2008-09 Schedule Released
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The season starts earlier this year!
YAY!
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 9:44 AM PDT reply actions
home openers...
seems to me we always start on the road and that we are the opponent in numerous home openers each year… tough way to start a season, especially with our local weed merchant on the bench for the first five…
by longtimelistenerfirsttimecaller on Aug 6, 2008 9:55 AM PDT reply actions
No Oklahoma City
The Kings do not travel to Oklahoma City to play the Unsonics this year. I can hear the anguished howls from the players now. In other news, Sacramento is no longer the biggest cowtown in the NBA.
It's a typo on the schedule
There is a trip to Seattle that has to mean Oklahoma City.
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Orlando
The Kings play Orlando without Brad Miller, which means we’ve got Dwight Howard versus Spencer Hawes. Hawes should wear a helmet for that one so the dunks bouncing off his head don’t give him a concussion. :-)
LOL!
Spencer can probably score 20+ on Howard…but I fear he might give up double that – especially if he can’t keep him more than couple feet from the basket. I’m not certain Brad would do a ton better on the defensive end.
Trial by fire, baby!
Good point
Howard against the Kings last season: 27.5 points, 12.5 rebounds and he shot 81%. No, that’s not a misprint. Eighty one percent. I guess it can’t get much worse than that.
Didn't Brad
go double double animal style on Howard? I know that he had two last year, one against Okafor.
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Not sure what that is
But Brad had a total of 10 rebounds in 71 minutes against Orlando. Howard had 25 rebounds in 72 minutes, so Hawes probably isn’t going to do any worse.
That's 20+
points and rebounds, and it turns out that he did it against Charlotte and Chicago.
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December 16-22 Road trip
- Tue 16 @ Portland
- Fri 19 @ Houston
- Sat 20 @ New Orleans
- Mon 22 @ San Antonio
OUCH.
Followed by three home games and four more road games
So the Kings play that murderers row, then come home for three games (one against Boston) and play four more on the road. That’s eight of eleven on the road from mid December to early January. Ugly.
Ouch is right.
I have to watch the Kings play the Spurs for the last game of their road trip on my birthday.
Double Ouch.
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
TZ
Does Sactown Royalty ever put up a thing so that the posters here can make a projection on the season wins/losses before the season starts?
They need to re-do the brackets
Oklahoma City is not in the North West.
They should swap
Pho and Por. Arizona isn’t a Pacific state, but Oregon is. Then change the name Northwest to Mid-West(Utah, Denver, OKC, Min, Phoenix).
No wait Phoenix should be in the Southwest. So take Memphis out of the Southwest(WTF is Memphis doing in the west anyway). Swap them to the Southeast. Take Washington out of the Southeast(why are they there?). Put Washington in the Atlantic and move Toronto to the Central and move Milwaukee to the newly named Mid-West. That should work.
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 Aug 6, 2008 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe you should draw a map, Kfan.
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It was kind of a joke
Once you start moving things it becomes all crazy. But if I was going to reorganize the divisions they’d look something like this(changes in Bold):
Atlantic: Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York.
Central: Detroit, Cleveland, Indiana, Chicago, Toronto
Southeast: Orlando, Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Memphis
Midwest: Utah, Denver, Minnesota, Milwaukee, OKC
Pacific: Kings, Lakers, Clippers, GS, Portland
Southwest: New Orleans, Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas
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 Aug 6, 2008 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Every division changes
That’s fair.
Again, though, it makes too much sense for it to ever actually happen.
Let's go home.-Kevin Martin
by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the NBA
is really trying to develop a sense of “division rivalry” that is so strong in the NFL and MLB – if your enemy teams are all one state over, it increases the loyalty. Why do you think Giants and Jets fans love themselves and hate each other so much?
Why that ties into this: though the move makes sense, it’s hard to create division rivalries if teams keep swapping divisions.
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I don't
have the time/patience, but has anyone figured out if we have the last home-opener?
I love the smell of commerce in the morning
I don't know
But if it were any later, it would be considered the first home opener of 2009.
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