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Post-Game Thread: Kings at Grizzlies




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Game Thread (It's About Time!!!) - Kings at Grizzlies

Sometimes you just have to take the law into your own hands.

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Preview: Kings at Grizzlies

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Quick Poll - Who Is Your Favorite Current King?

Based on nothing statistical or scientific - just who is your favorite King of the moment? Expound in the thread.

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My favorite King du jour is:

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Taking Stock

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Both of these guys have played at ARCO Arena this year, but not for us. This is a good thing.

Twelve games represents 15% of the NBA season. In baseball terms, it would be about the equivalent of the month of April. And while there is a long way to go in the season, you can begin to draw some basic conclusions and comparisons as it pertains to the Sacramento Kings and the players that make up the current roster. This is not to say that this conversation could not take a completely different turn in 30, 60 or 90 days. But to this point in the season, here are my musings (and please remember to take into consideration how much you paid to log on here when you assess a true value to the following comments).

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Week 4


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Have any of you seen Grant Napear in broad daylight?  I'm not saying, I'm just saying.  But back to the Kings, oh how the mighty have fallen.  After going 3-0 last week, the Kings did the exact opposite this week.  But still, there were some good things to take from this week, especially considering we only had one game with our main rotation playing (and that's still without Kevin and Cisco).

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When Reality Knocks Down Spirit, and Spirit Gets Back Up

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As readers of this site know, I'm (often too) focused on results, numbers, production when it comes to basketball and the Kings. I'd rather have a Rashad McCants than a Mikki Moore, a D-League question mark than a Desmond Mason, a successful play rather than a smart but failed play. David Eckstein is a curse word in my household (for multiple reasons), and while basketball certainly has a (huge) spot for hustle, give me the player who can score 20 standing up over the frenetic scrapper who needs to dive around the floor to break 10.

Basically, I'm rather wary of assessing the non-concrete when it comes to analyzing the sport and this team.

But there's no possible way to discount how spirited, how utterly driven this team has been. It hasn't been just in the face of adversity -- in the New Orleans, Memphis and Atlanta games, before Kevin Martin's surgical departure, the team showed remarkable backbone. It's an institutional attribute at this point, made ever more apparent with each game. Every single player on the roster has shown it, even the punching bags of the past. The Kings just went 0-2 on a road back-to-back, but took their pound of flesh from each opponent. This team hasn't quit, and it won't quit.

It's almost gotten to the point where we should seriously stop comparing this team to the one we watched a year ago.

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Not Kings related, but if you are a fan of sports in Sacramento, you know how much of a loss this is. Condolences to the Savage family - Art Savage will be missed.

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