Well done.

Pretty much that we can’t win without consistent low post defense and offense. We are losing games and I think more people should start looking at just how badly our bigs are getting beaten.

We give up easy baskets to bigs and score very few of our own. Even a lot of the paint baskets by bigs we do score seem labored and uncertain. As Mustang says, shooters can’t pull games out night after night when we have no real threat to just throw it into down low. Its the threat thats as important as the number of buckets down there and right now – we scare no one.

We’re missing a Big piece of the puzzle.

And now I know. Our guards aren’t the problem, it’s our bigs. I am starting to think we move either JT or Hawes along with K9 for something better. I, unlike others, would love Al-Jeff.

of course not. And, while I applaud you for taking the time and effort to prove that our bigs don’t score as many points as most others do, that fact never was in doubt. What is in doubt is the fact that the Bigs are solely to blame for the discrepancy.

Steve Nash had 10 assists in the PHO game and 6 of them were to bigs at the rim, Grant Hill had 2 more assist at the rim, and Dragic had another. The KIngs had a total of 2 from Sergio. In the SAS game Manu got to the rim 5 times and handed out an additional 5 assists at the rim, George Hill had 3 assists at the rim, Bogans had 2 and Tim Duncan had 2. The Kings had a total of 6 and only 2 of those by guards.

So in 2 games the opponent had 21 assisted baskets at the rim, and the Kings had 8. Now, maybe you think that our 2 bigs with less than 4 yrs experience between them should be able to defend All-Stars, and stop other All-stars from penetrating into the paint, and that they should also be able to intercept passes for easy buckets, but that’s you. I think our team defense stinks, and if you want to blame the 2 people closet to the basket for a team wide problem, then you won’t be happy no matter who we have back there.

or at least one who can hold his own, doesn’t have to be a superstar. Thats why I hope the Kings sign David Lee with all their cap space

It was Mavs/GSW – the Warriors were hot and fiery the Mavs sluggish and mediocre as an exciting 70-61 first half GSW lead concluded.
Dirk sat much of the first half and finished with 2 points. The trio of :Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry and Anthony Murrow had 23,21, 17 points. Driving hoops, 3 pointers, really fun to watch. The Mavs were going through the motions.

Then the second half happened. The Mavs outscored the Dubs 66-47 and won by 10. The game was close for three quarters – then the Mavs got within 4, then tied it and the Warriors began to panic. They had 10 second half turnovers missed shots, took wild attempts, some of the lesser scorers would look to pass instead of shoot.
The Mavs played an adequate game. There was no domination. Jason Terry, Drew Gooden and Josh Howard had season highs but Dirk had 13 and they put up 127 points so, someone had to score. My point is – the pressure of the game destroyed the Warriors, not the outstanding play of the Mavs. Not to downgrade the Mavs, who are a very good team, but this was the Warriors not knowing how to perform more than anything. I thought – wow, I have seen this same scenario going on for the Kings for the last 20+ games. This is what inexperienced teams do. What the Thunder did for the first part of last year.
Learning from losing is a tough game but these Kings are still in school. I hope graduation comes soon.

and then had an overall respectable second half of the season. The learned something, can’t give all the credit to Scotty Brooks

We won the bigs battle against the Knicks. Lee and Jeffries combined to make 34 points while JT and Donte’ combined to make 36 points and we won the game.

I still hold and maintain that when we win the battle of the bigs, we will win more games. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the remainder of the season.

I had to go back and review the recording to figure out who played most at PF for the Kings against the Pistons. Looks like it was Noc for a lot of the minutes and there were some really weird lineups for the Pistons as well. .

Spencer only scored 6 as did Donte’ starting at PF, but Donte’ only played limited minutes at PF. Noc came in at PF although there was some Brockman and May thrown in there for a few. JT came in for about the same amount of minutes and played mostly C, but also played some PF later in the game.. if I remember right.

If I go with the starters there would only be 12 Kings points against the Piston 15 points by Wallace and Jerebko. but Noc played more than Donte’ and scored 13 giving the Kings 18.. It could get really complex as Villanueva came in at C for some minutes to score quite a few points fast, he didn’t play more than Wallace at C though..

Scoring the battle of the bigs using my model of either starters or whoever logs the most minutes I would say that it was a slight Kings win in the battle of the bigs. Kings 18 (Spence and Noc) and Pistons 15 (Wallace and Jerebko), however there were some weird line ups with Prince playing a few minutes at PF for Detroit and such as that.. Given this I would say there it is arguably about dead even.