Since the Hawks interest me I'll flip over to that game between the Bucks and Hawks.

But his shot sure does look pure.

If Reggie wanted size for this game, why hasn't he played any of it? Brad's killing, Mikki's chilling. We need an athletic stopper on Bosh - not slow him down entirely, but to at least limit which moves he can pull out of his arsenal. Our defense isn't winning this game, can we at least get production from the four?

We're down 20, theories why?
We're getting outrebounded, outstolen, outfree-throwed, outturn-overed, outscored.

Damn.

Or, to go small, how about this to close out the fourth:

Beno
Bibby
Martin
Salmons
Miller

And we say fk it, let Bosh get his.

Theus is really going to have to work on chemistry now that everybody is back.  This performance makes moving Bibby/Artest seem more important.  At least Mike's shot looks good, so teams will be looking at him.

Denver is on a pace to go 49-33...and finish in the 8th spot.

The Kings would have to go 35-10 after tonight to finish better than Denver's projected record, a pace that has been bettered only by Boston so far this year.

Not trying to pee in anyone's Cheerios here but this idea of us making a run now that we're healthy...now, if we were in the Eastern Conference...

Looks like I will be finishing this bottle of wine (like I wasnt going to anyway).  Possible late-night ranting may ensue.

We have a ton of players and they are walking the ball up, crawling it up might be better. Martin looked like his batteries had run out from the first two games. Ron was very rusty and pretty weak on D. Bibby put up some numbers.

Hard to believe they put Jones on inactive. An energy guy for a team that obviously needed a lot more of it tonight.

What an uninspired, go-through-the-motions waste of time.

On a positive note, they are still on a pace to win 46 games if they follow my scenario from the diaries last week. I had this figured as a loss anyway.

Way to jinx it TZ! Anyway, I'm not surprised that we wound up losing this. I think Theus has done an admirable job with this team this year, but fitting all these pieces together now that he has them was bound to create some confusion on the court.

The gameplan was pathetic. Raps are the best 3pt shooting team in tha nba and he goes out with a zone.
Also, he constantly and too agressively doubles Chris Bosh (who finished 10/11 anyway) which leads to good ball movement and a LOT of open looks for the Raps, and the Kings running like a bunch of headless chickens trying to rotate every time.

He refuses to put Artest on Bosh. Instead, he puts Mikki Mouse on him, whose defense last night was MUCH more pathetic than Bibby's. The only thing Mikki does well on D is yell after opponent's made basket. He does it well enough that you can hear his yelling on TV. Also with Mikki on the floor we play 4 on 5 on offense (kinda like the Bulls with Big Ben) because all the ball movement stops when he gets the ball (if he catches it of course). Apparently he can't both move and think at the same time.