Kings vs. Lakers preview! Can Kings win a BIG game?

Kings vs. Lakers preview! Can Kings win a BIG game?

Go here we go it’s another big game Kings are in LA to take on the Lakers a Lakers team that is playing their best basketball great timing for the Kings right this Lakers team in the last 10 games is second offensive rating right behind the Boston Celtics they are 27th

In defense during that stretch but they have a chance to make up some ground tonight they are just a game and a half behind the kings in the standings they can pick up a full game tonight that’s annoying to think about and it’s that time of the season I mean you know who

You’re rooting for every single night in the NBA really does matter and for the Lakers yeah they’ve been playing some really good basketball so I can only imagine what they’re going to do on their home floor against the Sacramento Kings Tonight they’ve been super efficient uh the entire team has been

Shooting super efficiently and then you look at someone like you talk about ad0 you talk about LeBron we’ll talk about those two but DLo has been on a little tear he’s shooting 42% almost 42% from three-point land so uh as a team too they’re shooting well from Beyond The

Arc and we’ve seen the king’s defense and how they defend the three but then also having to pay attention to the paint ad it’s going to be a tough one yeah they’re one of the best teams with points in the paint they also get out

And run they’re near the top of the NBA and fast break points I think that’s the thing like LeBron and AD you know they’re going to pretty much get theirs I know ad had a down game against bonus in the Kings last match up when he had

Nine points he was also coming off like a hip thing he was playing through so I anticipate he’s going to have a big game to me it it can’t be Spencer Den witty tonight it can’t be D’Angelo Russell cooking you or ruie if it’s the others then the kings are losing tonight right

I mean that and that’s it and it’s it’s I know we always ask what type of Kings team are we going to get tonight so inconsistent but like what you need to see is that the Kings team team that locks in right from the start and knows

How to carry it through the four quarters the Kings team that has production from the bench and that it doesn’t just all fall off when Mike Brown has to take dearon fox out Mike Brown has to take domos out and you know I think we saw some of those lineups

Even in that last game and we had our questions even when we saw Keon Ellis start in that Minnesota game and then and now dmps right and so even for someone like him are we going to see him get some run just don’t know at this

Point of the season are we going to see the Kings go and throw some Zone because they are failing at everything else when it comes to defending the three who knows what you’re going to get from this King Squad I just hope that their in-game adjustments are locked in and

Working that’s the thing is I I just don’t know what to expect fox has played well against the Lakers this year about 32 a game in those two games sabonis has played well too I thought he’s done a great job trying to go at ad but also

Just be patient right just be patient be nice for sabonis to get a little more efficient he has struggled a little bit after the All-Star break with efficiency in some of these matchups and you know obviously ad is a pretty talented player I thought one thing that worked well in

The last matchup I need some Monk sabonis pick and roll you know that those two are a pretty dynamic duo together so let’s get that going a little bit and I know the Lakers like to get out and run you can do it better than they can push the pace the Lakers

This is what the problem is with when they force turnovers it’s danger time so Sacramento got to take care of the ball but also on the other end push the pace this Lakers team is not defending at a high level right now well and not only neither are the Kings neither supped to

Be real but not only that though uh that win over OKC that Lakers just they had 21 turnovers in that game and they still won the game so they were not taking care of the basketball how can you make sure that you are capitalizing on some of their mistakes

And or creating those mistakes for a team like the Lakers because you’re going to just have to make life so much more difficult for LeBron for ad disrupt their game a little while still making sure that you’re recovering on the other guys one more note domas sabon is

Fouling out in another game can he stay in there can he make sure to just like not get any of those fouls when it comes to uh like a screen an offense fou just none of those Ticky tack balls that’s been a big PRP the last couple of games

And it’s been a theme so that for sure and punish the Lakers if they go small that’s the other thing it’s going to be interesting it it’s the significance of this game cannot be understated I know there’s still 22 games left this year each and everyone’s big but this one’s

Big because if you win tonight for Sacramento you win the season series so then you’ve got the tiebreaker Advantage which could come into play here but also you pick up a full game you lose tonight it gets interesting cuz then you play the Lakers again next week in Sacramento

It’s a monster game tonight how are the Kings going to respond are they going to be locked in like they had been on the road 11th in defensive rating on the road 27th in defensive rating at home wild I guess we’ll all find out together let us know in the comments

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