Kings lose to REALLY short-handed Miami Heat

Kings lose to REALLY short-handed Miami Heat

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Tried hey man I know I I wish there was a game in between these games if you were to tell me the kings were going to lose tonight like lose to the short-handed he had big can you just space it out so I can enjoy the Clippers

Game on one more day I’m you know what hey Morgan hey that’s a great point it’s just like we were on the ultimate high of highs yesterday I’m feeling good I’m walking around going man they turned the corner a little bit and then the basketball Gods gift you one tonight

They go hey man we know Miami’s good we’re going to take away some key pieces we’ll leave a couple really good ones out there but we’ll make this a little easier for you on the second I have a back to back and then you get down 20 at

Home and you lose to the Miami Heat 121 to 110 pain it’s pain it’s painful it’s painful and for me I’m just I get irritated by it too because like you know me I get so emotionally wrapped up into things but you the joke this year has been oh kings are

Playing a short-handed team you know what that means they’re going to lose right and it’s happened a few times this year and I get so annoyed by seeing like oh stop it I have another joke yeah um the kings are playing one of the shittiest three-point shooting teams in

The league tonight ha and then the Spurs hit 40% Orlando Oh Orlando yeah yeah yeah no that’s true um so yeah no it’s kind of their bit it’s kind of their bit yeah funny bit the The Narrative yeah it is funny is it I I you know looking at social

Media a little bit tonight just seeing some of the Talk and of course it’s like everyone’s like oh it’s a roller coaster where this is so fun and the loss is like everything’s falling apart again settle down a little bit this loss sucks there’s no other way to put it um but I

Also think there’s like major like Miami Heat disrespect when we talk about it like Miami out um I don’t know a high school team tonight like look at their starting lineup like they had one Allstar three guys in the starting lineup were playing as starters in the

NBA finals last year I mean it’s not like they’re they’re bums not excusing it but let’s give a little respect to Miami a little bit give the respect it deserves and I mean on top of all this you can give the respect of look Miami has a culture where they’re always going

To play hard but it sucks too because then you see I I mean if you watch some of their games on league pass or something you’re like oh this is Miami you know even with Jimmy Butler and it’s like this is Miami huh this is who they

Are and it’s like no no you’re just watching that one game where they’re playing like [ __ ] and they come out they do this this team man this king’s team’s really frustrating huh um you know can I be honest yeah I’d love to you how are they not frustrating this year

Okay aggressive oh okay go ahead like let’s be kind um of course it’s frustrating but I also I mean I think I said this before Allstar break and I took a step back and was like there’s a there’s so much good I think where the frustrating part comes

From and it would come from anything in life when there’s inconsistency right because the ups and downs of emotions is wild and I think last year I wish I wrote I was going to say I wish I had a journal for every single game I mean basically have a video journal for every

Single game last year and if I really wanted to and had time I could go back and see some of our emotions after you know some of the losses and I think where they were different a lot of people always say oh it’s because you

Didn’t expect it no I don’t think it was just that last year I think truly in some of their losses it was they were controlling what they could control and and some of these losses this year’s it’s they’re not controlling the controllables and for example that would

Be like as simple as Mike Brown having a you know a different type of rotation or leaving in small ball too long or you know whatever it may be and sometimes that can also go to the how the team is constructed too with what pieces he is

Also given to have to uh put together and work with in especially when a guy like Sasha is even injured and I’m not acting like Sasha is going to save the world but it still just keeps screwing with the consistency of what the rotation we were hoping to see toward

The end of the year man is that a fair like why I’m not I I’m not Ultra frustrated with them all we say for the podcast I mean I I mean look I’m enjoying the season still you know last night was an epic fun game and you’re like oh man when it’s clicking

You see it look at so smooth and tonight like it felt like oh this is going to be a grinded out game like Miami’s going to bring it like I had zero doubt Miami was going to bring it tonight I didn’t care who Miami is one of those teams you can

Go ahead and go it doesn’t matter who’s missing from them because they’re going to play and that’s just in their DNA and I think there’s a lot of questions I have about the king’s mentality a lot when these things happen rotation stuff tonight they just made a lot of mistakes

Now they made it interesting at the end they battled and got back in the game they took a 20po lead down to two and that takes this [ __ ] right here that I mean that’s mental like you know and that’s where I go I I I question their

Mentality a lot in the beginning of the season if they could push through certain things and I think we saw the stretch on that road trip and then a few downers on and off when they’re back home before the All-Star break but a lot of uppers too and I don’t know it

Inconsistent so your emotions are going to be inconsistent too well and it’s it sucks when you lose home games like this and that and yeah and being down by 20 on your home floor is just like what the [ __ ] dude come on I know let’s get to it

All right yeah we’re gonna still have some fun tonight I promise yeah right all right de and mo let’s go over the highs and the lows of this one coming down three two one hit my music than tell you what they know dece and mo de and

Mo mo the podcast that you know welcome into the deuce and mo podcast recording this on a Monday night and how about just 24 hours ago we’re on the ultimate high of highs the Kings with the tough road win against the Clippers where they played some defense dearen Fox was

Amazing how are the Kings going to respond on the second I have a back toback against a tough Miami Heat team well seems like they got a little lucky right MH a short-handed Miami Heat team no Jimmy Butler no Josh Rich Richardson okay no roier no Orlando Robinson no Tyler

Hero and they lost why are you looking at me like that well cuz you it took a really dramatic Downer turn yeah is it because you forgot for a second how who exactly was out and you were going to name like three instead of those five yeah

Look I thought I had him rent down in front of me okay and then I was going to scramble real fast and get it but it just didn’t work out de some more coming down three two One they tell you what they know de and mo de mo mo the that you know Andy welcome into the ju Mo podcast recording this on a Monday night we are on the ultimate high of highs last night the Kings went to LA and beat the Clipper some big time

Defensive moments in that game everyone was feeling good the king searching for win number four in a row second I have a back toback against a Miami Heat team that was beyond short-handed the basketball God said here’s a gift I present you a short-handed Miami team no

Jimmy Butler no Tyler hero no Josh Richardson Orlando Robinson Terry roier Drew Smith Thomas Bryant and Nia yovic but it did not matter the Miami Heats put it to the Sacramento Kings big moments from the rookie haime hwz Jr bam out of Bio Kevin Love and Sacramento got

Down by as many as 20 points but rally back in the fourth quarter to cut it to two but down the stretch Miami was too difficult too much to handle for the Sacramento Kings in Sacramento loses on the home floor tonight 121 to 100 this podcast presented by our friends for at

Northwest Exteriors check out trust northwest.com I’m ju SP and that’s Morgan Reagan Mo how you doing I’m fine I’m whatever you’re whatever F know I’m frustrated but like at the the same and and you know I’m not I don’t know if it’s this point of the Season too where I’m definitely not hey

It’s one game because there is no more like it’s one game um I am very much along the lines like this [ __ ] happens but I think when we really start breaking down everything that we’re about to break down is is when the emotions start coming up it’s when you’re not controlling the

Controllables and uh that can be frust frustrating especially on your home floor I mean you talk about the basketball Gods giving you this Miami Heat team that is short-handed the basketball gods are also giving you all these home games to end the season on and you got to capitalize on that you

Really got to capitalize on that and even being so close in some of these moments uh seeing this team be so resilient and and mentally strong down the stretch in the fourth when you’re starting off almost down 20 what a great great fight back but then there’s just

Like little other things at the end it was why couldn’t you just do something else when you were down six you know what I mean or do something else when you’re were down two even at there at the end and why did you even have to get

Down by 20 because of so many things that you just weren’t taking care of so yeah we’ll get into all those deeds I love how Morgan said I’m fine and then went on about a twom minute monel where she sounded extremely frustrated at the end no it’s frustrating because what you just said

Morgan Miami is a good team we we’re more than aware of this they coming into this game had won seven of its last nine games they beat Sacramento before I went into tonight knowing all these guys were missing right that we just rattled off and I went this is

Going to be a tough game H same same and it’s not even so much that like oh the Kings aren’t going to bring it I’m going look Miami it doesn’t matter who is out there for them you look at their starting lineup tonight even with all those guys missing well Duncan Robinson

Bamama too Caleb Martin they were in the starting lineup tonight they started NBA finals games these guys aren’t like a joke yeah this Miami team’s not a joke they’ve got some really good players they play the right way and spoler has a standard for them go out there and play

Hard we don’t use being short-handed as an excuse that’s the mentality they have they come at you they play physical and they’re going to be ready to go now with that said I don’t go you don’t get down by 20 because Sacramento should be more mentally resilient by now you know and

That’s I think one of my big takeaways tonight is like you get down 20 it was a sloppy game for you in the first half but you’re in the game in it but then you get down 20 and and there was missed opportunities with adjustments to the

Rotation then you decide to go into a matchup Zone yourself cuz Miami was crushing you and that their matchup Zone was amazing that forced a lot of the mistakes from Sacramento so together you go into match up Zone it changes the game you’re getting turnovers Keegan’s making plays defensively everyone’s

Making plays Fox is making plays and you cut that lead down to two you get back in the game you make it a game you had a chance to win it not with like 90 seconds to go you were back in the game at the halfway

Point of the fourth quarter I guess my problem looking at this is just going dude those adjustments those tweaks whether it’s the players on the court or from the coaching staff they got to come earlier they can’t be coming when you’re desperate when you’re down 18 to 20

Points at home in the fourth quarter those need to happen like you were just saying all right they made a little bit of a push here what’s our main adjustment adjustment let’s let’s throw up this matchup zone now it’s a six-point game we’re going to do this

Now to change the look of the game not wait until you’re down 1820 when you got to just go ahead and just throw [ __ ] at the wall I think there are a lot of missed opportunities tonight by the Kings yeah and and I think that’s just

Like a a mental shift to by Mike Brown and the coaching staff where like they got a change from okay we’re not behind anymore we’re in this we’re here what adjustments do we need just pound pound Pound and nothing seemed to be like pounding I guess you could put it in

That sense but um did you make a face did you saw that yeah I did you dick um but yeah so I I guess I guess yeah that’s that’s where a lot of the frustrations come in uh with this team and with this game tonight and there’s a

Lot lot of things that I also loved about this game tonight uh a lot of individual moments a lot of Team moments or a few team moments and I think one of my favorite team moments was truly when this team was fighting back in that fourth the beginning of the fourth the

Resiliency like you what I saw there and this is another thing they were fight you could tell they were fighting through heavy legs right like they’re fighting through second night of back toback and I say this everyone does it but what they had to leave on the floor

With the LA Clippers you know going up against three future Hall of Famers and everything it was a lot they end up pulling out the win what could they push through tonight they tried they really tried pushing through and they fought back in the beginning of the fourth but

Then there was just I guess where my frustrations came in is it shouldn’t have eat even got to that hole like shouldn’t have gotten down by 20 and I get that that’s going to happen against teams in the NBA but it there there was so many other things going on against

The Heat where it just felt like no no no this is this is your game you got this it got off to a weird start too Sacramento had seven turnovers in the first quarter turned into 11 points for Miami so the kings were shooting the

Ball I mean you go to the end of the quarter and the Kings close well they end up leading 33- 32 I thought they did a good job getting back in the game Chris DTE with some nice moments in that first quarter provided some nice energy for sacrament during that stretch they

End up shooting 62% in the quarter Keegan has got 12 points in the first quarter they’re up by one but they had seven turnovers and going all right you know what start taking care of the ball here and you should be fine in this game

But I think the one thing I didn’t get give enough love to at the time in my head was this it was some of the turnovers were not like oh lazy passes it was Miami Zone and Miami has done this the last couple years they run a

Matchup Zone they run a lot of zone defense they are amazing at it and they do Sacramento loves getting into the paint spraying out for three they were not allowing any spray threes deflections God in the I mean the discipline that was there by Miami’s defense poking the ball away they’re

Always digging if you go back and watch the game you will see active hands all the time from Miami Heats Defenders if sabonis got the rock there are multiple guys around him ready to go and it was just forcing him to make kind of tough

Passes and it just took the Kings out of any rhythm that they had everything seemingly hard for Sacramento during stretches of this game because of that zone defense and and the Kings finished that first quarter going on like a 10-2 run right like it was a nice little

Spurt of energy to finish off that first quarter after you lost the ball seven damn times or I think it was seven yeah and you’re exactly right though with the Miami Heat and their def defense their activity there’s times that they’re absolutely fing but what they do such a

Good job of is that they set the tone with the officiating crew early and basically say this is how we’re going to play so are you going to stop the game all game long or are you going to like understand that this is our this is our

Standard and a lot of it is handsy and they and like I said they get away with some things but like you that’s the effort You’ got to put forth and then understanding your person personel of your officiating crew too and being like okay they’re going to call that [ __ ]

Every single time I got it back off or oh I’m going to keep getting away with this just a fantastic job by the Miami Heat and just again the way that they all stay at one level doesn’t matter who’s playing and the second quarter got off to a much better start for the

Sacramento Kings they really expanded the lead I thought one of the first plays of that quarter Fox got the it was actually the first play of the quarter Fox got the ball on the inbound went quick push up the floor for a bucket I’m

Like okay I want to see more of that you saw that fox Ali oop to Malik monk all of a sudden Sacramento is starting to click a little bit here um but the close was bad the Kings led by 10 they were up 5545 Miami ends up closing the second quarter on a

20-7 run to take a 6562 lead the other thing with Miami tonight Morgan yeah all their guys who played expanded minutes I’m not talking about Williams or or schwier who who were limited tonight but the seven guys that they played kayb Martin hawz bam Duncan Robinson who couldn’t shoot

Tonight but made [ __ ] happen with his 11 assists Delon Wright playing in his first game with Miami Haywood heith and Kevin Love those seven guys all played great they they were fantastic and you talk about someone like heith for example I mean just the energy and the

Spark that he brought Off the Bench right away in this game it was like okay how many times have we heard like if don’t you know make sure that you’re stopping bam or whatever but just don’t let the other guys beat you and it really was one of those nights where the

Other guys were beating you including the guys like bam yeah High Smith had 15 points at the half he finished with 15 points in this game but I mean you get 15 on six of nine shooting he was active on the glass too the thing that popped

Out to me is how many times he would get his hand on a ball he had three offensive rebounds that’s a Crusher right like that’s just great activity from him he also had three steals his length was a major weapon for Miami in this game and just talking about him

Really quick and those offensive rebounds and him being that weapon in that first half I did think the Kings did do a good job of making adjustments throughout this game like whether it was coming out of a timeout and having a good offensive play or coming out of a

Timeout and then you’re seeing three bodies down low boxing out you know every Heat player like putting a point of emphasis on it understanding the importance of it um something that I felt like we weren’t seeing in the beginning of the Season were the iname adjustments it always felt like oh they

Didn’t do this all game long so I was glad to see that they slowed down high Smith as other guys started contributing so at halftime of 6562 Sacramento had nine turnovers for 13 points in the first half bam aabo was awesome 17 points five rebounds four dimes for him

In that first half and I thought one of the key things that hurt Sacramento tonight too sabon has picked up his second foul at the 818 minut Mark of the first quarter at 818 of the first quarter yeah and it had a major impact on the game

Because all of a sudden you know bam plays aggressive Bam’s going strong bam can blow by you put the ball on the floor he’s a major threat he knows sabonis has two fouls and he knows this so bonis doesn’t want to pick up number three early in that first quarter he

Doesn’t want to pick up his third in the second quarter sabon has backed off in a major way there was no real pressure on bam around the basket because sabonis was so concerned about picking up that third foul I thought that changed the game a little bit even Keegan’s foul trouble change

The game too yeah I mean and that’s where again I go back to even Personnel like someone like Tyler Ford calling some of that [ __ ] and it’s like you just got to understand who is your officiating crew and being able to be like okay how do I adjust and sabonis

Adjustment was to make sure that he wasn’t going to be as aggressive down low when bam was trying to go through his arms it wasn’t even just about staying vertical it with someone like bam you have to use so much of your strength but if your strength is going

To be seen as a Poss or deemed a foul in this league then you got to make sure you’re changing up and his change up was to be less aggressive against bam so so Kings were down at the half third quarter this was the quarter right we

Talked about the first quarter all the turnovers how they ended the second quarter was bad and then the third quarter the game was tied up at 71 okay it’s going to be a game here right 71 uh by halfway through that quarter Miami was up 8173 the Kings just looked Gass at

Stretches you know it seemed like they were getting frustrated with some of the missed shots of Miami defense just couldn’t get into flow the other thing I noted is halfway through that third quarter sabonis had not had a field goal attempt in the quarter and I’m like

Again this guy is an important part to what you do I know he’s getting a lot of attention but got to find some ways to get him the rock so he can create something yeah you know like get bam into foul trouble or so that was the thing tonight is

Bam wasn’t in some foul I’m looking at BAM aabo tonight had one foul you get him into foul trouble tonight that could have changed things dramatically well I texted you when we I think we saw one of his uh sabonis his first field goals in that second half and that was when Malik

Monk came in and it was in that Twan game and you saw this little slip from sabonis and monk pocket pass boom gets it to him layup then a few possessions later it’s Monk and sabonis again and it was uh just like a pick and pop to the

Free throw line midi for sabonis and then um you know you saw another moment after that where it was theonis setting a screen and monk had a floater like it was working things were working and like sabonis was still able to really be a part of the offense make things happen

In that moment without being too aggressive down low and drawing another foul foul we given a lot of love to Miami and what they were able to do especially what they do defensively right how they get you uncomfortable they get you out of your stuff and then

They execute it on the the other end I thought the third quarter what really hurt Sacramento some of the lineups out there and spola did a great job you put Kevin Love out there he put Kevin Love out there with bam he put Kevin Love out

There with hawz and this is when the game changed the Kings lost this game in the third quarter and I’m looking at one lineup in particular 602 Mark you got Mitchell out there with monk herder Keegan and sabonis you can’t run that lineup out there when

You’ve got love and adabo out there they were just hunting every mismatch how many times did I see oh they’re going davon’s in the game they’re going to go right at him and have a big post him up and then it puts you in a really tough

Spot because bam and love are such good passers too they see the floor well but I didn’t think Sacramento didn’t bring over a double they just went okay go ahead and deal with this oneon-one these guys are going bucket same thing with Kevin herder tonight where they were ex

They saw Kevin hder and go that’s our Target we’re going to make sure Bam gets the ball hawz gets the ball or love and we’re going to go at him with a turnaround jumper they didn’t bring help and that happened late in the game too

Even when they had a bigger lineup but I I could not believe that they went small for that long in that third quarter because Miami just exposed them well it’s surprising too because if you look at the night before before of just how much that they were helping each other

Out blitzing guys I mean sometimes blitzing at the half court L right you’re going to do that with some of the stars but it’s not even about that it’s about like you said just throwing a double on someone when they’re on um even some help when they’re even on the

High post when they’re when they’re uh you know trying to post up one of the smaller guys down low whatever it is I mean being active him just being able to rotate over I just didn’t see a lot of that type of defensive activity which I thought was really interesting um which

I thought they still worked really hard I never felt like anyone was being lazy on a drive just mismatches that’s what it is that’s what it was that’s where your coach has to help you out and Mike Brown I thought went with that small lineup far far too long especially with

The size out there and I’m like dude love is destroying you Kevin Love in This Game had 19 points seven rebounds in 15 minutes yeah on six to n hwz was a beast 26 points on 12 of 17 shooting love at hwz outscored Sacramento in the third quarter

23-19 Miami as a team outscored Sacramento 36 to9 but I I thought they they they went it was 602 they had Mitchell monk herder Keegan sabonis and they don’t make an adjustment until the 215 Mark and they put Fox monk Keegan that’s when they brought ly back into

The game with sabonis and I I I just did not like that at all I mean that that is something that needs to be adjusted quicker and they’re in a comfort now now they’re comfortable now now they’re believing that they could hit everything why not go to a Zone sooner

If you’re really going to bust out a matchup Zone in the fourth quarter make that tweak earlier do not wait until you get down 18 yeah 20 in a game yeah when desperate mode comes out right and it’s like be desperate in those moments when

You see when you see a team like the Miami Heat um they’re not the San Antonio Spurs so when they they turn it on they click and and they get going and the lead gets going you got to make your adjustment then you know you can’t you

Can’t be like all right I’m going to let my guys figure this one out let them figure it out against the Pistons the Spurs whoever else but against a team like the heat I mean they’re just they’re so well coached obviously by Eric spola and it’s like it’s sometimes

It’s genius sometimes it’s just buying sometimes it’s just been this consistent standard for so long that just bleeds into everyone’s soul and I think Mike Brown has a lot of that but then there’s just these moments where you’re just like you you have to be the one to be

Like nope I’m done with that I’m going back to my short leash method and this is [ __ ] and I’m making this adjustment and it’s not even that someone’s not doing their job it’s just that like you said the matchup is clearly not working and I don’t know how

Many teams that lineup would work against right Mitchell is a small player monk is not like a massive two guard herder has good length at like 67 but again this Miami team and almost every NBA team what are they looking for they’re hunting they’re targeting certain players not necessarily because

They’re like awful defensively but because oh that could be the weakest linked we have a size Advantage here and I thought the Kings waited way too long to go big again and they should never have gone away they should never have gone that small tonight they especially against no especially when when when

He’s playing love with hawz or love with bam I I just don’t understand it and I I I understand that love likes to work the perimeter but he’s also so smart he moves without the ball he’s a good passer yeah just just brutal well and I think something that you would text me

About was when haime hawz was going kind of hunting for Kevin herder right and it’s like I thought Kevin herder was doing a decent job even like staying in front of him but then hawz would just get deeper and deeper into the paint and no help and no help no help and would

Also feel like he was quick had a quicker release than what Kevin herder could add with getting his hands up you know like it’s hard to keep your hands up moving back doing all these things where it’s like he’s like okay well I’m going to shoot over you every time or

I’m going to make sure I get this Baseline jumper get into the paint you’re exactly right there just should have been um more King’s bodies coming on over so it really fell apart in that third quarter for Sacramento the game was tied up at 71 but they were outscored

36-19 by the end of the quarter it’s 10181 that was scary so you’re down 20 going into the fourth quarter bam was on the bench to start the quarter um they get the lead back the king started to cut a little bit bam hit a wild ass shot as the shot clock was

Going down so annoying beats the shot clock makes it 105 to 86 uh what do you know the Kings decide to switch things up they go into a matchup Zone and it worked to Perfection screwed with them SC what did you like about how they were able will execute

With that I mean I just I I liked mixing it up when everything’s already not going well for you right like you’re seeing that this matchup isn’t going well for you so you do something to try and alter it you make an adjustment an ingame adjustment you don’t look back at

This and go gosh I wish we did this and by the way going into a matchup Zone especially when you don’t do it all the time it’s not easy I mean obviously they’re running this in practice and stuff and understanding where they need to be on the floor and how they have to

Move together um but I was really happy to see that they could pull this one out not saying they need to pull it out all the time and kind of saying they should have pulled it out even sooner you know like when they felt like things were

Going south that’s my thing with tonight and it’s not even about going south because of what the score is it’s about feeling the dominance of of the matchup of the other team and being like well [ __ ] let’s throw this at them so yeah I would have liked to see it sooner I

Loved uh seeing them play together in that zone it’s not easy and that defense in that quarter was fantastic they made a lot of plays in the fourth quarter and Miami had five turnovers in the quarter turning into 12 points for the Sacramento Kings dearon FOX also had a

Block in that quarter so did Keegan Murray Sacramento had five steals in the fourth quarter how oh yeah I mean the intensity you guys the way that they’re getting up and guys it felt a little bit more like last night like when dearen or for example there was this I I don’t

Know when this moment happened I want to say it was in the fourth and it was Kings had the ball dear started losing it maybe it was Caleb Martin or whoever jumped on it they both jumped on it and fox got pissed F well and yes because so

Then so then it was a timeout right Caleb Martin was calling a timeout the refs were calling it a timeout then Tyler Ford was allowing Eric spola to manipulate him to say we never call timeout and then he goes in inverted whistle and I’m like no dearn gets so

Pissed and he just goes up and he’s like he’s calling a timeout down there on the floor like he’s telling Mike Brown and everything and good then they had to take the timeout I loved seeing that passion from dearen is my point you know you got a little bit of that angry Fox

And that’s when things started going in a different direction I need the that pressure you’re just talking about the on ball pressure from the kings in that fourth quarter The Zone here’s my question and I don’t know how you can even answer it but I’m just throwing it out there

What why does that come when you’re down 20 going into the fourth quarter why does that happen then like why can’t that happen earlier like yeah there were moments for example these big runs that they have allowed this year and I know in today’s game we we see massive runs

With three the three ball that that changes the scope of things here in the league why can’t the wake up happen faster why can’t that mentality mentality shift sooner so you don’t get yourself in a hole where you get down 20 and then you have to play perfect

Basketball down the stretch right right so can I tell this is kind of a weird example but here’s an example you gain 20 pounds and you get desperate and then you go I’m desperate I’m going to the gym I’m going to work my ass off now

What what why didn’t you do that when you gain 10 pounds why didn’t you do that when you gain five it’s a mental shift right it’s something that that motivates you and triggers you to be like oh hell no I’m not doing this but my point to this is why you got to

Figure out when you’re five pounds heavier to have that mental shift not when you’re down 20 you know what I mean but you you can’t be putting on 20 lbs three times a a year if you can’t you can if you can if you get get out of it that’s you can’t do

That that’s the whole point is like I love how they they brought it in the fourth quarter I love that they got back in the game it’s just I think a lot of people who are watching the game tonight if they you stuck with it or if

You’re at the game you’re sitting there going I’m enjoying this and I hope you could pull it out but couldn’t you have just woken up a little bit because it look you got score 3619 in the third quarter I mean if that’s just if that’s 30 to 24 the game’s different my point

Is find your fire find your mental shift without getting there without things getting bad how can you do that when you’re five pounds heavier so shift here’s my question is who is that on that’s on individuals I mean because like here here no no no no I because

Here’s my thing because you can’t go to the bench and look at oh Mason Jones can you hype everyone up let’s not talk about the fact that the Kings finally lost a game with Mason Jones on the bench now three in one damn it um but

You can’t you know what I mean like he can’t he can’t be he’s not like Fairy Godmother where he can just like sprinkle some hype dust on everybody that’s not what I’m asking but no that’s I guess this is I’m getting to my point though is that it is an individual thing

On these people and you can say that’s coaching too yes it’s absolutely leadership it’s coaching but it’s on the individual to be like okay they want me to get up want me to do this sometimes a coach just will trust your best player to be like okay they’re they’re

Conserving some energy because you know second night of back toback they’re making sure that they can like last the rest of the game whatever um but there’s other times absolutely you want to see a head coach just be like get your ass up there like what are you doing this is

You know this is what we’re doing right now on this defensive possession whatever but it yes accountability with these individuals you got to find a way to get that mental shift gotta find it within so many awesome plays in the fourth quarter during the comeback you

Had Keegan ripping it from bam and then gets the ball back hits a three ball to cut it to 10595 then you had Fox with an outstanding block he block Duncan Robinson it leads to a Keegan Murray 3 making it 10698 I’m looking out my notes a Kings

Cut to six with 547 to go after a fox jumper so a six-point game just just over halfway through the quarter that’s a you’re in it that’s a game now uh Fox cuts it to two 110 to 108 with 324 to go and then Miami just got it going um I

Thought it was really impressive haime hawz Jr who we have not spent a lot of time talking about quite yet because we’re going in order here he had some great baskets including one on Kevin herder and then he had an incredible one on sabonis where he just absolutely

Fakes sabonis out of his shoes gets to the basket bucket and then it’s 114 108 bam hit some big shots down the stretch I thought hawz was just a game changer tonight annoyingly good and it’s not a surprise if anyone watched him play I I think there was Zero doubt he

Was going to be a good NBA player and then when Miami got him he went of course Miami got this guy this guy’s a stud his footwork is tremendous his ability to finish he has some really challenging shots in this game he shoots it with confidence he didn’t really care

Who the Kings threw at him I thought Keegan had some nice moments on him but he also I think scored on Keegan too he could put it on the floor finish around the basket got that turnaround jumper just a really good player Miami loved his basics of what he could do on the

Floor and what his um I guess his mindset is as a competitor and they just elevated that to another level and they knew exactly I mean everyone knew exactly what Miami was going to do with him now did we think it was going to be

Like this so quick um maybe not so much dominance but at the same time like are you surprised this I mean this guy is just like talk about a different mindset uh just so confident but also so confident because he puts in the work he puts in the work mentally and physically

And it I it’s it’s fun see he seems like one of those players where I’m I’m going to be glad to see his success throughout his career but [ __ ] I’m G to hate playing him every single time 26 points for him he also had five rebounds three steals two assists 12 of 17

Shooting my goodness appreciate everyone hanging out with us make sure to hit the Thumbs Up And subscribe I put this poll question out Morgan on a scale of 1 to 10 how annoyed are you one relax it’s just a game Deuce five it’s whatever and 10 very

WTF 54% of people who have voted tonight say very WT uh 29% say it’s whatever 177% say relax it’s just a game I’m around the it’s whatever in the chat let’s get to some of them Gilbert says I feel like Hae got drafted to the perfect situation

For him no doubt Nick Navaro says can Keegan shoot the ball more dude Keegan was on what tonight we’re going to go over some of the good of this game because there was some Keegan was part of the good and I thought yeah he was

Cooking I want him to have the rock more he finished with 28 points he had three steals 10 of 14 shooting six of seven from three good to see him knock down some threes yeah his threes looked just really good talk about all in one motion

Just the flow of the three the way it was leaving his hands um he he didn’t look like he was hesitating at all even thinking twice when he was looking for a shot coming off a dho uh wherever it was it was just confident knowing exactly

What he needed to do from Beyond The Ark and he had a really good shooting night it was fun to see Jeremy says will you guys stop sugar coating it call it like it is coach does not have this team prepared look how often lose to bad teams wake

Up um Jeremy Jeremy well Miami’s not a bad team one I mean this this is not them losing to Portland short-handed um this is not them losing to the hornage short-handed like as I mentioned at start of this three of their players in the starting lineup tonight including one

All-Star started in the NBA finals last year they’re they’re like not a joke Miami is a really good franchise um I I don’t think this was anything about not being prepared I think tonight came down to this Miami was awesome and the Kings put out some lineups that got absolutely

Exposed they waited too long to adjust and they get down 20 it it’s all there is to it like the Sacramento their mentality has to shift quicker so you call that sugar coating I don’t know what else you want me to say like I don’t know if you want me to yell

And put it out on social media and get all loud like I don’t know what you want from us uh I’m just talking about what I saw tonight and what I saw is a king’s team that struggled with a zone defense against Miami a king’s team that didn’t get engaged enough defensively sooner

And didn’t make adjustments quick enough and that’s why he lost an NBA game tonight yeah I don’t what do you want I mean yeah who no no no no not getting into that nope what no I just I I just I find it so interesting um how some people yeah

Break down the game or see it like what and then like how I do it how you do it I mean we all can have different observations and takes and how we want to feel emotionally and all the things but at the same time like when you look

At a team like the Miami Heat even missing guys they’re absolutely not a bad team um I I I think that’s such a a lazy take sometimes that people want to go with when a team isn’t fully healthy now it doesn’t excuse how the Kings performed at times in this game

Especially even starting off in the first quarter when they kept losing the [ __ ] out of the basketball and not taking care of it but then you look at the other side of things you go why was that happening oh because Miami was really good defensively and also just

Being very handsy very active like you got to give credit where credit’s due I think the one thing too I remind myself is when we go live after every single game win or lose on the ninth year L you know there’s more venting in the chat

And it’s just going to happen and it’s okay because people are upset yeah I think sometimes people want me or you to come on here and like kick scream and be like what the f is this look I’ll do that when I feel that way and I felt that way at times this

Year tonight was beyond frustrating I I just don’t know what else you want me to say about it like what we said at the start the basketball Gods gift wrapped in you something a short-handed team tonight and you didn’t take advantage so yeah it’s um it’s definitely disappointing and now you got

To find a way to bounce back against the defending champion Denver Nuggets who just are coming off a really good win against the Golden State Warriors where they played some great basketball in the second half oh and then he played Minnesota after that some fun times ahead yeah fun fun

Fun but S I understand the feeling of the letdown because this is this has happened a lot this year where you’re just like oh the the the games you’re supposed to win be mad about the Pistons game right you losing to the Pistons at home yeah that was a short-handed awful team that

You lost to the Blazers on the road oh dear God short-handed bad Team Hornets bad team short-handed those are the games that just eat at you and two of those games you lost at home yeah and so I think the point you said is like if

This is one that happens earlier in the season you don’t have the other ones you go ah it’s frustrating but whatever but now like we’re in the point of the Season you’re watching the standings every day we’re getting excited that they jumped to fifth last night well now

With this loss you Dro to seven and it seems like all the teams from 5 to 10oo they they win some key games and they jump up and then they lose a couple and fall down but you got to figure it out here but this was the other thought

I had after tonight too I was like you guys breaking news yeah the Kings aren’t going to win the rest of their games how there’s 25 games left they’re not going to go 25 and0 they’re just not going to and that to me just that thought is frustrating because I go holy [ __ ]

Though what is that record going to look like what is it going to be I mean even if you’re just losing five of those games it’s like wow you’re playing some really good basketball in the in you know this last part of the season but

It’s going to be a roller coaster now a roller coaster can be janky and not fun you know and like or the roller coaster can go up and down and still be smooth where you can still have the feelings of like oh my God that was such a good game

But they just couldn’t pull it out where tonight I’m like I’m a little bit everywhere with this one because I go there was so much not I shouldn’t exaggerate about so much good there was a lot of good in this game that made me happy and excited to talk about in

Tonight’s night chat win or lose but then when they did lose and the reasons why that’s where my emotions kind of changed to just like I’m annoyed I’m annoyed it’s wild looking at the end of this because we just went over Miami’s box score with with some of these guys

Right hawz with 26 bam had 28 points 10 rebounds seven dimes uh Caleb Martin God he played aggressive he had a great move off the dribble lowered his shoulder a little bit create contact on Keegan and one he finished with 16 points and six rebounds Delon R I thought was an

Absolute Pest so annoyed that Miami got him on the buyout Market just the perfect Miami Heat player 13 points five assists two steals just everywhere defensively did a great job I thought for them 15 for high Smith and then we mentioned the 19 for Kevin Love for Sacramento tonight one thing that jumped

Out to me yes sabonis finished with another triple double did 21 of the season another double double obviously had 14 points 14 rebounds 10 assists he only took eight shots in this game eight shots this this was one of the frustrating triple doubles it yeah exactly right and where you go oh man

They did a hell of a job on him and that’s the one area of concern I have is like okay he means so much to this team if he is not involved and he’s not getting the ball in the spots he likes and it’s not able to orchestrate as

Smoothly as he does dude this is what teams watch right like teams watch these things so come playoff time they could try to take you out of your game and that’s what happened in last year’s playoffs now you go okay experience as well really helps some of these teams

And you look at Miami they have experience in the NBA Finals I mean you know these this team specifically they have experience in the postseason all the things the Kings they have one playoff series now under their belt but what I love about domos this season so

Far one of the things that we questioned about his game in the beginning was when he’s matched up against some of these other Bigs like for example zubot what did he do last night he he did a great job he went through his chest he

Did all the things he needed do he made this inseason adjustment to be like no I’m not going to let these bigs dominate me I’m going to get stronger and I’m going to go through them now you go up someone you go go up against someone like bam who’s just smart athletic can

Put the ball on the floor just can do it all so good and then the rest of this team and what they put together to slow down the anchor of this Sacramento King Squad well now you got to figure it out because this is the [ __ ] you are going

To see if you make another playoff series yeah he 14 points 14 rebounds 10 assist four turnovers in 40 minutes six of eight shooting um he was one of four at the free throw line tonight by the way that was the other big swing Tonight free throws Sacramento 7even of 12 58% M

Miami 20 of 25 oh that’s a lot yeah and it’s good Miami just C just it was brilliant tonight yeah and well it just yeah I I I just I felt like the Kings really could have made those adjustments that we keep talking about whether was with the lineup whether it

Was about flicking the switch mentally and being able to like get up get up get up leave it all out there on the floor you just don’t want to end this season with any regrets and I put this game on this season because like I’ve already mentioned 700 times every single W down

This stretch is just so very important uh some people in the chat mentioning that dearen fox did not shoot a free throw tonight was there anything glaring on I yes really yeah my God I mean I think I even texted you about it when uh heith was like just all over him handsy

But I respect it because he never changed like that is what he did and he basically said to the refs this is what I’m going to do so are you going to call this all game or am I going to just like be able to like play my defense and I

Think when you get to set your tone like this is my standard it’s just different so yes there was those moments I thought they did a hell of a job just making sure anytime he even got in the paint it was difficult quick attention like they were concerned they just made life hard

Like the Kings love their spray through I mean every team likes to get the paint touches spray for three but Sacrament really likes doing that they like getting out and transition Miami not only in their Zone mucking things up but then they’re picking you up full court

And on the second night of a backto back they’re trying to exhaust you a little bit like oh yeah you’re going not going to push the pace on us tonight we’re going to make you think we’re going to put some pressure on you we’re going to

Have force you to bring someone else to get the ball up and make you get into your stuff a little bit later than you normally like to and then here’s his own I mean it’s it’s brutal it I mean brutal you could feel it and that and that’s

Where I was impressed with dear Fox and some of the other king guys like I thought they still did a good job of pushing through and even after being down 20 and having these tired legs still trying to push through be resilient um and pull out a win in that

Fourth and yeah like that’s where that’s where I go okay this is where the good was um and I know there’s every single time I feel like that we talk about the good we have to like preface it with the bad because someone’s going to be like

Your sugarcoating [ __ ] or get so pissed off because we’re not like throwing the desk over into the windows the nice Northwest exterior windows um but but truly it’s it’s uh some of those things that I saw from this king’s team on a second night of a back toback I was just

Yeah I was impressed with yeah Daren had 27 points eight rebounds he had six assists three steals the number that’s going to haunt him tonight because of that Miami defense seven turnovers for Fox yeah seven turnovers I believe that’s a season high for him I mean and that’s just taking care of the

Basketball when someone’s all up in your grill and that’s exactly what the heat were doing and um sure we can sit here and give the heat even more love but for dearen it goes you just go where where do you either get to a point where you’re ripping through and trying to

Manipulate an officiating crew too you know like these these veteran moves like when do you when do you try to use some of those those things and um yeah and instead I just think the heat were doing just a much better job of putting that pressure on uh the kings in the fourth

Quarter they started the quarter with Fox herder dwarte LA and sabonis uh at the 952 Mark they went with Fox herder Keegan Lyall sabonis that was the group that finished the game for the Kings you did not see Malik monk play a minute in the fourth quarter Harrison Barnes only

Played six minutes in the second half did not not play in the fourth quarter either where was that I think the monk thing I I don’t know I think he that that’s the other thing like we we talk about okay you you don’t want to go too small we we’re referencing the lineup

That they had earlier with Mitchell and herder out there and the size issues right you don’t have any size with some of the bigs that are out there um I think he wanted herder’s length out there now herder also and I liked herder out there at times he ends up with he

Had 14 points two of nine from three five of 15 from um overall here’s my thing it might this might be a little more of um you know hindsight’s 2020 what I mean if they’re going to try to go at herder yeah you know I want monk out there I

Just want another ball handler out there I want a guy that is a threat who who I get it I get what you’re saying but I also I felt herder’s size on that that defensive end at times and I get like we we can talk about go back and watch all

The bad plays too when they would be like we’re going to hunt him down we’re gonna shoot and that was a problem is my my thing is if they’re going to hunt him like I then fine let him hunt monk but monk is going to be such a threat on the

Other end to two to put pressure on it and it allows Fox to maybe play off ball a little bit or allows monk to play off ball I don’t know I just like monk closing games a lot and I I just it’s tough to me and I guess part of it too

Is like hey this is the lineup that got us back in the game we this lineup cut it to two we got to keep rolling with it so maybe that was the thought process it’s like a lot of it was because I mean that’s that it’s exactly it like why

Wouldn’t you roll with what was working I mean how many times have we complained about um you know there’re being times where they’re not rolling with a rotation that’s like working for them why screw with that right and so maybe that was I mean that was probably the

Mindset but I also understand the mindset of being like having a guy like Malik Monk and having his Spirit out there having that competitive nature out there especially when you need it most but look that lineup there got them back into the game almost came back to win

The game and it just still wasn’t enough and maybe Deuce maybe that’s where I’m feeling it too where I go when they were when the Kings even had were down six right or down two maybe that’s where the adjustments for Mike Brown come in and that’s where you put in Monk and be

Like okay you know what like now it’s time for you to go off now it’s time for for you to knock down a three herder’s two of nine he’s doing a good job moving without the basketball and stuff but like we just need that extra spark on

The offensive end as well Hayden says such an annoying loss thanks for podcasting even on losses like this always excited to tune in well thanks Hayden I appreciate that Manny says just a bad loss no I’m definitely was a bad loss for sure uh our buddy Jeremy who’s

Mad because we’re not yelling says can’t wait to hear DLo and Casey tomorrow same we we actually I listen every day literally oh but wait is he trying to be mean about it yes he is Jeremy’s in his feelings tonight okay Jeremy calm the [ __ ] down like no we’re not doing this

Sweetie just insane I’m like going to protect my energy and uh Kings on the night shoot 53% 40% from three uh they finished with 15 turnovers so they only had four turnovers in the second half uh Miami though 51% shooting 36% from three 20 of

25 from the free throw line and um they do it with a thin thin lineup um we’re going to take some Discord calls too in a few minutes we should mention that tonight’s podcast presented by our friends over at Northwest Exteriors if you need new windows there’s no better place to go

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Not awesome appreciate that not t night um man Morgan what would be your moment of the game tonight ah my moment of the game one moment that probably sticks with me that I mean we have to put that that Miami was short-handed on it right yes yes maybe the play of the game

For Miami was the the Caleb Martin jam and then on the other end Trey ly’s Take It to the basket and Bam with the dagger block why is this your moment because Morgan the whole point of moments aren’t just good moments it’s supposed to remember the season and what happened I

Like you could put one good one on there if you want I like to to make my memory have some happy moments um h no okay yeah I’m good with your moments I’m looking back at some of my notes and just like I’ll say Keegan Keegan was

Really good tonight oh that’s a good there we go positive positive energy I’m still putting the other one on there too no and that’s fair because I want to remember a lot of like what this game was about but six to seven from the three-point line uh for keeg Murray love

It yeah he was awesome sh Jeweler’s moment of the game who is your Rock andas player of the game Morgan Reagan I already know who you’re going to put so who uh Hae hawz yes and well deserved I mean what a stud what a dude 26 points five rebounds

Three steals just playing with his full heart out there he’s a man I like it I like his game uh I will give an honorable mention to Keegan Murray too I thought he was really good but you know what Kings lost you lose at home to a

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There you can get 25% off apps and 25% off drinks during the entire Kings game all right Morgan we got a little extra time tonight so we should talk to the people let’s kick things off in our Discord by talking to Manny Manny hi Manny hi guys a you’re not

Okay this so frustrating man like watching that Masterpiece yesterday and then this like it’s like dud what a like look I love sposto right like as being again being a bulls fan watching the stuff that he’s done he’s a genius coach I think even as much credit as he gets I still don’t

Think he’s underappreciated a lot um his ability to end game make adjustments no matter what the lineup he puts out there is incredible at times right like I fully expected that team to be in the game most of the game I just didn’t expect them to be up 20 at some I

Know that’s it and that’s what it is like dude his his bam great uh haime I love H loved him wish he had been on the oh I knew it was gonna be they couldn’t do it but like I would have loved to seeing him on the

Kings I I would have picked him a lot higher than what he went but he’s Perfect Fit over there right but other than that like Caleb’s good too like but that this is our a team like this is like almost you know I know Sasha’s out and all that and and Len

Still a little bit jammed up but I it’s one of the biggest disappointments this year for Me oh man especially after the way everything went the last game like it’s just how do you go from that to this yeah Manny by the way Manny you keep cutting out too I don’t know what’s happening yeah right like watching him get it back

To for Manny Manny can you hear us Manny Manny can’t hear us late yeah oh what’s up your phone keeps it keeps cutting out oh can you hear me now yeah it sounds good at the moment it does sound good but it keep yeah it kept cutting out no I’m with you

That’s the thing and I I I led that tonight with the podcast it’s like dude everyone anyone who actually watches the NBA on a regular basis is not surprised that Miami played hard like it doesn’t they don’t it they’re going to do that like that’s just what they do but it’s

To your point getting down 20 at home I’m sick of seeing them get down 20 in these games at home you dig yourself out of a monster hole it just it is it’s a it’s a crappy feeling after what happened in LA play the previous night and you know I know everybody

Wanted to see moves made at one point and improvements but I also look at from the opposite of that too right is that this team has been together two years now yeah where I just expect like with even if you even if they plateaued with this current version

Of this team like but you guys have been together long enough not to do this like losses happen things happen you know guys aren’t hitting shots at times but they missed so many defensive assignments at times uh I just feel like they should be even if even if they were

The same as what they were last year right like there’s just something like dude you guys should you’ve been in this scheme long enough yeah you know it’s wild though I didn’t feel like tonight it was oh man the defensive effort’s a joke right I I felt like they just that

That’s where I go back to what we were talking about earlier just the some of the lineups out there I’m like I you can’t be going small against this they’re just picking you apart and then the Kings it seems like when they’re out of whack offensively when they’re not

Getting what they want they’re just frazzled they’re just frazzled in general and they looked uncomfortable tonight the same thing happened when the kings were in Miami just what a month ago or whatever that was the Kings could not get anything going offensively why that zone defense again the Kings just

Weren’t comfortable when the Kings got back in the game what happened well they forced turnovers and they were on the run and then they’re off oh man they’re knocking down threes they’re pushing the tempo but when you’re not getting stops and then you’re in the half court

They’re picking up Full Court Miami just put on a clinic I thought against Sacramento today and and then even when they were like when they got it to four Deuce they got it to four and in my head I’m watching it and I’m like watch them take an Elvis three like instead of

They’ve got them backpedaling now push it down to the hole and I forgot who took the three but it it wasn’t the greatest three shot I’m like you’re letting them off the hook you have them on the ropes like go to the hole now you’ve hit a couple threes in a row

Switch it up for the next play they’re already they’re already backpedaling but it’s a little bit too little too late right like again like it’s that like you said when it’s that also that inability like okay they’re 10 okay they’re up 14 like come on guys like you see what’s

Going H you see the spiral happening let’s go and it’s like you said they get frazzled they they’re all over the place and then all of a sudden it’s it’s at 20 at the end of three and it’s like dude what just happened because the first

Half was fine like got up 10 I know they gave up to 10 but it’s like all right we’re still here we’re still here we knew Miami was gonna be Scrappy fine let’s come out in this third quarter let’s push it down nope and it’s like

Come on man like was I have a question real quick because I I wasn’t sure was Len out or was he available I think that he was available tonight he was available tonight I don’t know like how he’s doing but I mean if he’s you know cleared I imagine he’s good to go

And Mike did not go to him tonight or jvel McGee they went small again yeah that’s a killer man and and domas they put so much on that dude I mean play 40 minutes on the second half back to back yeah I mean it’s just a lot you’re

Asking a lot for him I felt like that last night too D I was like man he’s played a lot of minutes today I wonder what they’re going to do with him this next game because he I feel like he I don’t even remember him coming out for

Much yesterday and I was like okay and he has so such a heavy respon that’s another thing with the national me is like bro do y’all see I know Fox is the man but in a lot of ways domas is the man like everything funnels through him

Like he is literally the point he’s the point Center like it’s just crazy how much he yeah it’s crazy well Manny thanks for checking in dude thanks guys love you there’s Manny always good to hear from Manny uh I believe this next person on the phone I could be wrong I

Don’t know I can’t really see the full name but I think this could be our dear friend Morgan yeah Jeremy oh let’s go Jeremy is that you oh no this isn’t Jeremy oh he said he was here oh man who is this sorry uh this is uh TR I’ve been a

Long time viewer oh dud sorry man I just he Jeremy in the chat said he was going to be there so my bad yeah know sorry to uh ruin those oh my God no please everyone’s in the chat’s waiting for Jeremy but I’m like nope sorry you can

Switch me out when Jery’s there no no no no we want to hear from a normal person uh what’s on your mind man how are you feeling tonight no I mean maybe to calm down Jeremy I think myself I don’t know if it’s the same for you both but I mean

My expectations with this team is just making the playoffs I mean I think in the beginning of the season I was hoping we can go to the second round but I mean just we’re just so inconsistent I just feel that you know we’re just going to

Be at this point hopefully a first round exit you know and I think that’s why these losses don’t hurt as much anymore when you kind of see okay this is a team that’s just been the same throughout the year we’re up and down um you know I

Don’t know I think to me just at that level we’re now just I I I think I can understand why Jeremy is you know very disappointed because I think as kings fans we thought we were going to make that jump and we’re still just we’re not great you

Know as Mike Brown says good great we’re still just G you know we’re not even at the r letter yet so I don’t know um and it’s really hard like by the way I think sometimes too because I this is how I felt before I think the All-Star break

And it was I turned to deuce and it could have even been after a loss I don’t even know and you know talking about what even your expectations and a lot of Kings fans and even my expectations my expectations were so much higher going into this season but

Then I took a step back before the All-Star break and I was like [ __ ] I really enjoy watching good basketball and we had so much shitty basketball for so long like consistent awful bad basketball bad energy all these things that I remember I have to put in perspective Ive that

What I’m watching right now is still good doesn’t mean that I can’t be emotional about it but it’s still good and I think when I look at all these other franchises around the league and the crap that they have to watch the Wizards the Blazer I mean the Pistons or

The Spurs even all these losing teams I thought you were naming all the teams that beat the Kings this year I know right and I go and I just go again I’m not like my standards are still high but I just remember how bad times were that

I go wait I’m still watching a product out there that is good that is ultimately really good but I still want it to be better and it still makes me emotional at times but perspective just I don’t know and I probably shouldn’t say this after a loss because everyone’s

Going to go I might jump on you for this that [ __ ] crazy but like and that’s fine but my perspective is my perspective and how I want to view things and I don’t know I it’s just something that I thought about because I love basketball I respect the game and I respect

Watching good basketball being played by a team that I root for I’m I’m curious if I have a take for you both I’m curious if you agree or disagree with this but after watching this whole season I I felt like we brought the same players back but we didn’t bring the

Same team back and I think what I mean by that is I think Keegan de development was maybe unforeseen by the team I think they were high him but I just remember last year starting was casy aaala cuz I went to that game and I remember KY got like one or two fouls

Early on and he would just Manish to like the bench and and Keegan came in and because I feel like last year we played through so much of Kevin hder and Harrison Barnes and I feel like this year when we came back we want to play through Fox bonus and

Keegan and to be I feel like that’s the reason why we were having so many inconsistencies where we’re down by 50 at home against the Pelicans because I love Keegan but I I don’t I just don’t think he’s ready for that role yet because I think he’s still

Balancing out the offense and defense and it’s odd because I felt more recently we’ve reverted back to a team from last year where we played more through Keegan no not Keegan but Kevin and Harrison and the fact that we’ve seen kind of like a resurgent of Davon

Because it was weird to see Davon just disappear where Keon came in so it seems that you know to me I almost feel like Mike Brown was trying to change the identity of the team and I’m not sure if it’s this sense of hey we

Got to play what we have and what works better was what worked last year so let’s play through that and just kind of have Keegan more in that defensive role this year um so I’m not sure if you agree or disagree with that because I felt like that was such the jarring

Thing where more recently I just felt like we’ve played more of a similar style of last year I mean I they definitely were making concerned effort early in the year to try different things their whole thing was like Hey we’re not just going to rely on what we

Did all last year because that got taken away when teams start blowing off your dribble handoffs the entire playoffs right but the Warriors just blew up everything they were denying they were top locking making things so challenging for the Kings and then guys aren’t knocking down shots the Kings offense

Was not good in that series it really wasn’t they had moments and then they didn’t know what to do when things weren’t going well so Mike’s whole thing is like hey we can take some lumps early in the season because the reality is we

Want to be a playoff team but we want to win in the playoffs so let’s get to the playoffs and if things are taken away from us we know what to do we know we can go do a horn set here we know we could run this here for Keegan we could

They wanted to just diversify the game a little bit for for this team to not be so predictable so yeah I think that might have hurt things on but like guys also miss shots like herder couldn’t make anything and you we can go deeper into that um you know the reasons for

That we’ve talked about where he’s struggling in his head but I think you know the dwarte stuff early in the preseason probably messed with his head a little bit and I don’t think he had a great leash you know a Keegan golf to a really slow shooting start so and then

Their rooll guys hav’t really been productive right some of the guys that they did pick up in the off season so I think there are many factors I do agree with you it seems like they’re making sure to get back to some of the stuff that worked well last year but it also

Helps when like sabonis is playing out of his mind right now Fox well the King start playing better well Fox is playing better now herder starting to knock down shots consistently they’re making sure he’s engaged so yeah I I I kind of see that too where they’re making sure to

Have a little more balance again Morgan yeah and the balance you know because I think sometimes going from good to great it was like their goal but they could go from good to great even in a dho right and I and I mentioned that because they were already really good at executing it

And then you look at the series against the Warriors and it being stopped and slowed down all these things but there’s still ways to be to execute a dho on even a higher level for example the other night I think it was against the Clippers when um the Clippers knew it

Was going to be a dho with sabonis and herder so they were trying to stop it early and herder recognized dearen backdoor Cuts herder instead of like following through with the entire like coming off the uh dribble handoff from sabonis notices it from notices the cut from dearen gets a nice beautiful bounce

Pass leads him to the basket just my point of this being is there’s other ways to even get better in your dho game to get better in your two-man game and I think they were trying to take a whole leap of well they’re figuring out the

Dho and we’re good at it let’s get good at picking rolles let’s get good at this let’s get good at this and it’s like no no no do what you’re great at get even better at it and then keep adding as time goes I don’t

Know there oh yeah I’m here I’m just no I’m just listening but yeah I do have a maybe followed question is maybe in this ideal scenario and we make it to the Western Conference you know finals wow would you hope that this team stays together or do you think this team just

Been too flawed to the point where if we make that Miracle run it’s still just that’s fulls gold don’t kind of believe in that run I mean Chang I need some context here because in my head to be honest with you my expectations are like

You know I I I think best case scenario for this group is probably like they get to the second round but like also they got to get there like they got to get to the playoffs and this is a challenge like you said at the beginning of this

That you had expectations for this team to go to the playoffs and I think a lot of fans are guilty of this sometimes we get guilty of like yeah so when the kings are in the playoffs this it’s we got to stop saying win like this is

Going to be a battle down the stretch you have a lot of home games for sure but there’s some tough games and this race from 5 to 10 is brutal I don’t want to be in a play in that’s a one game thing in the things change yeah so no

It’s I mean obviously sure have whatever expectations that we all want but yeah I mean that’s the truth of it right now is the Western Conference is just on a different level and when you look across the East right now you you see where the Kings would probably be in those

Standings and it sounds like a much easier road but it’s not going to be easy in the west I think the only reason why I bring this up is it makes me think of the Atlanta Hawks where they made that Eastern Conference you know run if

The kings were to make that similar run do you think it’s more of we just had an easier run this time or do you think there is something with this core or I guess that’s my question because it’s I feel like it’s an impossible thing to answer because I don’t know the context

Like is your path to the playoffs taking on a whole bunch of teams that got you know injured injuries at the last second you’re able to get to the Conference Finals earlier or did you play amazing basketball and just dominate teams I don’t know what that looks like now I

Think no matter what if you’re trying to build this thing out and you’re trying to build long term the goal is to win a championship so you should always be if you fall short of that you should always be finding ways to tweak things and understanding the big picture yes you

Have an 82 game sample size that should matter playoffs matter too uh but yeah if you made it to the conference finals I don’t know I mean you’d have to just look in the mirror and be honest with yourself can this team do it again do

They have the upside to do it again or do they need some legitimate tweaks I think anyone in their right mind looks at this king’s team today and goes they’re going to need some tweaks this offseason yeah I mean obviously the way that it’s constructed and it’s like you

Know you look at a game like tonight and you go Mike Brown and maybe some of his rotations but at the same time what he had to work with so I think maybe my last question is I you know I think we have such fond memories of the beam team and you know

Especially 20 for how many years we didn’t make the playoffs I mean I guess my question to you is I think everyone knows changes are going to happen especially with the starting lineup when that day does happen I mean how would you both feel when changes are going to happen do you

Just feel that I don’t know it’s it’s it’s this weird feeling of like I almost feel that because they are currently with the standings and I think just even with all the fans I think we know major changes are going to have to happen I

Mean how are you guys going to feel when the beam team does unfortunately kind of like lose the core that we’ve been so used to is it something it’s life man change is inevitable I mean think back to the I don’t know I grew up watching

The early 2000s Kings one of the most popular players in franchise history was Jason Williams they traded him corus Williamson was a big part to this team they traded him he became a Sixth Man of the Year in Detroit like tough decisions happen hedo was a big part of what the

Kings had they traded him for Brad Miller like it’s that’s part of it and it’s tough sometimes you win them you lose them sometimes but that’s part of it and you hope that you have the foundation in place with the coaching staff and your key players that you can

Change your identity and build a new build with a new group also patience is so important too right and and seeing what you really do want within a culture and within an organization and that’s why I believe in the keeping certain things together while also making tweets and changes

That make sense for your future I don’t know if that answered it man but no no it did and again I just want to thank you for having you know for having me on this call so you guys are doing great um and honestly I love

Uh you know deuces Persona and of course you know Mo’s like the baby face so I love kind the wrestling apparently tonight I’m not I’m not yelling enough for some people should I yell more do you think I should be angrier on the podcast weird one person I mean I felt

Bad for Mo because Mo’s getting that Roman Reigns heat and she’s just trying yeah it’s kind of crazy but she’s just getting that Rance she’s the face she’s the face but for some reason you know uh the crowd is uh throwing throwing Tomatoes but just know that you have our support mod so

Hey I I appreciate the love all right man we’ll talk to you soon thank you so much that’s cute appreciate that uh also in the chat how about the fact that the the Kings never ride the hot hand Keegan brought them back within two I understand Fox is Mr Clutch but run some

Sets with him and fox in two man and everyone else stay clear yeah I like that idea I also want to acknowledge too uh Fox had 11 points in the fourth quarter too on five of seven shooting Keegan had 11 points on four of five shooting so both those guys red hot I

Mean they they did score 22 of the 29 Points wow in the fourth quarter so yeah I mean I I think the thing that hurt Keegan tonight was he had to sit a large chunk because of foul issues and I mean he picked up his fifth foul late in the

Game I think it was like at five minutes to go but you know it’s like you got to be careful with that too but yeah uh I do agree big picture-wise like dude if he’s going like that let him let’s find some other ways to get him

Going and I feel like this is such an unselfish team that they’re down to ride with that I want to make sure too to get to our super chats too let’s get to some super chats all right this one o donates five bucks saying this one hurts Kevin Love

19 points in 15 minutes appreciate you yes that that did hurt he looked like Prime Kevin Love again also Kevin Love a nice role player for that Miami team but absolutely shouldn’t be getting 19 points in 15 minutes of work too many for me it was like watching him in

Minnesota again but there was even there was one three that he made like sabonis was contesting it and he still made it I was like what the hell hey man he could still shoot it yeah uh Keegan Murray watch donates two buck saying wasted Keegan blackout game yeah Keegan was

Really strong and I for someone who has been so up and down with his shooting this year it was good to see him knock down shots the three-point shooting has not been as good I think coming in tonight right around 35% from three sh 40% his defense has taken a dramatic

Step shout out to Hunter Patterson over at the athletic who did an exclusive sit down with Keegan talking about the strides he’s made so there’s so much to like about Keegan long term I think too going back to last caller finding that balance of like all right how how can

Keegan and is it just doing it just getting used to it bring what he does defensively all the time in still have something left in the tank yeah to have nights like this and it just takes time and I I feel like it’s been almost a

Full season of it now with 25 games left where you’re going okay can you continue on a night like this you know especially though without fouling staying on the floor but being able to shoot like this while playing some very aggressive defense Super Chat from fourth quarter five Canadian dollars saying hey at

Least it’s not two to three years ago night chats definitely uh trending in the right direction oh it didn’t say night chats it said two three years ago right thought it said night well uh but same thing yeah yeah yeah I mean that’s one way hey at least it wasn’t that long

AG yeah I know it’s crazy to think about sometimes just yeah wild and it just shows you how quick things change that’s that is my point of En enjoying good basketball when it’s in front of you though I’m talking about within 24 hours I mean how

Good how good did you feel wake up this morning not a pep in my step oh man Fox was playing Angry last night oh Miami short-handed let’s let’s lock him up yeah no that’s it was a good feeling it was a very good feeling okay I’d like to congratulate Jeremy we’ve officially

Hidden his messages he’s just trolling on stop he doesn’t like you I know some men get very insecure Morgan as a woman you know you got to understand people don’t really like what you’re saying oh you think I am 35 I I understand where I’m at with this well

Can I mansplain to you yes if you could mansplain this to me I’m sure that’s what Jeremy is dying to do by the it’s can I just say one thing too it’s just so weird to me when like someone wants to be a keyboard Warrior and like

Doesn’t want to just have a conversation and I don’t know if Jeremy’s 15 I don’t know if Jeremy’s 50 either way it’s creepy and weird it’s just like just be normal like oh God I’m sorry Jeremy I hope you’d get better oh man ailano in the chat says backtack games is this

Team’s Kryptonite as well as uh all of their other Kryptonite adjacent elements yeah the back toback thing it’s they had some moments where they look better but yeah tonight I feel like Miami is like the worst team to play on a back toback well yeah I mean arrested Miami team and

Whether they’re short-handed or not it’s just like you never know what you’re going to get handed at you except you pretty much do you know that they’re just not going to let anything go easy um and those teams are sometimes the hardest and that’s why I was really

Proud that the kings were not letting up that’s what as soon as the fourth quarter hit I was like I started to make myself tea and then I’m like looking from the side you know when you can like see the TV and you but it’s like kind of

A blur but you can see what’s going on Keegan 3 and I’m like okay that’s cute Keegan three like okay what like I’m like boil faster water and then like all the shit’s going down and I’m like no way the way that they’re playing defense

All those things it was fun to see well next up for the Sacramento Kings uh they hit the road now uh they don’t have a ton of road games left but they hit the road Wednesday against the den nuggets and then they go Friday against the Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday’s going to be

Very interesting I imagine that Denver will be at full strength they did have all their guys against Golden State Warriors they do not play a game between now and Wednesday um it’s actually the first time have a back toback for them they play the Kings and then they play

The next night against the Miami Heat actually ah um did you look at that this is going to be a really tough challenge I I watched Denver Golden State yesterday and Denver could not have gone off to a war start they just were not playing well but then they got their

Stuff together they got back in the game and then they cruised to a victory over Warriors team who had been playing some pretty good basketball also like I just look at Denver and they’re looking at Sacramento going we cannot lose to this team again Sacramento has yet to play

Them at full strength we’ve seen them play the Nugget twice without Jamal Murray twice without kcp and one of the times without Michael Porter always with yic always with yic but this Denver team to me is a when they’re a team they play so good together they’re starting five

Is so good there the biggest question with them is their bench they’re relying on so many young guys they’ve it’s been a little major turnover and I think they thought these young guys would be better for them that’s their area of weakness but that starting five can def defend

They could score joic we know what he can do I imagine they’re going to be ready to send a serious message coming up on Wednesday against Sacramento damn that I mean tough to hear but also like you’re being realistic yeah I mean and you know they play well at home it’s PL

I know the Kings won there in the final game before the break um but you’re going to have to be locked in against that group there’s just no other way to put it and I think they’re going to have a different type of mentality they’re going to be like dude we’re at full

Strength we’re going to goad this team if the Kings can play like they did against the Clippers would that give you any hope like okay this is who the kings are in these last 25 games and because even tonight’s game you you’re not sitting here disgusted with their performance you know you’re you’re

You’re annoyed by their loss more so but you’re not disgusted like we have been before so I don’t know if for some reason they could play like that would you feel more confident in these last last 25 games being like wow against these two really good teams this is how

The Kings played if they were to beat them yeah I mean if they I mean if if Sacramento bounced back and beat the Nuggets on the road at full full strength yeah I’d be Beyond impressed yes I would be it would make me feel

Really good I just you know I I have a tough time seeing it because the Kings have gotten them three times this year Denver’s at home I don’t know prove me wrong I’d love to see it and then you go on the road to take on Minnesota my

Whole thing was over this stretch that started last game against the Clippers is can you get two well you got one against the Clippers you should have had one tonight and you didn’t get it so now can you get one of the next two that’s the problem you don’t want this to Tail

Spin into a three- game skit right you just had a a chance at a four game winning streak fing super good oh we’re solidifying that five spot for the moment you lose tonight in a game that you felt like you had a good chance in

If you lose the next two where are you at in the standing then you’re back in the plane and this is the ride be it’s going to be up and down for a little bit right now so buckle up everybody buckle up buttercup let’s get us some final

Thoughts Morgan you got any tonight um final thoughts uh I think in this stretch 25 games left sure I think so yeah that’s how many why okay why do you say that I don’t know usually you just know the number I can do the math for you if you

Want you can talk while I do the math I was shaking my head to the camera yeah 25 games 25 games no and I knew that but I should have just uh been confident 25 games left and I I know we all want to experience what we experienced last year

But that’s why last year deuce and I kept saying all throughout the year enjoy the journey it’s never going to feel like this again which is true the come up there’s just something different about it but doesn’t mean that you can’t still experience Joy um and what I would

Say in some of the losses share all of your emotions but be rational and be kind to people do not be Jeremy truly cuz like it’s just such a waste of life and I just enjoy being with so many people here and love having different emotions and conversations and

Observations and disagree on things but when you become a dick it just turns a different way so let’s just make sure the ups and downs that we are all here for each other and for this ride even if we disagree with each other’s takes it’s a good final thought thank you

Yeah this this season man my final thought this season that’s it when you think the corner gets turned you’re like oh they it’s here but want to win oh reality check yeah I mean until they prove otherwise it’s kind of who they are they’re going to be up and down

They’re frustrating they’re flawed and you know fix things this off season hopefully you come back better but yes big picture-wise enjoy the ride buckle up 25 games to go we’ll be here live after every single game uh we appreciate you guys hanging out with us T time we love you guys but we

G to go you all have a wonderful rest of your night thank you for being here we’ll see you Later The

Deuce and Mo talk about what went wrong for the Kings in their loss to the extremely short-handed Miami Heat, how the Kings cut a 20-point lead to 2 in the 4th, what Miami’s zone was able to do and some of the lineup issues. They also looked ahead to the road trip including a rematch with the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.

0:00-LIVE stream starts
6:20-Pre-show starts
13:11-Reaction to the Kings loss to short-handed Heat
18:45-Why wait so long to make adjustments?
22:12-Major turnover issues in the first half
31:00-The Kings went small in 3rd and got crushed by Love and Jaquez
37:49-How the Kings got back in the game with a zone defense
40:42-Why did the Kings wait until the 4th to turn it on?
47:00-How are fans feeling after this loss?
48:20-Are we sugarcoating the loss?
52:09-Why this was such a tough loss for the Kings
54:40-How Miami defended Sabonis and the Kings
1:02:29-Should Monk have played in the 4th?
1:05:49-SPONSOR LOOOOVE
1:07:00-What was the moment of the game?
1:08:20-Who was the player of the game?
1:09:22-Discord calls from Kings fans
1:36:20-Looking ahead to Kings-Nuggets
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