“Light the Beam!!!” – ESPN reacts to Kings beat Suns at home 120-105; Domantas Sabonis: 28 Pts
Him down because we already know what he can do underneath the three-point line the question has always been can he shoot the ball obviously he’s made himself into a very consistent solid point guard who can shoot the ball and once his whole package is offered I mean
You got to pick and choose your poison cuz you can’t stop all of it and he made Sacramento history tonight passing Mike bbby for the franchise Sacramento ERA record in assist how about that number one 2583 surpassing Mike Bibby got Mitch Richmond number three Bud web Reggie
Theus and C web and blot up there as well shout out Mike I know he’s watching tonight you held that record long enough it was time to pass it off bro yeah absolutely and speaking of that we should look at the assist that made it happen for dear Fox tonight he found
Harrison Barnes for a three ball and it was nothing but net and that ended up being the assist here’s how it went down tonight Fox just calm sees HP says oh that was the assist was that the assist no these are one of the assists theage
Of assists yeah and that was the HP one and it was a cool moment inside the arena the fans got really behind that yeah I mean absolutely I mean this guyy is a franchise player been a great score since he came out of college but I think
Duce he’s one of the most well-rounded players in the game a two-way point guard who is a leader of this team with this team was Des be searching for a leader a playmaker and we already know what he can do on the offensive end so
Dear Fox is the one of the best players in the world and I’m glad that they’re on the national stage now and the world is starting to get to know what Sacramento’s known for a long time there’s a big time performance tonight you mentioned Mike BBY well Mike bbby
Your former team had a message for dearen fox D Fox I love what you’re doing for the Kings organization bringing them back to life getting the Kings going again congratulations on passing me and assist wouldn’t like to see it from anybody better better than you congratulations my brother good good
Job there you go Mike baby giving defx some love Dennis also saying Darren is going to be the greatest king of all time Matt I know that seems crazy there’s a long way to go in his career but he’s doing things that we haven’t se seen done averaging 30 a game no other
Kings player has done that you think about all the great players from seaweb to Mitch Demarcus there’s a lot of talented players who came through here he’s definitely on Pace stat-wise I think Deuce what’s going to get him over that hum what he can do with his team
Come playoff time I mean individual play we know what he can do uh the the mark of a great player is how how far can you carry your team and I think he’s he’s up for that challenge but be stays on this pace this King this team King’s team
Continues to get better each year he probably will go down as the greatest and that’s saying a lot and he’s playing his best basketball of all time in his seventh NBA season with the Sacramento Kings like Matt said doing it on both ends he’s taking a step in a in the
Right direction for Sacramento now get some playoff wins um I we we got to get to the play of the Game Malik Mon oh I jumped up and down when this happened I mean he got us out of our seats for sure I mean one of the most electric guards
In the game I mean didn’t have a huge out uh scoring game but never will he leave us without an highlight and and and this is one that’ll be all over Sports Center top 10 took off on the big the guy the number 14 made I don’t even know his a
But he made a business decision right here he thought nah yeah I I’m better off go ahead and just Fanning by this cuz there’s nothing I can do with that dunk right there from Le Mon and the headbutt against the basket stanion that presented by Garner ruping and he’s had some awesome dunks
He had that one opening night on Chris Dawn he had that one in San Antonio that was awesome against CET and then tonight Malik might be he may be one of the best Kings dunkers oh yeah no I mean Malik and and what makes him so special is you
Know he’s what is he 63 is I mean that’s what always makes Duncan so special is when you get a guard out there flying around bigs and he has no fear he’ll take take off on anybody so love Malik monk uh love he hit him with the he hit
Him with the assist game get to another five assists tonight so I think that’s four straight games over five assists so he he’s something that he’s a Swiss army knife if he needs scoring he can do that if you need playmaking he can do that if you need highlights he can definitely do
That as well had some highlight blocks too and King social was definitely talking about Malik monk after that dunk let’s he what they had to say Evan my guy Evan Malik monk don’t contest now man Zone contest is so hard Matt because you can see guys who are nasty dunkers
But doing a contest is different I mean we’ve seen everything I think we’ve been so spoiled du in this Dunk Contest we’ve seen pretty much every dunk so I I’m more for the in-game dunks than actual the dunk contest and he’s he he’ll never leave you uh disappointed in his ingame
Dunk performances you know my idea for the dunk contest have some of the best shot blockers in there yeah and go dunk on that’s the dunk on all right put Le going up against Rudy goar and see who wins out I love what I saw from Malik
Mon tonight great energy we we mentioned a couple of blocks he had two and then he had the chase down that was really nice too I I just think he has been such a steady Force off the Kings bench this year what what’s it mean to have a guy
Like that come off the bench who has the ability to make plays hit threes and more it’s important it’s kind of like a safety blanket you know Sacramento’s been looking for that third guy I think Keegan is that third starter that makes things happen but anytime one of our top
Three Skies starters don’t score you know Malik monk can come in and give you 30 at any given time so again he does a little bit of everything a student of the game understands where he’s needed and when he’s needed and he goes out there and executes all right let’s grade
That dunk so dearn fox in his post game gave it a six what are you giving that Malik monk DG you were disgusting six yeah he said a six come on dear maybe that’s his guy so he’s going hard I’d probably say that’s a good seven s and a
Half I might even give that a eight he cocked that thing all the way back and there was a center out there waiting and and he made the center think twice so anytime you can make a center think twice make a business decision it’s got
To be above a seven man it just got the crowd going tonight too just a lot of energy in the building the next guy we got to talk about I can’t believe we’re this far in the post game we Haven mentioned him Deus sabonis another triple double his fourth of the season
And he started early in this one we knew he was going to have an advantage without nkit in the lineup and he took full advantage I mean he set the tone going right at their chest I think he had the first seven points of the game
But you know also what’s more uh just as impressive is 12 for 15 from the field very efficient tonight out here running Point Center forward he might have got away with the travel right there but he was doing it all out there and I think
He he he saw blood early and he attacked like the shark he is and that’s what he’s got to do I mean that’s sabonis is at his best when he’s aggressive looking for his own one of my favorite moments though is when keegin stole re rebound
Yeah the the crowd was right behind you too the crowd was like ah but he was he was able to get I think maybe two more from there right or what yeah two more to able to get 11 rebounds so again this guy’s a double double machine uh you
Know a triple double fourth of the season I mean he’s one of the most versatile centers we have in this game well let’s hear from another guy who had a big night Keegan Murray he’s at the podium talking right now Keegan looked like you guys caught
Fire in the third quarter just what was said at halftime what do you think really kind of worked in that third quarter especially offensively uh we just stayed aggressive um we’re we’re up by what 11 and a half and we just wanted to keep our foot on the gas um in the
Third quarter and just keep keep the pace up um I feel like we did a good job of that yeah Phoenix went five of 25 from three how much of that do you feel like was your guys’s um defensive execution compared to them just kind of
Missing some shots uh I mean a big point of empis for us was just to fly around um just try and limit them as much as we can and and just try and make other guys beat us so um I feel like holding to 253
Is was was a big thing for us and um helped us dearen set the Sacramento era uh assist record tonight passing Mike Bibby I know you guys are close just how cool is that for him to start tracking some of these all-time great numbers for Sacramento yeah I mean I’ve only known
Him for a little bit um a couple years and um just to see him be able to um break a lot of Records do a lot of great things um in the sacrament uniform while I’m here it’s it’s pretty cool um so I’m excited for him and and his journey
First off what’s your uh ranking for the Malik dunk for the Malik dunk uh three let’s go with three seems only fair uh Keegan even going back to last season your team has a tendency to respond really well after bad losses and tough losses what do you
Think it is about this team that that has you guys bouncing back so well uh I feel like we don’t dwell on it um I mean I feel like yesterday in practice um it was kind of one of more one of our more uplifting practices um just to kind of
Get out of that mindset of the loss so um just the the idea of moving on um and going on to the next game CU there’s 82 games in the season so it’s not not a lot of room to dwell on stuff Matt you said your Christmas list
Was a consistent Keegan Murray what he showed you tonight uh not only did he have the offensive game where he shot eight for 13 21 points but he was a primary defender on one of the best scores in the game Deon Booker and he played him to a stalemate from a
Standpoint of obviously Booker had 24 but he was 9 for 20 from the field nothing easy made him work and then we already know what keeg could do on the offensive end so I love that he you know he let the game come to him hit some big
Shots but I really think he was locked in on defense from the jump and set the tone and again was went head up with Deon Booker he was awesome in this one I love some of those step backs he had tonight I mean this is the evolution of
His game Kings fans are fired up for good them so be able to wear these guys out over the course of the game uh get what you want on the offensive end but again it all starts on the defensive end before the game we were also talking
About Kevin herder and Harrison Barnes I actually thought both guys had some nice moments I thought herder competed defensively tonight and Harrison Barnes got the offense going a little bit he he’s one of these Mysteries uh uh Deuce where I always feel like he’s so talented but he’s very comfortable
Blending in at times but he’s he’s an efficient scorer when he’s aggressive um this team needs him to be somewhere between 16 to 19 a game to really be an an efficient team in this Western Conference so again shout out to Harrison Barnes tonight again uh Kevin
Hder had a good game as well yeah I I was really pleased with what Kevin herder was able to do in this game too it’s what we talked about even if you’re not scoring you got to be doing some other things out there I thought he used
His length well get some deflections and yeah then that that’s when that’s when he’s at his best too and we caught a a herder lob so I mean he was out there again you know doing things in different ways you’re not always going to have the
Three ball two for six tonight but again 13 points was able to score and contribute in different ways well on the other side Kevin Durant still got his numbers tonight a lot of free throws for him he had 28 points seven rebounds he did it a nine of 14 shooting what jumped
Out to you about Kevin Durant cuz I feel like they still did a solid job on him he’s just great that I mean that’s what it is I mean obviously H 611 plays like a two guard gets to a spots very efficient probably one of the most efficient scores we’ve ever seen but
This Phoenix team needs help and I don’t know if br bill is going to be enough this is not a very strong roster they don’t have very much depth Uh Kevin is 35 years old obviously Booker still has a lot of juice Beal has a lot of juice
Once he’s healthy but you know I hope they’re able to get KD some help because he doesn’t have too many years left you can pretty much count on Booker and KD every night but you’re right who else is stepping up and I don’t know that you could trust Bradley Beal he hasn’t been
Healthy the last couple of years and that was a serious gamble it’s like they went all in on that group and it’s looking pretty tough right now I mean yeah I’m looking at the bench it’s like you’re going to count on Eric Gordon he’s older too and as good as Grayson
Allen’s been I you can’t lean on him to give you 20 a night uh I say this with all due respect and du you know you and I talked about this during the game I don’t know a lot of guys on this roster and I I mean that with no disrespect and
I I’m a basketball fan and I watch a lot of basketball but I just think that speaks to the lack of depth they have on this team and like you said when you go all it in with three Superstars you know that’s going to kind of trickle down to
Not very much depth but when one of those three guys is hurt uh it’s going to make your job that much harder every single night because you got two guys that are topheavy and then again after that it’s you know you flip a coin if someone else is going to step up last
Time we were in this building the Kings gave 144 points to a Celtics team that did not have Jason Tatum or Al Horford this was a nice response tonight what what does a win like this tell you about this Kings team this is a resilient team a team that’s accustomed to bouncing
Back but they shouldn’t have to bounce back after ugly losses you don’t mind losses loss are going to come along the season but the the the fashion sometimes or you know the way this team chooses to lose uh is ugly but again the best way
To you know shake off a losses come out the next night and and do what you have to do so you know obviously a tall task ahead facing one of the best teams in the NBA tomorrow night in the Minnesota Tim wils and Anthony Edwards yeah coming
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“Light the Beam!!!” – ESPN reacts to Kings beat Suns at home 120-105; Domantas Sabonis: 28 Pts
