Six Quick Thoughts: Just Five On the Sacramento Kings Loss to the Pacers
Them yeah let’s get to them right now with 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 he six quick thoughts sponsored by uh maybe you rich odyssey.com if you own a business or
Work somewhere that wants to sponsor this segment go ahead there it is James fire what uh they are free right I mean 18 and 32 from the three from the free throw line we’re done with free throws all right free throws yeah it is what it
Is Mike uh Mike Brown may need to scrap everything else and just do the miss a free throw run miss a free throw run just for the next couple of days of practice if you miss a free throw everybody runs and I don’t care who it is hit your
Free throws I I put up a video after yesterday’s practice the day before practice of the Aon Fox hitting what 25 straight probably mhm like he didn’t miss and then we get to the game and you know I was his free throw shooting even his sure he missed a couple but it’s
Just something something’s wrong and I don’t know how to fix it other than to say they gotta Focus you know I mean whatever it is I genuinely don’t know how to go hey just make it yeah that’s what it that’s that’s really what it comes down to it’s not a
Matter of form it’s not a they need to see they need to have a night Malik Monk and this isn’t a team thing it’s not like hey domas went 12 for2 from the free throw line and now Malik’s making them individually uh they they need to
See a couple go down and I think that’s what it comes down to yeah yeah I think so too number two uh Daren Fox never really got going until the fourth quarter in this game um 24 points six assists uh oh five rebounds in 40 minutes I I swear I had
Five rebounds is it six uh yeah it says six on here yeah that’s right yeah oh then he did get an extra rebound because it wasn’t six before uh last night it wasn’t it was 24 six and five after the game got it uh that’s okay uh anyway um
He just didn’t look like himself and his defensive issues with TJ McConnell were were crazy and it wasn’t just him and Mike Brown was clear to point out that someone should have cut the Baseline the entire time and stopped that and that was a like what are we doing he cooked
Everybody everybody but it’s because when he got to that position every there should have been a second man there and then I guess Mike was even saying he goes under the basket where he’s behind the basket and comes back up and under and that’s why it looks like he can he
Just keeps scoring when you don’t expect because no one expects him to come back up to the rim for a shot and so it’s just kind of a weird thing that he does but he’s really good at it and the Kings did not adjust and that’s not the first
Time that TJ McConnell has absolutely cooked dearon Fox and the Sacramento Kings it you know and again the Sacramento Kings as a whole there had to be an adjustment there where somebody else said I got Baseline I’ll stop the I’ll stop the drive right yeah and no happen he got a shoulder through
Dearin uh Harrison Barnes Keegan Murray just everybody Malik monk pick a person yeah name that got yeah that was not not great although the the worst part is when it was announced that tyres halberton is out I saw people in the chatty house and on Twitter like well TJ
McConnell’s cooking tonight oh yeah like man that’s that’s a tough spot to be in and the crazy thing is he only scores 20 it felt like he scored 45 right because it’s TJ McConnell well but he scored 20 but once you did try to stop him he
Crushed you yeah and and he ended up with 10 assists he’s a good player man he’s a good that’s the thing is is this isn’t some Rando who’s never gonna play in the NBA again yeah t McConnell’s been around and he is a good guard yeah he’s
One of those guys that you wish you had on your team every single time you see him play you’re like man how do you get TJ McConnell the Michael Jordan and Matthew delova there it is that’s very very good thank you number three headb herder you did this to spite me I did
And I don’t like it it’s taking half seon you going to buzz for this it’s a complete crap I agree it appears that Kevin herder has found himself uh man when he’s hitting Kyle he has an ability to draw the entire defense one way everyone starts to fade
Towards him as he’s coming off that dho at the top of the key trip hand they all chase him right out to the outside and he still has the ability get the shot shot off seven of 12 from long range 31 points career high 31 points wow he had
Been stuck at like he got to 30 last year which was the first time he’d ever hit 30 and then uh last night 31 points um he is the offense he is the ingredient that has been missing from this offense yep if they can find a way
To get this to bottle it and have him become the player he was last year this team goes right back into the top five of offensive rating in the league that’s it that’s that is so much what it comes down to so much of it rides on Kevin
Herder and it’s not it is the confidence that he’s shooting him that he’s shooting him with he’s coming off the dribble handoff and he’s stepping backwards he’s stepping right he’s feeding domas he’s just he’s playing with so much more confidence on the offensive end than he was at at any
Other point since he got benched in the preseason he did I did have this funny exchange with him and domos in the locker room in pregame so I said hey you got a haircut because I don’t know if you noticed the the road trip Kevin herder started to have like a little
Flip thing going and uh domas is like I was trying to get him not to cut it and Kevin’s like you’re just trying to make me look stupid they were going back and forth either way he he did cut his hair and I think he uh you know cleaned up a
Little bit he started look like a quail I think he does it himself with a headband oh it looks terrible like I’m just being honest It’s gotta go I love the headband head man H I’m number five uh feed him demonus sabonis camped out in the lane to
Demolish his former team 18 of 13 from the field he was eight of nine I think to start so maybe he did miss some shots 21 points 10 assists 11 rebounds 24th double double 12th triple double all for nothing in the second half he went 0 for
Three from the field what in the world they just I don’t understand it I don’t get it why he’s cooking wa 0 for three from the this is a second game now in a row where it’s like man hey figure out some offense in the second half and it’s I
Know okay late they they stormed back with two minutes left and scored all these points okay awesome but part part of the way you don’t get down 16 with two minutes left is making sure that deis sabonis and again I don’t know if this is a coaching thing or if this is a
Domos thing I but it’s a team thing it’s it’s possible that a team thing yeah it’s possible that other guys are like oh it’s my turn to eat maybe but he scored five points ironically all at the free throw line nine boards great four assists love it that’s awesome but I
Need more than three shots for demonus zonis in in the second half of a of a game that you’re losing like I said I don’t care why or how fix it fix it number six uh something new Keegan Murray uh is a perimeter Marksman um but he’s starting
To show a whole bunch of other stuff Kyle like if you’re not getting getting excited about what’s happening with Keegan Murray it’s hidden in the losses my goodness man he’s becoming a ball player I think last night he had at least five dunks and it may have been
Six they robbed him of a dunk early the only way I know this is because I take his prize picks I’m sorry the more the more I take more in prize picks every single game they’re gonna steal my stat they’re gonna take the stat away anytime
But until they do I’m riding this baby I’m riding it he is developing right in front of our eyes and I think it’s really interesting 27 points eight rebounds again kind of just hidden in a in a in a bad loss yeah he is he is developing I think the way that they
Wanted him to develop he needed to be better off the bounce this year than he was last year and you you you saw it a tiny bit last year you saw it a little bit in the first half of this year but I think you’re you’re really starting to
See it and now I think the next step is okay that’s great you’ve got all that in your bag but now in a in a spot where Kings need a bucket he needs to be one of the guys that they go to yes to say
Hey take it on the wing put the ball on the floor go get a shot that you are comfortable getting you can see the pathway forward for this team yep is Keegan Murray taking this step so clear it is very very clear mm
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