Preview: Heat vs. Kings

I am well armed for the game!

he looks kinda slow in that one.

come on down to 114k and comiserate if you’re going to be there!

Wish we had gotten these guys on our schedule earlier in the season. They are starting to put it together – and sooner than most people expected I think.

FTW!!

Hopefully today’s game is a bit of an eye opener for Reke. Not sure what I mean, but maybe he sees the competition the Dwade and Lebron bring every night, and motivates/does whatever to him to do the same.

I could be way off base, cause it could be a bunch of other things including poor decision making, injuries etc. But I can always hope.

for DMC to play well against a relatively weak defensively frontline. Bosh is extremely quick but slimmer than a toothpick. Joel Anthony is 5’8 w/o shoes. The sum of the ages of Dampier, Ilgauskas and Juwan Howard surpasses all the Kings’ players ages put together.

~Captain Hyperbole

The Kings are pretty depressing this year.

I do not know why but i sure hope we play good tonight.may the basketball gods be on kings side tonight.get’er done kings!!

And if we win…I don’t even know. Bring on the playoffs, baby!!
Go Kings! Make ’em work!

Donte’ Greene: His defense of Lebron James is an opportunity for moral victories. Donte’ has the athleticism to take on the challenge.

Tyreke Evans: His defense of Wade has to be active and full on. He needs to be in Wade’s face and grill the whole game. He has to play his best defense.

Pooh Jeter: The Heat don’t have a good response for Pooh’s game. If they get Pooh in their and up the tempo it should work. We have shown good chemistry and that will help by having Omri running with him.

I’d love to be at the game tonight (can’t believe tickets are still available!) but it was not meant to be. Finals coming up this week that I’m not remotely prepared for, the beginnings of a cold, and I went to see The Nutcracker this afternoon. Which was AWESOME, but took up about 3 hours that probably should’ve been devoted to studying…bah. Hopefully I can watch at least part of the game tonight though.

Some way, we could have it all come together for a win.
Imagine it!
If not, I’d love to see us play hard, play smart, stay out of foul trouble, push the tempo, and finally get some home court love from the refs!
Is that asking for too much?
Go Kings!

Tyreke Evans and Dwayne Wade is clearly the matchup of the night, as we fans are undoubtedly about to tune in to the type of scoring spectacle that only two-guys-who-are-supposedly-injured can put on. Expect Tyreke Evans to dunk while clutching his feet from the pain of plantar fascitis. Never-fear Heat fans, as Dwayne Wade is the king of this: expect the mighty flash to fall from a sure-fire-Demarcus-foul, crumple to the ground in a heap, breaking his skull and having his brain fall out. Wade will then dunk his own brain, then retire to the locker room to patch things up very quickly for a triumphant fourth quarter return. Expect Peaches to bemoan the Hot Dogs… who puts cottage cheese on a Hot Dog?

Carl Landry and Chris Bosh face off in the eternal debate over who can disappoint their team more, or who will more fulfillingly fail misplaced expectations as offensive-only power-forwards power through the scoring droughts they are powerless against. Expect Chris Bosh and Car Landry to support each other when long mid-range jumpers don’t go in: “Don’t worry bro, I’ll do it just like you did right now and everyone in the arena will totally forget that just happened.”

The Key battle for both teams, however, is the battle for the middle. Samuel and Joel have their hands full tonight, so each will be taking it easy on the defensive side to focus on their offense. In other not-so-new news, both are in contract years, and figure they could utilize each other for big scoring nights: Anthony hopes to get as much as 9 points, while Dalembert is intent on catching up “to that Wilt-the-Stilt guy, yeah, he got mad honeys… I’mma be like him.” After overhearing this, Coachie Carrill loudly cursed “and I fucking thought I had it tough in the Ivies.”

While those three headliner matchups won’t disappoint, it is important to pay attention to the subplots in tonights game. Can Carlos Arroyo handle all of Pooh Jeter’s hot sauce? Is Dampier ever going to take off his headband, and will Demarcus follow suit? Will Francisco Garcia ever be able to pronounce “Zydrunas Ilgauskus”? Will “King James” finally concede that playing “the Kings” makes his nickname look rather foolish? These are tough times ahead for the Kings, so expect tough answers to these tough questions, because any time your team faces Mike Miller, you better bring the toughness out. Dude is fierce.

than an update on a former beloved King. But Kevin Martin just dropped 22 in the first quarter against Cleveland. Bittersweet, but i love it when he does well.

First team to 100 wins no?

Our preview thread: 100.
The Heat’s Preview: 8.

Clearly, the outcome of the game tonight favors the Kings.
I’m calling it right now, guys. Kings win. Break out the champagne.

Had 22 in the 1st, 32 at the half on 12 shots.

is telling me that Eddie House is going to be effective from beyond the arc tonight.

Beating the Heat would give the Kings their only National Media Spotlight for the entire year and it could very well run until the next Miami game.

Westphal: “Hey guys tonight in order to win, you will need to get every single rebound. Literally every one of them”

Team: “Okay coach, we’ll start trying once we’re down by twenty… we still want you fired”