Kings Fight Admirably, But Fall to Celtics 95-90

Morrall victory.

sorry if that is your foot

You might be a Lakers fan.

Also, way to place it facing out so you can’t read it, dumbass.

That really only happened to our offense, our D held up pretty well, though they could have come up with a rebound or two that were there for the taking and might have given us a shot.

the Celtics are the same; we have come a long way since. great game tonight, we just got beat (outhustled) by a great team. if we do as well against SA I will not be unhappy.

I’m really sorry I missed that.

What’s the story with Jackson?

How did Donte play? He put up some good numbers on offense, it seems.

And how was Omri’s D? He mostly played on Pierce, I guess?

Not much you can do about that, I’m afraid, other than cheer your ass off. It’s funny, though, how many more Celtics fans happen to show up now, as opposed to, say, 2006. Bangwagoners gonna bandwagon, I guess.

The Celtics defense was very, very good in the fourth quarter. There was rarely a pass in any offensive set that the Kings were able to make without a Celtics player getting a piece of it.

The Kings are just not good enough at running their offense yet to deal with that kind of pressure.

The guards lost our game for us. Too many times, they gave up the ball to our front court players waaaay out on the perimeter. I also dislike Tyrekes inability to look for other guys on fast break plays.

It also seemed that, as a team, we didn’t rotate well defensively in the second half, compared to the first. In the first half, our guys stuck to their respective player pretty well. They switched on screens only when necessary, but then switched back as soon as they realized the play was going to be reset. In the second half, our guys would switch on screens, and then follow their new player around. This caused some confusion, which led to wide open shots like Ray Allen’s open corner threes. It seemed as though they didn’t know who they should commit to and ended up making the wrong choice.

I’ll admit that part of this strategy was due to Boston’s ability to find and exploit our weaknesses, but I’d like our defenders to at least know where their assigned man is at all times.

I thought it was telling that the only time the Kings got any real ball movement was with A) Pooh in the game and B) the Boston reserves in the game. Otherwise, ball movement was very hard to come by.

It was a tough game, but another step in the ladder of learning to play well in the NBA.

Tyreke, Beno and then Jeter late seemed to make it a point to dribble, dribble, dribble then right into traffic.

I’m sure some of that is the Celts excellent 1/2 court D and a lot of it is the other guys not making cuts to get open

= But don’t let them use the sideline as an extra defender guys – and all three did it and lost the ball.
I know we kept this one close and I guess that’s good, but it was easy to see where with a little more confidance and skill in the running the offence, we could have won it.

The effort was nice, but we hope to kick some green butt the next time.

for my 14 year old grandson, Nahar, who has been selected to play on one of the national basketball club teams

Mazal tov! Let him make us proud.

Jump off the jackwagon and buy low with us

Tyreke had 60% TS% but Beno had 43%.

Yet with all of our talk about the great interior defense we had, Boston had 39 shots in the paint and the Kings had 22. And, Boston had 22 baskets to our 11 in the paint. And, Cousins and Dalembert took twice as many shots from long 2’s ( the lowest percentage shot ) as they did from the rim ( the highest percentage shot ).

We need to stay competitive in the paint, because we’re not going to win games with long jumpers. We added 21 feet of bigs this summer, or at least that’s what the Kings advertised.

Maybe the Boston defense was too tough for us to crack with our level of experience, but man, 18 shots at the rim and 13 of those by our guards and wings. That is not going to win games. No we should of at least tried to score in the paint. Maybe we’d lose by 20 trying to attack that way, but at least we’d be attacking with our strength. And, we need to learn how to use our bigs eventually, why not against the best.

That’s a first

the Kings shoot less than 33% on their 3pt shots, Casspi and Beno were the only active players that shoot better than that. If they could get 10 wide open shots, the odds are that they’re only making 3-4. If Boston makes 3-4 baskets in the paint during the same 10 possessions we only gain 3-4 points on the 10 possessions and still loss by 1.

I’d rather have the Kings have their post players attack the basket 10 more times. Even if they went 0-10, because that is the future of the team and at some point in time the Kings are going to need to learn to make high percentage shots late in games to preserve a lead.

Everyone’s heard the stat about how we lost so many games after having leads in the 4th quarter. But, do you know how we won the Hornets game when they put on pressure in the 4th. We made 5 layups on 4 assisted baskets and got one tip-in, in the final 6:30 of the 4th quarter. We missed every 3pt attempt. High percentage shots may not get you back in a game when your 15-20 pts down like 3pt shots can, but they will keep you in games and help you protect a lead in close ones.