Six Quick Thoughts From the Kings Loss To the Suns

Six Quick Thoughts From the Kings Loss To the Suns

Little bit ugly but let’s get to James ham six quick thoughts how’d yesterday’s Kings game go Kings Insider James ham has six notes you need to know here are James ham six quick thoughts six of them things James get it started number one uh dearon Fox looked extra motivated to

Race a bad taste left by the loss of Milwaukee is probably going to feel the same way 33 points 12 of 24 shooting uh six makes from long range but uh lots of turnovers in the final frame lots of bad shots in the final frame and his foul

With 1.6 seconds remaining brutal man brutal man like you can’t I get he’s in an impossible spot there right impossible like Kevin Durant if if of all the players all time if you need a bucket Kevin Durant is one of the like Five Guys you’re

Going to yes he seven foot he’s going to get to his spot he’s going to rise up there are very few people in the NBA who are impacting his shot much less 6 foot3 to Aaron Fox like that’s an impos but you can’t foul you can’t let him go to

The line and shoot two free throws no I I totally agree and I mean it’s basically two games in a row where the final play came down to a defensive error by dearen Fox yeah and the Milwaukee game I’m going to like carve out a little bit he took a bad angle on

On Damen and then didn’t spin around fast enough but there were other plays on that there are other things that happened like deonis again didn’t shift up yeah to to seal off uh to go defend uh Damen Lillard as soon as he came across the line right and there’s

Something else that was hidden in that um yanis Sant Dumbo tried to call for the ball on the inbounds and Malik monk completely jumped it and took away Giannis and I don’t think Giannis could have brought the ball up the court in and done what Damen lard could have done

He might have dunked it takes him about three steps to get there it does but it would have been I know I know 100% would your say it would have been a lot more difficult so yeah no doubt um yeah but the good news I I’m gonna try and find a

Little silver lining here because like I said you can’t F on that spot dearn Fox like you said looking a little more like dearn Fox after a rough a rough couple of games offensively yeah yeah he looks like he’s he’s fully back and I think people should be excited about that it’s

Just you know I think there’s still some mental players and yep fourth quarter Fox he wasn’t there it wasn’t it wasn’t the same as what we’ve seen in the past yep for sure all right number two uh sabonis was a problem he posted his 23rd straight double double his 11 triple

Double of the Season 21 points 12 rebounds 11 assists uh I thought they should have run ball through him more lately uh late in the game um as things were falling apart but again I think he needed to figure out what was happening as well uh so maybe that’s a little bit

Of a strong take by me but at the same time you know he deonas sabonis is a great player he’s an all NBA player in a spot like that he needs to demand the basketball if we ran through the all-nba team right now and then maybe give it a

Fourth team let’s go through the top 20 guys in the league I think 19 of them are calling for the ball in that spot and going and getting the ball and making something happen for their team okay so two things about it number one he should have recognized he’s going up against smaller

Player and got down low uh number two I think everyone in the league knows he’s a horrible file shooter he needs to clean that up before he becomes that guy in that situation because I don’t think I want it because he did miss one of two

In the final five minutes yeah yeah so in a onepoint game yep um need to hit free throws man say it every 73% as a team is not is not GNA cut it no all right number three k Murray continues to show new wrinkles with his game uh he

Tried to put KD on a poster finished with 18 points four rebounds three assists a block and a steal but Kyle the Kings forgot about him and that’s on him and it’s on the Kings his teammates need to not forget about him that’s not okay because he’s spectacular in a lot of

These situations he had a big three in that game down the stretch they needed at least three or four more opportunities for Keegan yeah and when you talk about like how many times at this trade deadline have we or or as we approach a trade deadline and we talk about it how many

Times have we talked about the need for like another Creator offensively man if they get somebody who go that’s what like last night is where and I think Keegan Murray is a guy that you would love to see hey they are playing small he’s gonna be guarded by somebody

He can rise and fire over get into the mid-range he’s so good there yeah get to the bucket there there there are ways that Keegan Murray is creating his own shot and has created his own shot that I would like to see them uh go to him in

That in that spot if it’s not going to be demonus sabonis yep number four the Mediterranean diet you want to make this happen so bad this is this is my new Sasha I’m I’m calling him like when you have a game like this he was he got

Cooking in this one yeah uh he moved so well without the ball man I you know it’s funny I put up the Mr Deeds the John Toro clip of I’m very very sneaky it’s it’s crazy he just like shows up under the basket like ready to catch and

And put it in the basket uh he’s still off a little bit on the three but man he was he was fun to watch 14 point six and9 Off the Bench uh he was impactful especially in the first half where he had 12 points every

Once in a while there will be I think I’ve compared him to Hunter Pence before oh yeah Hunter Pence really good player with the with the Phillies and the Astros and the Giants and everything he did was unorthodox yes his swing looked funny his throwing motion looked funny

The way ran looked funny his batting stance was weird but dude it was so effective yeah and you watch him and you’re going there’s no way this guy can hit bang 420 foot Homer you’re like what the there’s no way this guy ho the guy at third base you’re like what is that’s

Sasha to me every time he hits the court it’s like oh boy and he just produces just good Hunter Pence looked like stop judging books by their cover you know he always to me he looked like he just jumped off a horse and started running like like bowlegged like like everything

About him was just so awkward and like what are you doing bro like I’m not quite sure but he man he’s work heck of a player yeah yeah all right uh number five uh Malik monk set the table for uh his teammates early running the offense Perfection uh again early in the game

There’s some spelling um3 13 points eight assists uh but he he also finished with t five turnovers and kind of melted down late in the game um forced a lot of things and not a great finish for him at all yeah three turnovers in the fourth

Quarter one of six from the field one of three from three that’s and that’s kind of the give and take with Malik monk right you’re going to have games like that he’s not whatever Malik Monk Is as a player it’s not a consistent hey you’re gonna get 18 and six a night

Pencil it in sometimes you’re gonna get nights like last night where he really struggles in the fourth quarter and he turns it over a few times but then there’s going to be other nights where he scores 30 and has nine assists and that’s just kind of what you live with

Because the highs are high enough that it’s worth a fourth quarter like last night yeah I mean that’s kind of where it’s at yeah uh it’s it’s definitely he’s a mistake player and you got to live with the good you gotta live with the bad yeah and and again a lot of

People want him to play 40 minutes a night and some nights like in my opinion last night Mike Brown should have gone back to Kevin hder Kevin herder played really well and and late in the game I thought Malik had made a couple of mistakes and you probably needed to go

Back to the guy who had played really well defensively who had just hit a three who has started to come around a little bit and it’s been giving you a different energy a much bigger player and I’m not saying all the time I’m saying in that game yeah sometimes you

Don’t got it I Malik you know ran into the middle of the key looking for a foul way too often late in the game and sometimes that happens yeah Kevin herder just three minutes in the fourth quarter last night yeah yeah I don’t we can put

A pin in that and and talk about a little more number six finish up hey well well here’s the pen right here uh the Kings have been waiting for Kevin herder to awake from his slum and appears the patience is finally paying off uh he was active man he

Scored 10 points grabed three rebounds and picked up two steals um his steal early in the game was crazy where he just jumped up and like yeah and just like grabbed the ball interception yeah um but from like eight feet away yeah yeah it was like really I thought he

He’s finding his game again and that’s a good thing for the Sacramento Kings whether it’s for him to be here in Sacramento or if it’s if he’s somewhere else after the deadline whatever it is this is a good thing for the Kings you it is just really apparent even when

He’s hitting a couple of shots how much different their offens is oh yeah he he wasn’t spectacular last night he went four of nine from the field and two of six from three but it’s like once he knocks a couple down it just really feels like the entire offense starts

Rolling yeah when you see him come off the high dho dble the entire defense moves towards him and it just changes everything for the team yep yeah really crazy all right anyways that’s

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