Kings vs. T-Wolves Instant Reaction

Kings vs. T-Wolves Instant Reaction

Morgan Reagan hi what a win no dear and fox the Kings go on the road lose sa bonis in overtime and get a 124 to 120 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves the second time they won in Minnesota this year Anthony Edwards did leave at halftime D due to a personal reason but

The king’s got a tough much needed victory in Minnesota where do we start where do we start I mean I feel like we I think this is where we start we could start in regulation or end of regulation and going into overtime because I think

That was a lot of the story of how where this game went right so Malik monk 16.9 seconds left Kings ball and a lot of iso ball going on and I don’t know what the sideline out of bounds play was supposed to be but Malik monk ended up taking a

Very deep right shot clock was winding down cuz it wasn’t uh there was less time there than the game clock and we were all very confused well the king’s DF on the other end it goes to overtime and that’s where Malik monk he took off yeah he had backtack threes did miss two

Free throws in overtime yes this guy had 39 points he had 35 points in the second half of the game he was fantastic and in a situation where you’re playing overtime with no Fox OB obviously he’s out yeah sabonis got fouled out at the 358 Mark so you play pretty much the

Entire overtime session without sabonis you find a way to win it was interesting because the Kings elect to go small instead of putting Alex lenon when sabonis F out they go small against Atlanta Nas Reed cat and goar and I thought that they got some timely rebounds some great contests at The Rim

Including one by ly and one by HB it was just a big time performance you go down one 118 117 with sa bonis Fon out I thought the game was over the Kings found a way to escape they got through the Miss free throw situation a ton of

Miss free throws again it was just big time from the Kings well and that and that’s it was just such a team effort the way that they stayed locked in and engaged together I think there was one moment in overtime where I felt like oh no they’re looking a little

Tired are they deflated what’s going on and it’s like then the next possession down or or the next defensive possession down they stayed locked in or even I think it was after the Miss free throws that the t-wolves had that terrible pass to NAS Reed slipped out of his hands

Went out of bounds and it was like there was these moments where the t-wolves were just shooting themselves in their foot right so it was great that the king started capitalizing on those moments it was interesting after the game The Players mentioned that they had a players only meeting after that Denver

Game to talk about being locked in playing with physicality and being ready for this stretch of games it worked tonight I thought they battled their asses off a couple of things I was looking at before the game were things that they did the last time they were in

Minnesota that was win the rebounding battle get Second Chance opportunities push the pace those are all things they did well in Minnesota the first time around tonight against a team that is second in the NBA in points in the paint the fewest points in the paint allow at

44 a game the king scored 68 points in the paint hell yeah they won the rebounding Advantage they had 22 chance points it was just a really really good performance by a short-handed team you look at the 68 points in the paint juice and you mentioned this the other night

Against Denver you were like look why were they scoring so well in the beginning in that first quarter game first quarter game against Denver it was because they were playing defense getting stops and pushing the pace pushing the ball scoring getting the pain in transition whatever I felt that

Tonight and I felt that more consistently tonight where they were playing better defense getting deflections whatever it was and then scoring in the paint on the other side and let’s say it wasn’t in transition they’re doing a great job of working their way in whether it was just in the

Mid-range whether it was just around the free throw line or even getting that paint touch getting a spray three they found different ways to just stay aggressive and score on the offensive end and didn’t allow one of the best team teams best defensive teams in the

NBA to slow them down or take them out of their game I also want to give a shout out to a couple of guys Keon Ellis got the start tonight instead of Davon Mitchell Keon came in right away had a nice strip hit another steel he was aggressive defensively getting

Deflections he had four steals tonight he’s been getting dnps and here he is starting against Minnesota and coming up with some plays they didn’t need him to go score 20 tonight they needed him to orchestrate the offense push the pace and do some things defensively he did that defensively

Tonight and then Davon Mitchell who started the last game doesn’t start tonight he could have pouted he could have never no he came out and he pushed the pace it’s always key especially without Fox that’s where I was concerned I’m like this you have to push the pace

Against a team that has got gobear and Cat because yes they could defend that team could defend but they want to defend in the half court Kings were pushing off Davon was getting out and going sa bonis was imploring both Ellis and Davon to push the pace Davon then scored he had

16 points I think he missed one shot tonight I thought those two guys were crucial especially with Deen fox out and then before the game even we were talking about Keegan Murray’s last four games and what he’s been producing and I thought tonight he did another good job

Of still remaining aggressive and then you saw Minnesota doing a much better job when he started going off they started going okay we’re going to deny the out of you and not allow you the basketball and it made life a little harder I thought there could have been a

Few more times laid down the stretch that they that the Kings could have done a better job of getting Keegan Murray open because he was doing everything he could to get open but it didn’t matter because monk started taking over the confidence was there again just a team

Effort by so many of these guys I thought Keegan was really good tonight and you’re right they started to do a great job like they’re blowing up blowing up the dribble handoffs jayen McDaniels was all over at him at times but Keegan saw an impact defensively I

Mean his deflections he had a couple of nice dunks today I also love the fact that the kings were aggressive and it reminded me of Keegan putting the ball on the floor attacking the basket had a nice Jam I believe that was McDaniels as Defender he got by in the first half but

That was the thing they were they were being the aggressor they were trying to be physical first they took punches tonight and they were able to find a way to get the W I love this win and you hope now now because they’re calling it a statement win Malik monk mentioned the

Statement win Davon agreed with them okay you win a statement game then you need to come back home on Monday against Chicago and take care of business and this is how you do it you got to make sure you’re doing the little things and now they did a lot of the little things

Engagement hands in the passing Lane getting the deflections the seals you want to you those are the things you need to do to win games but the things to make sure to secure the win you got to make your free throws and you just got to make sure that you are playing at

A level defensively on your home floor we mentioned this too 26 in defensive rating on their home floor going into tonight’s game and 11th in defensive rating on the road so can you play that same type of defense that you play on the road at home I think they can but

Again it’s just going to take a different type of uh mental shift we’re going to be live tonight for night chat about 10:30 to go over all of the game tonight had to hop on here for some instant reaction about what went down between the Kings and the Minnesota T

Wolves Kings back in Action Monday against Chicago hopefully Daren Fox can go I’m glad he got some rest right heal up they go one-onone without him let us know what you thought of the game in the comments below hit the Thumbs Up And subscribe

Deuce and Mo give their quick thoughts on the Kings win over Minnesota.

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