Six Quick Thoughts – Sacramento Kings Beat the Grizzlies 103-94

Six Quick Thoughts – Sacramento Kings Beat the Grizzlies 103-94

Dive back into the Sacramento Kings win over the Memphis Grizzlies last night with James ham James Ham’s six quick thoughts how yesterday’s Kings game go Kings Insider James ham has six notes you need to know here are James ham six quick thoughts Kyle I feel like we need to

Make these really quick deonis simonis posted a double double before halftime giving him 28 straight one shy of the Season franchise record I have now been corrected here of 29 step by Oscar Robertson Oscar Robertson’s real record is 31 but it came over two seasons there’s two at the next season uh so

Sabonis now someone has moved the goal posts uh but wait I’m sorry say say that one more time Oscar Robertson single season record is 29 consecutive oh d double doubles double doubles oh okay I thought you were talking about rebounds no no the record confused the record is

Is for for double doubles got it is different yes so the record is 31 uh so he still has a ways to go well three games to go for that uh but yeah uh 26 boards were a career high also tie a franchise record well Sacramento ERA

Record with h Chris Weber who did that in overtime yeah good game good player really good player number two number two sabonis kept the the Kings Within reach I I felt like he was the only one that kind of was was playing like to a level uh Fox waited until the fourth quarter

To make his pres felt 23 points eight of 14 shooting four assists better late than never but realistically that was a it wasn’t a super engaged performance by dearen Fox yeah he’s been better of late looked more like MVP caliber Fox that we saw earlier in the year and then just

Last night I don’t he was that’s the thing thing is Daren Fox is good enough that he can have a night where it’s it’s not super impactful but he still goes for what he finished with 23 five and four like there’s a lot of guys that

Would be a career night so I mean he’s it’s it’s not that he’s that he’s playing poorly he’s just he set such a high standard earlier in the year yeah and if the kings are going to make any kind of noise in the playoffs dearn fox

Has to be better than he’s been the last three weeks yeah that’s the the long and short of it for me he’s had three or four games which are nice M but there’s been plenty of games like this where you’re just like okay we’re not super engaged here what’s going on yeah um

Number impactful uh switch has been hit by Kevin herder um he’s figuring out a way man to to impact the game without it just being scoring he hadit a couple of late shots to get to 17 but four rebounds three assists two Steals and a block he’s playing defense he’s engaged

He’s fully trying to get better and help this team by doing the dirty work so kudos to Kevin herder yeah yeah uh that was a big reason that as he was struggling shooting it continued to not be a major problem because he was doing other things and the fact that he was still

Rebounding he was still passing he was still hustling on defense it made you think the shot was going to come around he wasn’t entirely disengaged from the process of playing basketball yep and and you see the shot starts falling and now you’re adding that to to

The uh what’s the word I’m looking for Arsenal like the additional impact that he’s making and and you have a a really really quality player no I I think so too yeah number four I cold uh Harrison Martin’s coming off Monster three games he went over for seven from three to start the

Game he I I think there’s a good thing hiding here though go he starts 0 for seven he finishes two for 10 which means he kepts shooting and for Harrison Barnes to come out of a game with five of 15 from the field when he isn’t like

Lights out that’s kind of a big deal four assists re three rebounds I like the fact that Harrison Barnes didn’t just go sit on the bench and get replaced because he wasn’t hitting his shots and you know good for him to actually find a way to impact the game

Yeah uh Team High plus 15 for Harrison Barnes last night and honestly if you’re GNA get that kind of I mean three rebounds isn’t isn’t awesome but it’s better than one or none but you love the four assists if getting him more shots means you’re getting him more engaged

Elsewhere in the game I I think that timately makes the Kings better and you’re GNA you’re going to get a couple of bad shooting nights yeah and I I think that’s just what happened last night I think so too and hey look your big man had 26 rebounds yep he was on a

On a tear yeah yeah um number five number five uh need a recharge uh Malik monk is struggling uh he came into the night averaging 8.8 8.8 points per game over his last four games on 18% shooting from three he had another quiet night three points five assist and we’ve seen

This from him before one of four from the field um we’ve seen this from from a leak before where he goes through a stretch where he loses his legs or something but it’s also a focus thing because the turnovers you know they were bad like it looked like he’s just trying

Too hard to figure things out he might need like a mental break so yeah one of those stretches for Malik yeah he it’s um it’s so apparent what he’s not playing like there’s just the vibe is so much different and the energy is so much different so I don’t again I don’t know

If it’s a night off or it is it is just a a slump for him or he was so good early in the year that this is just a regression to the mean I know I’m not totally sure but again as we start to look ahead to the playoffs entering

Entering February here um Malik monk needs to be better no I I totally agree a very very strange game for Malik’s so all right number six number six uh tall person ja jav McGee you know what he look like Kyle a tall person no when you

Go to like um like third grader wck league basketball but there’s one third grader who for some reason hit the gross spurt way early and is like 5 foot s and everyone else is like 4 foot two yeah and he just stands above everybody and he keeps missing his shots but the ball

Keeps coming right back to him and everyone’s trying to jump up and bow him or do something and they can’t do anything because he’s a foot and a half taller sure that’s what javil McGee looked like he just looked like he was way taller than everyone else that they

Put out there and that’s because again they have no bench they have no starters the the Memphis Grizzlies were shell I thought javil played well uh he had eight points four rebounds in 10 minutes I also think Trey lyes came in and and had a nice performance as well yeah yeah

Um if you’re going to get quality jail minutes like that’s that’s such a huge win and if he was bad last night maybe they wind up losing but they got it they got to they got a decent javil game when I mean they didn’t get great outings

From anybody else yeah so so you love uh love to see that for our guy javil that’s big time yeah I mean it’s never perfect but it worked I’m gonna add a seventh quick thought 19 turnovers oh and not even okay so the turnovers where it’s Barnes driving and

He tries a little pocket pass to sabonis and sabonis isn’t quite ready for it and it slips through his hands and and hits the hits the deck okay fine you know that happens but the careless crosscourt passes that get intercepted and they’re just throwing the ball out of bounds 49

Seconds into the game Kevin herder threw a ball out of bounds and everyone looked like what are you talking about they re he challenged the G a call Mike Brown did Mike Brown 49 seconds into a game and lost Kevin herder just threw the ball out of bounds it it doesn’t it we

Talked about it before the game yesterday it’s like hey don’t turn it over don’t give this team life don’t just go execute your offense and they just did and it’s that carelessness it’s like it’s like the kings are good okay they’re not good enough to throw the

Ball around like that and go beat a team by 20 no like they’re just not they’re just not there they don’t don’t they don’t have the talent to go into a game carelessly no and they haven’t been good enough all year consistently all year to go into a game like that and that’s

That’s where I would like to see them go beat the hell out of a bad team one time and just show like yeah hey look here’s the energy here’s the focus night in night out like we saw it last year that was the least of my concerns this year

Was the kings taking Knights off mentally yes I I I fully agree and that that they go into a game like that they shoot it 11 of 38 from three GH but you know it’s going to happen shots are going to miss you can do other things to

Blow a team out when you’re not hitting your threes and turning it over 19 times is not is not one of them that’s just that’s just carelessness and lack of focus and shout out to the the broadcast which I don’t usually do they actually went to commercial break not only missed the determination

On whether the call had been overturned but also they had they scored a basket as a comes back and I’m like what just happened like did I just miss something and then they had to go back and Rewind and say oh this is what happened they they didn’t get the challenge and here’s

A Grizzly’s going up six to2 you’re like wait what is happening here what what what is happening so yeah a weird moment that’s eight quick thoughts eight 14 quick thoughts James ham 15 quick thoughts thanks to everybody all right uh

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