Play better tomorrow please.

Please come home soon boys… This road stuff sucks…

I forgot he was on the team, apparently so did Westphal.

See you guys tomorrow k?

Haiti will have 24000 $ less because of their inhumanity and shot-blocking.

I hope.

Good game, huh?

/ducks

A month ago we started them on solid foods. One of them was really into it, the other was not. First was rice cereal, then some vegetables, which they took ok. Then, we gave them some fruit, which they both loved. Now when we try to give them rice cereal or vegetables, they have a hard time with it since they have tasted that sweet fruit.
At the beginning of the season, I had low expectations, and told myself that after last season, I would not get upset by losses, and that I would just enjoy the ride. I have done well for the most part, but those games before Christmas was like eating fruit. It is hard to go back to vegetables.
As a side note, our friend Pookey once made a comment that I will always appreciate. I, like most of us, had a pretty big hatred for the Lakers. My step-dad is from LA, and has always been a fan. Luckily, he is a fan that I can respect, not a d-bag. In fact, he took me to the Laker game as a Christmas present when we came home to visit. The point is, Pookey once told someone that he doesn’t hate the Lakers, and one of the reasons is that it takes too much energy to hate. I took that advice, had a great time at the game, and I am enjoying our Kings quite a bit more this year. I realize this has nothing to do with this game, but I have no idea how to send Pookey a PM, so if you read this, thanks!

If you told be before the game that the Kings would hold Orlando’s starting lineup to 55 pts, out rebound them by 8 on the offensive boards, and have 9 fewer turnovers, and 19 more FGA’s, I’d have guessed that we would have won by 20.

As I said, I have no words.

The Kings will win tomorrow

what KMart did so good that earned him 41 minutes of play

and some semblance of a rotation.

Starters should be JT, Hawes, Tyreke, Kmart and take your pick at SF (I prefer Nocioni). These guys should play 25-35 minutes, more if they have it going and we are in a tight game.

Your key subs should be Brockman (weak for a third big, but that’s what you have), Beno, Omri, Donte (or Noce if Donte or Omri starts). All should play 20 minutes more or less.

That leaves some spot minutes for Sergio, Ime and Armstrong or K9 if he is activated.

Keep it consistent, give us something to build on, not a different story every night.

Our guys have lost a lot of confidence since starting the season strong, and we need a more stable situation if we’re going to turn it around. It’s time for Westphal to keep the mad scientist coat in the closet for a while.

Since the team has been in the scoring slump it really seems like Brno has stopped penetrating. He’s starting to look like last yes beno. He needs to be more aggressive like he was at the begining of the year. This could be our best opportunity to get rid of him since he has such good stats right now. I like Sergio coming off the bench and getting everyone involved. Since he is a fraction of the price of beno, I could see him moving by the deadline. Dumping benos and noc’s contract would free up a ton of money!!

I don’t know what to do next.

Short of tanning myself into leather, paint stripes on my body, bounce up and down the floor, letting the Kings score everything,

but I don’t wanna turn into one of these women.

Cougar.

a) that was horrible, by any measure

b) with regard to the ccr/iashwash discussion, I think we’re now getting to the point that we need more structure. I look at it this way, you have a ton of players that you don’t know how good they are, for a while, we win, everything’s great, then we start losing, what do you do? Since you have no sure things, other than guys that are surely bad, you try combinations and see what works.

I think PW has gotten pretty close now to every reasonable combination to throw out there and try, and guess what, there’s no magic formula. We don’t have enough good players, and there’s no combination who’s sum of the parts is that much better than the underlying talent. So its time to start building a base, and run the guys out there you expect to play in the next few years so they can begin to develop some chemistry.

I think my view of the situation is somewhere in the middle of the discussion. If Evans/JT/Kevin/Omri are the guys, its time they get 30 minutes. If Donte or Spencer are in the potential list also, they need time. At some point, its time to give the responsibility to the players to fucking get to work. You tell them, you guys are the team, we’re bringing in the reincorcements in the summer, but I don’t care how badly you get your ass kicked, you’re getting time, and it on you.

c) With regard to Sergio, he is the human tempo change, but the bad plays he makes are so abysmally stupid, its hard to take him seriously. I can’t get behind giving him time, because he’s always going for the amazing, and isn’t enough of a professional. A professional gets the job done, and too often Sergio is trying the spectacular instead of doing work. If that’s changable, then I can see giving him time.

d) Beno is suffering from Kevin returning. Beno should not be on the floor at the same time as both Kevin and Tyreke. He’s proven he’s not a happy guy unless he’s involved offensively; PW needs to give him the reins of the bench, and tell him when he comes in, he’s in charge and to be aggressive. Passive, trying to fit in and play off the ball Beno sucks.

e) I really hope Kevin finds some time while he’s in Florida to visit Thorpe; he needs the help right now. What I see is a guy, really, really trying to fit in that’s in a huge shooting slump. I hope even the people that don’t like Kevin as much here give him some credit for that. That said, we’ve seen him in shooting slumps before, this one is as bad as any I remember. Here’s to hoping he breaks out of it soon; he’s obviously been bad since returning.