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’ bad losses to the Rockets, offense grinds to a halt, Domantas Sabonis and Harrison Barnes fail to step up in crucial time, Mike Brown concerned with deflated spirit of the club, as well as another edition of The Business of Basketball centered around whether we here at The Kings Beat helped or hurt your processing of the Kings’ struggles.
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16 Comments
Those two Rockets games should be a call-out for Mike Brown. An entire team … with their potential … should not look like that for two straight games.
Fox being gone did not impact them so much vs the Warriors. Their complete collapse in Houston was stunning. Alarms should be going off in the coaching staff.
We need Beno Udrich back.
Maybe Fox is more pivotal then we anticipated
I seen this coming but everybody frowned on me when I said the lackluster off-season is gonna come back to haunt you can't count on improving from within Barnes was not gonna get better just older Huerter is who he was at the end of last year Davion has no offense since day 1 & Keegan still has time but he's not a dog we only got 2 dogs that's fox & monk even Sabonis takes days off smh gonna be a long year more than likely boys & to think ham the kings really don't have any money moving forward the coach of the year needs to get this team out of it's funk & quick come on kings you can do this right the ship & get back to playing kings basketball with or without fox
I think these 2 games will get this team going, hopefully galvanize them. They don't have any rings yet, no reason to let off the offensive throttle.
Davion and Sasha are not nba caliber players. I think Davion will have a great career overseas soon.
Bench HB and start Malik.
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Time to bench HB
Monk playing less than 35 mpg is a crime on basketball
Sabonis for all of his talents needs to work on his offensive game. He has to average 25 ppg with no Fox but I donāt think heās capable honestly watching him. He needs a jumper and he needs better post footwork. He should watch highlights of his father to improve his game š
I might be mistaken but it seems like Mike and jordi are calling plays for offense. I havenāt seen jay in the huddle much
Many teams have improved and the Kings cannot underestimate any team. That said, teams took notes during the Kings-Warriors playoff series. They know everything runs through Sabonis and if they can be physical with him and clog the paint, it puts a wrench in their offense. That's ok….they need to adjust and acclimate to this by throwing some curve balls at teams. Perhaps, Sabonis attacks more by taking that middy and drive to the basket instead of handing it off to the guards. Point is…they need to adapt to teams playing them more aggressively.
Dont forget about Trey Lyles!!
Sabonis is too busy trying to be a PG instead of a Center.
its the rockets d simple
Most people including you undervalue Rockets..This team has one of the not top5 but top 10 center of NBA, the youngest center achieve 500 asists in NBA history. Sengun and This Rockets team has so talent , the thing is theh have been coached by a terrible coach for 2 years. Right now , as whole Rockets is a better team than Kings, have better defenders and a generational talent in Sengun.. Without Fox, Kings is not in their last year level, sad but true….