Six Quick Thoughts – An Ugly, Ugly Sacramento Kings Loss To the Pistons

Six Quick Thoughts – An Ugly, Ugly Sacramento Kings Loss To the Pistons

We’ll put a pin in the Super Bowl stuff because we need to get to six quick thoughts from James Ham on last night’s Sacramento Kings loss to the Detroit Piston how’d yesterday’s Kings game go King Insider James ham has six notes you need to know here are James ham six

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About during the off season but that’s for the pitch meeting anyway James we sat next to each other at the game last night it was a delight we did um your first quick thought on the Kings loss didn’t have it no they didn’t dearon Fox was a step slow from the jump

And it h his team’s chance to win boy did it uh 12 points seven assists 0 for four from three five of 14 from the from the field uh he just looked like he was exhausted I don’t know Kyle he looked like he he wasn’t ready to compete and

I’m not sure why that was earlier today when I said you know those times where you just look like you don’t want to be at work and you’re GNA punt it today yep in fact you know what specific example G to call myself out on Tuesday I have a

Writing job Niners wire.com check it out that that requires like a lot of work and on Tuesday my contributor wrote something and I wrote something which is well short of what I need to be doing especially this week and I’m like you know what I’m just not feeling it today I’m out I’m

Done I just I I I didn’t write anything else that’s how dearen Fox looked yesterday like he just and again I don’t know I’m not in the guy’s head maybe he’s banged up maybe he’s got something going on I have no I have no clue I

I based on my assessment of watching him on the court he looked like he didn’t have it to to use your wording yeah he just he just looked like he wasn’t ready wasn’t engaged you know like tough and the worst part is like when nothing is going right and then he

Walks into a threein transition that’s usually when it’s like or with 17 on the clock and you’re like okay look man like it’s okay if that’s you want to be a facilitator tonight be a facilitator and be a defensive player that’s fine and he had seven assists MH but you know don’t

Don’t go five of 14 like find somebody else like look to somebody else to lead lead the charge well I the the thing that’s weird is I mean he goes five of 14 he missed a dunk he missed a couple of of shots in the paint that you normally see go down

For him it just he just it wasn’t it wasn’t there there the number I Circle and this is something that you brought up and ever since you brought it up it it’s glaring to me the 0 for four from the strike oh yeah you just tell you can

Tell what kind of night dearen Fox is gonna have by how his first couple of free throws go no totally and he goes 0 for four from the stripe on the defensive end he got a little physical I thought maybe there was an offensive foul then he gets whistled for a foul and

There there it just wasn’t yeah wasn’t checked in no I mean to be honest with you that was a game where I I didn’t think Davon Mitchell played uh exceptionally well either he had some moments but it was a game where Mike Brown was just kind of searching like

What are you gonna do like there there comes a point though where he he does need to say okay like look if if that’s what we’re doing here then I need to try somebody else at your position yeah for tonight like I’m not saying yeah it

Doesn’t have to be a permanent thing but no no like send some kind of message I guess yeah yeah hey look if if that’s where we’re at then let’s go ahead and try something different all right number two uh Trey ly’s a leite shooter um former

Former piston uh he put up 13 of his 19 points before halftime chipped in two boards he has been so good over the last couple of weeks hitting uh from the outside um so I thought that he definitely had a good game yeah sure did uh he didn’t hit the

Glass which is which is a problem he had two rebounds um but that was kind of a problem with everybody last night yeah glad to see Trey L making threes yeah number three uh demonus monus was having a pestan games in the first 24 minutes and the third um he was just incredible

Uh he pushed his double double streak to 33 games finished with 30 points 12 rebounds seven assists like look like if there’s someone you’re G to blame it’s not him in this one like I’m not blaming Trey ly I’m not blaming d sabonis uh like there there are a couple players

Here who who did actually play well and had a good game and sabonis is one of them and I don’t want offensively for sure yeah yeah well I mean defensively there’s all kinds of issues defensively with this team is straight up yeah across the board uh my one nitpick on

Damas sabonis yep and talked about it last night he went for 30 like yes thank you like this is what I want to see more of from him Jaden ivy with 812 left makes a three to make it 10 105 Pistons deonis sabonis comes down has a layup

It’s there he turns and fires it out to Trey LS for three I get Tre L is hot fine he misses it later on Kings gonna stop um Kings get a couple stops they go down 108 105 domas again has the ball in the paint has a chance

To go up with a shot turns around throws it out to Harrison Barnes who misses and I get making the right basketball play I get I understand all of it I I he is a max player in a spot like that where your team is struggling to hang on to

The Rope to use the metaphor that we use all the time in this show I would love to see him go up and get a basket there I get that Trey L can shoot it I get that Harrison Barnes can shoot it but those are not the guys I’m paying to hit

Big shots for me yeah and that’s that’s again he was he was very good last night but those are my those two possessions just stick in my crawl yeah I know I I could see like that possession when he he’s just right there all he had to do

Is and he’s on his left right right he’s he’s on his left and he’s got an open it’s it’s right there and he and he hits the guy in the corner I didn’t get it like if there’s if there’s 30 seconds left great play great pass you’re not

You need a three there there’s eight minutes to go take your two points yeah cut it to one keep the momentum anyways that’s like I said just just nitpicking he was he was obvious L very good last night he was number four the flying monk uh Malik monk took a while to get

Going like most of the other kings uh but once he started sprinting around the court he put on show um he struggled from three but managed 23 points 10 assists and two blocks and again I I will repeat this Malik monk leads the Sacramento Kings in blocks that’s a problem you’re six-man

Who’s not an awesome Defender either who might be six fo three oh generously He’s listed at 6 foot three but might be six foot three that is who leads your team in blocks and like you know like he’s played really well uh for most of the Season he woke

Up out of his little Slumber here and he’s been you know he’s kind of back on the right path but uh definitely one of those things where like he he was there he was present he was R tough to tough to squander a 23 and10 game from your sixth man yeah and

A 30 and 12 with seven assist game from your Center yeah that’s that’s bad number five Kevin hter came out firing uh he knocked down three straight triples to open the game finished with four he four of nine so that’s a problem uh so that means he finished what one of

Six uh but 16 points and then he got ejected Kyle he got ejected you know what honestly good good for him like finally somebody did something abrasive yes God and ear he earned it too Malik monk got fouled on that three no call Kevin herder goes down intentional foul barked

At the ref Double T he’s gone like that you know I’m fine with it especially in that spot yeah game was over get your te’s money worth very interesting to see a player get double te that we never see get Tex at all number number six stepped

On the gas uh with fox out of sords Kings needed a boost Davon Mitchell uh made the decision to push a pace he made decision to push push the pace within the half court set which I thought was really interesting he’s quick he needs

To use it more often and uh I thought he was all right nine points and an assist yeah he looked he looked more in the preseason there was a a feeling of wow davon’s playing with a lot more certainty yeah he just has that and then the regular season started and it looked

Like he lost that looked like he reand it last night and if you’re going to get a better version of Davon Mitchell I think overall you’re G to get get a better version of the Kings because they need as much help as they can defensively and if he’s not going to be

A negative offensively I think you’re going to see a lot of Davon Mitchell minutes down the stretch here all

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