"I loved the way we played. We passed the ball, we defended. The youngsters played a lot. That might have been the most important regular-season win since we bought the team, given the circumstances. I am really happy for Reggie. Maybe we can get on a roll. We're not out of it yet."
Joe Maloof, who suffered a mild stroke last week. As quoted by Ailene Voisin. Get well, Joe.
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The most important win in the regular season?
I mean, I realize this is a big deal, and it was satisfying on many levels. But the most important win? Gimme a break. People are just hyped cuz it was the Lakers. Which I understand, but don’t agree with.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Let people be hyped for a day or so
we deserve it.
We needed it.
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 10, 2008 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
Did I say people didn't need it?
Jeesh, you’re telling me I said something, or meant something, that I didn’t mean. I realize your point which is why I said:
People are just hyped cuz it was the Lakers. Which I understand, but don’t agree with.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Alright
just sounded a little negative the morning after a spirit-lifting, much needed win.
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 10, 2008 2:53 PM PST up reply actions
I hate to admit feeling like a party pooper
but I was kinda tracking with Pookey this morning. Honestly, I was thinking to myself: Self, I’d be happier if they won the damn games they should win rather beating two of the league’s best teams a month apart. I guess mine is an argument for consistency – even if it means mediocrity, (which it surely does for this year and maybe even next.)
I realize, of course, that I suck for thinking this and am willing to take a verbal beating for being negative ;-)
But, don’t get me wrong: I love watching Kobe brick shot after shot as much as the next Kings’ fan!
Yeah Kusian thanks for seeing my end
The reason to be happy is not cuz of the Lakers. It’s how the players played, the rotations Reggie used, and the fact that both sides worked with each other last night. That’s how you win games people.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Now they
just need to learn how to bottle the formula.
by coolcatreportdotcom on Dec 10, 2008 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah if only it was that simple
But, yeah, totally with ya on that.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Problem is...
this rotation worked without Kevin Martin and his 35+ minutes. I’m hoping Martin can integrate and become a solution, not a problem. Theus needs define/refine his rotation to make this thing work on a consistent basis. Good win, fun to watch, losing by 8 or less on Friday would make me feel good going forward.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
Yeah, good point
That is something that can’t be lost moving forward. And with that said, it may not be if Kevin is out for the next month.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Hadn't heard otherwise
Was just posing the point as a possibility.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Such a crock
I can pull entries from 15 threads in the last week where you go on and on about playing the kids, ’I’m upset JT only got 20 minutes!’ ‘Why is BobbyJ playing?’
Take a look at the box score – HELL, you didn’t even see the game and you’re talking about how happy you were with the rotations?
nonsense
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 11, 2008 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
Hmmmm
Fuck You.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
I'm totally with you on this one
It was a great win, and a necessary win for Reggie’s future, but it was just a regular season win.
It’s not like we won a title or knocked off the Fakers to grab the 8th seed on the final day of the season. Come on. Be happy, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Dec 10, 2008 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
grumble grumble
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 10, 2008 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
Lithium Lithium
It’s like the playoff team that over celebrates getting out of the 1st round compared to the team that is focused on the title and will hold their celebrations until that time.
Great win, let’s learn from it. We can play with anybody if we bring that kind of effort on a consistent basis. “Pat-pat-pat on the back” Now let’s focus on the next game.
As opposed to go party all night and blow off practice tomorrow because we’re hung over and cruise thru practice the next day because we’re “all that” and then get blown out on Friday.
To me, the reaction of some to this win is just a bit over the top. I’m happy the team came out with some effort. I’m upset that they don’t play a much higher percentage of their games with a similar effort level. Until I see that kind of effort on a consistent basis, I’ll temper my enthusiasm.
You want to start tipping over cars, go for it, but I expect more from the team. This is the kind of game I would have been ecstatic about in 1996, when we’d never had a good team and there was little prospect of us ever having a good team. If anything this win actually pisses me off a little bit, because the team should be playing hard every night.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Dec 10, 2008 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
I bow down to a master
Especially one who says what I really should have said all along. (I just didn’t feel like it. I’m glad someone else see’s it though, along with Kusian.)
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
To a starving man, a slice of bread is a feast
And I’m a really, really hungry Kings fan.
I make no apologies for over-celebrating this win. I know it’s not going to last and I don’t care. I need to salvage what I can from this season.
Shut up and Coach
That's cool
I guess I’m still living off the fat of the beginning of this decade. I learned to live on very little thru the first 15 years or so of my Kings fanhood.
Or maybe I’m just conserving my energy, because I don’t know how long it will be until we see more bread.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Dec 11, 2008 4:48 AM PST up reply actions
K: I have said the same thing in the main post-game thread
I just stated it in the affimative, they NEED to play like this every night (or most) to win fans like my wife back, I DON’T want to see the pattern of falling back to sleep after a good game. The players obviously executed a good game plan last night, which reassures me that Reggie has a strategy but makes me worry whether we have enough guys (like Cisco) who REFUSE to lose.
all without (I hope) putting damper on what should be a good day today for all.
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 10, 2008 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
Then that's my problem
If I’m too negative for people here, they can let me have it. That’s their right. (Doesn’t mean I won’t go back at them, or anyone, but it is their right to let me have it.)
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
I think if the Kings hang tight with the Lakers or (gasp!) win outright, Theus has the job for the rest of the season. If it’s an early blowout, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Whisenant or one of the assistants take over Wednesday.
Great quote, and Joe’s comments seem to confirm it TZ. Good call.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
This is exactly why it was important
Unless the team was playing poorly on purpose to get Reggie fired.
The team was playing poorly
I don’t think that was entirely on Reggie if they were ignoring him.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Well you can't just win this one
And think you’ve got the title wrapped up. If we promptly drop 2 to the T-Wolves and the Knicks, the Laker game is basically irrelevant.
I don’t buy the one win spells job security for the rest of the season crap. The season’s not about one game but about the entire 82.
BOOK IT!
I agree
But I do think a bad loss would have got Reggie canned today kingme. That’s really what my point was.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
I think management would have let him take the second Lakers loss...
purely semantics, but I think Reggie would have gotten one more game- not to show he could win but so the new, “company man” coach wouldn’t have to take on the Lakers in game one.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
Not with a Saturday game
If they didn’t do it today, it wasn’t going to happen until after Christmas due to back-to-backs and a road trip.
Maybe, but we know they were staying in house.
Whomever takes over has been prepped and ready. Reggie might have been saved by the Petrie illness coming during that 4 day lay-off. That would have been a opportune time to do it, even before the Denver debacle.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
That's true--oh so very true
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Great win
But, yeah, in retrospect, pretty overrated. But it’s a start, and hopefully of a chapter better than the one we’ve been slogging through this year.
by coolcatreportdotcom on Dec 10, 2008 5:48 PM PST reply actions
Maybe you & I will agree alot in the future
Seems to be happening a lot more lately.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
kissass
I’m out for a few days
so the floor, which you crave so badly – is yours.
Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !
by lietothegirls on Dec 10, 2008 5:59 PM PST up reply actions
Okay dipshit
Not everything is about me, or for that matter, you. You want to celebrate your way go ahead. Nobody’s stopping you. Nobody’s stopping me from posting my opinion either. Live with it or don’t. Stop fucking crying already.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
I'm just tired of his petty crap
That’s all.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Yeah he's annoying
One second he’s preaching about how were not happy-go-lucky about this win, or complaining about how were analyzing the relative significance of this game.
Then he analyzes our intentions as fans, and nitpicks on insignificant details. It’s not useful, nor respectable. It’s hypocritical and (may I reiterate) annoying.
AK47, SN13, B52, and K9. One guns, Another runs, He fits, while it licks.
Interesting point made by Voisin
in her blog entry before the one that was highlighted by TZ.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Another point I just found out from her "article"
Was this statement:
While it isn’t time to pop the champagne corks – another prolonged slump and Theus could still be gone by New Year’s – the victory certainly cools the heating pad under his seat. It also gives the second-year coach what he wants for the holidays – specifically, more time to transform a lethargic, disorganized bunch of princes into an aggressive, active squad that progresses by the week.
This was followed by her blog entry that she made later, that I forgot to blockquote in the comment up above:
Just a hunch here, but the rematch between the Kings and Lakers on Friday at Staples Center might reveal a lot about the Kings, for this reason: the Lakers won’t take Tuesday’s season-worst defeat lightly. They will go at the Kings hard. If the Kings respond well and make a game of it, that would suggest Tuesday’s impressive showing was more than an aberration
. If I posted this somewhere else, I do apologize. Just seemed to enhance the article point just that much more, with this blog comment she made later.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
I missed the news about Joe Maloof
So he had a stroke recently? That on top of knees being replaced? Sad, but he still cheers the Kings. Get well, Joe.
Connected
Ailene indicates the stroke might be connected to the double knee surgery — Joe has had more stress because of the lack of mobility and the pain, and he hasn’t been able to work out. The stress, so it goes, led to the mild stroke.
Scary stuff. And we really do wish him well, no matter what we think about his positions w/r/t the coach.
by Tom Ziller on Dec 10, 2008 8:25 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
The last line
is a great point. And totally agreed.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Yeah, good luck Joe, we are pulling for you.
Dude probably got a clot from all the bed rest following the knee surgeries. It’s so stressful being wealthy.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
Jinx-
Pretty surprised he wasn’t on blood thinners following a restrictive surgery like this. Knee replacement like this is horribly intrusive. Doctors cut off the leg above and below the knee, jam spikes into the bone attached to the new replacement section and then put everything back in place.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
That's what happened to my dad
Exactly what happened to him. His leg got crushed over the summer, and had several surgeries, including one that has left him on blood thinners. I’m hoping that his doc leaves him off of them come the new year. Hope Joe gets off those too. They’re bad juju man.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
People live their entire lives on thinners.
As long as they are careful it isn’t so bad. When we had our first son, my wife spent 25 days in the hospital with pre-term labor. She had to have heparin shots in her big ol’ pregnant belly twice a day which was miserable. She has a clotting gene disorder which will eventually require daily thinners for life.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
I'm sorry to hear that
All being told JJ, I would much rather my Dad not take them. Especially when he doesn’t want to.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Get well, Joe
From a Kings fan that remebers the pre-Maloof days all too well.
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I loved the win against the Lakers not because in and of itself it means more than a win
against OKC or anybody else in this season’s record. A win is just a win, it’s one game out of 82. But whether we are in the celler or the playoffs a win against the Lakers is always particularly sweet, and sweeter yet because of the miserable game against Denver.
The level of ball the Kings played last night was both encouraging and discouraging, encouraging because it shows what the team can do, what they are capable of with focus, hustle and smart rotations. It’s discouraging because the Kings so rarely show this form and skill level. I think I have been more surprised by the mediocre level of play we have seen too often this season. I don’t get how this team can fluctuate so much.
I’m expecting a beatdown on Friday and a loss will be ok if this team plays with the same fire and defensive consistency it showed last night. On the other hand, if they revert to the form and level we have seen far to often this season then my enthusiasm for the win last night is going to start to turn towards disgust.
So for what it’s worth I’m still savoring last night’s win and am looking forward to the game in LA on Friday, not because I’m expecting a repeat of last nights game but I’m eager to see which team shows up and until the evidence proves otherwise I’m expecting to see a Kings team that learned something about itself last night.
"We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good." - Charles Barkley
Theus is going to be fired.
i don’t believe joe really made this comment, i think either petrie or levien did. i still believer joe is conducting a search for a new coach and i expect him to replace petrie. i also don’t believe joe had a stroke, not even a mini one, i am a nurse who has slept with joe and i am sure his brain is fine and that if he made that statement, he was joking, i don’t believe for a minute he is happy with reggie, he is happy his team won but reggie has not produced the results expected and other family members who also own the team don’t like him. i understand joe rarely spends time in sacramento and wont in the future either, he lives primarily in vegas.
by whatsgoingonjoe? on Dec 11, 2008 3:24 AM PST reply actions
ah yes, the old faked stroke trick
who among us hasn’t claimed to have suffered a stroke in order to explain work absences?
Life is every mammal's journey from very very wet to very very dry.
Maloof a trois.
There now I've met the 75 word count. -pookeyguru
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No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
reggie theus deserves better players
do i believe reggie has been screwed in the past by his own players, absolutely, he deserves to coach a talented team and should return to college level coaching. he’ll be more successful and satisfied.
by whatsgoingonjoe? on Dec 11, 2008 3:26 AM PST reply actions
I do believe
He’s the same troll that keeps inventing new screen names and getting banned under each and every one of them.
No class. No life. Very small. Very sad.
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Dec 11, 2008 7:04 AM PST up reply actions
No LPA
That’s me. I"m the only real troll of StR. Haven’t you heard?
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
Which kind?
Do you live under a bridge and eat billy goats, or are you the kind that gets turned into stone when the sun comes up?
I hope you don’t have pink hair and walk around with a gem in your belly button, but given the anonymity of the internet, I can’t be sure.
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Dec 11, 2008 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
Well it depends on the season
Some days I’m a big concrete block, and others, I got pink hair, and I only wear emeralds darling. :)
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on
One more thing
It’s a flurry of posts! Best wishes to Joe and the Maloof family.
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