vezenkov’s place in the rotation, the tandem of JaVale McGee and Malik Monk, the first unit was solid, the second unit struggled, as well as another edition of The Business of Basketball centered around who might make the final roster spot in Sacramento.
Thanks for joining us on this adventure! Big shoutout to Paul Jinkerson (@paulitition) for creating a new intro and outro for the podcast and to Brenden for creating our new overlay for the podcast.
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12 Comments
Welcome back, Brendy Bear!
They looked really out of it.
The raptors were bullying us
My three guys back at it LFG 🔥💯
"Jumper" is, in fact, about su*cide.
As for the rebounding for keeg and harri I don't think it's a big deal it's just the 1st game back let's take it ez
Been watching other games… Kings looked slow, winded and lethargic compared to pretty much every other team I've seen. Not a good start.
candles to start and I'm out. wtf?
James Ham: he was not in Sacramento Gym, we will treat him as a rookie. True. Sasha was in Euroleague finals run with best def team in Europe 🙂
Cope season starting for the Kings lol
Harrison Barnes is only the 3rd best player in games of little significance. No one would say he is 3rd best player coming of the playoff performance he had
The court dimensions are slightly smaller on the International playing field. Dimensions are measured at 94' x 50' for the NBA and 91'10" x 49'2.5" for FIBA. As a result, the three point line scales down along with the court size. The FIBA three point line measures at 20'6" while the NBA is at 23'9". Once Sasha gets used to it, his defense will definitely improve.