Preview: Kings at Warriors

I hope the Kings win tonight while the GSOM crew are at the game.

I’ll be the crazy guy in section 122.

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I am looking forward to Tyreke versus the mini guards of GS. As long as JT ands Tyreke stay out a foul trouble, and we slow down there break , we should be good. This is the type of game where Spence doesn’t get may minutes. I am looking forward to picking up a W (not Bush) and then Martin (not MLK) returning Tuesday._

Not much to say about either teams defense, except the Kings occasionally show one. GSW like the Kings had a better record early in the season (6-10), but since Dec 1st are only 4 & 14. Also, like the Kings, the Warriors are much better at home with a 6-7 home record, putting them at 4-17 on the road. Which means they played less than 40% of their games at home, and might indicate that they are better than their 10-24 record implies.

Since Dec 1st they have 2 road wins against NJN & MIN, but they have 2 impressive home wins against BOS & PHX. Meanwhile except for a 1-point loss to Denver, the Warriors haven’t challenged many teams, and the Kings have battled some of the best in the league down to the wire.

In the last meeting in Sac, the Kings won every important stat except Fast Break Points. The Kings had 62 points in the paint to their 46, 52 Rebs to their 34, 15 ORB’s to their 7, 38 FTA’s to their 28, while both teams averaged around 50% shooting and limited turnovers to 14 each.

The starting backcourt of Curry & Ellis, means PW doesn’t need to start one of our SF’s at the 2, so expect Tyreke and Beno to go for the Kings, and give the Warriors backcourt way too much trouble. Although the Kings need to be careful with the ball because the Warriors are averaging an amazing 9+ steals a game.

With Turiaf, Randolph, and Maggette on the front line, PW has the option of starting Donte at the PF, but I expect him to start Spencer, JT, & Omri. But, he’s fooled me more than once, so JT starting at center and Spencer coming of the bench might not be out of the question.

GS needs to have a couple of players to really get blistering hot from the field to pull off a win. I expect the Kings to slow down the pace, but with Tyreke starting at PG was there ever any doubt. And, the Kings will dominate the glass, so there’s really no need for everyone to hit the boards for rebounds. I’d like to see at least 2 players drop back as soon as any shot goes up, to defend against the fast break.

In an offensive onslaught like this game should be, I’m not sure how many minutes our defensive bench players like Ime & Jon will get. But, I expect the Kings bench to out play the Warriors bench. The game looks to be closer than it might seem, but the outcome shouldn’t really be in doubt. I like the Kings by 8, 117-109. Go Kings.

Was tempted to join GSoM, but decided against it. Go Kings!

For some reason, “wacky” has dissembled into “alarmingly curious,”

good stuff…..

Tyreke could have a monster triple double because they’re playing the Dubs, just like Brando dropped 55 on ’em

Should be easy to grab.
Reke should get very close to trip dub (25-10-9).

And Omri will have his career high today. 30+pts.

that Ellis and Curry combined will have a chance at stopping Tyreke?

We’re going into enemy territory tonight. I live in the bay area & will be at the game. Warriors fans hate the kings — maybe it’s an inferiority complex — so I’m expecting a nice reaction from the home fans when they see my friend & I decked out in Sac gear, esp. since we’re sitting in row 5 of Sec 108.

If any other Kings fans are going to the game, let us know where you’ll be. We need to represent Sactown HARD tonight…our young Kings need us tonight in hostile Oracle Arena.

“Luck the Fakers.”

The Warriors are playing well of late, and both teams play hard – albeit with little defense involved.

Lets get our 15th Win of the season!

Take care of the ball,slow it down just a little and attack their defensive weakness= pretty much the whole team.Randolph can block shots and might be a good defender someday,they have no one who can defend Tyreke or Beno. Go Kings

Moderate defense, take care of the ball and execute on offense should do it!

I’ll see some of you at the game.

(My girlfriend might make me go to the Kings vs Magic game although it’s because she’s from Florida. Sorry guys. I’ll be rooting for both teams then somehow.)

Does anybody know of a link for this one tonight??? Im stuck at work

Hollinger (aka Mr. Tyreke is NaPG) thinks NO-SAC are natural trade partners b/c we can help them get under the tax threshold – aren’t we nice? Apparently, Beno and 31 yr old 41% shooter SG Devin Brown have about equal trade value, and we may as well give up a few million of cap space because we are not getting Lebron anyway, so we don’t really need it.

Getting a #1 from NO would not be bad, mid 1st round pick (15-20), most likely. Other than that…meh.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100108

New Orleans Hornets, $3.33 million over

The Hornets may make the playoffs despite their slow start, but that doesn’t change their terrible economics. The Hornets aren’t making much bank and are unlikely to sign off on what amounts to $10 million in expenses ($3 million in salary, $3 million in luxury tax, $4 million in foregone distributions) just to give themselves a 50-50 chance of making the playoffs as L.A.’s Round 1 punching bag.

New Orleans has added incentive because the Hornets already are over next year’s projected luxury-tax line by several million dollars. (Orlando, the Lakers, Denver and Dallas are the only other four teams that are certain to be over, though several other clubs dance perilously close to the line.) Because of this, some wonder if the Hornets will be forced to deal David West, but I doubt it will come to that.

As luck would have it, the Sacramento Kings are $4.15 million under the cap at the moment, making them an obvious trade partner. The two sides could set some kind of record for dead money included in a deal, actually, if the Kings swapped Kenny Thomas and Andres Nocioni to the Hornets for Darius Songaila, James Posey, Morris Peterson and Hilton Armstrong.

Such a deal would likely cost the Hornets cash and a first-rounder, too, since the Kings would be eating into their potential 2010 cap space. In fact, the Kings might turn the screws and demand that promising point guard Darren Collison be part of the swap. Nonetheless, that might be worth it for New Orleans since it would get them under next year’s tax as well as this year’s — much as it made sense for Utah to deal Maynor recently.

Other variations on this deal also work. For instance, replace Nocioni with Beno Udrih and Armstrong with Devin Brown and the Hornets save just as much this year, albeit less next year. Subtracting Thomas and Posey from the deal also works. In all of these scenarios, incidentally, the four-for-two or three-for-one nature of the deal would require Sacramento to cut Sean May. But I presume they’d get over it quickly.

The point is that the Hornets have an obvious incentive to rent the Kings’ cap space, and the Kings could use some of what the Hornets have to offer (cash, a pick, potential relief from the 2011-12 money owed to either Nocioni or Udrih). It cuts into Sacramento’s cap room for next summer by about $3 million (depending on the exact parameters), but considering that draft picks normally cost $3 million, they’d get cash and a couple of useful players out of it. And since they weren’t going to be in the LeBron sweepstakes anyway, it works out nicely on their end, too.

ANYBody find a link for this game yet?

apparently there’s no HD feed for Sac, only for the warriors feed, which is blocked out :(