Post Game Thread: Kings at New Jersey

A: Hold the other team to 42% FG, 25% 3P, 65% FT.

Poor, poor shooting.

and then we had some really suspect shot selection.

I thought Landry and Jackson played great. It looks like Cisco is def playing like two year ago Cisco, which is a good sign.

I thought Tyreke wasn’t as aggressive in certain spots as he should have been. The Nets would also try to make him go left, and he would usually give it up when forced that direction. He had some pretty nice highlight reel drives, and even when he missed we had our bigs cleaning up the glass, especially closing out the half.

I’d really like to see the Kings drop it into the post with DMC much more than shown tonight.

Shame we couldn’t hold on to this one. These are the types of games we really need to walk away with the W to improve overall.

I hear Cleveland lost some guy, maybe a win in the Kings’ near future?

NBA’s Most Improved Team by the end of the season? Any season after last will be some improvement.

Kings announcers felt like the Kings had in the bag. I bet everyone watching the through the kings feed started pulling for the Nets when the announcers started blabbing about The Kings and how great they are lol.

But that’s it! This is over! Lets move on to the next one, after all worst scenario is we have a chance at getting Harrison Barnes next year!

Terrible officiating, but it was pretty even both ways. Really hurt the rhythm and flow of the game and made it painful to watch.

I was once again impressed with Cousins. I was interested to see how he’d fare against Lopez, but he attacked him on offense and had a nice effort.

Tyreke’s jumper, at times, looked amazing. If he can get that thing to be a consistent weapon it will be insane. I also liked seeing him bail out on some of his drives instead of forcing the shot. I noticed several drive-and-kicks. I also saw the beginnings of a great pick and roll combo with Tyreke and Cousins.

Tough loss, but definitely a few things to still be excited about. It’s a long season, maintain hope.

LagunaKing meet MarcusC

Something tells me you guys will get along just fine.

the win was so close, but a player (in the Mavs case Terry) ruined it big time for the loss. Same for the Kings?

Yeah, sucks to lose, but our team isn’t playing well enough to be a 2-0 team. So maybe a little humility will go a long way in making us correct our glaring faults.

And we do have many faults that teams are driving (and scoring) through.

So, I refuse to allow my sadness at the loss, make me strike out and find fault this time either. It will take a few more bad beats to distroy my inner peace which overcame me when the season started.

Needless to say, this game was ours for the taking, so I’m not as saddened by one more game in the loss column as I am with the team failing to play a smarter game. So, I’m moving on with the hope that the Kings learned a valuable lesson from his one, and don’t allow an early lead by their opponents to make them rushed and take them out of their game.

One thing I always liked about the 2000-02 team, was that they never played with a sense of desperation. And, calmly went about their business whether they were ahead or behind. Let’’s hope this team develops the same type of calmness as the season progresses.

LOLZ… calmness and no sense of desperation. Man 2000-02 Kings squad was oozing talent down to 10th man. They were perfectionists, they had more talent than 10 NBA teams put together at that time. They knew they were cut above everyone else. THey knew they could punk and eat anyones lunch anytime ov the day. They beleived that they could walk up into LA and bitch slap the lakers whenever they wanted. They weren’t talented they were up-down court magicians. These new kings are atleast couple of years away from being talented enough to walk into NJ and punk the NETS, let alone the LAKERS.
PLEASE…come on guys…..

Lets not start to DISRESPECT 2000-02 squad and start comparing them to Rookies and Freshman who are still finding their way round the league.
Lets show more gratitude and passion to our GOOD OL’ 2000-02 breavehearts.
Lets not forget the OL GLORY DAYS.

my question: Offensive fouls. How many? Who? I think a running count of O fouls (which also show up as TOs) would be interesting this season.

By the way, if anyone knows where Jason Thompson is hiding please find him. Quick!

Head’s shot selection made me cringe.

Dally’s made me cringe so hard.

We got an unexpected game from D-Jax. If he could do that on a consistent basis, we’re in for a treat.

Thompson. Dammit, man. My “I heart JT” meter went from a solid 8 to about a five.

Garcia looks good…like, really good.

Donte should be playing 40 minutes a game and Sam should be launched into space, obviously.

I’m really liking Darnell Jackson as a backup, though I don’t know how Whiteside will grow without some playing time.

We don’t get any easy buckets. We have to work hard for each one of them, whether it’s a complicated drive by Tyreke or a contested post move. Only Cisco and Beno hit open shots with great efficiency. The Nets had more than 10 baskets created by good screens or completed plays which ended up with Lopez all alone underneath the basket.

Btw, 4-5 of Lopez’ earned fouls never happened.

This game should have been somewhat easy for us under normal circumstances.

I missed most of the game, including the end, but why did our “small forwards of the future” only play 23 minutes, including 3-plus for Donte? I am assuming Landry and Cisco played a lot at the three?

There are pros and cons to Westphal’s approach of mixing lineups, like surprises from guys like Jackson. But over time I hope he settles into some kind of rotation so guys know their roles. That’s probably asking for too much, though, with a team like this that is still in flux and lacks a leader.

Travis Outlaw probably isn’t looking like too bad an option at the 3 about now, right?

None. If you’re still working on your D (understandable for now), you need to put your scorers out there and either score at the bucket or draw some fouls. Unfortunately, Landry isn’t great when double teamed late, JT was ineffective and Cousins was fouled out.
Still, no excuse.

He looked pretty impressive. Played within himself, knew his role and executed it well. Solid sidekick for Lopez going forward.

They said he was going to be a project, but I’d like to have a project like that on the Kings.