Kings Lose To the Suns, Play the Nuggets Tonight – February 14: The Insiders + D-Lo & KC
Good morning chatty house yo we are back let’s go come On’s we’re fired up we’re not 100% but we’re playing through it but also making sure not to be within six feet of anybody I appreciate that yeah no for sure uh everybody in the chat I can’t
Throw your chat onto the screen because of how I’m logged in but just know that uh if I could I would also not you know red hot start for the chatty house today I’m seeing something about V’s V day and then boxes of tissues and lotion um boy can’t wait can’t see the
Video I don’t know what that means that might be a twitch end thing because we’re all we’re all clear on this end yeah let me see oh what up y’all quote did we send out a standardized tweet or no uh no I did not okay no stress I probably should have whatever it’s Fine another ID guys welcome into the Insiders I am James ham joining me today we got Kyle Madson I don’t know if Kyle oh we’re just gonna do it like that okay cool cool cool cool cool I didn’t know if you could hear the intro music I’m guessing you could not
Uh no I thought I was gonna get a that’s fine we’re working through it that’s how this goes when you’re trying to do something you’ve literally never done before we’re we’re fixing the we’re fixing the hiccups on the Fly and that’s fine uh thank you James I missed you miss
You um yeah no hello everybody Welcome in as James said this is the Insiders we’re hanging out with you until noon I’ve been out the last couple of days with the plague uh but now I’m back I’ve got a home studio set up so that’s what we’re that’s what we’re doing and um
Man it’s uh good good day for it because if felt like that that Kings game last night was the first time maybe all year that I’ve watched the Kings lose a game and been like well that wasn’t a disaster like that was just sometimes you’re going to lose and sometimes teams
With Kevin Durant and Devon Booker are just gonna gonna kind of beat you and it felt like that’s what happened last night this is not a four alarm fire kind of loss for me yeah in all honesty I felt the same exact way like I I think
You and I uh we text during games and I I just felt like okay like look this is a standard NBA loss against a team that’s right around you in the standings you hope that you get wins like this but at the same time this feels like a
Normal NBA loss where like 90% of the other NBA the other losses this season did not feel like normal NBA losses for the Sacramento Kings and so I’m with you Kyle 100% sometimes a team hits shots and and you don’t get the the ball to
Drop when you need it to in the end and you lose a game and for me a lot of good things happen in this game it wasn’t all bad and that’s where so many losses this season have been all bad or or so little to take away from it that you just have
To move on you know like just rinse and repeat just like okay here we go we got to figure out something else yeah when and the so there are a couple things with that one Kevin Durant is impossible he just hit a couple of shots last night where he just drifted into
The midrange and he pulls up he gets to that spot just to the right of the right elbow and it’s just a bucket every time and there’s nothing you can do about it um but the the the other thing is that’s why you don’t lose to the
Hornets yes that’s why you don’t lose to Portland and to Detroit because you’re going to have hiccups like that against the Suns you weren’t going to go undefeated against Phoenix this year and you smoked a late lead against them last time you played down there in this one
Like we said you just kind of lost it but the reason that this becomes damaging and kind of the the two head spaces you have to exist in is in the short term in the small picture of last night it’s like yeah you know what that looked like the Kings like that looked
Like kings basketball the other team just hit some shots the Kings didn’t the Kings made a couple of mistakes and and the Suns took advantage and they walk out of there with the w but the big picture is the kings are now the e seed they are now outside of the playoffs
They are they are the road team in the first play in if the season ends today and that big picture is not particularly where you want to be and it’s not because they lost last night but it’s because of all the other bad losses we’ve come in here and talked about
Throughout the year and that’s why that’s why I have a tough time being like yeah hey everything’s fine that was an okay loss because really they’ve decreased the margin for error to the point that you can’t lose that one you can’t you can’t you can’t cough up too
Many more of these games yeah that’s the problem Kyle is that you have eliminated your margin for erir there is no buffer for this team and that’s what they’re going to have to live with the rest of the season you’re in a what is it a 29
Game Sprint to the finish line now you got a back-to-back against Denver which is one of the ugliest back-to-backs that you can possibly have where you’re going in Phoenix one night and then Denver the next yeah and you know you got to play at at elevation maybe Denver will have a
Couple of players out we’ll get to that a little bit later but at the same time like I think the Kings have to they have to find ways to not only take care of the bad teams but then be more competitive in these games you can’t
Just say okay well this is you know a two- game losing streak because it’s two good teams oh you gotta go in there you’re you’re two and 0 against Denver on the season you need to go in there and you need to figure out figure it out
And find some way to win this game because that’s where you are you’re in desperation mode you’re not a playoff team you’re not you’re not even a play you’re barely a playin team at this point you got to figure it out yeah you can’t they’ve lost so many games that
That they should have won that now you’re in a spot where yeah typically when even when the schedule comes out okay what what when’s the when’s the schedule come out in the NBA September early September usually yeah AUST schedu comes out schedule comes out in the NBA and you’re cruising down you’re just
Kind of looking at you know where are the back Tob backs where are the tough road trips this and that and you see Phoenix Denver backtack nights you’re going okay that’s a scheduled loss against Denver that’s that’s when you’re probably just going to lose well now you
Can’t like now that you don’t you don’t just get to go ah you punt that Denver game it’s it’s whatever now it’s like man you got to go win a game that you probably shouldn’t you got to make up for some of those bad losses from earlier this year and that that puts
More urgency on this game than than you might typically see if the kings were 15 games over right now which they very well could be if they had handled business against the the Hornets and the Blazers and the Pistons and team like that um You’ you’d be in a better spot to to
Go H if they lose this game it’s not it’s not a huge deal they’re still you know a top three seed or whatever yeah I’m with you um this is one of those times where like I don’t think the Kings might be one of the
Teams that need a break as much or more than anyone right allar break is coming at a right time but I don’t think it’s like physically they need a break they need a mental break to reset recalibrate and come back out and I I was talking to
Jesse before we came on the show and like some of the good things that happened in this game number one dearon fox dear Fox comes alive right and for me when you’re looking at what fox did in this game like there were a couple of times where I’m like okay like come on
Stop shooting like that that’s enough like I’ve kind of seen enough but at the same time in the back of my head I’m thinking no no no no get right I don’t care what it takes whether you got to lose a game to do it the the only way
The Kings Rebound in the second half of the season is if dearon Fox finds himself and finds himself right now find yourself go ahead go for 40 go for 50 whatever you think it is that you you need to put yourself out there to to
Show up on TNT and and have a big night and get your confidence back get everything going the right way what you can’t do is have dear Fox averaging 22 points a game for the last six weeks that’s just not that’s not King’s basketball it’s not the way this team is
Going to win it’s not the way that they’re going to move forward and if that’s who he’s going to be the second half of the Season then people should start getting ready to watch the Lakers and the Warriors pass you in the standings and maybe not even make the
Playoffs and so that’s where I’m at like if this is what it takes a loss in Phoenix on a Tuesday night in February to get near Fox right that might be the biggest thing to come out of this game it’s that there’s a glimmer of hope that
Dear Fox doesn’t need to find himself during the All-Star break that he can find himself going into the All-Star break and build that confidence coming out of it yeah they can win any playoff series they’re in if Darren Fox is playing like he did last night and
That’s why I don’t have a problem with the 31 shots that’s why I don’t have a problem with the 123s if you’re going to shoot 123s and make five of them every time then shoot 12 threes every single game the offense the offense wasn’t the problem last night for me dearen Fox’s
Performance Deus sabona performance Malik Malik monk if you get 60 if you get a what what did domas have 30 if you have a 35o triple double from deont sabonis 35 18 and 12 35 18 and 12 with three blocks mind you if you get that
Kind of game from him and you get 49 and six with three steals from dearen Fox and then Off the Bench you’ve got mik monk 22 points four boards six assists like that should be a w they did a enough offensively I don’t I I have no qualms with whatever the Kings did
Offensively last night would you like more from Kean Murray sure would you like more from Harrison Barnes like absolutely but I don’t think that that you get more from those guys by sacrificing whatever it is dearen Fox needs to do to be dearen Fox like he’s
He is the the Alpha and the Omega on this team for me if if he wants to put up 30 shots and he’s going to score 40 doing so I just go like go for it I I had I had no issues with how how he
Handled last night and he looked great I thought yeah I thought he did too um you know the steals are back you know he had uh 16 consecutive games with the steel and that streak was snapped last game um but he came out in this game and he was
Active defensively he had three steals I thought he was a pest I thought he probably didn’t even get credited for a couple of steals that he should have um you know there’s a play where he flew in and uh and and tap the ball out of somebody’s hands and it hit like Keegan
In the chest and then they had a fast break you know they dominated the fast break numbers which was crazy like they were like all of the numbers for this game tells you that the king should have won they just didn’t and we can point to
You know I I know Mike Brown wanted to point to free throw uh you know the free throw disparity where 36 to 24 free throw attempts and how even even the the one late call on Keegan Murray um before the ball was inbounds that was one of
The toughest calls like I don’t know how you call that in that situation and basically go from a a two-point what was it a three-point lead to a four-point lead that would to me was just like pretty egregious by the officiating especially if you look at the way the
Whole entire game had gone but look if you’re going to have those moments and the Kings have too many of those moments and that’s why they they lose some of these games yeah to me to me it all comes down to to what they did defensively and honestly I liked I liked
The idea of uh whenever the Suns would go pick and roll they’d show on it and they’d get the ball out of Kevin Durant or Devin Booker’s hands and they’d make Josh aogi or or whoever a playmaker and the the Kings unfortunately I just don’t think have the horses defensively like
That’s what everything comes down to for for me is they just can’t they just can’t get stops man like that’s that’s the the the biggest issue I think no I I totally agree with you um I I do think that the what happened in this game very very clearly and even the
Broadcast uh because you know again it’s a TNT game and a lot of times what we see from TNT game is that they’re talking about other things not the Sacramento Kings I think the hyperfocus on the fact that de that Demarcus demonus konis there we go that demonis cabonas didn’t make the All-Star
Team it was to me it’s one of the biggest blights on the league I’ve ever seen you’re you’re watching a guy destroy destroy a Phoenix Suns team again 358 and 12 and he it’s his third straight triple double his fifth triple double in six games his 10th triple double in 15
Games and he’s not an All-Star and I think that that’s one of the the big things that stood out to me too in this game it’s just the way that you kind of had to show like the in uh inequalities in the NBA where this guy’s not representing us how is that even
Possible that he’s not representing us so I think that that was a good a good moment for the Kings as well yeah yeah for sure um yeah that I mean that’s that’s honestly kind of what what I think we we expected to see from from both domas and dearen like immediately after they
Weren’t announced as Allstars and we’ve seen it from domas we haven’t from dearen as much and and we saw it last night so I I think you’re right uh deis should have been an All-Star uh that’s still the case and um I I think you saw
Dearn kind of stake his claim to that as well on national TV uh against a really good team so you love to see it all right let’s uh let’s get James six quick thoughts on what happened last night that’s coming up next we’ll dive into some of the uh minutia of last night’s
Game what went right what went wrong for the Kings six quick thoughts coming up next on ESPN 1320 got it got it got it yep yep what happened he was just saying we have to bring um that I’ll have to bring us out of break or hey
I’ll just hey when it’s time to go Kyle okay I’ll just right yeah okay as soon as I start hearing the rejoiner music I’ll tell you at well I’ll just like okay and then give you a give you a Ford tight tight tight tight I didn’t
Even I didn’t even think about that when I was going through last night how this is gonna go okay yeah I think there’s a difference between us sending you the link and you having yeah loging yeah yeah because I can’t I can’t do anything I I can’t I
Can’t see Jesse I can’t like click a um I can’t like click a thanks H um coffee delivery it’s great nice thanks um you can’t click on the chatty house yeah yeah thank you yeah that’s that’s not that difficult do you know how to send
Him the uh the other link I actually I think I I think Jonathan set it up where I can do it yeah I think it’ll send you the code if you try to sign up let me get the email from Damian and then um shoot it to him oh did we just lose
Kyle oh we did we just lost Kyle no he’s he’s back you got it oh there we go to see if it would let me log in and it booted me got me the hell out of here hm being stuck inside the house sucks I don’t have a I don’t have a dump
Button Kyle Jesse you got us it’s all good we’re on stream it’s clear I know I think you do have a dumb button I do click layer where it says uh layer one yeah hit layer one and the big red button up top oh that’s way underneath the screen
Way way up there well dude if someone drops an F bomb up on air and it’s up to you you do whatever you can to hit that button yeah I’ll just like push everything out way I I trust that Jesse will have us always we all should hit the dump but
The dump button button there we go Jesus H uh yeah John I got um I got the plague it’s going around um I have not watched Breaking Bad while I’m out sick I I watched Breaking Bad like when it was on um I we did knock out uh the show
The brother Sun or the brother Sun yeah on Netflix incredible incredible entertainment really really liked it a lot um I’ve been watching mon Monsour Spade the AM AMC uh Sam Spade series oh with clyve Owen John I don’t know where I got it it definitely wasn’t Hawaii though given the timing no
Uh wife’s still testing negative and nobody who I was with Saturday got it so all we’re back in here that’s James I’m Kyle uh I am not in the studio I’m doing this show from home staying isolated I’m doing my part to make sure that I am not spreading the plague so um
James appreciate you for for letting me hang out Jesse appreciate you for for filling in for me the last couple of days and for running the board and keeping things going smoothly while I have been out it means the world to me so thank you guys uh we’ve talked a lot
About the Kings loss last night to the Suns and kind of the big picture good to come from it the bad to come from it let’s dive into some of the minutia though with uh James ham six quick thoughts how’d yesterday’s Kings game go Kings Insider James ham has six notes
You need to know here are James ham six quick thoughts all right let’s dive into these six quick thoughts number one more Fantastic Mr Fox please dearen Fox is on he’s one of the most dynamic players in the league 40 points nine rebounds six assists he had 10 rebounds
At one point and they took a rebound away so his double double went away finishes with three steals he looked extra motivated 31 shot attempts I’m not in love with Kyle but still this was dearn Fox classic dearen Fox what the Kings needed from him last
Night yeah man that’s the if if you’re going to have a superstar on your team that’s what you want from do you want 31 shots every night no but on a night last night where he’s going bucket for bucket with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and domas is contributing
The way he did offensively I don’t I don’t mind that from dearen Fox at all and and frankly come playoff time or play in time given where the team currently is I I think that’s what they’re going to need on on some nights to get some
W’s yeah I I totally agree I mean you need him to find himself and that’s the key to to this loss was dearen Fox finding himself let’s get to number two real quick real quick real quick real quick yep I I will say that’s the you talked about dearen finding himself that was
The first time I really felt dearn Fox on the court in in months it was a the a stark reminder of just how dominant he can be when he’s getting downhill when he’s hitting threes uh he’s he’s impossible to guard and you saw it last night sorry number
Two yeah yeah and and I I do feel like like getting staying on that subject I do feel like that there are times where we’ve seen him be effective defensively but as the offensive weapon that we become accustomed to it’s gone away and he needed a game like this he’s had a
Game like this like every five or six games he needs to start stringing them together again uh okay number two uh the Suns went small the last time these two teams played to neutralized demonus sabonis I thought sabonis just completely impacted the game and said I don’t care if you go
Small you go small I’m going to destroy you uh 35 points 18 rebounds 12 assists three blocks his third consecutive triple double he’s just been a monster and again if you were going to look at who lost this game certainly wasn’t deonas sabonis it was so damn refreshing see deonis sabonis in assert
His will offensively I’ve been asking for that all year in a spot like that where a team goes small go be bigger than them and score the basketball every time you get it he when they would bring it down go wa go watch the end of that game he
Would set a high screen and then it wasn’t like asking for the ball so he could hand it off to Kevin herder or whatever it would set the high screen and then he got his ass down under the basket and he was either trying to get a
Rebound or he was getting the ball and he was scoring it’s like yes thank you that’s that’s what the Kings need from him in every close game from here until the end of time I loved it it was great yeah I I I totally agree um yeah I just
Thought like again you needed a moment like this for him especially after what happened last time like the 22-point fourth quarter blowout uh again you know them losing a 22-point lead against the Suns last time a lot of it you could just point directly to sabonis not
Adjusting to them going small and Kevin Durant playing Center you forc them to put nurkic back in the game which is not what they wanted to do they thought oh look we’re going to start the fourth quarter and do what we did last time and they started to punch the Kings but sure
Enough the kings came back around okay let’s get to six quick uh quick thought number three Sixth Man of the Year Malik Monk on a national scale just showed the NBA that he is a Sixth Man of the Year um again I thought he was so incredible
He had uh 22 points six assists he had a bunch of rebounds as well um he also had a block which is the wildest thing that’s his 34th block on the season and he leads the Sacramento Kings in blocks that’s crazy Kyle that’s your backup shooting guard is leading the league uh
Leading your team in blocks yeah he’s um run him his sixth B of the Year trophy now he’s been he’s been so freaking good and the kings are really really hard to beat when when he’s as good as he was last night uh the 0 for from three isn’t isn’t great but
You’re going to expect him to to knock th to knock those down more often than not I I I thought Malik was really really good last night and and kind of exactly what they needed they didn’t get a w but offensively 22 and six from your
Six man like yeah you’ll take that yeah and I think you know like people in the chat uh chatty house want to point out that fox had six turnovers and monk had five turnovers like look this is 130 to 125 game and mistakes are going to happen in a
Game like that and especially when you’re trying to keep up with a team that has offensive Firepower everywhere like I’m not gonna sit here and just roast guys for there was not a a nine turnover game or a 10 turnover like the a six turnover game when you shoot 31
Shots that’s kind of within the norm like again you play 40 minutes it’s possible you’re going to turn the ball over six times yeah and when you play at a pace 103 and there’s a lot of possessions there’s going to be some turnovers I
Don’t I I I will live with that if it means you’re obviously you would like to see them them cut those down but you can you can live with that in a in a one game sample if it means that that you’re getting that kind of production from
Them now the the next step is is getting that production without giving the ball away yeah and I would point out too the team had 13 turnovers total and 27 assists like that’s that’s not a bad number um okay let’s get to Point number four Uh Kevin herter came in looking for
A shot and then he didn’t um he started four or four from the field for 10 points he finished four of six two of three from long range three rebounds in the steel got into it with Mike Brown for a Miss defensive assignment uh kind
Of a weird game for Kevin herder but I think that that’s a trend we’re going to continue here for the next three quick thoughts yeah man um weird year for Kevin herder I just they they need him but also I don’t know that they they need him for their
Offense to function at at its highest level at least that’s kind of what we’ve seen um but also when Fox and sabonis and monk are going like they did last night he needs to be able to affect the game in other ways defensively grabbing rebounds uh moving the ball and he just
Didn’t he’s just not not an impactful night for him at all yeah I thought so too he’s a negative eight overall which isn’t horrible but um you know still you needed more from him and and that brings us to to number five in the six quick thoughts uh Keegan Murray and Harrison
Barnes were non-existent for for much of the game uh Fox sabonis and monk were partially to blame for this taking a ton of shots but you can’t have your two starting forwards combin for I got 15 points on seven of 17 shooting they each had five rebounds no assists though
Uh for for Barnes one assist for for Keegan Murray um that’s just Keegan Murray took two three-point attempts that doesn’t make any sense no yeah yeah way way too good of a shooter for that yeah you gotta figure it out like both of them are way too good of a shooter to
Go one of six from from three and I don’t even worry about the one I worry about the six like if that was two for 12 okay then we’re talking about hey you should have hit more but that’s where you need to be you need to be at the the
The 12 Mark for these guys to be successful yeah and it’s it’s a little bit tough because I I think when when you have Fox and sabonis and monk who are who are the clear-cut top three offensive options rolling like they were it’s probably tough for Keegan Murray
Who’s not an assertive type of loud guy anyway to step in and be like hey give me the shot give me the ball yeah totally yeah I I they need to they need to be more more uh boisterous and more vocal let’s get to our last six uh the
Last of the six quick thoughts um somebody else has to step up Trey lyes and Sasha fenov are out venkov out is out for a long time Tre lyes had a cold or something um but the the tandem of Davon well the group of Davon Mitchell Keon Ellis Kessler Edwards Alex Len
Scored a combined three points and I know that you’ve got monk but somebody has to do something and that’s something you know defensively I thought they were fine but uh and you yeah Alex Lynn we got to throw there yeah they they’ve got to find some way if if Trey lyes isn’t
Gonna be there you can’t just say well the bench is gonna suck tonight and it’s not it’s not and I know we got to go quick but it’s not just the three points it’s that Davon Mitchell’s three field goal attempts were the only field goal attempts from those four players yeah
That’s wild they got nothing from from anyone else on the bench I’m with you they’re they’re they need to I I think that’s an offseason priority for the Kings is is fixing that de yeah I definitely agree um all right Kyle well yeah we’re gonna step aside
Right yeah yeah we sure are well py more diving into this uh Kings loss to the Suns and we’ll begin looking ahead to uh Kings nuggets tonight as well that game suddenly has a little bit more urgency than maybe we thought it would have but more King Suns coming up next on ESP
ESPN 1320 sweet um I’m going to try and log in real quick while we’re at the break okay okay I’ll be right back yep hello everyone yeah uh Jaylen Grant Hill um the um this one how do you let a 35-year-old Eric Gordon put up 23 points it’s not
Just that he put up 23 points he had a lob dunk and then did the two small thing like what in the world have some pride Kings have some pride I mean that guy out there looking like gemis I’m playing like the Hamburglar I I don’t even know I hi
Spencer yes Adam let Keegan cook Let Freedom Ring um uh step casetta I don’t give anything up for Lent I don’t I don’t prescribe to lent lent is something I find in my pockets no I’m not trying to be offensive I just don’t do lent I don’t do lent and I
Really don’t do New Year’s resolutions I should but I don’t um yeah Dr David this is this is the key to everything like there’s talk that they made $64 Million last year off the the television deal with NBC Sports Bay Area and I also hope that they lose
That money that would be a good thing let’s see if I can Kyle can you let yourself in it didn’t work no dice did it ask for a code no it said I don’t have an account oh see all right talk to Jonathan about that hey Jesse how much time we
Got about minute 45 my man’ can’t tell you how much I hate not going to work sh blows dude uh Randy this is a strange question um but I actually hated the first couple of episodes and almost like I didn’t want to keep watching because a lot of
The players were unlikable but by the end of the season the Redemption of some of those characters was pretty freaking amazing so I I did enjoy it in the end and hey shout out to our uh the Scott Pard former Survivor former Sacramento king um he is in a ICU bed in
At Vanderbilt a waiting a heart transplant he needs one or bad things will happen and it’s difficult man fingers fingers crossed yeah uh Charlie just texted me and said he loves my all rer photo um I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story on
Air um but I had a video go viral and a producer from The Today Show hit me up and was like hey can we use this video on The Today Show and I was like if I can have Al Roker’s autograph it just yes thinking just like
with her and then she’s like okay what’s your address so I was like here you go and then a couple days later yeah we’re talking Al Roker on the Insiders uh if you’re watching on the stream I’m showing off my Al Roker autograph I’m very proud of it it’s one
Of my prized possessions and uh I just love random little things like this and I love Al Roker so uh I had an opportunity to get Al Roker’s autograph and I got it I feel like the Al Roker picture is like a big hit every time someone sees like oh what’s going on
With Al Roker behind you right that’s why it’s great like I grew up lo I loved Al Roker because my mom would always watch The Today Show right and the weather was the thing I could like I could engage with like because I was like five right I didn’t know what the
News was I didn’t know what was going on um you know Katie kurick shout out um but Al Roker would come on and he’s talking weather and I’m like this I get rain clouds Sun that’s me I got you Al and he’s like here’s what’s happening in
Your neck of the woods I’m like how’d you know it’s my neck of the woods Al thanks it’s great so yeah shout out to Al Roger it’s my guy that’s amazing and uh it’s personalized to me no big deal no big deal this isn’t just some anyways
All right um I got to do a radio show I I grew up on uh Days of Our Lives so yeah oh I mean I had to run the VCR from my mom so my mom would be like I don’t know how to tape it and so I would have
To go in and program the VCR to record Days of Our Lives every day oh were you just locked into days you still watch it no I I don’t still watch it but I grew up like yeah what shows did you grow up watching because of your parents let us know 9169
9 1320 that’s 916 909 1320 uh the Sacramento Kings fall to the Suns last night 130 to 125 um James I think one of the big picture things as we kind of zoom out a little bit here is the kings are now after finishing in the number three seed
Last year they have now fallen to number eight in the west standings this season they’re 30 and 23 they’re game back of the Mavericks they’re two games up on the Lakers for the nine and three games up on the Warriors from the 10 so they are
Three games from falling out of the the playin entirely and a game and a half from being in the playoffs they’re in a little bit of a weird spot is this a thing where where you think Kings fans should they be concerned or is this just
Kind of eh you expected this this year no absolutely you should be concerned like if you’re a Kings fan that’s out there and you’re looking at the standings you should be going well that’s not great not great because you still got like five or six games here in
This stretch of games that are really really difficult and if you lose your way here that could make the next 10 games look even worse like this team just came off the this great road trip right where they go five and two and now the Vibes are gone this is bad viville
And that’s you know that’s not what you expected especially coming out of the even the the big win over over Denver on over the weekend you’re like okay well maybe they’re back and then no they’re not they they come out against an OKC team and they’re just flat I think the
One good thing that they can point to is that even if you lose these two games right here you come right out of the break and you play San Antonio and San Antonio while Victor wiama is is just like a gift to the he is a marel um but
Even though he is that you know they’re not a good team and you can you can get right then but the schedule just coming at you you’ve got the Clippers you’ve got Minnesota you got Denver again like you got a really tough stretch of games here and you can’t just like lose them
All you can’t just like oh oh oh well like it happens I guess you can lose them all but not if you want to be a playoff team I yeah I ideally you’re not you’re not losing all of them uh some some good news they play Dallas twice so
They have two more games against Dallas they have two more games against Denver but I’m looking for teams around them uh they are done with Golden State for the year correct they got one more against against the Suns they’re done with the Pelicans for sure yeah they have two
More against the Lakers and are they up two on the Lakers on the season yes yeah beat him in OT in October and then kick the heck out of him in November well you’ve got two on on Denver you got two on the Lakers you’ve got a split with
Golden state you got two on uh on Dallas so there are some good things that we can talk about here when it comes to where they are in standings and you you’ve won the season series against uh OKC right I think you’re 3-1 to OKC or
Maybe maybe it’s 2-1 with OKC but either way1 yeah he won with one more to go yeah you’ve got a lot of a lot of good things but that doesn’t matter when your overall win loss record isn’t good enough I mean again this team is seven
Games over 500 we were talking about it earlier that they got to 10 games over 500 and they last season they didn’t get there until the 26th of February this year you’re you’re watching and you’re like Okay can they even get there to by the 26 I don’t know um the the stretchy
Games here are tough but also it’s overall they aren’t they aren’t playing up to like a level that would make you think that they’re a four or five or six seed they’re inredible it’s incredible though because last year they were literally they won their 503 game to go to 30 and
23 and they were a top three seed in the west top four it’s just it’s crazy how different the West is this year that it’s it is brutal man it’s brutal but also like that’s what we kept saying last year and people kept arguing arguing with me and I kept
Saying like look this is not where a typical third in the west team is it’s just not it’s you gota 48 wins is not the third seed in the West it had only been the third seed in the west like one other time that’s not I mean there’s a
Time where the Phoenix Suns won 48 games and didn’t make the playoffs like the play like the top eight they didn’t make the playoffs with 48 wins and it wasn’t that long ago so like look you got to figure this thing out right now and and
I kind of you’re looking they didn’t mix things up they’re gonna rely on continuity but then you have a couple of injuries and and you start seeing the depth of this this team might be an issue especially the bench like if you don’t have another natural score Off the
Bench that’s a problem right that that’s a big time problem and it’s not like they have somebody waiting in the wings that might be able to score a bunch no the pieces that you have that are on your bench are specialty pieces the Alex Lynch of McGee kobby Jones as a rookie
But Keon Ellis and Kessler Edwards and and Davon Mitchell like if you can get 10 points out of one of those guys one time a week okay but that’s not even guaranteed none of those guys are natural SC scores yeah so like you’ve got to be able to produce this thing in
A different way now especially I know we kind of like didn’t really worry about Sasha and his impact on the team this year but if Trey ly isn’t there you’re in trouble like this this team needs at least one more scorer Off the Bench and that’s just another list of things that
You didn’t address at at the the NBA trade trade deadline I think I think kind of the realization that that sets in here is that like when you run it back and you put the same team out there you’re going to kind of get the same result it looks different for sure like
Some guys are better than they were last year some guys are worse but I they they had basically the same the same Core group going out and and playing games night in and night out and they have the same record and now they’re just dealing
With a West that looks a little bit more normal in 2122 48 wins was the number six seed and that’s kind of that’s that’s just the the reality of of the situation like of course like looking back on it we talked before the season there were the people who were
Hyper pessimistic about the Kings and then it was like okay well in theory you get better performances from this guy and this guy and Kevin herder coming off a career year if he can build on that and d d and you could paint this picture
Where yeah hey the Kings can go win 55 games this year but then the reality of the NBA is I I you just I you have some guys regressing you have some guys maybe not growing at the rate that that we thought they would and when you’re big
Offseason acquisition of of Sasha venkov and and Chris darted aren’t working out then you’re probably gonna kind of just have the same team you had last year and I think that’s kind of what what we’re what we’re running into Kyle and I think you you bring up a name there that like
There’s a point here where you’re gonna need Chris Forte like again if if you’re not getting the productivity out of out of whether it’s you know again Keon Ellis or or Davon Mitchell like there are nights where chrisw can score Chris warte can do something on that end of
The court and he’s not shy about it and he was healthy last night he was a healthy scratch uh he was cleared the play earlier in the day and and he just didn’t so I’m almost looking at that and saying okay well first of all you might
As well just wait on dwarte until after the All-Star break and give his ankle an extra week and a half to to heal up but you need him you might need him like especially again if Trey LS can’t go this team looks a whole heck of a lot
Different yeah man and Chris DTE like in theory makes so much sense he’s a very good Defender and he can knock down a three and if you have a reliable Defender who teams have to guard on that on the offensive end like that’s so helpful for for for Sacramento and they
Just haven’t gotten it yet but our guy Michigan Wolverines in the chatty house said I still believe this team can be a six seed it’s like they definitely can like 100 like 100% this is not this is not a a death sentence for the Kings because they’re now the eight seed like
Just that’s not that’s not the case at all but they’re not going to get there by doing what they’ve done win four lose two win one lose one win two lose two like they’re just kind of they’re just Treading Water right now and that’s and that’s fine but at some point there
Needs to be active growth and progress and I just don’t know maybe we maybe we see it out of this roster maybe dearen fox looks like an MVP candidate again and deonas sabonis continues to be as impactful as he’s been the last couple of weeks and we see a different version
Of the Kings after the All-Star break and that’d be that’d be great and in that in that event then yeah for sure they can get the number six seed but if they’re just going to kind of keep being this team where yeah hey they might they might take Milwaukee to overtime in
Milwaukee uh but they also might lose to the Hornets at home or the Pistons at home yeah if that’s just what they’re going to be then yeah they’re probably a playing Team yeah at best yeah I think it’s tough yeah uh sabonis like one of the real keys to
This game to me was that sabonis got picked on Big Time last time they played the the suns in the final five minutes of the game where you know they the Kings blow a 22-point lead and and I’m not blaming sabonis completely for the blown loss uh for for the loss and and
For the way that they the whole game unfolded but the inability to adapt in a situation stood out and we get to this game last night and I think that that was one of the the keys to like if we’re going to look at the two keys to how
They I guess point to things that are good the positives to come out of this game number one it’s it’s dear Fox’s blowout game where all of a sudden he looks like dear Fox but I think this is equ is Big where you have a a big man
Who struggled in against a specific situation um which again we can look at the playoffs and how he struggle against Kavon Looney and say well they didn’t really figure it out well he figured this one out last night and to me that was a big big moment for the Kings d i I
Could not agree more and this has been one of my big things with with demonus sabonis this year is the triple doubles are great but when you went and looked at like his his numbers in in crunch time or clutch time or whatever the NBA calls it five-point game in the final
Five minutes MH everything ac across the board went down his shot attempts his points his assists like he just wasn’t that he was not a part of of the the game for for the Kings and he’s too good for that like he is too good of a player
To just in crunch time like he is just an absence on the floor he gets the rebound gives the ball away and then ever sees it again and last night I thought was was dramatically dramatically different and that was one of the problems that we talked about the
Last time they faced the Suns was the Suns went small and domas was sitting there trying to run the dribble handoff game and he’d get it in the post and then he’d turn and face up and we we talked about it on the radio was like
Bro back that player down into the rim and put the ball in the hoop that is how you do it he had the play late where he just shoulders right through Uh Kevin Durant goes up for a shot misses it grabs a rebound and puts it back in yeah
It’s like okay there you go big boy yeah that’s yeah dominate the dude he’s a stick figure dominate him right and that’s that’s what that there there’s a I guess like a passiveness to to his game or a a desire to um consistently just like make the right basketball play
Within the the scope of the scheme and the system and it’s like that is great for like 46 minutes but in a tight game like last night I would like to see him go get his shots and and he did he he really really impacted that game and if
You get that version of dear and fox and this version of DEA sabonis where that duo can just go like pick and roll and pick your poison in in late game situations where sabonis is going to be such an effective scorer it’s going to be really really difficult to to stop
The kings in those spots and I think you saw it last night the bigger issue last night was defense to me yeah I had I had no qualms with how they did anything offensively but you at some point you have to get stops like 130 points is too many no I I
Agree with you but I also think that the way that the kings were were basically structuring their defense was to allow if someone else is GNA beat you yeah then then you’re G to lose right so you look at the the box score Grayson Allen
Goes two of five from three um I thought they did a nice job uh limiting Kevin Durant goes 11 of 17 so he has a good night 28 points 11 rebounds four assists but the fact that only took 17 shots is a big deal the fact that Devin Booker
Only takes 17 shots is a big deal because what you were able to do is limit him and for the most part I think Devon Booker started like one of 13 and then hit his final well maybe it was one of 11 and then hits his final six shots
Like he came alive but where you really lost is the Eric Gordon of the worlds going four of nine from three Royce O’Neal hitting two huge threes Josh aogi hitting a wide open three nir little in crunch time hitting a big time three and of course Grayson Allen uh you know
Hitting you for 205 it’s these e extra guys and the reason I bring those guys up is because the Kings didn’t have one of those guys in this game all those extra guys that we’re talking about the Kings have those guys as well they didn’t do that and that’s why you lose
It’s not because sabonis and fox scored a combined 75 points and throwing monk now you’re up to 97 points yeah it’s that you got so little out of every everyone else where the Suns didn’t they just didn’t you got 19 out of gray Allen
You got 23 out of out of Eric Gordon you got nine points out of Royce O’Neal you know even the the three points out of out of nir little that matched everyone on your bench outside of man Malik Monk and again Josh kogi seven points that’s that’s more than you got out of
Everybody outside of Malik monk Off the Bench and so that’s where I I think really the Kings have to figure out like how do we get everybody else involved in what is this crazy train that is fox and simonas when they’re rolling yeah and that’s that’s where the coaching staff
Can make adjustments over the allstar break you can start having those conversations with with your role players and and defining roles for them and saying like this is what we need from you on a nightly basis this what we need from you on a nightly basis instead
Of just like yeah hey here’s this really like Democratic offense where everybody’s going to get involved and then oh yeah hey by the way nobody knows what to do when the game’s on the line yeah I I I think I think there’s a pretty clear-cut way that the Kings need
To operate in crunch time and that’s what we had last night I think it was tied with five minutes left or was a two-point game or something like that with five minutes left and and I thought the Kings executed really well and the Suns you know they made shots yeah Kyle
And I would point out too like some of the reason why sabonis is quiet in the final five minutes is because both de Fox and Malik monk are are just crazy electric and that’s what they do they they try to own that final five minutes of the game and that doesn’t mean that
He can’t do anything um and that you just use him as a decoy but I also I’d factor in a couple other things like the fact that he’s a bad free throw shooter and teams are going to send him to the line in the final five minutes of a game
Um although he has gotten much much better like his his focus on at the line has been phenomenal over the last couple of weeks um but those are things where I like there it’s not just hey he needs to be more impactful in the final five
Minutes of a game I still still think he is being impactful it’s just in a different way he’s sitting there fighting to get rebounds he’s he’s setting his teammates up I do think it there is a way in which he can be more productive uh as far as a scorer but
Overall you know it’s hard to fault a guy who puts up 35 18 and 12 oh no that but that’s but James that’s what I’m saying is I I want him to do what he did last night he shot it 11 times in the fourth quarter he was he
Was active and involed offensively and getting down in the post and being available ready to when he caught it not facing up not looking for who to pass to not saying like hey can we get Kevin herder in the mix for a three here like
No man just get the ball and put it in the hoop and sometimes you’re not gonna get that opportunity because like you said it is going to be dearon Fox it is going to be Malik monk but I think deas sabonis is a skilled enough player and a
Skilled enough scorer and you saw it last night he had 35 points and and a couple of big shots and and the one we haven’t talked about when you you brought up officiating a little bit earlier the play where he got Devin Booker in the air and Booker like lands
On him and he goes up and scores and there’s no call that was insane like that is just bananas that should have been an and one like that was a a very very clear and one to me and it didn’t get called so that’s that’s all like I
Thought last night was was great I thought it was a really good distribution of of fox and sabonis and and monk down the stretch I just don’t want him when he when he does get the ball in the on on the Block I don’t want
Him to do what he did last time against Phoenix and and uh face up I just want him to to go back down whatever smaller player is guarding him and score and that’s what we saw last night and and I thought it was effective yeah I totally
Agree and I want to bring up there there uh G Lobo in the chat um says role players are scared to shoot because of Mike Brown um man you couldn’t be further off base on that um I got to be honest with you I’ve never one time ever
Seen Mike Brown yell at a player because he shot a ball ever the only reason Mike Brown yells at anybody is because they missed a defensive assignment like that’s why every single time you saw him pull Terence Davis aside and literally teach him the defensive set again that’s all he’s
Doing and he was upset with Kevin herder last night because Kevin herder missed multiple defensive assignments and allowed guys wide open threes and so yes he got pissed but those guys aren’t afraid to shoot because of that if anything those guys need to be more vocal and say hey look you guys are
Rolling and like I I get it we can ride the hot hand but at the same time our our entire offense is predicated on on sharing the ball and you probably need to get some of these guys more involved and make them feel like they’re more
Part of the game because you might need them and late in the game I thought they needed Keegan Murray Keegan Murray started to step up as like a third offensive option and then it again they went away from it and you need to power him and and keep doing that uh
Throughout the game and that has nothing to do with Mike Brown everything they do Mike Brown this offense moves so fast and Mike says this all the time but this offense moves so fast they don’t look to Mike to call a play this team is calling the plays on the
Fly you know Malik monk had a play where I think he had a layup with 21 seconds on the clock like there’s there’s no time for Mike Brown to say hey wait let’s uh let’s run horns horns no no no no that’s not happening like
This thing is moving too fast and um you know it’s just it is what it is I Mike Brown yells at Players because they don’t play defense and he’s going to continue to yell at players who don’t play defense that’s the way it is but he heals it everybody for not playing
Defense and so does his staff and and that’s who they are and that’s okay I’m okay with that hey real quick since deonis sabonis had a triple double last night the kings are now Nine and Nine when he has one and remember we talked about this we’re
Like hey what’s the deal here like how does this because it’s it’s not it’s not like he’s it’s not like remember when Russell Westbrook was hunting triple doubles yeah and he would like grab a rebound and instead of putting it back because he needed an assist would like
Throw it out to somebody to have him shoot it yes because he was it’s not that right so we were trying to figure it out and I did a little deeper dive last night so the kings in the nine wins when Deus sabonis had a triple double
And this gets back to my defense Point they’ve allowed 113.5 points per game in those nine wins that is 13th in the NBA in the losses in the nine losses they’ve allowed 125.95 playoff teams four non-playoff teams and the nine losses have been against eight playoff teams and one
Non-playoff team it turns out that good teams have an easier time scoring on Sacramento oh wow I would not have assumed that right I did a deep dive analytics search to figure that out so you’re all welcome you can you can use that just credit me
With the with the research I’d also like to see what uh in the nine losses what are different what does dear and Fox’s numbers look like I can do that for you I got nothing but time do it right now because we got we got stuff going on but
Later we do it yeah okay okay um last night had 40 though I can tell you that much he did and they lost it’s just hard it’s just right it’s just hard to stop Phoenix dude like Phoenix has got a bunch of dudes who can put the ball in
The basket and yeah they’re just they’re not empty calories they’re just like I’ve never seen a a player who leads the league in rebounds and you think that it’s completely empty except for one time when uh Olden paes led the league in rebounds and everyone just said well
He’s getting all those rebounds on Miss free throws um that’s the one time where I remember people saying oh Olden Poes yeah he did not okay but outside of that like a guy who goes out and gets 18 rebounds in a game he’s not patting his stats he’s just dominating you know
Every time he missed he he was right there to grab his own rebound and put it back okay James you don’t have to defend you don’t have to defend domas to anybody here yeah we all get it oh that’s true that’s true everybody everybody here gets it if somebody in
San Francisco doesn’t that’s on them that’s true you know so that’s that’s kind of that’s just that’s just where I where I land on on the whole thing uh really good Ed it just it literally came down last night to the Kings couldn’t get stops it was nothing anybody was doing on offense
No I totally agree if if you’re like hey Keegan could have scored more to make it so they had 131 points like okay great I agree I guess but um I I I would guess that Mike Brown probably does not agree um I bet he would have corals with 130
Points so all right uh let’s shift gears real quick because uh the kings are shifting gears real quick they face the Denver Nuggets tonight in Denver let’s talk about that match up next on ESP ESPN 1320 Sacramento sports leader woohoo sweet uh I’m GNA try and log in with this
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Talking to Kyle and you okay and can you hear the intro now no no first sure still yeah because all that all that does is is program 2 feeds the Stream So you hear what’s happening in the studio because you can hear program three got
It now I’m with you I’m gonna go turn and program one hey everybody how we all doing wait what how’ I get dowlo furious did I do something to make Damian mad might have been your Russell Westbrook point about him grabbing rebound and dishing out instead of putting up the shot am
I you you said it man I don’t know I’m not I’m just saying that might be it is it wrong no did that not happen in a game yes it did thank you it’s like Bobby threw the threw the ball off the glass to himself trying to get his 10th
Rebound for triple double one time was it Ricky Davis who also did that yeah I think so was it Ricky Davis or was it um shot at at the wrong end swagy P yeah I don’t think Swaggy P was ever close enough to a triple double to do
That if I’m being totally honest yeah that’s that’s probably true did I ever tell you that I own a Nick Young Jersey no was it a Bad Bet I got no I got hammered at Super Bowl weekend and Nick Young hit a huge three in whatever game
We were watching the night before and I woke up with an email confirmation from the Warriors team store that my Nick Young jersey the order was confirmed what night that must have been it would dude Reno gets crazy Reno gets crazy yeah what El the biggest little hole in this in the
World so Michigan uh I that’s a good idea I do that tonight I’m feeling better enough now that uh the idea of having alcohol in my body doesn’t make me want to die I’m just a little congested now welcome back to hour number two of the ESPN 1320 insiders get ready for the
Most upto-date sports news and talk with the ESPN 1320 insiders hour number two that’s James I’m Kyle we’re taking you right up to noon then we’ll hand it off to DLo and K um we’ve been discussing a lot about the Kings loss to the Phoenix Suns but let’s
Look ahead to the Kings game against the Nuggets tonight uh in Denver second night of a back toback the most brutal back-to-back you can have not only on the road but you’ve got to go Phoenix then to Denver you’ve got to deal with the altitude and James we’ve we’ve
Talked about this with with the loss to the Suns and some of the bad losses the Kings have had elsewhere this year um I don’t know that I don’t know that you can suddenly just punt this one as a schedule loss oh no like this is you’ve
Got yourself in a situation where you you’ve got to go in against a team that for some reason you’re a good matchup with uh I’m not sure what the reason is why it is that the Sacramento Kings have kind of had the Denver Nuggets number um
But you know again know this season I we saw them on Friday and the the Nuggets were on the second night of a back toback and they they were Dragon H they they definitely didn’t look like the Nuggets that we’ve seen over the last like couple of years but for me uh you
Walk into this game and I just look right away at the numbers dearon Fox played 39 minutes and 50 seconds uh domont sabonis played 38 minutes and 58 seconds 37 minutes for Harrison Barnes 33 minutes for Malik monk 33 and a half minutes for Keegan Murray man like you
Kind of went for it the Suns and came up short and that’s never a good thing because there’s a good chance you’re going to look like what Denver did last week when you played them when you played them tonight and it doesn’t matter the Kings don’t have that they
Don’t have that option anymore to just mail in a game they need to come out and they need to enforce their will and when you get to the third quarter and and your body is starting to betray you and tell you that you know maybe the three-point shots won’t go in you need
To find something else you need to find more within and you got to go out there and say look tomorrow I’m getting on a plane and going somewhere and and sitting on a beach for a week today I got a job to do and I have to be
Hyperfocused and I got to go out there and figure out a way to be the team that we’re two and0 against yeah and two and0 against Denver is has been on a back to back in both of those games but the Kings also appear to match up okay with them
So this isn’t this isn’t a spot that you know you’re going into the All-Star break you know there’s no game tomorrow or the day after that you’re gonna get to go home you just can’t check out early so I I think that that this is a spot where Sacramento can surely go in
And at least play well I I don’t I wouldn’t necessarily call it a must-win but I think if if you can finish off the first half quote unquote the first half if you can finish off the first half in game 54 with with a really strong performance
That you can then build on going into the second half where you go okay you went to Phoenix and Denver and you lost both of those but at least XY and Z went well and you feel good about that moving forward I think that would be okay too
But you cannot just punt it you you can’t you can’t take the night off they they don’t have the margin for error to do that no and and that’s why you don’t want to get yourself in this situation real I mean you need to like try to avoid situations like this should have
Been like what you talked about Kyle earlier that these are scheduled losses like you look at it early in the season you look at your schedule you take out a red pen you you Circle this seven game Road Trip you Circle a six game Road Trip you Circle the uh the string of
Games where you have a backtack but you have a game you’re it’s the third night and third game and four nights and then that back toback carries over and then you play another game so you literally get stuck in a string of three games and
Four nights like you need to look at all those things but this is one that you just circle X out and say okay we’re gonna lose both of those games or at least there’s a good chance we’re going to lose both and we probably should try
Really hard in the Phoenix game and then just you know understand that everyone’s ready to go on vacation the next day you know they got like two suitcases packed here one with all of their their regular to go stuff and then one with like uh
Like a straw hat and glasses and a 4 ooun bottle of sunscreen for Kevin herder because he can’t take a big bottle of sunscreen but he needs a sunscreen just from my Ginger friend um yeah I mean those are things what you’re looking at and like but when you don’t
Have that type of like leeway left in your schedule then you’re kind of in trouble yeah yeah a thousand perc I know that the nuggets have a couple of players who are questionable tonight Jamal Murray and cavius cwell Pope but I I I want to get to our our matchup
To watch because I I think that over the next couple of years as as the Kings get more and more into the national picture I think that every sabonis yic matchup is going to get treated like a a a it might not be embiid in yic because
Embiid talks more and makes it a a bigger deal than it is um but I think it’ll be viewed that way where it’s like hey here is in a league where everything is getting smaller and more athletic hero to uh really good multi-talented big men uh going at it there’s three
Players like them in the league and two of them are on the court together and that’s a that’s a really really fun thing and every time these teams go up against each other you talk about Murray Fox you can talk about Michael Porter Jr and Keegan Murray like there a lot of
Talent there but sabonis yic is the one for me man I I I love watching these two go at it yeah I do too so in their first matchup of the Season uh sabonis had 17 points 15 rebounds and seven assists um the second second matchup he had 17 uh
17 points 17 rebounds 10 assists for a triple double um joic usually scores more so again the first matchup yic had a triple double 36 14 and and 13 and was incredible but this is like the Marquee matchup if if you’re the Kings like this is a this is what everyone should want
To watch right because I think the league right now it is filled with super athletes it’s filled with you know LeBron James has has carried this this torch for 20-some years where you know a 6 foot eight 275 pound linebacker is flying over everybody and dunking but
Then you have in the league you have these guys that I would say jic and LCA donic both are sort of like your out of shape guys who just hoop and then you got sabonis who does sort of the same thing St statistically without putting up the GTI scoring numbers but
Everything else is sort of the same um but they’re just doing it a different way they’re such multi- uh talented players that that you know set up their teammates and make everything easier for everybody else and uh yeah like I just want to keep watching it like the whole
Time I’m like this is nuts well that’s why you hit the nail on the head there with why this is so fun because it’s not the same player just running into each other they get similar statistics via very different means yes and that’s why it’s so fascinating
To me but it I mean high IQ players good passers good scores uh joic obviously impacts the game differently a little bit more because he’s just bigger and he uses that size to his advantage in ways that that sabonis just at I mean not
That he’s a small guy but um at his size just can’t quite get there yeah that and the Arsenal that jic has is just crazy like his Fall Away jumpers were again he like 7 foot one shooting at the top of his uh like fully extended over the top
Of you and he throws a moonshot up and he does that from the three-point line he does them from 18 feet he does them from from eight feet like the things that he does without leaving the ground like if you like if you wanted to slow
Him down just throw a bunch of phone books he can’t get over them but sure enough he can do some of the most amazing things that we’ve ever seen and it’s so incredibly difficult to keep him off the glass because he’s just a he’s
Such a big dude not only is he tall but like he’s a a big heavy set dude for a basketball player he’s not what an NBA player typically looks like um but once you get him in the post it’s nearly Unstoppable like you can’t stop him at
All whether it’s as a rebounder or just him like Bing over you like again and again and again yeah one of the most difficult covers and statistically speaking one of the greatest like impactful players the game has ever seen I don’t like some people can say oh well I don’t know if you
Deserve those two MVPs he not only deserve those two MVPs he deserved last season’s MVP and he probably will he’ll probably win the MVP again this year this is a Surefire first ballot Hall of Famer I don’t care if people get upset that he likes his horses more than he
Likes going out hooping during the offseason you sure don’t notice it when he steps on the court he’s just one of the best players we’ve ever seen he is shooting at The Rim 74.2% this year from 3 to 10 feet he is at 59
A half% and from 10 to 15 feet he is at 57.9% yep he’s shooting over 60% from 16 feet in in that’s and on top of that he’s a 36.6 % three-point shooter yeah I mean man not a lot of holes in that guy’s game what a player his shot chart’s
Ridiculous for a player of his size it’s just it’s all over the court it is uh it’s really really crazy he’s really hard to stop and I can’t wait to watch him and and demonis the bonus battle tonight at uh what the Pepsi Pepsi Center no it’s ball ball Arena ball
Arena that’s right shout out to Mason jars there we go jars here all right how do the kings go in go into Denver on the second night of a back toback and get a win we’ll have some keys to a Kings victory for you next on ESPN
1320 uh Jesse what I was talking you about was um the way that gets cut I just didn’t intro it correctly yeah oh I can fix that up no wores cool okay thanks that didn’t um I’m gonna I’ll key you in but I’ll give
You a later key so you know to let it run along right yeah than cool I just lost track of time no you’re right there so I mean you don’t have a clock running like we do oh will my man thanks he did send him
Over what a guy um I I was just looking at this where the hell does that just go bang bang damn those are the losses oh that’s minutes I was looking at minutes and thought it was points I was like 40 33 35 37 40 I like oh my God
No 40 15 yeah 19 24 there’s 33 and 32 but that’s at Phoenix and at Milwaukee 27 against Minnesota 30 at Milwaukee was the the overtime loss right so 68.4% from the free throw line oh 33% from three and their losses huh okay so Fox averages 259 like the
The okay were 15-point game the 13-point game against Miami the 19point game against Cleveland those were tough even well that’s kind of Foxy Stuff Jesus Jesse I’ll just do the correct way this time and then you can just repur I got you okay bum diggy diggy bum bum bum bum we are Spencer tap in somebody’s about to get blocked I don’t know why someone’s going to get blocked Fox to Randall in the chat I guess or
Someone else yeah so GL Lobo said dearen Fox reminds me of Julius Randall wow uh I’m actually I’m actually team Westbrook now that was a a rebranded big change for me I’m not I heard you say you shouldn’t be top 75 I heard you say that me
I’m going to cut that up when did I say that hey everybody I’m Kyle Madson that’s James ham Kings at nuggets tonight second night of a back-to-back for Sacramento coming off a tough loss to the Phoenix Suns now they got to get right back in s i I honestly
I I feel like this is almost better for Sacramento that they just go and play Denver now well it’s over yeah I just I I feel like this is I I I don’t it it it seems like whenever they have a good game where you’re going okay
Yeah there’s the Kings they’re back they get a couple days off or a day off and then they come back and they just don’t look the same maybe this is what they need to build momentum you have a really good game you watch some film figure out what you can do better
Defensively but offensively everything looked great and maybe you can parlay that into a good performance uh on the second night of a back toback so what Kyle is saying is after the team started 0 and four on the season on the second night of a back toback he wants more he
Wants more backto backs yeah yeah no that’s 100% yeah in fact make every game a back toback no days off every game every game is back I’m trying here’s what I’m trying to do I’m trying to make it I’m trying to make some kind of uh I’m I’m looking for some
Reason that they’re not going to lose by 30 to Denver okay I mean like look they have the excuse and but at this point in the season the Kings shouldn’t have any they don’t have any excuse games left they they don’t get that anymore so right right like like there there are reasons
Why you lose games in the NBA and we could easily say that playing Denver on the second night of a back-to-back and Denver on the road after playing in Phoenix where you had a hard fought game and you lost and a bunch of your starters played 37 plus minutes that
Could be a reason why you lose but at this point you’ve used all your reasons you the reason notepad where you could say okay this is why we lost that one he I’m going to put that as a reason yeah that notepad got burned that notepad is
Out of paper and now it’s time for you to uh the only thing you have left is a pad that says excuses and that’s everything else from here on out is that’s the situation that you the Sacramento King yourself in right yeah so like so let’s get to uh
Let’s get to the injury report for tonight um Chris DTE is healthy and ready to play he was healthy last night as well but I I definitely could see the Kings being slightly cautious because it was a pretty good ankle roll that cost him a week plus very surprised that he
Is back and up and going after uh after seeing him in the locker room on crutches uh Sasha venkov is out with a Grade Three ankle sprain I’m GNA I’m going to guess that if we see Sasha it won’t be until the last two weeks of the
Season or so like this is a long long-term injury the Kings have said they’re going to re-evaluate him in four to six weeks I do not remember ever a Grade Three ankle sprain which is a complete Detachment of the ligament being a four to six week injury uh so
We’re gonna have to see how that goes really a bummer he did it in practice on Saturday and uh it sounds like Sasha venkov is going to be out a while Trey ly missed last night’s game due to illness uh we’ll have to wait for the updated injury report to see if he’s
Going to play or not and then for the Nuggets Jamal Murray and kabius calwell Pope are both questionable with their own ill uh ailments um whether they play or not tonight I’m not sure I think it’s a little strange that they would sit when you’re staring at a week to 10 days
Off and they haven’t played since I think it’s Saturday either Saturday or Sunday they lost to the Bucks is uh Monday I think they played Friday and then Monday oh okay you’re right yeah I lose my days of the week because Kyle hasn’t been here sorry man
Yeah I’ve got nothing for you once football season ends so I just every every day is a weekday at that point there’s no I don’t have line of demarcation no unless unless they’re going to hurt themselves further by playing I would imagine both of them are on the court
Tonight I’m gonna I’m going to agree I think that there’s probably a good chance I’m surprised that they’re listed as questionable especially since they’ve both played last game tough spot for the Kings Tonight on the second night of a back toback in Denver but how do they
Pull out a victory well we’ve got six keys for them three each uh James asked three I have three James what is your first key to a king’s victory tonight more Star Fox a great game I need Fox to just bottle whatever it was that happened yesterday and bring that
Exact same thing tonight and figure out a way to put up 30 put up 35 put up 40 put up 60 I don’t care just go out there and play ball and and show us that you’re back and that you’re building for towards something in the the stretch run
The final 28 games of the Season yeah I’m I’m right there with you Daren fox has to be the the number one guy for them and I would I would love to see it tonight especially in this spot put the team on his back a little bit uh
That said that ties in a little bit to my first key and that is team effort dearen Fox can be the leader but he needs people following him especially in the altitude there’s there’s going to be players who react well to it there’s going to be
Players who don’t um I think the more help that you can get from your bench the more depth you can get where you’re not relying so heavily on one or two or three guys to shoulder the load I think that only makes things easier for all the reasons we talked about with you
Know with with the Phoenix loss where Malik bunk had 22 and the rest of the bench had three points combined all of them from Davon Mitchell I think that there’s that added benefit but then there’s the added benefit of of of lightening the load in the in the altitude when they haven’t
Had a ton of time to adjust to it all right uh my second key yeah you have the road map to victory for this team I don’t know why you have it and I don’t know that you exactly know what the road map is but whatever whatever you did
Last time do that again whatever you did the first time do that again figure it out uh Force Aaron Gordon to shoot three-pointers uh like whatever it might be that you think you can do against this team we haven’t seen Michael Porter Jr a lot he he didn’t play on Friday uh
Friday or Friday when they played this this team like whatever it is like there’s a road map there somebody did The Scouting Report I’m assuming it’s Doug chrisy because Doug does almost all of the scouting reports at this time uh but there’s got to be some sort of way
That you can beat this team uh because you’ve already you’ve already shown that you can do it yeah yeah I I I think you’re right whether they know exactly what it is or not fine but they have to they have to do it you mentioned Aaron Gordon uh over
His last 15 games is shooting 29.6% from Beyond The Arc yep which means he’s going five which means he’s going four or five against the Kings tonight for sure of course definitely yeah the kings are definitely if you need to get right from the three-point line this is your
Team right here let these guys go play the Kings like I man I’m in the worst shooting SL they are the official the Sacramento Kings for three-point shooters in the NBA they are the official slump Buster yeah no doubt um my second key it is a maker Miss league
Right that is a phrase that I coined because sometimes you’re going to make shots sometimes you’re not you guys can all use it you’re welcome it has to be a make night for the Kings you can’t go nine of 31 from three I if if that’s what they went last night if you’re
Doing that the nuggets are going to beat you but if you can hang around on the second night of a back toback in the altitude if you can hang around by going you know something crazy like go 17 or 18 of 40 and keep yourself in the game I
I I think that that’s that’s going to be a big one for for the Kings tonight if they if they’re not going to hit their threes I think they get I think they get run out of the building if they are knocking down their threes I think they
Can they can pull out a win yeah I think one of the the things that are playing into the king’s hands in this game is the fact that this is one of the worst Pace teams in the league uh Denver is 29th in the league in pace so if you are
Going to play A Team on the second night of a back-to-back it sure it’s nice that team might not put a lot of pressure on you to get up and down the court you still got to get up and down the court and get position because if not joic is
Just going to be underneath the basket like scoring every single time like I mean he reminds me of like that that 5 foot1 kid that that uh when you go and play a team in fifth grade basketball and and everyone else is like 4 foot seven and that guy’s 5’11 and every time
He misses he just grabs a rebound and throws it back up and throws it back up and you’re just waiting for him to miss um that’s what yic is like uh let’s get to let’s see my final key uh you can’t you can’t afford to give anything away
Show up like this is the final game before the break leave it all out there like don’t do the getaway thing leave it all out there maximum effort if you give maximum effort and you lose I think everybody would still be fine with that because this is a brutal stretch but you
Almost have to see it because if not I don’t know what we’re gonna get in the second half of this season yeah yeah I I think you’re right if they if we’re in here tomorrow and we’re talking about a 138 110 Kings loss it’s just kind of okay
We’re back to where we were the entire first half but if they go in and play well if they show up then I think the story is a little bit different uh for me I if if you’re going to keep your legs anywhere you got to do it on
Defense especially if it’s Jamal Murray and cavius calwell Pope playing that Michael Porter Jr they have so many guys who can knock down a three you have to run them off the line you cannot you cannot let this turn into a situation where the nuggets are getting wide open
Looks from three because that’ll that’ll kill you totally agree yeah do those things they’ll win there it is we have given them the road map we have it’s right there as long as they listen to this program uh the Kings will go into Denver and win tonight that’s right you’re
Welcome you’re welcome shout out to Mike Brown all right um okay that’s it I I don’t have a clock in front of me so I’m just going to guess that my clock is good do we have we have to go we got to go okay we got
Got to go perfect thank you all right uh we I have couple 49ers notes for Locker cleanout and Kyle Shan and John Lynch press conferences yesterday and then we’ll dive into some of the good bad and ugly from the Kings lost to the Phoenix Suns last night and we’ll have the
Handoff one of DLo and Casey will be in next on ESPN 1320 my bad I should have wrapped that oh no I you’re totally fine I just that’s why I did the 30 I didn’t I didn’t see it um yeah my bad no stress uh what’s going on shatty house anything going
On Russell has a question uh do you see the Kings signing any players who were waved no they they have 15 men on the roster like as of right now in order to do that they’d have to cut Kesler or javil or Alex Len and I don’t see them
Doing it this Allstar breaks have to do a lot of heavy lifting man yeah I’d also say I don’t think that there’s a player out there that helps the Kings like that’s been waved again if you know like Spencer Den Woody is gone uh galinari sounds like he might go to the
Suns um I don’t think that there’s somebody that stands out like man if you got that guy you’d be a okay um you know again if if for some reason Delon Wright gets waved by the Washington Wizards yeah I’d give him a call like I I think
That that that makes sense and you can figure it out from there but I also think that if this season goes the way that it could go you might want to spend the last 10 games of the Season giving Keon Ellis giving Colby uh Colby Jones giving Kesler Edwards minutes and
Seeing what you have um because I think that that could actually be where this team is I don’t know I think that’s what you’re trying to avoid is the nightmare scenario I like jores Solair I don’t know that he’s that good of a player anymore but he might hit the coke bottle
And that’s fun anyways big guy when he’s in Chicago though yeah when he was young yeah yeah yeah I’m kind of of the same like I think we get it right like he’s going to be a middle ofth lineup guy that probably shouldn’t be um and if you made
Like three other additions that one might make sense but you still need better he had a he had a way better year in Miami than I thought he did last year well yeah but I looked at he he had but he had the 48 home run year and then he had the 36
Home run year and his high outside of that is 14 that’s a problem 27 in 2021 oh was it over two stops yeah he hadit 13 Kan city and 14 for ATL he had a huge one in world series too that’s why I missed it yeah
But I mean it’s fine like he’s he’s fine yeah it’s oh my God last year was his first off allar game oh my God you know what that kind of feels like it kind of feels like a an a signing that’s what it kind feels like yeah some guy
That’s like okay he he put up some DEC decent numbers final segment here on the Insiders that’s James I’m Kyle uh rocking from home today and probably for the rest of the week as uh we fight off the plague but we are working through it having a great time uh back in here
Talking basketball with you guys again appreciate yall for for uh holding it down while I’m out it uh means the world so so um James we’ve been talking a ton of Kings I know the 49ers season ended but there were a couple of notes from Locker clean out day and John Lynch and
Kyle Shanahan’s postseason press conferences that I want to touch on before we get to the good bad and ugly from last night’s Kings game yeah let’s do it so it turns out Eric Armstead Sacramento Zone shout out uh played through so in week 13 he hurt his knee
And we never got any specification on what the knee injury was he just missed a weeks for 14 through 18 and then returned for the playoffs it turns out he had a torn meniscus and just played on it in the playoffs and had a sack in the Super Bowl and and played really
Really well in in the Super Bowl uh that was pretty gnarly he’ll have offseason surgery sounds like he’ll be ready for the start of training camp or or near the start of training camp football players are just a little different man I just am not built that way I turn my
Miniscus I’m done like I’m just it cut my leg off I’m done you’re done yeah no I’m the the I’m a gamer Kyle I don’t care the uh the the Chiefs had a had an offensive lineman who tore his UCL like in the second quarter and he
Just played the whole game with a torn UCL yeah just oh my God C hey I’m not going out of that game you kidding me no way and then Jayvon Hargrave had a torn ligament in his thumb that he played through uh so that was the 49ers injury
News and then of course Dre green lies the Tor Achilles uh that that will uh likely not have him ready for for the start of training camp um it also sounds like based on what Kyle Shanahan said that Steve wils is going to stay he said that he expects his entire coaching
Staff to be back although Anthony Lynn the assistant head coach got hired Away by Washington and then they’re losing their offensive passing game specialist Clint kubak who’s going to go be the OC with uh with the Saints but it was fascinating because Shanahan got asked about Steve wils early in his press
Conference and he more or less was like well there’s a lot of conversations that we need to have with the draft and free agency and I haven’t even talked to my assistant coaches yet and D I was like man that sounded super non-committal I don’t know how much he’s feeling Steve
Walks I wouldn’t be I would be looking around that’s what I would do I I in all honesty not to not to belittle the guy but there were so many times where it just looked like he was out coach this season and you know you the talent alone on that defense was
Going to win you x amount of games but how many times did he like call up a blitz at exactly the wrong time or yeah even in the Super Bowl you saw it again and again where you didn’t see something that they had and and they saw it they
Knew exactly when to run Mahomes late in the game because they saw the defense that you were running and they saw the hole in it and they just held on to that yeah I I just felt like Checkers and chess man and at the end of the day I
Need a I need a defensive genius I I don’t need a nuts and bolts old ball coach uh that that goes out there and basically dials up blitzes using a magic G ball yeah that’s that’s what I’m interested to see is if these offseason conversations have anything to do with
That because Steve wils has never been a defensive coordinator for more than one year consecutively he’s never gotten a second year as a defensive coordinator so interested to see if he does get a chance to kind of settle in now that he knows the Personnel now that he’s not
Adjusting things on the Fly I’m I I am in favor of keeping him around because you don’t want to have to go through the Growing Pains of having a new DC once again especially if there’s not somebody that you’re super super confident is going to be
Better you had you had 20 weeks to get it right 19 like I mean at a certain point it kind of you are who you are and unless he’s going to allow someone else in the room to have more of a voice I don’t think you can go through another
Season with the same thing yeah like again like if there is a a problem with this team how do you have one of the greatest like onp paper defensive lines of all time and not lead the league in sacks not be able to pressure a quarterback consistently Y and to me
That’s a problem like you got to be able like I don’t know what it is that you’re not doing but I certainly know that the previous couple of guys they didn’t have that whatever it is that you got yeah that’s a good point like they knew how to hit
It every single time they had something dialed up that was different that was unique that helped win ball games and I don’t think you know they didn’t win in spite of him but in certain cases they did so and they did lose at least one
Game maybe two because of him yeah I I think it’s interesting because he is a secondary coach like that is where he has made his his living in the NFL and and in college but particularly in the NFL as a defensive backs coach and now he’s in a spot where he’s running a
Defense something that he doesn’t have a ton of experience with but he’s running a defense that is very front seven oriented this a defense that was built from the defensive line they dominate in the second level and then the secondary just kind of needs to not screw anything
Up yeah at least that’s been been the case in the past and now you have a coach who is very secondary focused trying to figure out a defense that is very defensive front focused and I I think that was probably an adjustment too which is why which is why I’m in
Favor of probably giving him a second year because now now you can kind of work through some of those things in the offseason make some adjustments and come back better next year that’s that’s where I land anyway okay no I mean that’s fair I like I don’t I’m not all
For just firing people to fire people yeah but at a certain point like we had the him coming down from the from the booth and we had all that drama like at a certain point like look there is a window that’s closing on this team and I
Want I want the best of everything in every single position including the coaching staff if you’re gonna actually get over the hump and win a Super Bowl yeah no that’s fair uh the last one is that the Brandon iuk offseason drama already started auk’s brother was posting on Instagram about how they’re
Leaving San Francisco and he’s going to go to Vegas and then iuk after uh at his at his locker in his in his locker room cleanout at his media availability he basically was like if it’s for the best then I’ll stay and I want to win a
Championship and D so all of this Brandon iuk contract drama has kicked off buckle up everybody yeah that’s not great he hasn’t unfollowed the 49ers on social media yet but you can bet that’s coming coming yeah this is in my opinion the guy that you can’t lose I agree you you
If there’s a way that you’ve got to lose one of these other guys that that hurts but he’s the guy that if you’re going to be a top tier offense and you’re going to have a I don’t know if you’re gonna build something with Brock pie y you
Can’t take away like the guy the guy that lives in the area the Brock party loves to play in yep and to me that’s a big deal I I could not agree more with you all right let’s put a pin in the 49ers for now let’s go back to the Kings
Loss to the Suns last night 13125 although uh best loss of the year one of them I don’t know if that’s if that’s an actual thing it’s it’s a loss that it wasn’t a bad loss where where we’re sitting here looking for answers yeah to me it just kind of lost
A basketball game last night they played well and and the other team played a little better yeah I just uh I I just looked up and you know the game is playing right now and it’s 108100 with 703 remaining and uh and fox got clotheslined by Grayson Allen which
Again clear flagrant right e easily and he breaks both both free throws could have cut it to a Sixpoint yeah just like oh that’s I really can’t stand Grayson dude um yeah there’s a lot to dislike about Grays Allen even Richie Miller and oh I don’t know
Gr not really known as a dirty player it’s like bro bro did you do any prep work for this for this game at all do do you watch basketball like what are you talking about Grayson Allen not really Ramsey hit the nail on the head in the jatty house Grayson Allen’s been
Dirty since who is a Duke that’s yeah he’s a Tripper he’s a Tripper at Duke he trips everybody like what are we talking about it it’s almost like it was the first time he’d ever seen Grayson Allen and the first time he’d ever watched tan sabonis play like what exactly is
Happening would that hang on real quick would that shock you no because when they say oh you know the national audience like they don’t get to see the Sacramento Kings very often okay I guess Reggie Miller is part of that he’s part of the national audience that that
Doesn’t stay up to watch King’s basketball okay of course that’s just weird to have him call the game like well I I I it’s his job to to prep and I guess he I guess he doesn’t it’s like when you have a a a two-year-old and you
Give him ice cream for the first time and you get to see their face that’s what I felt like Reggie Miller was doing with deas sabonis it’s like yeah oh my gosh this is amazing I need more I need more you’re like bro he’s been this
Player for the last like five years and people ignore him for some reason I don’t know and you would figure that again where did Reggie Miller play his entire career uh Indiana Indiana where did deonis sabonis come from before his stop in Sacramento Oklahoma City no no
Indiana yeah like come on bro that’s he played for your team and you’re acting like you’ve never seen him before I don’t my bad like sorry would it but that’s like the whole deal right isn’t that the whole issue I guess playing as well playing but I guess
Like I don’t know I I I hate this this whole not not hate the discussion but I hate that this is that this is still a thing because it’s like we saw the Kings play in the most exciting Playoff Series last year like one less than one year
Ago they were in the most exciting playoff series of the playoffs they had that uh was it the the national TV game against the Knicks and they and they lit it up and they were awesome and they’ve had National TV games this year they’ve had a couple where they fell flat
But it’s not like they’ve been absent from the national TV slate and I it if at this point if your if your talking point about the Kings is like oh wow look the Kings can play it’s like you’re you’re a year and a half late on that
Yeah you’re a little behind little so it just it’s it’s nice to to see people kind of recognize what everybody else in in this region has been watching and seeing and people who really follow the NBA been watching and seeing like that’s nice but also like catch up dog like
Come on yeah D do the job um the good from the game I think the number one good Fox looked like Fox yeah like I mean you finally got to see dearn Fox return to form and to me that’s the most crucial part of this whole thing if if that’s who you’re
Getting in the second half of the season the Kings have a shot if if it’s not this is going to be a long 28 games down the stretch yeah do you want to bring in Kenny for this yeah Kenny you want to pop in and and do the good bad all right
Kenny carway oh I added him you remov him there we go Kenny carway in the building for the handoff uh Kenny we’re doing good bad and ugly from the Sacramento Kings lost to the Phoenix Suns last night and we were just talking about dearon Fox as the number one good
Thing that happened last night because you felt dearon Fox on the court could see that he was out there he was really really good and look like an MVP candidate again I agree I agree I that’s what I wanted to see yesterday that’s what I called for yesterday I said it
Was time for him you know to step up be the best player on the on the team be a leader and have his presence felt and he did that it didn’t result in a win but he he showed up and he doesn’t have to
Score 40 but I just needed him to to to to be there and and Lead these guys yesterday can I can I ask you guys a question though yeah only if I can ask if you’re wearing a dip set sweater first absolutely you know what I’m saying nothing says Valentine’s Day like
The Diplomat stop playing with no doubt okay you know what I mean computers Putin all right um so you guys were talking about Reggie Miller a lot of people talking about Reggie Miller and what and how his broadcast was I was watching my daughter while watching the game so I wasn’t like
Really really tapped into what was being said so maybe I’m the wrong guy to ask this question but I’ll defend Reggie Miller just a little bit and I’ll ask what would you guys have liked for that broadcast to sound like I would have liked to it sound like
He had watched the Kings at least once before on the season oh okay but like so so if so I’ll put it to you like this if he would have watched the Kings 10 times and he knows this is what domas does and domas you know has a triple double he
Was playing phenomenal right and he was like up there’s domas with a triple double that’s just what he does every time you know what it is we would have been like he’s downplaying it like like I thought I thought he he hyped up and talked about how great domas was last
Night because he was great to the UMP degree he was like yo did you see the movie hit Kevin Durant with a year they can’t guard him this is a this guy is bad and he’s not an All-Star like I felt like Reggie did what you would want a
National guy to do in that situation he didn’t he played up de’arra Fox and and Damonte sabotus as much as you would want a national guy to last night I get what you’re saying and I I do agree but I like the way I I qued it just a second
Ago it was like you’re sitting there watching the game with your daughter and your daughter’s never had ice cream before and you gave her ice cream for the first time and you see that look on her face that’s what it felt like Reggie Miller was like hey bro at least like
That and then the Grayson Allen comment where oh like well Grayson Allen really isn’t known as like a dirty player no that was crazy that’s nuts that’s nuts it’s like it’s it’s Grayson dirty player Allen that’s his name like what what are we doing here yeah but that’s what and I
Think I think to your to to to both of your points a little bit it not sounding like it was Reggie Miller discovering what has been going on for a year and a half now that would have been just kind of being like did you see that movie this is what the
Kings do like this is Kings this is what demonus sabonis does and not it just felt it felt like disingenuous I guess I didn’t get that feeling when I did hear him I didn’t get that feeling and like I said well I I just I don’t know what that
Sounds like because our guys here the the home guys they get like super excited when domas and fox do something and they see them every day you know what I’m saying like so like what does that sound like where it’s just like we’re just used to it and do you want
Them to sound that way like you want them to get excited like if if Zas makes a Euro Step on Kevin Durant you want to be like oh my gosh bro that’s 610 making the Euro Step like you want that excitement like I I don’t know what
That’s supposed to sound like to make King fans feel like it’s acceptable no I get I get what you’re saying and you do want Ken yeah I’m on Kenny’s side now oh no I’m like don’t don’t get me wrong the Grayson Allen comment was ridiculous I’m
Okay with I’m okay with sort some of that I mean it did like his show notes told him early in the game clearly someone had written show notes for him hey the King’s Live and Die by the three and then he forgot about that because we never heard that again after the first
Quarter like the Kings yeah he he could have just said hey they died by the three because they’re nine of 31 no forgot about that take the whole time it was like it was like he was discovering something for the first time was it was
Like okay like I mean it was it was there was like almost like a an innocence to it where you’re like huh it’s just like oh this Graal kid I wonder why like that he doesn’t have like oh man like outside of that I was
Like I was okay with Reggie I was just the same time like I was surprised he hadn’t like understood that that’s what deonas sabonis is doing like someone like tells him like M hey he’s got this is his third straight double d a triple double he’s like oh he leads the league
In triple doubles they’re like in his ear he’s like he least Le that might literally be what’s happening though I I don’t know how I don’t know how it work works with national broadcasters in in the NBA because I know in the NFL you know what
City you’re going to go to and then you fly to that City a few days early and you get to be at production meetings with coaches and coaches give you all sorts of insight and you interview players and you get to do all this so by
The time and you’re watching tape so by the time you’re broadcasting a game as an NFL broadcaster you could be this team’s home announcer for both teams like you just know them their Tendencies this and that but in the NBA I don’t I don’t know that it’s the same type of
Deal I don’t know that Reggie Miller is like oh man we got King Suns on the schedule let me let me call Mike Brown and let me call Jay Triano and let me let me get in meetings with dearen Fox and Deus sabonis and grind tape and
Figure out what this team is all about this just kind of show up and react to a basketball game right you know who does that uh Mark Jones Mark Jones flies all over the country and does exactly what you said but he does that for college
Football and the NBA and the way that he juggles and he knows so much about what’s happening and the inner workings and he’s got a story for everything mhm it really is like the craft that you see from Mark Jones is something that where maybe that’s where I’m coming from like
I don’t need someone overly excited the whole Mark Jones is the best of the best oh man you know what I’m saying like that’s that’s that’s like uh that’s like saying uh I don’t know I was just gonna throw out a name but like comparing the best of the best to somebody that’s
Really good like yeah they’re really good but this is the this is the best so sure yeah Mark Jones markk Jones that dude yeah really good I’m sorry I got us on a rant I was and I didn’t mean to come at anybody I hope it didn’t feel
That way I just no it’s fine lock down James on his own czy what that sounds like people to to be acceptable here then I’m just gonna run through the the good is uh fox look yeah that’s right we’re doing good bad nugl monk made his
Case for the Sixth Man of the Year sabonis uh sabonis adjusted to small ball the bad thank God Kevin her was effective early but faded uh Mike Brown wasn’t happy with him and yelled at him um the other bad is not enough of Harrison Barnes and Kean Murray they got
To have more than 17 shots they got to score more than 15 points uh the other bad is nine of 31 from three as a team ugly uh with Trey lyes and Sasha VZ zenov out you can’t have three points from everyone not named Malik monk Off
The Bench that’s just not GNA work uh the second ugly 23 points for Eric Gordon uh who also caught a lob and dunked on you did the too small thing you you can’t really have that either uh that was brutal bro that was crazy yeah Eric Gordon catching a lob and dunking
And in 2024 that was tough I can’t believe ER Jord can get up there and D I gotta be honest that’s the crazy thing like like if if you’re if you’re talking about the Kings be like how do you let that happen who would have thought that was going to
Happen bro right like they look and go oh Eric Gordon’s going to come backside and catch L like okay and he just that was crazy that’s the first time I’ve ever watched a game where Eric Gordon made a three-pointer oh wow swear to God it’s not it’s not true it just feels
Like every time I see him shoot he’s six feet behind the line and Bricks it back iron there were some games against uh when the Kings played the Clippers with Eric Gordon where it was like oh my gosh every like there’s nothing you could do right every time you tried to do
Anything there’s Eric Gordon uh just musling his way past Everybody follow away jumper three-pointer you’re like hay maker and hey the other thing I’ll say the Suns hit some incredible shots like we can talk about how how dirty player but that like 36f footer at the
Buzzer at at shot that was crazy that wild Grayson Allen Danny fry hitting that uh was ridiculous call him shout out Danny in San Francisco he looks like Jimmy G and Grayson Allen that’s so funny he looks like Matt vasgersian is who he looks like that’s a
Good call too um oh what was I GNA say about Eric Gordon and hitting threes and dunking I can’t remember I got oh remember in 2017 I think it was a 2017 Series game seven Rockets Warriors when the Rockets went over 27 had an over 27 stretch from three Eric Gordon shot one
From above the break on the left side and it hit all backboard on the right side I have never seen an NBA player brick a shot that badly Booker hit the side of the backboard late in that game from three from the corner three you’re like what in the
World uh well to your point Didn’t Keegan shoot a shot like that last night uh he did and um I think Davon Mitchell also uh like he it was something in the building he missed like four feet it was something I’m not gonna blame them it was it was the building that building
Looks like Arco has it has Arco Vibes too inside is bad yeah not not a great not a great Arena Kyle we made it through a show we did it I’m so proud of us congratulations um we’ve done it welcome back happy for us thanks man yeah I’m
Hoping to be back in the studio soon but we’ll uh you’re missing the Valentine’s party just like we are because it’s about to happen right now oh no I ivp to go too so I was really excited to play Bingo yeah I mean yeah great time starts
At 12 this is great for the whole company you wear your dip sweat sweater and everything tough all right that’s it for me and James DLo and KC are coming up next on ESPN 1320 Sacramento sports leader we made it we did it we’ll have uh we’ll have two player of the games
For you tomorrow guys oh we forgot oh man no we didn’t forget I purposly did it this way because it’s a backtack so we can just do two on one day that’s Sinking by me that’s that’s I did give a name I did give a name earlier I didn’t
Write it on the paper myad oh you get oh you took oh oh no there’s a the reason I didn’t give one is because I figured that the people didn’t the people who need to know didn’t know no I gave it to them earlier we could give
Everyone a heads up for tomorrow’s first one no don’t do that okay do tomorrow we’re giving away $200 GI certificates tomorrow there we go see you Kyle goodbye friends see you hey Damian he can’t hear you I can hear you he said hi dami I hear you yeah all right
Goodbye everybody I’m leaving now appreciate y’all what’s going on what’s up man oh hang on I ain’t here for this today I’m I’m KC on uh Monday light are on no they’re on now I turned it back on yeah I ain’t got no no no 10,000 foot View today I got some
Thoughts I got some thoughts and they’re not positive now we can’t even turn to ESPN today yeah I saw that yeah that’s on the uh yeah NFL Network can’t even turn over there turn it on that TNA Channel get distracted by AJ Styles doing a you could just watch Diagnosis Murder
Which is what is on every day when I when I get here we could put the office on and Kenny could watch like eight episodes of The Office that’s a good call for the first time that’s a good call start it’s almost certainly on somewhere the greatest episode is probably the um dinner
Party uh no I think it’s the emergency the one where Stanley has a heart attack oh the one where Stanley has a heart attack yeah yeah yeah yeah that’s yeah Str stress relief is that what I think that one’s called the door knobs seals the doors they throw the cat into the
Ceiling this is a test of the emergency this is the test of the Dwight spruit system window there is no emergency fact that you haven’t seen all of these that that one stands out that’s a good one that’s a good one back at three uh yes sir
Oh forgot to tell him he’s working on next Thursday uh we got some gear coming our way too uh that hoodie she’s got the hoodie for us CZ oh that’s gonna make tough damn it wow it’s the one time a day the office isn’t on I guess they better this
Better not run that keep going I’m going close my eyes I’m going tell you when to stop whatever it lands on stop no that don’t work one more time keep going one more time stop oh I love the show KX yeah yeah we got him screaming DLo KC we got
Screaming we number one spot we a number one spot for some sports huh got the city going crazy when we work huh we top two but we ain’t two we in first huh and when you need the real we is who you search on D KC d We your number one Spot that’s all you get you got you got some things to say told me before you got some things to say some things to get off your chest I’m not gonna act all cheery right now even though I am the love doctor today Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody let
Me know if you have any questions any concerns any any advice that you need here on this Valentine’s Day because I am the love doctor you qualified for this absolutely I’ve been saving relationships married I’ve been saving relationships and giving great advice to the homies for decades now I am the love
Doctor have to text check with Jasmine hit me up man uh with any advice that you need I got you today but this isn’t going to be a nice hearty welcome to the show take it cuz Damen came in throwing things around that he’s not here for
Today that’s not entirely accurate but I am chat didn’t he come in throwing things around you saw it I just said pretty sure a pencil hit the wall yeah yeah yeah yeah there yeah the ultimate needle mover in God B himself he’s K of car yes sir
Acknowledge me I’m going tell you man I I I try to be I try not to like be over the top like game to game with this team with sports in general I mean uh to a certain degree something darn said A week or so ago was right it’s a
Loss in the loss column and I said following that game against Detroit it’s just one loss in the loss column s dear is 100% right until it’s not right and I’m starting to get to the point where I’m feeling like it’s not last night was the this is the most down
I’ve been on this basketball team all year despite losses to Charlotte despite losses to Detroit three game losing streaks four game losing streaks there was something about last night’s game where I was like you know what TC if you’re listening and we just got to be real with ourselves what we’re
Talking about with this team we keep waiting for something to happen that’s not happening we keep waiting for everyone to play well at the same time that’s not happening uh we keep waiting for this new version of Harrison Barnes to coincide with this incredible version of of of Damon sabonis that’s playing
Right now and and and to C dear man what a waste what a waste for the game the montis sabonis had last night for the for for for the way damont sabonis is playing dearon Fox defined his form a little bit last night Malik monk continuing to do what
He do it’s like six or seven straight games for Malik Monk and you couldn’t get anything from HP you couldn’t get and look seconde player you you you you talk about Keegan Murray and the grand scheme of things right but there’s been a lot of people who’ve been celebrating Keegan Murray
Success and laughing at jayen Ivy’s failures why don’t you go look at them numbers now better yet why don’t you go look at the last look look at the last 12 games jayen Ivy versus Keegan Murray because no one’s firing off jokes anymore go look at jayen Ivy season in
Its totality again that doesn’t mean anything just just bear with me here for a second that doesn’t mean anything you you you you you got to let Keegan Murray develop as a player we’ve seen him grow uh uh by Leaps and Bounds on the defensive end there’s no question about
That but but at at no point throughout this season have have have we we we domas I last week hey I want see I want to see domas more aggressive offensively dear’s been picked apart with his his low-scoring game in the last handful of weeks we’ve trashed Harrison Barnes I’ve
Got some things to say about Kevin herder and this isn’t even my opinion on Kevin herder this is my opinion on Kevin herder spot on the team we need to talk about that people have had things to say about Malik Monk and everybody but we’ve all have collectively have stalled out
Kevin uh uh Keegan Murray if we’re gonna if we’re gonna pick apart everybody on this team you gotta pick apart Keegan Murray too Keegan Murray again it doesn’t mean you got to trade him it doesn’t mean oh what a fail it doesn’t mean it’s not wor doesn’t mean anything it means in this
Moment right now Keegan Murray is all over the place offensively and you got what like a total of 13 or 14 points from your wings yesterday well you got 70 plus from your stars and and and and Malik carried the whole bench and we keep waiting for this
To change we’re 50 something games into the season last night was the night I was mad last night I wasn’t even mad after Detroit this the Phoenix signs that’s Kevin Durant you hear the way about Kevin Durant was talking about the Sacramento Kings last night talking about how how they never stopped playing
How tough they are to guard how how how how you can’t finish them off till the final buzzer goes off that’s one of the greatest players of all time talking about this basketball team yet we’re sitting here and we’re waiting and we’re waiting and we’re waiting something’s gonna happen something’s going to change
Something’s Gonna Get Better rest uh uh mental fatigue all of this stuff and it’s like man last night was the first night where I like I don’t think any of this is happening this is a playing team I think the Phoenix Suns are better I think the New Orleans Pelicans I guess are
Better Dallas sure as hell is playing better they did a lot during the trade deadline that that that that that roster rized could say that they’re better need to see it play out some more but right now they’re playing better how am I going to tell you
Sacramento’s going to jump any of those teams because you’ve got to jump and I don’t think that they can and we keep saying oh this is it’s it’s going to click oh if they just do this we said it as recently as yesterday this team is talented they have the pieces for this
All come together and for them to make a run I’m starting to think they don’t and there’s something that was really really glaring last night but I don’t want to cut it short I’m gonna hold it off for a second because we talk about this off
Season we talk about how big of an off season this is for Monty McNair in this basketball team there is one move and it is clear as day to me now just I felt like this for a while if you’ve listened to the show at any point this year you
Know how I feel about this we’ll talk about it in a second but last night it became glaringly obvious it’s on a poster it’s playing on the big screen at the golden one centers this particular part of the roster needs to change okay uh said a lot there said a lot
There and a lot of it that uh I agree with I don’t necessarily agree with and Steve wils has been fired I saw Rel Steve wils man before they can even get a pick for him damn that’s that Black History Month come on Kyle and and look I ow I don’t
Know who it was one of them uh one of them little sites yesterday there was they reported that Kyle was non-committal to Steve wils I was like that’s unfair to to put that out there like that because he said like a minute later he expects all the coaches to be
Back well I guess I was wrong I guess I was wrong in that one I all the all the other coaches to be back I was wrong on that one we’ll talk about that in a a little later um I’m the only one in the damn building not wearing red or pink
I’m in a I’m in a terrible Place throw red today you know what I’m saying I didn’t know I didn’t know it was a thing well it’s been a thing your whole life to wear Valentine to wear red on Valentine I didn’t know I didn’t I
Didn’t that is that a thing are you wearing red I got black sweater and sweats on we don’t do this here what are you talking about okay uh Twitter that Damian all right men don’t do that all right no I think no we don’t participate in spirit
Day yeah me and Dame don’t do spirit days men don’t participate I didn’t say that I didn’t say run to the Gil the grill fellas all right I didn’t say oh us just at the stage let’s go to the grill quick guys come on let’s
Go oh man Chris isn’t wear red either I think I might be the only man wearing no you’re not there’s there’s there’s red all over the well yeah I think I’m the only one yeah actually you might be because well you’re right I think you might be salute
Um but the Kings I mean I don’t agree that like their their Destiny is just already here like they’re playing team I don’t agree with that because they are talented enough and just a week ago like they’re up and down just like everybody else like Dallas looked dead a week ago now they’re
Playing well yeah but here’s here here’s the difference you’re right you’re 100 per right but what’s the difference they made some moves yeah all right like they’re they’re not gonna I don’t think the Mavericks are gonna finish 16 and six even with the moves they made like I think think Sacramento could
Finish 16 and six no but I’m say I don’t think Dallas can either like I don’t think I don’t believe believe Dallas and New Orleans are going to run away I don’t think you have to run away you just have to be better if the Kings continue to play the Kings continue to
Play the way they W they have been they’ll be a half game behind so here’s the Crux of here’s here’s the Crux of my whole issue I never do this ever the Kings aren’t winning tonight that that may be the case and you said they have and I think the
Warriors played twice right right they tonight and tomorrow like they could the Warriors could be like a game away from Sacramento when this is all over I’m not here to say that anything that’s wrong like there it is conceivable that all that happens but I mean this just goes
Into the pattern of the way they’ve played all year the Kings have played all year this is no different and what that says is they’ll be right there in the mix of things come April 14th and whether that’s good enough to be six or puts him in eighth we’ll find
Out then but six ain’t running away where the point where it’s like in my opinion I don’t think six is running away to the point where it could it could it AB could I’ll tell I’ll tell you how it could it could it could a lot sooner than we think it absolutely could
March 26 and 29th it could I’m not disputing that it could but I don’t I think you’re putting too much stock in the Dallas and New Orleans maybe or or maybe I’m just maybe it’s less about Dallas and New Orleans and more about Sacramento well because they
Got to run away though that like that’s so like to say like they ain’t getting six they’re gonna have to play better than what they’re played too not what but but that’s what we’re seeing right now that’s that’s part of the problem but we didn’t see that a week ago that’s
My whole point like these like next week Dallas could lose four or six or not gonna play six games but they could lose four their next six yeah and the Kings could win four their next six it’s what’s going my whole point is I don’t think what we’ve seen this year is going
To change I think it’s going to be about what it is the Kings aren’t GNA go I don’t think they’re GNA go 16 and six Warriors Lakers and Dallas have all won seven of their last 10 I’m just saying you can laugh no I’m laughing because and and we could play with
Numbers all we want but for the last two games what have the Kings just done for the last what before the last two games what were the kings in the last before the last two but what were the kings in the last 10 games they seven and three well that’s that’s fine
But they lost the last two so if we okay let’s add on the two games before the 10 games for the my whole point is this is what everybody weren’t they in a losing streak oh they were in the winning seven of 10 and they lost two and now everything is
Done you know what I’m saying like we we’ll talk we’ll talk about more we’ll talk yeah there’s something that has to happen this off season and it’s it’s glaringly obvious to me it has to happen like if there is the change was never ever ever ever Harrison Barnes it was
Kevin herder and that is so stupid obvious at this point we’ll talk about it Med and Casey return here on ESPN 1320 they might make the play in for sure it is it is a really real possibility that they make the plan I’m just not closing the book yet that’s all I’m
Saying they got one left with Phoenix which I didn’t know until last night they played Phoenix nine times this year and I think they have one love with New Orleans if I’m not mistaken yeah and they’ve lost that season series already yeah they’ve lost the season
Series but at least you can get a game MH get a game in in positioning at least you can get a game we really landed on whatever it is they lied to me they said Bluey was on that’s the show that I like I don’t know what this is blue is the
Show that that uh is actually pretty funny this is like a why you ha look that’s a brother right there wow Kenny hates black C firebuds is cool see Blue’s next but oh Blue’s on the one before too but um wa firebuds looks like a a knockoff Paw
Patrol no blue is kind of this all yeah that’s bluee blue is a funny little cartoon got cartoon the mom the dad be uh be pooping not pooping farting oh it’s South Park I was like Comedy Central has one of three shows on all the time it’s South Park and
Seinfeld it’s like uh Comedy Central let’s do it again let’s do it again again I’ll close my eyes go ahead go through the guide stop oh oh what do we land on what do we land on the Paul fine bomb show oh oh oh man disgusting oh man nothing
Wrong with Paul fine bomb I guess I lost my key man I thought I left it uh in in here always losing I can’t believe they’re playing bingo right now having a good ass did they get did the pizza come here somebody told me there was pizza no it
Was delayed I think by 15 minutes ho really out we got to make sure we get our some too because they won’t leave it for us yeah man one of us got to go no the second that pizza hits the table no matter where we are in the both you get
Up and go get it hell yeah godamn it let’s just take a pizza box power oh do that yeah yeah do that do that just walk right out there in front of everybody just take the box I’ll see y’all gotta get gotta get back to work gota get get work gotta get
Back to work did um H I’ll save it for the radio I’ll save for the radio I got mob duty today Dr David skinny pop Gotta Love skinny pop real men don’t eat skinny pop you see regular pop both um vimo can go to hell oh no what
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I don’t ever really use vimmo my buddy got his stuff hacked one time lost a bunch of money or whatever they told no it sucks for you pal no so look then they were like and you know they got call centers and stuff like that so they
Were like verify the purchase and we can change everything unlock it for you so you can do what you got to do verifi the purchase they’re like yeah we’re gonna need you to send a picture of your ID and a picture of you holding your ID
Next to you oh my god sending you that I don’t know who the hell you are I have no idea who you are so then so then they wouldn’t they wouldn’t uh they wouldn’t do it oh Jesse was sick of your story no I
Tried I tried to hold it out as long as I Jesse was sick of your stupid story was a to finish the story we got a show to do story’s done VM Mo can go to hell straight to hell I ain’t using vinmo no more don’t ask
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Well maybe that’s what it is this is crazy maybe that’s don’t even get me started on this lovely day once again the love doctor is here and people talking I can’t leave the TV here bro I know we were doing gimmick I can’t I can’t people were like casy aren’t you
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Love love I want to see love prosper and I’m here to help you out men or women I got you love yeah that’s that’s what I need I need like Allison or or Jill to call Casey for love advice right Miss p calling in like hey Casey I’m having an
Issue I got you that’s exactly what needs to well not maybe what Miss P I’m just saying just in general that’s what needs to happen if you hey so maybe maybe today is the day you want to make your big move you know you wanna you w
To really you know put it out there on the line that I want you to be my Valentine every day and you need to know how to go about that I’ll let you know I got you okay yeah so Jesse online when Mark Jones told me if I’m not in debt
I’m not living now my fiance is mad at me what do I do buy those Wrestlemania tickets oh this now this is a great this is one of my favorite shows of all time got I got you my wife and kids is I got it’s not it’s really one of my it’s
Probably top 10 show I love my wife Damon Wayne’s is hilarious he is hilarious I think you’re lying about why you enjoy this show so much but yes Damon way you know my girl Tisha Campbell there too that’s my girl t yeah Eric B says Eric B I’m with I’m with
Eric B Eric B says I’m gonna call in and talk Bluey I hate sports right now speak on it Eric B facts I don’t ever get this way I was so pissed off last night I was frustrated like I was mad yeah I was I was frustrated and I and I yo they
Played they played really well I got really frustrated that in the stretch of the come on now third third into fourth M when it got to 10 when they they just kept they kept they kept they they they they they couldn’t close out on the three again and like I don’t think they
Hit a ton of Threes they being the I think they hit 12 let me get the right number 13 I’m sorry they hit 13 they probably hit four or five in a stretch of like four or five minutes right there and it’s like this is it’s the same stuff and
Then hey it it happens he played phenomenal you got now dearon missing free throws giving uh goddamn footprint Stadium chicken sandwiches or whatever the hell that they won damn that was tough and I had to listen to Reggie Miller for three hours so so people were upset with Reggie Miller I wasn’t really
Locked into like what he was saying and I wasn’t like really I heard him but I wasn’t listening if that that makes sense like like I would hear him when he would get excited and he would you know talk about some stuff but I wasn’t really listening I asked the the Insiders I
Said what what would what does a good broadcast from Reggie Miller sound like to you guys because I didn’t think it was a problem last night I can tell you this is what a good broadcast sounds like from Reggie Miller don’t don’t be disrespectful no let him cook let him
Cook don’t do that this is Elite broadcasting hold on let me mimic it again what Elite level you know what was so funny to me last night you know what was so funny to me last night it didn’t even have nothing to do with with the Kings
There was talking about Shaq the game before Shaquille O’Neal got his jersey retired in in uh uh in Orlando and they mentioned uh uh Hey Kil O’Neal one of I don’t I don’t remember what they said players that have gotten their jersey retired in three different places and I
I don’t I don’t remember if it was Reggie or he was like oh yeah but how many more and they go well you know he had Stinson in Boston and Cleveland and it’s like No One’s Gonna point out he played for the team that you’re covering right
Now nope they just let it slide that he played for the Phoenix Suns the arena that they’re at okay what’s wrong with that and you want to play by play was our guy ba no you one more was our guy ba Brian Anderson is that his name oh
Okay no no no tell me more about I’m not I’m not going to say that because it R it would ruin the tell me more about I’m not going to say that because it would ruin a bit but but there there there isn’t there is an answer to no it wasn’t ba it
Was uh uh it was Harland wasn’t it it was I don’t Ba’s with um Stan Van Stan okay yeah it was uh our guy Iron Eagle last night oh was it Iron Eagle so when he when he says that so if you’re if you’re Iron Eagle and Reggie Miller says
That what are you going to say wait says what says he was in Boston and Cleveland what would you say oh they just kept going with what would you say well he played here thank you so is that Reggie’s fault or I Eagles fault it’s both of their faults well first well
First of all ion Eagle was probably five when Shaq played inen no not Noah oh that’s right ion is a grown ass man that’s right are we sure that was Ian Eagle last night yeah it was ion they had no on the Nickelodeon broadcast for
The Super Bowl no was that oh I missed that I didn’t see any of that I didn’t see it was it good I didn’t see it it was cool I didn’t see any of it was for the kids I think they would like it they
Uh they do a good job one of the one of the things they had Travis Kelce and you know they have like the the bar Travis Kelce tit in 800 receptions or whatever the case may be on Nickelodeon it was Travis Kelce good at football tra Taylor
Swift uh boyfriend no that’s good stuff that’s good stuff so that’s what the was I I I enjoy those I think Reggie I think what pissed fans off last night was Reggie was demanding a a winner and loser in the Kings Pacers trade because
You can’t do a game I remember I heard I heard that I don’t think I I heard that part and see I but see I heard that part and I heard it differently yeah I didn’t even hear the Reggie part I heard Ian eagle say um can we just acknowledge
Both teams are really good after this deal yeah and I don’t know what people were talking about because I heard Reggie and Reggie was like hey he basically he came to the conclusion it was a win-win but then he was like but you have to look at the
Fact that sabonis has been an All-Star already they made the playoffs already and he said something to the fact like if you have to choose a side you have to factor that in but I think see this this is what I don’t understand like why are
People mad at Reggie for what he said I actually heard that part and he was fair to the conversation if not compliment any more to the Kings no I don’t know I just don’t want to hear Miller’s voice he’s a little Tony Romo wish too
Reggie we got to talk about this you got got to let him goo got to let it go he’s in the booth now he’s in the booth I’m not talking about like fumbling a snap against the Seahawks I’m talking oh why’d he bring that up I said I’m not
Talking about that I’m not talking about that well what what is your people’s beef with with Tony Romo Romo overemphasizes like oh I don’t know Jim I don’t know I don’t know and like Reggie Miller does that in a basketball way though well Reggie also says oh Darren
Fox went down oh he may have broken his neck oh exactly he overemphasizes F he’s fine turns out he’s fine he didn’t break don’t want to speculate but he may have snapped his spine in two okay Reggie thanks man I like I said
I just I guess I end up being a a Reggie Defender like I’m a Mike McCarthy Defender out here um but I don’t know people were mad at Reggie last night like Jame J I wasn’t on Twitter I wasn’t J James was in here uh 30 20 minutes ago
Talking about Reggie sounded like this was the first time he had ever seen Damonte sabonis so do you want these people to give them credit and praise them or not like that’s my thing do what do you want what what do people want this to sound like because Reggie was overly
Excited about sabonis like oh my god did you see what he just that’s 610 with a Euro Step on Kevin Durant this guy and this guy’s not on the All-Star team come on come on and people were mad at Reggie so I’m like what do you guys want this stuff to sound
Like ask them they don’t know that’s the point you want me to do what you getting hotted me for because you said Reggie sucks he does suck but he doesn’t suck just because of last night his entire body of work stinks as a broadcaster phenomenal ball player n
He’s all right he’s okay you taking shots at Tony Romo W Tony oh oh Tony’s a bad broadcaster no no Tony I’m not saying Tony’s bad but he’s acknowledged as much like yeah he’s got to be better and they’ve talked to him too who’s better Tony or Greg olon Ton Tony Tony
Tony yeah Tony’s better I think it’s close and I like them both Greg olsson’s very good I like them both I I like Tony I like Tony on the call I think he’s I think he’s good GRE really good I think that much of Greg very curious what they’re going to
Do with him next year who was that Jamal there 916993 got you big I don’t think that’s what he’s calling for Jil what’s up bro what’s up guys hey Greg OLS is better man let’s not forget Tony Romo almost almost said the N word on on now
We don’t know that for sure we I know I know I know we’re not we’re not certain that that’s what happened I know I know check this out uh KC you’re the one that say you you’re the love doctor that’s right me love this help me love this
Team a little bit more man after last night man just just help me because I’m G tell you this I’m G tell you this DLo I seen what you seen about Kevin herder so do you guys remember a few weeks maybe um maybe I don’t want to say a
Month ago but when Kevin herder was miked up remember and one of the other players is uh from the other team came up to Kevin herder and Kevin herter was like so what did you do in this fabulous town of Sacramento like being sarcastic after last night after I seen him throw
The fit with Mike Brown and he got benched for the rest of the game I was done with Kevin her I’m with you DLo so KC please Valentine’s Day help me love this team a little bit more that’s a that’s a good call and I got you and
I’m I’m gonna let you cook but I think J I think you’re reading that wrong I appreciate you for love this King team it’s hard to say what you got to do to love this king’s team right now but what you can look at is you got two
Allstar caliber players you’ve got a guy in Malik last night I was ready to give the back to I said man Monty negotiate with this man right now cuz he’s H all right you need him Malik mon Ean Murray we’ll talk about him but in the grand
Scheme of things that’s a guy that you want to keep around Mike Brown’s a good coach we’ll talk about him that’s a guy that you want to keep around this is the Beam Team this is the team that ended the 16-year drought I know it’s a different year but you got a love
Through the thick and thin and you got to show that love you can never go to sleep without saying I love you don’t go to sleep mad if it’s raining you still put that umbrella over you do that and at the end of the day that’s how marriages last
That’s how love lasts and if you want to love the Kings you hold on you get the counseling we’re the counselors we’ll work we’ll work through this we got you big dog okay I’mma kill that cuz I don’t need any romantic music for this part because I’m going tell you not everybody
On this team is married there’s some dating there’s some dating on this team there might even be some hoing on this team there’s some man look so our man J brought it up it is it this is not me this is not my feeling on the individual this is me
Monitoring a situation through the entire season both with you meaning you KC you the chatty house you listening Kings fans all over the place this is us me and Kenny monitoring a situation behind the scenes Mike does not like Kevin hurder Kevin herder is the one that has to go Kevin hder
Perhaps for Mike Brown’s own sanity has to be traded I don’t know what it is I don’t know of it defense I don’t know what he was mad at him about last night if it was a close out I’m sorry did you see the clip I I’ve heard about it I
Haven’t seen it if anybody has it out there the clip of Mike and Kevin yeah I didn’t see it yeah that was yeah I saw that I I I just I just hadn’t seen it and they said he didn’t come in after that right yeah he he he he didn’t come
Back in it was a sent it to me on Twitter I didn’t I didn’t catch it it clear it had to have been it was something on the defensive end because Mike called the timeout after a basket he walked out well onto the floor and he’s yelling at Kevin herder Kevin
Herder is going back at Mike which what it’s fine we’ve we’ve SE it’s fine and walks past him he gets bench he doesn’t come back in that’s a that’s a single incident I promis we’re not reading too much in a single incident I’m trying to
Put all of this together and I think all of this trade talk Harrison Barnes Harrison Barnes Harrison Barnes I don’t ever think Mike had any interest in Harrison Barnes I think that’s why Mike defended Harrison Barnes the way that he did Harrison Barnes Remains the only
Player on this roster that Mike has ever publicly defended I think he is sick of Kevin herder that’s why we saw what we saw in training camp that’s why we saw what we saw with chryst wte during the season and that’s why I think as part of the reason we saw
Whatever that was last night doesn’t mean Kevin herder is benched and he’s not going to play anymore doesn’t mean that they’re not going to work towards a common goal of this team being successful it means in my opinion in my opinion only for this team’s long-term success Kevin hder is probably the guy
That has to be traded because to me the evidence of there being something with Mike Brown not liking about his game is really starting to add up okay he can yell at Malik Malik gonna play he could pull how many times has that camera from NBC Sports California
Caught him talking to Keegan Murray how many times has James tweeted a teaching moment with Keegan Murray and Mike Brown during the timeout a million he ain’t bench keev he ain’t bench Keegan Murray he a never benched Keegan Murray he sat Kevin herder’s ass down when they needed points
Okay so I’m sick of your voice too I’m GNA tell you that right now you’ve been trying to calm me down for the last 35 I don’t like this I don’t like the way I don’t like this I don’t like this love doctor stuff no process you came in all
Pissed off on Monday and now you’re trying to talk me down when I’m high no I’m not trying to talk you down no I don’t like can he keep no no can he keep send you I see you feel that way so I see you feel that way but no I hear you
I’m let I’m letting you I’m letting you cook I’m letting you cook now here here here’s what I say though yeah you saw it in my opinion Mike is dead wrong and he’s been dead wrong since training camp because this team he cannot like him all
He want so so here’s here’s the deal I don’t disagree with you by the way I me don’t disag want to be clear that what you’re saying I get what you’re saying and I’m GNA come from a different angle pa um I hosted how do I get a flag for
Pause I paed it that’s pass interference that’s 40 yards down the field too I cut it first how do I get a that’s this that’s this that’s not how that works yeah you think you get to tell do that almost every time come on man you tried
To throw me out of a show once when I said pause on that was crazy I’m gonna I’m gonna have a different Outlook Mike Mike’s dead wrong Drew Down said Happy Valentine’s Day everybody Mike’s dead wrong Mike has been dead wrong I agree they need Kevin
Herder on this team to win and he has not done a good job of getting Kevin herder on the same page and getting him locked into everything wholeheartedly agree they needed him last night and and him benching him like everywhere he’s tried to go has failed
It’s failed and Mike needs to stop with all this I’m combating Kevin herder and I’m a bench him so I can play Keon Ellis and that does nothing that don’t do nothing I like Keon Ellis it’s not a gamechanging move Chris dorte it wasn’t a gamechanging move if you want one look
In the summer you don’t have it right now yeah so you gonna sacrifice the season to make a point or you gonna put your best players out there and try and get the best out of the your best players I agree and that’s the problem I
Don’t dispute what you say in the summer do all that make all the phone calls you ain’t got no choice right now you’ve got a plan yep stop going to Keon out like that’s the answer it’s not the answer late in games and and he had nine points
Or whatever but I got to say what it is Harrison Barnes you want to talk about defense he’s fooled he is fooled to everybody in the league he’s fooled they look at him like it’s time to eat Harrison don’t do nothing on defense nothing to disrupt anything anything and
He’s not a threat on the offensive end so what is he out there for he don’t rebound he don’t do none of that he had a decent game last night decent game I’m not I’m not here to talk about the game last night but I am I am saying he had
Nine points five rebounds I am saying late in that game what why was he out there you and the B bottom line is whether you have a reason for him being out there or whatever routinely it’s not working it’s not working these close games these close situations you’re not
Winning them like and Harrison’s out there all the time herder’s out there sometimes sometimes he gets bent so it’s whatever but in my opinion you need Kevin herder on this team to be successful and if you want to mess around like the whole messing around with his minutes and all this other
That’s got to stop that’s got to stop let him play keep them out there the closing lineup should be Fox monk herder or Barnes you can make the decision I would go with herder more times than not Keegan and sabonis Kevin herder played nine minutes in the second half
So I I agree like he probably don’t want him here you just going to lose because you ain’t winning your way Mike you’re not winning your way throwing out dwarte Kesler Edwards Keon Ellis all this other stuff you’re not winning so what are we gonna do now
So here’s the like other part of that he pulls Kevin out and this is when the suns are just kicking the king’s teeth in and it looks like this thing is going south quickly he takes Kevin out and the game immediately settles down Sacramento they get their they you know
They’re when he takes Kevin they’re not out of it right but it’s starting to feel like yo this game is spiraling out of control and Sacramento to their credit settles things down they get some shops they for some difficult shots Phoenix missed some shots and Sacramento
Was able to to do what they do Sacramento was able to uh uh you know make a little run hit some shots they had some guys playing well and all of that and that’s probably the difficult part about this for Mike Brown and that coaching staff is I think there’s a
Balance where and we talk about this with second units right particularly late in the game we make the Bobby Hansen joke and Mike given fi a look look it’s time put me back in there is a sweet spot when it comes to ride with the group that got you there and then
Put your stars back in like if if if if if the group that got you there isn’t you know your starters you gota you there’s there’s a very sweet spot with ending it too early and ending it too late and the margin of erir for that is
Is Razor thin it’s and it’s literally Mike looking at Phil going put me back in let’s go close this out at some point you got to put Kevin herder back in yes and it’s it’s fine you went away from it you got back in the great you
Accomplished what you needed to do you should have put Kevin herder back in I agree I agree and the whole messing messing with his minutes man that’s got to stop that’s got to stop I think that’s one of the one of the reasons um for the struggles is not being able to
Get a consistent Kevin hder and and Kevin herder I’m not saying like I wouldn’t teach my son to do this or anything else like that but he’s probably pissed off like yeah I’m a fireback yeah I messed up a rotation how many times has HB missed
The rotation how’s how many times has he been to a slow to a close out but you don’t say nothing to him you don’t yank him out of the games none of that he plays every time yeah down the stretch so Kevin herder probably pissed off he probably tired of hearing it and
Like I said I’m not saying that’s the best way to handle it but that happens I just think I think that that’s a big problem that’s a that’s a huge problem especially when you I’ll say this again you don’t have the answer to replace him all right you’ve tried Keon you’ve
Tried uh dwarte you’ve tried Kessler none of them consistently are good enough DTE was a healthy scratch last night none of them are good enough stop messing around man stop messing around there’s a lot more Kings basketball to talk about obviously uh we’re both a little frustrated uh and I’m on the
Ledge we’ve got San Francisco 49ers news regarding Steve wils there’s a really upsetting Story coming out of Kansas City um we’re following all of this stuff we’ll try to bring it to you when we can bring it to you in a more concise manner than just reading what’s on Twitter
Um but just know we’re we’re following it we’re we’re we’re seeing it we’re not ignoring it we’re just trying to get a full understanding of what the hell is happening out there so that’s all on the way we’re happy that you’re here with us it’s dealing with Casey
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And I ain’t seen this many people in the building in a minute boy you put out a pizza memo they show up been a while you know what’s real when like the government Department shows up and all that I didn’t even know the government Department was
Here it’s some good pizza man it’s some good pizza yeah yeah right now I got it go ahead John isn’t tress appropriately well you better retake that picture that’s funny okay all right we are uh following this situation at the chief’s parade as best we can obviously there was a shooting
There um different report say 8 to 10 people were injured I’m I’m not sure like what we have past that it was in an area where players and players families were again it’s difficult to it’s Twitter so I’m trying to find like reporters from Kansas City rather than just reading tweets from
Kansas City I see a lot of the same videos uh you guys are seeing but obviously just a terrible just Ridiculousness uh of this country um happening in in in Kansas City right now so we’re continuing to monitor that situation uh from a football standpoint we’ll get to the San Francisco 49ers and
The changes that they’ve made uh at the um defensive coordinator position with Steve wils now uh being out of a job so uh let’s get back to these phone lines though we’ve talked a lot about the Kings here this first hour after their latest loss and of course they go right
Into Denver tonight will Z will join us here in a little bit James ham later in the show 9169 09 1320 we got pton here pton always good to hear from you man what’s going on hey what’s popping y’ how you doing we good baby I’m doing all right man you know
I’m kind of going through it after last night I’m I’m at the point now where I feel like I love coach Mike I’m glad he’s here but I feel like he’s he’s keeping he’s got M coming off the bench just to make a point like I don’t feel
Like because he plays more minutes than herder anyway but he’s still coming off Off the Bench and you look at the box score you look at the Monk and the rest of the bench they’re not producing I don’t know what’s up with that and then lastly I don’t know why Murray’s only
Taking two three-pointers a game he got ready it fly man that’s that’s I listen to Y response off the off the phone but that’s what I’m talking about right now man y have a blessed one no we appreciate you bro yeah thank you um you mentioned a little bit earlier and
You’re 100% right Kik Murray needs to step his game up like I’m I’m tired of uh second year player he’s young all this other stuff man hey go be be young on the on the Hornets you know what I’m saying he get your CH we’re trying to
Win here and if if if we’re trying to get something done you’ve got a job you’ve got to execute that that’s the burden of being a young guy on a team that’s trying to win all right you don’t have opportunities to disappear for multiple games in a row while you figure
It out it’s time to step up and I love Keegan Murray I believe in what he can be but it is what it is like he gotta he gotta be more consistent this isn’t good enough this isn’t good enough he got to pick this up yeah his offensive numbers have just gotten
Really bizarre um there was that stretch where he had scored five points in like three or four games in the one game he didn’t he scored 33 and the Kings lost uh he scored six last night you started to feel like he was finding a flow a little bit he scored 13 that
Wasn’t a loss he scored 17 uh in the win against Denver he didn’t score against Detroit and and and and I have I have I have my beef with that Detroit game we talked about you know Mike you know Mike you know I think he he sat um keeg in
That whole fourth quarter pretty close to the whole fourth quarter as jadeen Ivy was was was lighting up the golden one Center um I’m realizing too at this particular moment and it’s probably just like a it’s probably just like a feeling a frustration I’ve been frustrated with Mike a lot lately but
Like we talk about expectations for players and like dear and domas and like domas is playing out of his freaking mind domas is playing phenomenal congratulations on his 50th triple career triple double uh his third straight triple double I think it’s the second time he’s done that this year had
A triple double in three straight games um but I have some frustrations with Mike it started with as you outlined earlier what he did with Kevin herder in in in the in the preseason in training camp and how I feel like that’s continued over here during the season I
Now now to something Payton said Malik just has a role maybe that’s something that needs to be visited maybe the idea of Malik being the spark Off the Bench isn’t what it maybe that’s not it maybe that’s just an idea at this point and he does need to
Be in the starting lineup I don’t think so simply because of the amount of minutes that he plays like he closes games when he when he is in his bag he plays like he is an elite starter in this league I think you’d have a better
Argument if the Kings got off the trash starts uh every game but that doesn’t really seem to be the case I don’t think that was the case last night in fact I thought they were playing really really well last night domas we you and I as we
Were leaving um uh the studio last night the game was already underway we was looking at uh dear and Dom’s first quarter numbers like we the triple double for domas was inevitable with like two minutes left in the first and you know so they’re not getting off to bad starts like there’s
There there there’s it’s there there are things that are happening uh during the course of a game and Mike I think has done you know I’ve been critical of Mike I’ll I’ll praise Mike I think Mike has done a great job of recognizing when Malik is is having one of those days and
He he rocks with them like I’m not going anywhere else it’s not punishment to anybody it’s not um I’m mad at somebody it’s that Malik is having one of those moments where he’s special and he’s had a lot of them in the last you know week
And a half I’m G ride that I’m let I’mma let that live I’m gonna let that stay out there on the court and I think he’s a I think him I think him and Malik have a great Synergy yeah I I I think Mike might lack
That with some other guys on the team yeah namely the one we’ve been talking about a lot today and Kevin herder Mike um has failed to consistently get the best out of his players this year and that’s as a coach I feel like that’s that’s your your goal that’s your your job
Sometimes it’s out of you know out of your control whether or not you can get that done but that’s what you should be striving for every time and I probably is what what Mike is striving for I’m not saying he isn’t but to some of his
Own doing I feel like he hasn’t gotten the most out of Kevin herder and this is the the the thing about that like what Mike is saying and how he feels about um Kevin herter missed assignment defense all this other stuff I’m not not even
Here to say it’s wrong but you have no that’s your best option you’ve tried number of different let’s go to Keegan or did you get the clip yet did someone tag you in the clip I seen I just saw it yeah I just saw it um let’s try Keon now
Or let’s bring this guy in and let’s do this or let’s keep going with Harrison uh Laton games on defense where he’s not giving you anything like it’s not working if it was working if if it was one of those things where you know um Hey Kevin you’re not doing what you’re
Supposed to do I got guys ready to go I’m trying to give you an opportunity I got guys ready to go on the bench and if you don’t want to do what you’re supposed to do then they’ll come in here and do your job for you and that what
Was what’s what was happening Hey Kevin get your mind right these guys are ready to take your spot and execute that’s not what’s happening yeah these guys are not coming in changing the game or doing much of anything that’s affecting the game and with Kevin herder I think he’s more of a willing
Defender this year he’s a better rebounder than what you have for anybody that you’re trying to put in there and he’s you got to at least respect him on the on the offensive end I I know this sounds hard they’re not nobody’s respecting Harrison bars offensively at this point like nobody’s
Like oh man we left him open in the corner they’re like we’ll live like it’s just not happening right now so yeah I I just I think he’s gota he’s got to fix that I hope it’s not too late it shouldn’t be too late um but to your
Point he’s got to do a little bit better better job as a coach I’m frustrated with this team man it’s a frustrating team and it’s just so and it’s just magnify it they could play anyone tonight but Denver I’m trying to they gonna go three and0 versus Denver I said
Give me one just give me one I really would have preferred it to be last night because you’re in a battle with Phoenix you lose to Denver you’re in a battle with Phoenix get that one secure the season series keep it moving you get one tonight like
Okay but that’s three and 0 versus Denver that’s tough for that’s that’s tough for me to see going into tonight’s game so what worries me is I’m worried that’s how they approach they look at things like last night like they look like last night we gonna go out and try
And get this one they may have been listening to D KC was like they’re right we need to we need to go one in one Phoenix is the night no no first night of a back toback no altitude none of Phoenix is we getting after it
Tonight we getting after we going to get this one tonight and then they didn’t get it it’s shoulder slump and now they feel sorry for themselves because it’s a backto back and they’re at altitude and man the R against Denver like that’s a lot to ask like that’s my concern see I
I hear you and I just don’t think athletes approach I think they do I think a lot of them will fold the 10 early I’m not saying that’s what these oh I I don’t doubt that but they’ll come out they’ll get a feel for this game see
Where they’re at and if the second things go wrong if to 10 and that’s what I’m worried about with this team my my computer has as much power as the Sacramento Kings have had oh no the bad thing about all this is It’s a loss last night I thought they
Played really well last night and that’s and I think that so like they they didn’t who they the Kings didn’t no dear did domas did Malik did yo that was a that was basically it you you get a little bit more for did they did did anyone on the bench besides Malik
Score uh just did Davon score just Davon hit a three that’s it Davon played 17 minutes look I know that’s not davon’s role isn’t to go score a bunch of points um I thought he was really really active when he got in there but man you just needed a little bit
More this team has like no depth I feel like last year A lot of it was that um like a lot was like oh yeah they got depth everyone Off the Bench can come out with help nothing Monty did in the off Seas has had any impact whether it
Be Chris dwarte venkov or like javel McGee is not like oh had javel McGee but like nothing he’s done has had impact to be fair to the conversation you were missing I wasn’t going to say two of your bench scores but Sasha don’t even play sometimes but Sasha was out Sasha’s
Out for a while is their second best bench player yeah Alex Lynn played yesterday who we all like Alex Lynn he didn’t do anything yeah I didn’t think Alex Lyn was gonna play at all I was surprised when his when his number got called so Phoenix Phoenix went big Phoenix brought in bull
Bull for a second and then didn’t they’re like okay they hadn’t done that in the in the previous games I think we even said yesterday we’re probably not going to see Alex lyard jvel McGee in this game we’ll see we might see Kessler Edwards and we might see the duo of
Davon and Keon but I don’t think we’re gonna see Alex Linton Alex Linton gets the Run bull Bull’s out there and then bull bull get okay this this was a bad idea and and vogle takes bull bull out and he he he got the Mike Brown is hilarious treatment because he never got
His number called again and he just kind of he he stuck with that I say a smaller lineup he stuck with the regular lineup of course we we we didn’t touch on this it’s got nothing to do with us but Brad left the game I I literally minutes into it by the time
I got home Brad was done and I think I got home in the second quarter and uh I guess I guess something happened to his hamstring yeah yeah hamstring situation and so they they they had to go without Brad Beal the rest of the game yeah so I
Mean I I all disagree though I thought they I thought like we don’t they played I thought they played well last night you had you had two guys you had a guy with 40 a guy with 35 another guy with 22 there’s talk about points there’s not
A lot of shots to go over that alone is there’s a lot of math to do right there that’s like uh 70 shots almost they shot 51% yeah maybe maybe maybe they play fine they hit single digits another guy had nine you know what I mean so
It’s I would have keep should have stepped up a little bit you wanted him to play a little better maybe Davon he missed two free throws you could have hit free throws too yeah Davon hit two missed two free throws you know what I mean so you know maybe that’s another
Two points Keegan gives you so you can find points where you can give it but I thought in general never give that CRA don’t ever give away crowds free food that sucks I was mad as hell when uh a said oh I think they get a chicken
Sandwich or something I’ll go to hell yeah that’s that is infuriating but uh I thought they played well last night and by itself I don’t think this is a game that would get people turned up like if they you know if they had one or two more wins and they hadn’t had like
Blowout losses and all this other stuff I think last night is a is a game where people would say that’s just a basketball game you know against a team in Phoenix who’s playing well um you had opportunities to win and you just didn’t get it done it’s just the basketball
Game but I think the totality of the season has weighed on you and others after what we saw it’s just the game until it’s not but it’s just the game until it’s actually the season I’m not I’m not saying you’re wrong I’m saying if this was if the season hadn’t been going the
Way it was going I don’t think you’d feel this way about this game I go a step further if they had just beaten Detroit there’s that it’ probably right there it’d be different wouldn’t be saying nothing but that’s my point it’s not the the game specifically it’s the totality of this is another
Chapter in this season has been frustrating and and the games are adding up whether they’re whether they’re bad like Detroit blowouts like Philadelphia or they’re like last night those those games are adding up and at some point you’re gonna run out yeah you gonna run out of games to
Play yeah what they’ve done if they put them they’ve backed themselves into a corner where they’re going to have to play some really good basketball to get where they want to get I think they can do that I think I’m not going to argue against anybody who says they can’t
Based on what they’ve shown this year or what they’ve seen from them this year not going to argue with that but I think they can play good enough basketball to get into the top six to get into the playoffs I think they can they play well enough defensively um because it only takes
Because for because the kings were in a really good spot like when they were up 10 or 11 or whatever it was I didn’t I didn’t think they were going to blow it open to 22 again or 24 or whatever but it was also that lead got eliminated it
It was it was one like Rush MH between between the third and the fourth at the end of the third going into the fourth where it was it was just like the king they they’re stuck they’re just it’s it’s it’s like we saw with Oklahoma City
It’s like we’ve seen with a handful of teams this year Phoenix started firing threes and didn’t miss how many did Gordon have last night 20 something just firing threes 23 and it’s it’s it it it wasn’t that didn’t happen for 48 minutes it happened for a stretch
Of like five and that changed the complexion of the game so when the Kings got back going again and and started to do maybe a couple of things defensively maybe they had a couple of bounces go their way uh uh they start but that’s but but now they were digging themselves
Out of a hole rather than just playing ball like they were digging themselves out of a hole just because of that one stretch which it feels like every team that Sacramento plays is capable of a single stretch where they hit like five or six threes in short order because the
Kings for whatever reason struggle guarding that part of the floor yeah I think everybody has that issue though so like to answer your question starting the three just playing defense like to to get where we’re talking about do they play good enough defense to get into the top six absolutely they
Do do they play good enough defense to win around to advance probably not but to get there who to to the guys the teams that they’re going up against what do they do Fenix don’t play no defense Dallas don’t play no defense New Orleans can but they they’re kind of iffy lost Dyson
Daniels so they’re in the same boat as that that’s why they’re they’re at that’s why they’re not in the top four because Minnesota plays defense OKC can play defense Denver plays defense Los Angeles plays defense so to advance I don’t know if they can do that but we’re talking about making the
Playoffs they yes they play enough defense to do that but they I think they got but you also got to play your strengths this team got to score more I was gonna say consistently I don’t think I agree with you they got score I think if they make
The six that’s what it comes down to yeah they have to score more I think the most important thing I think if we’re talking about the Sacramento Kings making the play this is and and and and yes I’ve said this since 12 o’clock I’m down right now on this team if the
Sacramento Kings make the playoffs I think it’s through the playin I think they can get to the top six but I mean the they have to play to their strength they have to play to their strength their strength they have to be a dynamic scoring team almost
Every night we go we also talk about um the stat that we’re always looking at they only had nine threes last night scored 125 so I’m not saying man they got to score 140 every night to win but the style of play being as dynamic as they
Are they’ve got to score they’ve got to score to even have an opportunity last night they had an opportunity it was a close game they weren’t able to get it done but to to have a chance they’ve got to score against OKC I don’t think they really scored the other night against
Detroit they scored until they didn’t at the end of the game they went ice cold so against Cleveland they didn’t really score they got to score that’s who they’ve got to be and Mike Brown I think uh Monty McNair talked about it the other day and Mike Brown’s
Got to embrace that a little bit more you gotta be better offensively yeah this is this is who you are which is why you can’t get pissed at Kevin herder exactly and not playing that’s why and You’ got to make sure he his his mentor
Is at its best at all times I think Mike has tricked off Kevin Hunter’s mental a long time ago and see that’s the thing Mike’s got a talk to herder today you got a game to play you got a game to win tonight and you can get right hey herder
Wherever you’re going if you’re going to Sacramento if you’re going to Cabo if you’re going home wherever home is for wherever you’re going enjoy this me and you we gonna get everything right when you get back here on Tuesday or whatever day they’re scheduled to come back yeah because youve you’ve got to
Make a commitment to get that right for better or worse you two together for the rest of this season have have to find a way to get this King team to this to the playoffs to a series in the playoffs and he’s gota there’s got to be a level of
When you have that conversation to get him right you’ve got to express and he’s maybe Mike believes it maybe he doesn’t but you’ve got to express to Kevin we need you we need you it’s not hey you just gotta be better like we can’t achieve what we’re trying to achieve without you
Playing better and and being a part of this I agree and if I’m Kevin herder I’m saying you need to like let me play through things then Absolutely I’ll say that yeah you you you and hey while I’m here let me advocate for Keegan too let
Him play through things as well let us get let us figure out how to do things out there make do whatever you got to do in terms of rotations but sitting like sitting hurter the last 10 minutes of the game or nine and a half minutes of the game or whatever it
Was and when you needed baskets was ridiculous again I’m fine that you pulled him out right there when that lead disappeared when that deficit I should say for Sacramento disappeared you should have put Kevin herder back in that’s why I’m an NBA coach stay at a holiday in express last night I didn’t
Realize I was so frustrated with Mike yeah Mike Mike and and and I love Mike Brown I just don’t agree with some of his decisions um in this in this uh this year just a couple of them he’s made some good ones he’s done some good stuff but just a
Couple of them I don’t agree with and like I’m looking at the game right now and then that one possession with Booker they’ve got a quote unquote defensive team out there and they find Booker going one-on-one against Harrison Barnes Harrison Barnes is not he not he’s not that maybe he does
Some good stuff helps side and all this other stuff on ball he’s food to all these people he’s foood so I don’t know why you look at him as some kind of defensive starw and on that play to be fair Keegan Murray started off on Devin
Booker they did this screen it was a switch that’s exactly what the Suns wanted what play was this the one where Devin Booker hit the little side step to the right jump Fox just hit the three to get it to one yeah they had to came out
Of timeout and it’s like and and I bring that up because Mike went with his defensive lineup Keon Davon Keegan Fox and somebody else is out there on defense you got Harrison out there like like he’s some kind of defensive stopper he’s not like he’s I don’t know
What you’re looking for Mike I can’t I cannot fathom that he’s giving you what you’re looking for Keon was in on that yeah play right yeah I can’t fathom that Harrison is doing what you want them to do on on defense so I’m not saying don’t ever
Play him but when you need a stop or you’re not playing good on the defensive end it can’t be we know Harrison’s doing what he’s to do so we’ll keep him out there ke Kevin herder is not so get him out that I I I maybe he’ll talk to us
And tell us one day I can’t believe that’s the case I don’t know man what 30 and 23 eight spot right now uh in the Western Conference oh it’s not lost with this team though I think from Dallas game I think we got a lot of the same frustrations and we’re on the
Same page but I don’t feel like all it’s lost with this group I don’t feel like I really don’t feel like they they may never get it like they may never figure it out that’s a very real possibility but I don’t feel like they’re they’re like far off I
Don’t feel like they’re far off well they’re not I don’t think they’re far off like I don’t think they’re I don’t think they’re falling out to the Utah Jazz but I also I don’t have confidence in them stringing enough wins together to stay in the six spot or get back up
To the six spot I don’t know if I have confidence in it too but I I don’t feel like I could say they’re not gonna get there you know what I’m saying like I think there’s a lot of people right now like so this is this a playoff team no
Matter what I don’t feel that way about them I don’t think this is a playoff team no matter what no I absolutely did not no I mean a playin team that’s playoff you did like like there’s there ain’t no way they can get into the playoffs or there no way they could be
Top six I don’t feel that way about this team oh there’s a no and to be clear neither do I I I I don’t I there’s a way this team can be top six we all know what it is I just don’t think they can
Do it that’s where I’m at I see the I think they we talked about the road yesterday it’s not like I can’t see that road we discussed yesterday I just can’t see them actually doing it that’s that’s where that’s what that loss did to me last night everything we laid out
Yesterday that we said this is how the team could do it and this is why we believe that they could do it at 9:30 last night I stopped feeling that way I hadn’t got there yet and Candace Parker didn’t even crap on the Kings last night I listened to every word she said
At halftime and I kept waiting and it didn’t it didn’t happen it didn’t might not have even known who was playing well she did she she she spoke she spoke nice about domas okay after not piing pretty all 13 te by I don’t know if she did or
Not I think she didn’t have either King no she absolutely did not we’ll come back there’s more to talk about it’s Ste when KC here on Sacramento sports leader ESPN 1320 what show is this oh oh Chinese Kitty I know her oh Cleopatra oh they had Bernice bergo why
Do you know Chinese Kitty I seen her on the podast what is this’s daughter the impact New York oh okay I thought it was might have to set my DVR up hell no Katrina I turned that off I didn’t want to hear them talk about the kings in the post
Game the funny thing the funny thing David it sounded like um somebody had just woke her up at halftime well Bob don’t gouge your eyes out listening to anyone that’s not that you’d still have to hear him if you gouge your eyes out don’t do that you
Just won’t be able to see them no more yeah we talked about that for a minute yeah I don’t understand either I don’t understand either indeed rip to Bob’s eyes that’s funny I didn’t hear them say that that’s hilarious supp even some 30 minutes I hope you’re right Michigan I hope
You’re right my man settle down Jordan Jesus I don’t think you’re her type I tried to get cute with what I was wearing today now I hate it wish I had just put a red hoodie on like everybody else I need to clear out my closet I be
Trying to get too cute with this stuff and look stupid does that say blls and calves tonight is that what that said hey we get a lunch in honor of Black History Month happens right when we’re working yeah we got to work but from 12 to one well that’s black history right
There what is Junior doing need to rewatch this show man he got a video rental that is wild y’all know about Blockbuster Hollywood Video Hollywood Video when that came to town I was like oh snap hey Jay weey he went to Duke not UNCC and leave my man alone that’s a
Rip who’ you say was on the line Kamar oh Lord oh yeah once again if y’all need any advice today is the day the love doctor’s here for this special Valentine’s Day in Sacramento and all surrounding cities I got you don’t play with me this my I’ll
Start singing this song this is my song want me rap the card part Have you listened to Have you listened to again out of love again come on man that’s my one right there no love that was that’s one of my favorite songs in the last five years Have you listened
To Beyonce yet I haven’t I haven’t change yes we need to be playing that record oh yeah yeah I mean we need be playing that record not just not just for the reasons that the country music stations might be ignoring it it’s it’s it’s a it’s a heater okay that records
Fire there’s a it’s it’s it’s you hear you hear the country then the beat like hits it’s like oh wait a minute this is a Beyonce track because complex was asking like what do we do with this I like I don’t know I’m not sure like I
Listen I was like I like it but I listened to it on my phone yeah and I made a quick run this morning put it on in the car and it was like oh okay okay got where I had to go listen to it
Again yeah we need to be I got to the house sat in the car text complex right away send him this long ass text we need to be playing the song we need to be playing the song they’re not GNA care what it it’s it’s it’s Beyonce and it’s
A smash record we need to be playing it I think he’s going to move slow on it but I want to play it I gotta check it out I know why I had I was listening to music yesterday too uh I forgot about let see if I can get
Complex to let us play it today just because we talk about it just like let’s play today uh let’s get to Kamar uh 91699 1320 what’s up Kamar yeah 16 characters a banger um n no no no no no no no no uhuh te see 16
Carriages is like a AR it’s like a ballad I want the Texas I want I want the Texas hold them track oh yeah Texas hold yeah yeah I want the full hold down or heha or whatever it is give me that that’s fire respect respect I got it I hey you
Know you know we love Queen over here you know well I know you fly all over the country to see her absolutely in other countries absolutely and and will again absolutely take the whole family um check it you know there’s a good news and bad news things what happened last night man good
News is I’d love to see that dear was was balling out right because at the last several games he was just not he just wasn’t showing being himself bad news obviously is the loss but what really bothers me about the loss it’s not so much last night because you know
Those are pick them you know possession games but it’s the losses that we dropped early in the season the Charlottes the Portlands the Detroits the um you know not showing up against Houston early in the year not showing up against New Orleans those are times when
You see losses like this and you start looking up at the standings and you’re like oh man like we’re a game and a half back from everybody you know or you know we’re we’re in danger of being a playin team because you lose against a playoff contending teams every every day in the
NBA but when you lose against teams you’re supposed to be eating on or feasting on that’s the problem and that’s when these records and these these standings me mean something and honestly K like I’m I’m fully on board with you about Mike Brown about Kevin herder I think think Mike Brown has
Mismanaged Kevin herder from the jump I’ve been on record saying that um this lineup was played all the minutes last year and then this year you found himself Kevin in the doghouse for the minimalist reasons playing you know all these other characters in his position
Like he was trying to send a message and attitude reflects leadership we talk about attitude and Leadership on his team the right now the attitude is not trust because Mike Brown doesn’t trust a central figure in his lineup he doesn’t trust him and so therefore we can’t even
Trust this team and so I don’t know what’s going to happen I don’t know what the next 30s something games are G to look like with the team but I don’t feel great because unless Mike Brown comes as a Mia coov be like you know I have
Mismanaged this I don’t know how we’re goingon to look you know going forward now the good also the last thing on the good news is that we also don’t know what the rest of the season is going to look like a lot of things could happen
The the the standard could be fluid you know New Orleans could have bad run injuries happen a lot of things could happen but I don’t like having our destiny tested with other teams I like being in control of my own destiny I just don’t know if the Kings or that
Team to really take control of that you know going into you know maybe we’ll see with the after these next two weeks you have a reforming of their mind so um I love to hear what you guys thoughts on everything and I appreciate y’all as always man ieci appreciate you Kamar
Yeah I mean they are in control of their own destiny you know what I’m saying like they’re good enough team they got to get out there and play good basketball consistently and um what he’s saying absolutely isn’t wrong about um you know the games that you you lost
Earlier in the season the teams uh that are below you in the standings or or you know you feel lesser than you uh they come back to haunt you but at the same time there’s nothing you can do about that now you got games in front of you
You’ve got to play better basketball even if to be honest with you we’ll just take those three games uh with uh Charlotte Portland and Detroit that that wouldn’t you wouldn’t be okay you know what I’m saying like you you’d be like a game ahead of New Orleans you’d still have to play good
Basketball at the end of the season to get where you want to get you know what I mean so that’s the way that that’s the way I would look at this if I was playing or if I was a coach what happened in in the past earlier this year it doesn’t do it
It’s not like each of those games counted for five games in the standings and you’re you would have been 15 games ahead no it was one game even if you would have won all three of those you still gota hey man we’re only two games
Up on New Orleans we we we gota we gotta finish out strong so it doesn’t change the mission it doesn’t change the task at hand you have to finish strong you have to play good basketball so there’s no in my opinion there’s no need to worry about getting caught up in those
Games does y allar break this team’s only saving grace like as far as what could be fixed like are we expecting Mike Brown to make a move or all teams going start playing better now or maybe the players like are we just banking on hopefully this rest gets the guys
Rejuvenated and ready to go for the second half of the Season or is there something else we can hold hold out hope for I think there’s I think rest is certainly I think when we talk about rest we think about like the body right like the physical nature there I think
There’s probably a mental component to it too like a chance to shut down get away you’re not worrying about Allstar stuff um you know obviously there are really strong financial ramifications for dearen being an all NBA player but um I think just the time away could help
Like just the the the the the the physical and the mental rest but just the time apart from each other but when they get back whatever Mike has them returning to Sacramento there there need there there does need to be I don’t want to I don’t
Clearing of the air might be a little dramatic but there’s some conversations that need to be had and there are some changes that I do think Mike Brown needs to make moving forward and it’s we we’ve talked about this in the in the past before Mike Brown was like the head
Coach we’ve talked about this with other head coach coaches coaches really like to pick and choose they they like to preach certain things but they really pick and choose who they hold to those standards and a lot of time like we we get our buddy heeld jokes off buddy heeld was probably
Unfairly targeted for how bad he was defensively by fans the team was ass defensively yeah awful yeah but we picked on buddy and Luke picked on buddy and I think that’s that’s happening with Kevin herder right now yeah I I I you’re 100% correct you’re 100% correct and then when we
Talk about this this thing in totality this is where you gotta TC you got to be real with yourself because Carlton in 2009 says Charlotte Portland Detroit Phoenix and Milwaukee that’s five we gave away well I can make the argument yeah had no business win in the
Playing Warriors game they blew that one yeah had no business winning the Hawks game well what about the other Warriors won that I mean that you could say you had no I look at that as just a close game that you won but you can put that
In there the Orlando game probably had no business winning that one bad defense by Orlando late in that game gave Malik the opportunity to tie in send it the overtime so your point is like they’ they’ve happened both ways the the ones that really really get I mean and don’t
Get me wrong those losses are frust like there’s you still shouldn’t be losing Los in those games I’m not I’m not saying that but you’ve you’ve gotten a couple that you probably shouldn’t win shouldn’t have won as well the the ones with with the the you know the Charlotte
Portland Detroit stands out not just because those are three bad basketball teams but those were three bad basketball teams without a lot of players on it right then you had the Phoenix one I’ll remove that one because I do feel like that’s basketball it sucks but that happens every game it’s
Just the run happened at the worst imaginable time right like it happened at a time where Sacramento couldn’t regroup and it was literally like everything that had to happen for Phoenix to win for like five minutes happened the Milwaukee one is upsetting because it’s just a matter of making
Free throws like the the Milwaukee one I would actually put in the category of the other three yeah yeah you just hit you just hit one of those last free throws and D lillards right you know like it doesn’t happen that’s a tough but but then but then I I’ll
Ask I just playing Devil’s Advocate like didn’t you have to have like a Mis free throw and a de layup to get to overtime a Miss free throw from Milwaukee and dear’s tied it at the end of regulation even get to overtime so if
So if I’m a bucks fan I should be like I could be like this shouldn’t even got to overtime we would should have handled business you know what I’m saying I think I remember remember that that game was overtime but sure yeah yeah it was
It was over de 145 143 or 145 144 yeah dearn uh driving layup and the end of we were with Matt that night right yeah so you know it it can go a number of different ways I’m with I’m with you and everybody else that’s right I was
Watching I was watching in the car on my way to the to the to the ABC Studio I’m with you in Carlton in that situation and others where Charlotte Portland uh Detroit and I’ll throw Milwaukee in there as well you got to close those out man you gotta win those
Games so um I it just no I don’t think anybody is wrong I don’t think you’re wrong for not believing in this team right now to step up their game the way they need to to be a top 16 that’s not wrong that’s that’s that’s a completely valid feeling I just
Feel differently I think I think they can I I think I do see like it’s not just seeing the path I think they’re talented and I I I haven’t closed the book on them being able to do what they have to do to be a top 16 yeah and and
And be clear with what you just said I’m not I’m not wrong because I’m not making a stance I’m telling you how I feel that’s why I’m saying that’s that’s I can see how Sacramento can get to the top six that hasn’t changed though I
Think they that’s it like we we laid out how they can do it and and and why it’s so believable that they could do it today 24 short hours later I don’t feel like they can the whole thing that we laid out I don’t feel like they can the
A a a a 166 run a 157 run or you know it would be more than that because I just blocked out the final three games of the season but they they’ll have to have a stronger run I just don’t I don’t see it like if they played along the lines of
The way that they’ve played this season H we’ll see where that gets you like maybe that does get them to the six but I feel like that’s what we’re going to see we’re going to see drastic ups and downs and we’re going to see just above
500 basketball for the rest of the year it’s just where does that land you I think they have something like a third toughest schedule remaining in the NBA yeah does that even matter uh I mean they lost to Charlotte they lost to Portland they lost to
Detroit what do it matter well it it matters in the sense of the one of the one of the goals for the rest of the season should be make sure you don’t have those games anymore you you had three slip UPS make sure you don’t have
Any of those no more but if you’re not getting a bunch of games anyway against those type of teams it’s not gonna help you out that much but yeah make sure make sure beat Dallas every time you play him do that Dallas every time and I
Think the good thing with that is you’ve got Dallas the rest of times you playing we’re going to be at home yeah so home at home it’s a backto back or it’s a short series Tye situation two days in between yeah you got them at home but you got Washington once San Antonio
Twice another Portland another Memphis and then they put uh Toronto and Brooklyn on here what’s H three four five six seven it’s got to be I’ll say right now that’s probably got be seven wins it’s got to be seven wins it’s got to be seven wins you got to win those
Games and figure out what you do after that uh one of the Phoenix games which is probably considered a tough game I think that’s the last game of the season so you might not even be you might be going up against aoji the whole game you know what I’m saying like that’s which
Means nothing when you’re playing Sacramento yeah but it’s got to mean something like that’s my whole point it’s got to mean something if if if you’re playing a Ki and Royce O’Neal and Booker and Kevin Durant are in Street Clos that game that’s one of those you
Have to win it’s a coji right that’s his name that’s what I thought it was I didn’t they weren’t they saying it different last night I didn’t pay attention I think they were saying it different last night and I kept thinking like that’s your boy Reggie Reggie You’
Be getting things wrong see listen to you listen to you wow wow 9169 91320 what’s up Manny hey what’s up y’all Hey so two things it’s Valentine’s Day so we G to talk about trust right and if you got all these players signing this contract in the beginning of the year about
Trusting the trusting the process trusting uh Mike Brown and being part of this that it’s a two-way street so every time somebody make a mate you can’t keep yanking them and not playing them for days on end and then expect them to keep buying into it when you’re not giving
Them a reason to buy into it like going into the second half and get your rotation stick with these guys and unless there’s an injury or something and you need to make a change or something falls off the deep end then that’s the only reason you need to be
Like this back and forth of guys getting 25 minutes to dmps like stick with what you’re going to run with with the rest of the year let’s see what happens and then address everything else in the in the offseason right and second part real quick for you guys for Valentine’s Day
Right y’all are like for me cereal and milk right because separately they’re fine they’re really good but together man I ain’t got nothing but love man why Why did no no why did you make that so weird why did you make that so weird no you could have said hey you
Guys are like milk and cereal together man I love it but then you made it weird love you man and Manny’s voice always changes you which adds a little extra weirdness to it gota you just gotta love Manny you gota love him yeah you do you do appr
Kings have 29 games left this Year 29 so you’re gonna have to win some games against some good teams for sure it’s funny as I look at this this uh breakdown of toughest opponents easy opponents everybody like everybody’s easiest opponents are like four teams it’s yeah if you got games against Detroit Memphis
Washington and the Spurs is there one left against Washington have they played them both they gotta go to Washington yeah yeah so they go to to Washington um you got one left against Boston Minnesota and OKC in Milwaukee and after tonight only one left against Denver h okay Phoenix has the toughest remaining
Schedule that by strength to schedule percentage where however they do this they’ve got the the the toughest one at number one they got two against Boston two against Minnesota two against OKC two against Cleveland two against the Clippers and two against the Nuggets who uh I think the I think the Warriors have
The Clippers tonight and the Jazz tomorrow mhm they’ve got like the 24th toughest schedule remaining well thank god Draymond Green’s back thank God he’s back and and a lot of this so the funny thing about this is like I I don’t know how they’re necessarily I probably win
Percentage but like the the Warriors and the Lakers aren’t considered tough opponents by this metric which see they’re you know they’re playing better so they they may be on Phoenix’s list they’re on the Kings list right like the Lakers they play the uh the Kings play
The Lakers at least one more time this year they’re not considered one of the toughest opponents so you gotta really look at these things a little more in depth sometimes yeah it’s interesting interesting who they consider tough opponents the rest of the way uh because those teams will be figh
The Lakers will be fighting uh that story that came out of uh uh I think it was ESP I think it was wge it was W and Ramona about LeBron and the Warriors was was interesting uh we’ll talk about that as the day progresses we’re trying to
Follow what went on in Kansas City it’s unbelievable that these people couldn’t attend a championship parade uh without fearing for their life the uh suspects have been detained one person has lost their life nine others were injured uh at the parade in Kansas City uh just a
Awful awful story uh coming out of Kansas City in a day that was supposed to be a celebration for them uh we are following that story um I don’t know what we can bring to you past what we told you there is uh news this is non tragic news this is just regular
Football news coming out of San Francisco that Steve wils was fired today by or let go or I don’t know what terminology they’re using Steve wils won’t be back with the San Francisco 49ers yeah so it it felt like through the the early portion of the Season
Something was you know may maybe maybe things were a little off and there was you know the booth versus the field uh the guys were adamant that they wanted Steve wils on the on the field he went to the field and of course there was the play that we talked about on Monday
Where Kyle Shanahan called the defensive timeout cuz he didn’t like the way something was set up and that left a lot of people wondering hey what exactly is going on with Steve wils and H now you don’t have to wonder Steve wils won’t be back with the San Francisco 49ers next
Year yeah it didn’t didn’t work out didn’t work out um I thought Steve wils I did not like Steve wils defense the first basically before he came on the field and I don’t know some of the players said that helped I’m not here to
Say that was a reason or not I I don’t know but I just know that was when Fred Warner said it mattered I I didn’t ask any questions yeah that so yeah that that’s the way I look at it too but that was just like the the um the the point
That I’m looking at where I felt comfortable with the defense up until that point I didn’t like I didn’t really like the this defensive scheme much at all got better throughout the season um I didn’t necessarily think his scheme was much of an issue in the playoffs you know I didn’t I didn’t
Necessarily feel like his scheme was the reason why they fell Behind Green Bay and fell behind uh um Detroit and I thought they did a good job in the Super Bowl but I don’t know I I don’t know Nick I thought they did too I I thought they I thought I can
Point to plays in the defense in in the in the Super Bowl and maybe that’s what we’re talking about yeah maybe you just can’t make a mistake in Super Bowl but I I’m I’m not sure and hell they lost one of if not the best player on defense during the
Game yeah during the game and they had to recover not to mention the one that they had lost what six weeks seven weeks prior yeah maybe more than that more than that so I I thought I thought he did a a pretty good job and you know whether Shanahan is saying
He did a bad job I don’t know if he’s saying that but he’s saying this isn’t going to work yeah for for what I’m doing and and I look at Shanahan real quick I look at Shanahan and everybody like that the same way look you guys gonna blame me
Regardless so I’m not GNA stick with this guy just because it looks good or whatever I’m GNA get who I want in there because this guy could be great you’re gonna say it’s my fault anyway so I’m gonna be in control of this whole thing and if he wasn’t comfortable with Steve
Wils go find somebody that your comfortable with yeah I understand that um we’ll see who that is remember Kyle it’s Black History Month you have a good track record he’s with us he’s the Tom Hanks of the NFL good reference yeah you see that video right there I did yeah I saw
It from you oh yeah it was on your uh your page yeah yeah um we’ll come back uh will Z joins us we’ll get his thoughts on last night’s uh Phoenix game but more importantly uh what do the numbers say about the Sacramento Kings versus the Denver Nuggets they’ll be
Looking for their uh third straight win this season against them tonight when D Casey returned here on Sacramento sports leader ESPN 1320 Rob W A lot of the times they were calling your punk ass team the best defense in in football because they were getting sacks and interceptions and all
This other stuff so I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about and then who what what 49 fans are saying the defense wasn’t good enough who said that who said that literally everybody is blaming Shanahan for offensive issues it’s this guy talking about love you Rob W sounded like
Love no Rob W don’t don’t do that don’t do that because we’re having an honest conversation there was plenty of times when I said and other people said Niners got the best defense in football all this other stuff that happened but don’t act like don’t talk to me like didn’t
Nobody say Dallas had the best defense in football until every time they went up against a good team they get their ass beat that’s exactly what happened because they were getting interceptions and they were Playmakers and that defensive line and all this other stuff was so ferocious all this other stuff so it
Wasn’t don’t tell don’t tell half the story is all I’m saying wils wils did a uh wils did a good job um like I said though I didn’t I didn’t like him before the I didn’t like the job he was doing before the bi week I thought
Um I thought he just wasn’t good enough and then after the bye he somebody probably Kyle told him to come down out of the booth and I thought it helped I thought they played better um they had no answers for Baltimore in that game that was tough but not a lot of people
Have answers for Baltimore until the Chiefs did um and then in the playoffs I thought I thought they did all right when you talk about performance I didn’t think he the performance was worthy of losing his job but if the chemistry wasn’t there then that is uh a
Reason to lose your job Lord a part ways hey William what’s up you guys how’s it going man it’s fine it’s going last night I had me sad like I know you were mad Damian I was just bummed yeah yeah I was so irrationally agitated by that I don’t understand now
I’m annoyed because I lost my key I lose that damn thing so often we coming back will all right as we trudge along here trying to regain our spirits will Z is not GNA help he’s sad text Will this morning I’m not happy with this not
Happy with the Kings uh not happy with how they’re playing K he quit he’s sick of this he’s just walking out of the studio right now see look Kenny Kenny can’t stand sad will either so he’s out of here I think Kenny’s having a a headphone malfunction back here with us
In a second uh well yeah I text Will this morning like hey 1:45 work I’m well I’m not happy and you were telling us as we were coming back you just you were you you were bummed with the way last night’s game went yeah I think because
There was so much good stuff especially in the numbers I was like oh getting my plans because I kind of plan out what I’m going to Tweet after every game as it’s going on I’m like I’ll do this I’ll do this and then it gets to the end and
They lose and like none of it matters like it it’s nothing is worth like tweeting out nothing is worth talking about they lost and it’s just one of those games where everything sucks but it just is what it’s the epitome of the season I think they are just a team
Of ups and downs this year and right now they’re in a major downswing right before the All-Star break which is just such unfortunate timing yeah all right now I can hear my boy will okay what’s up Kenny you’ve been having some issues over there it’s all right that’s pissing
Me off if there’s one thing you don’t want to do it’s piss me off really the weirdest thing you do don’t piss me off by far the weirdest thing you do quoting like two like 99 Attitude Era Jeff Jarrett is just so weird um any numbers stand out to you last night
I mean obviously we see the you know the the the surface numbers with dear and and I I mean Do’s play is just absurd yeah anything stand out like we we been I got FR like Kenny was like the Kings played well last night and I got
Frustrated and pushed back a little bit they did in fact he told me to shut the hell up how do you people back there are people who were just tuning in who are GNA believe that that happened would never say that although you you did piss me off earlier
Because you you talking to me in that little condescending voice like I didn’t know what you was doing I knew what you were doing even Jesse knew what you were doing it was so funny because we were listening and Hannah goes I it’s so uncomfortable when they
Fight we didn’t even fight tell tell Hannah tell Hannah it’s always a work yeah it’s always a work we’re to Skilled professional R don’t try this at home we are we are we are too skilled uh Sports entertainers in here um that’s great anything stand out numbers wise to you I
Think the main thing is just the bench play minus monk so if you remember the swing stat from yesterday was kind of the others yeah and you have the bench of Davon Keon Len and Kesler combined for three points six rebounds one assist one steal zero blocks it’s not just the
Points it’s everything I know that those are defensive guys and they had some nice moments on defense but to have four players play quick math 24 31 35ish minutes with those numbers that’s just such a low total and it’s I think the Kings have leaned so heavily into if you go back to
The offseason moves they need defense that they forgot that they also need offense sometimes and they’ve just become such a topheavy offensive team with Fox not even sabonis most nights last night was but Fox Monk and whoever kind of that third score is that it’s it gets hard some nights when you don’t
Have anyone other than monk who can come in and give you any buckets or assists or anything like that yeah and that’s that’s why last night also when talk about this game and you talk about the frustrations is a little bit more frustrating right because you just laid
Out what I believe wholeheartedly is that they got so wrapped up in the defense that they forgot about their specialty and their superpower so to speak which was the onni offensive end but that’s not what happened last night so to speak like the bench didn’t score
As a whole you got 20 something from Malik that’s what you look for I beg for dearon to show uh show up and be the leader that I think he put up 40 domas was dominant yeah um and even like in my small little like I just I’ll give you
What I’ll take whatever you give me Harris Martin gave you nine herder gave you 10 so offense necessarily he scored 125 points wasn’t the issue and I don’t poorly from three he shot poorly from three you didn’t get your three-point shots and then you miss six free throws
And the combination of those two might be what keeps you from getting 131 as opposed to 125 but yeah it last night was one of those nights where that’s maybe that’s why I thought they played good because it looked more like a game that I think they specialize in not
Always win those games but it looked more like a Kings basketball game last night yeah and it did and they they even found a way like they finally got past the sun’s small ball KD at the five they figured it out they it’s it they got down for a little in
The third but but it’s like they finally got to a point where it’s like oh this is how we take advantage of it with the bonus offensive rebounds or getting into him down low instead of at the top of the key and none of it really mattered I
Think that’s why it made me sad is because they played so well and still lost and maybe it’s just a tip of the hat to the Suns to Kevin Durant um and he’s just that good one of the things that stood out to me was how easily the
Suns got the matchup that they wanted at at the end of the game especially when they had KD at five the they were just setting these weak screens that the Kings just switched on seemingly right away and then would bring the double and the Suns knew
Exactly what they were going to do off of it I hated that and and that’s and if I was being a jerk I’d get mad at Harrison for that because Eric Gordon would like touch Harrison Barnes with his hand and like oh okay s hey switch hey switch like didn’t fight through it
All or whatever the case may be there was another play later in the fourth quarter though where swi uh screen came and it was an immediate trap with Harrison and sabonis so like I said if I’m not I’m not gonna be a jerk about it I’m gonna assume Harrison was told this
Is how you defend like y it we’re switching immediately don’t fight through it or whatever because it sounds like they were told a couple plays later hey we’re tra happen immediately or whatever the case may be so in that case I’m not going to necessarily get mad at
Harrison or get mad at Jordy and Mike and be like this this isn’t working like this you you got to do something different and and then there’s something to the fact of you give people different looks you know so maybe they were like hey for the next 10 possessions we’re
Just switching automatically and then once they get once the offense gets used to switching automatically now for the next five possessions we’re trapping hard just give different looks and not let them get in the routine but I saw the same thing well and I just I the
Whole NBA actually does it and it really bothers me nobody fights through screens on ball screens will as we uh prepare for the second night of a back to back tonight let’s just try that again three two and one will as we prepare for the second
Night of a backto back nailed I got it this time ready cut this out in three two one hey Will as we prepare for this game against Denver tonight there we go um anything stand out uh I know you wrote about it over at wiy stats.com anything stand out in the first two
Games because my my one of my big you know one of my many frustrations today isn’t just that the Kings lost last night it’s that and they go like to for me to feel a little bit better going into Allstar break they gotta be Denver a third straight time this year but
We’ve we long before the last time these two teams played have acknowledged that I think Denver and Sacramento is a really good matchup or Denver is a really good matchup for Sacramento what stood out numbers wise uh with these two teams in the last couple of games yeah
Two things the first was Darren Fox assist numbers so he’s had 26 assists in the first two games 16 the first game 10 the second and I think that that has lent to the kings taking a well-rounded scoring approach against the Nuggets it’s one of their the last game on
Friday was one of their three games this year where they had seven players score in double figures and there’s just something about the Nuggets team that we’ve seen it twice now where Fox’s passing is just those assist numbers are high I don’t think it’s a coincidence uh that we’ve
Seen it twice I don’t know what it is or why but it’s something that I’ll be looking at again tonight to see if it happens again and then the second thing is just the three-point disparity between the two teams so the Kings have shot 33 of 68 in the two games that’s
48.5% and the nuggets are 16 of 54 that’s 29.6% they’ve really just dominated Beyond The Arc and I think a huge reason why they won so they had such the high margin of Victory last game and that’s what makes me nervous for tonight is I don’t know if the Kings can win without
Hitting their threes and that’s why I made it the swing side of the game it’s something that they’ve done both times they’ve won and I think something that they have to do tonight and on the second night of a back toback with heavy minutes last night it’s just
It makes me nervous I that doesn’t mean I don’t think they can do it and hit their threes at a high clip it’s just something that I think has to happen tonight like in the previous matchups yeah man it’s a tough game it’s a tough game obviously you’re going up against
The defending champions um you’re you’re playing them on the road in the back to- back in a situation where you’ve already beat them twice and mainly a couple days ago so it’s fresh on their mind and they’re gonna be looking to you know get some of this get back I’m looking right
Now I think let me see give me a second yeah this is their last game before the break as well okay so they’re they as much as they can they’re going to be like all right let’s close close things on a on a on a good note
Well that’s also well yeah for sure they could absolutely feel that way or they could have one foot out the yeah yeah yeah like there’s two sides to that coin right there guys let’s just get through this because only one guy is going to Indie
Yeah right yeah so I’m I’m trying to get uh maybe this isn’t the best injury report I’m just on ESPN they’ve got Jamal Murray as dayto day and kcp as day today so Jamal was questionable earlier kyp still question questionable another one comes out in two minutes I think I
Think they come out every half hour right so I can check on that but it’ll be interesting to see if they play because I get that they have the rest coming up so for those two guys do they want to give them an extra day of rest
Like why bother playing a game or do they treat it as we’ve got a break coming up let’s play this game and then rest and I could see it going either way yeah yeah it could be I would because if they haven’t played I Jamal hasn’t right
Because he didn’t play here no no he he did Jamal did play here he did play Michael Porter didn’t play okay there you go Michael Porter and K and kcp but I mean that’s if they’re not right like if I’m I’m just I’m not even saying this like for the Kings just if
They’re not right like don’t play him just let him get the extra day yeah yic don’t look right either just take yeah I mean and plus he’s got a long weekend yeah look matter of fact look it was a long Championship run last last year Aaron Gordon all all
The starters just chill bring your two-way guys up and let’s rock a little bit the Detroit did play us with guys that they cut the next day they did they literally fired everyone who produced against Sacramento the next day so I thought about I should have done this
Doing a like this is how many points got cut from the Nugget the Pistons that just played but not terrible just terrible um and it looks like it’s every hour for the injury report so we’ve got another half hour before any updates it um you mentioned dear’s assist numbers
Against Denver uh I’ll be really interested to see dear’s game tonight he obviously had the monster game tonight domas I’m just penciling in for another monster game yeah maybe not 30 plus but I I I I’m G write domas in for you know 17 15 and anywhere from nine to to 12 in
The assist category really may just get double doubles for the rest of the year yeah yeah I don’t see why yeah like when is he gonna get like seven rebounds he can pass the great Jerry Lou he gets that in a quarter right right when he gonna get
Seven rebounds in a game like no I’ll be interested to see what dearon does tonight though uh because dear obviously has that you know he he had that big time performance last night you know getting back kind of in the scoring column the way that we saw him during
The first part of the Season how he follows that up tonight I’ll be interested in seeing yeah and I’ll be watching Keegan a lot as well um you were talking about it earlier Damian and there’s just I don’t know something feels a little off there was one play
That stuck out to me last night where it was like a loose ball or something and Keegan ended up with it on the left wing and pass it out to Barnes and it’s the shot that Barnes took the like super long three-point attempt at the end of
The shot clock and I wanted Keegan to get it and attack or shoot or something he didn’t have that much pressure on him it’s like go like go do something and then ended up with a long Barnes contested three and it just doesn’t seem like we’re getting aggressive Keegan
Right now and I don’t know if it’s the kind of Barnes coming back which has been a while or what it is but just more Keegan doesn’t seem like a bad thing yeah I’m sorry I almost just passed out cuz I remembered that play and it was
The quote unquote end of the shot clock there was 5 seconds left on the shot clock and he shot it from 30 I said all right all right here I mean okay that’s that’s I know the shot clock was winding down technically there was five seconds left and we pulling up from
30 yeah and then he hit like the backboard and rim we want aggressive Harrison we got him well Davon did miss everything on one of his did hit the other side of the back there were some rough shots thatn like Davon shot fell a solid three feet
Short like that was just a pass to the who whoever was down there near the basket um yeah it was it was a rough night from Beyond The Arc last night for sure a really a really really rough night um will we appreciate you man I know you don’t feel great about this
Game we lock in and and hopefully uh things go go the king’s way and that three-point percentage is up and uh Vibes are a little bit better tomorrow thanks guys appreciate it have a good one that’s our man will Z I don’t like sad will Z can’t can’t have sad will Z
In here we can’t can’t have both of us having an attitude about the Kings I’m the only one I’m I’m I’m hanging in there I’m a one man wolf pack if they win tonight does it change anything that changes how people feel you tell me nope doesn’t change doesn’t change how I feel
No I don’t I to be honest with you feel it shouldn’t this is this is my thing with the Kings they they can’t they can’t do things in I should I was gonna say one way or the other in one game but they can lose and make me like doubt them they can’t
Win in one game and make me say I’m fully confident yeah you know what I’m saying so a win the night would be cool that would be great that’d be a good sign um but I don’t think it should change uh how anybody feels tonight you
Just you just want the win just get the win if you can and keep it moving and try to you know have something happen good outside the allstar break yeah regroup regroup over the break and and be ready first game that the first game is the the 22nd right that’s San Antonio
It’s going to be live that night oh yeah we’ll be there it’s going to be live baby do will be the the 1025 live from from from from the golden one center it’s going to be live baby I’m I’m I’m excited about that day there’s a lot
Going on that day a lot going on man I I love what with the Kings and our girl KRA Kindra M mcgomery Block I can say that um has done with that particular night the HBCU I think it was a great idea uh she’s done a lot of uh great
Things just in general but that night this is a third straight year they’ve done that and to to see all the fraternities and sororities and you know and all that stuff going on I thoroughly enjoy uh that night and I look forward to we joke about it but I really do look
Forward to it yeah every single year so uh can’t wait for it yeah I cannot wait we’ll be there um our man Laney Smith creator of actively black will be there we’ve been trying to get him on this show for three years did we get any closer we’re getting closer I was
Texting kmbb earlier today like we we I think I think we’re getting closer with that she’s going to help us uh try to get a couple of people on the show with us next week because we’ve got some we got some time to hang out next week yeah
Um obviously we’re off Monday life yeah we’re back here Tuesday and Wednesday and the Kings don’t play till Thursday and we’re planning on probably a bit of a unique schedule on Thursday so um yeah I’m I’m I’m and and not just HBCU night I’ll be excited for the Kings
To get back on the floor see I’m try to get down to the soon as this show ends I’m racing I want to see Victor wh I’m in the floor yeah and then and like for me and I know you probably feel the same way and all this
Other stuff even even if they lost tonight or whatever um at that point it would have been like more than a week before since King’s basketball yeah I’ll just be hyped to see these guys getting after it again man and playing basketball and get ready for this second
Half of the season so uh it’s it’s going to be a lot of fun uh Thursday the 22nd and then the Kings lose then I’ll just be for the season to be over just begging just end this stupid season end this dumbass season immediately Victor wiy gonna have a quadruple
Double Daren fox out there guarding him at half court trying to steal the ball didn’t dearon guard him the first or yeah I think they’ve only played San Antonio once didn’t he guard him I just remember I remember dear Gard shed I don’t remember dear on on Vic maybe he
Did I remember dear on the other night and I remember Chad on De like what the hell is going on here and it wasn’t even a switch like Chad picked him up what is this Daron tried to shoot over him didn’t go my man’s way didn’t go my
Man’s way at all uh but hopefully they can get a dub tonight man we’ll see maybe Denver’s maybe Denver’s got their foot out the door Denver last year you know quiet is kept Denver last year had stretches where they they didn’t look great they had stretches last two and a
Half week stret remember Mike Malone was like he was pissed I don’t know what the hell’s going on with this yeah yeah he was like this team is not interested yeah and yeah it it probably you know we we talk about um you know we’ve harped a
Little bit on the the Detroit Charlotte you know Portland like games you know we we we we even hard you know we talked about the Phoenix the not not Phoenix last night the Phoenix 22-point lead lost we talk about about that the Bucks blew a 20 some on point
Lead I think it was to Portland if I remember correctly a couple of nights ago you had uh Oklahoma City I think lost to Detroit like that as frustrating as it is and I get it it is extremely frustrating it happens a lot yeah that stuff happens a lot in this league and
Bucks fans are infuriated they got a whole different host of problems going on over there Oklahoma City fans were probably frustrated you laughing at Doc no I’m not laughing at Doc I’m not laughing at Doc did you see I think it was this is one of the best things of the year did
You see the nases yesterday I didn’t did you Jesse did you see it yeah he needs to be stopped like Yiannis needs to tell him like I like bro like you’re here cuz like just relax brother what did he do so they get a a rebound uh the Bucks get a rebound and
There’s three bucks around the ball right so they got it the other team obviously the Nas is in the game’s over right but the other team is that back down court and it’s like I don’t know who the player is the point guard he gets the ball and he gives or the
Shooting guard gets the ball gives it to the point guard that’s back there the nases is standing right there and they’re like kind of walking up and theness is like give me the ball give me the ball like s like hey give me the ball walking with them right and the
Guy’s like what are you doing like I’m the point guard just keep moving then n is like no give me the ball and then gives him the ball anelis gets an 8sec I’m watching it right now and then Dame Lillard’s on the bench like laughing looking like towards yanis
Trying to hide his laugh too though it’s hilarious oh this is hilarious bro theis look like a brat kid out there like give me the Ball Patrick Beverly laughing at him that was hilarious my favorite the nasis clip um is when he’s doing the warm-ups and he’s looks like Scott looks like Scott Foster was getting some jokes off you ever see the one where he’s um pregame taking shots or whatever he does
Like the little dance after he takes a shot they’re like this dude does not pay like take it serious at all oh man that was that might have been the clipp year that was hilarious did you see like the next play the what yo theas is trying to go to
Work oh this is comedy this tweet is titled thanasis might actually be the worst player the league has ever seen I’m gonna retweet that so everybody can enjoy this that I died when I saw that this is phenomenal is thees our Twitter leader for the memes for February the
Calendar okay all right I’m just I am retweeting all these thanes clips right now this is tremendous that man said he might be the worst player the league has ever seen oh man I love the nasses that that’s my guy that’s myy he wouldn’t leave the point guard is like give me the
Ball and then the guy was like fine here he gets the Eight Second I need to know what the nas was planning to do with the basketball after that too like if he didn’t get called for eight seconds like was he going ISO ball like what were we
Doing here the way he stepped over the line trying to avoid the eight seconds it makes it even better oh man the nasis is wild that that dude is comedy he is a I hope he’s at the All-Star game I want to see him Allstar Saturday night sitting Courtside with
All those guys the nases in the actual allstar game you want to see me watch yeah want to get me to watch I’ll watch that he would try to dunk them the free throw line forget the all stars I want to see theis when he did little his little move
And got to the basket and the whole bench pop that’s when you knew like look jannis smiling laughing running up and down the floor knowing he ain’t never seen that move before in his life it’s like a package deal now like if you have Yannis DMO you have to bring
Theas I be like I I’ll demand it I won’t do it for Yiannis I’ll demand it as a GM Hey You Gotta Give me ta give me ta this is Incredible video absolutely incredible it’s it I’ve got all sorts of stuff on my Twitter account got uh the
New Yannis is uh is a tribute to the nases it’s a tribute to I guess The Story Goes thanasis gave Giannis his shoes so he could play basketball growing up so the shoes on the back of it says thank you thanasas for let me use your shoes that’s very
Touching NBA first family banna’s been paying him back ever since he can’t he can never repay him that’s what he’s that’s that’s how he feels I can never repay you enough big bro I remember when the Kings got the uh the youngest bro playing summer league Alex yeah they should have they should
Bring Alex back right now he can’t do he can’t be any bad that bad all right we’ll come back they should go get Mike James they talking about they need a backup point guard go get Mike James out of Europe who Mike James Mike James is hooping no you’re
Supposed to say that a certain way yeah but it’s James not Jones no I get it just play along do it for the content yeah like like knew what I was doing and he’s still there I knew what you come on Al do Aly and he just
Watched go take a lap eight well 8 second violation we’ll come back we DLo and KC here on Sacramento sports leader ESP in 1320 look at my girl Tina Arnold isn’t that the girl from Two Broke Girls is it yeah I think Cole is in this show too or maybe he’s in another
Show yeah Michigan Wolverines 13th round 13th round with your main man Kenny carway shout out to my people over at Jordan brand you know what it is shout out to the dope ones I gotta holl at my man it’s been a minute but shout out to the dope ones shout out to Cola
Seamos you know the Vibes I gotta holl at my girl Cola too I need that that seos um kos.com go get you some but uh 13th round we had an announcement yesterday from one Saul Canelo Alvarez it was on azteka TV in Mexico and they had been building it up
For like three or four days and there was a lot of rumors a lot of haters and naysayers talking about oh he was gonna make his announcement that he was leaving PBC that was not what the announcement was the announcement really was only that he was going to fight an
American on May 4th and not a Mexican so a lot of people thought maybe he was going to fight Hai Mangia a lot of people like my producer thought it might be David Ben aidz we all know it ain’t gonna be him he ain’t never i’ I’ve been
Saying since the fall the fall he’s gonna find the fall you did say that you did say that I’ll give you that he ain’t never f David it it really don’t matter what you say just he never figh him but he said he’s fighting American then earlier today Jamal Charlo on his
Instagram stories talks about he’ll be the guy on May 4th and yeah it’s whatever like any anybody right now anybody Canelo fights outside of David benovitz really isn’t that interesting to be honest with you Hae Mangia might be a little interesting now Canelo would beat the breakes off of
Haimi M because he’s a terrible uh defensive fighter but at least you’d have the whole you know story of two Mexican Fighters and the the young guy trying to take the the crown from you know the The Legend and all this other stuff Jamal vers vers Canelo does nothing we
Just saw Jamal and Jamal is worse so I’m not Canelo I don’t have nothing bad to say about him but we don’t want to see this just because we all know you’re not fighting benitz just fight ham mongia in uh in the fall and he also
Said he was gonna fight for five more years so yeah we’ll see who he fights for five years we’ll see but Canelo Jamal it looks like May 4th that’s the 13th round there’s only one guy we want to see Jesse it’s true but I think I’m at the point I’m just full-fledged supporting
Whatever I guess I mean if he fights him he fights him if he doesn’t he doesn’t I gu and I’m not even that outraged by it can canelo’s verified certified like if he doesn’t fight him it’s not a knock on his career I just don’t think is going
To happen but it’s whatever that’s just the one that’s left I think yeah it’s whatever just don’t fight ball for whatever you do don’t fight ball well there’s I didn’t even talk about this they um they were supposed to the damn Saudi bag Bol versus uh verf yeah in Saudi
Arabia disgusting if they um get the tank Davis fight Saudi Arabia then boxing’s done yeah done that that’s what kills boxing is that they keep going for these Saudi bags but Haney and Garcia and Ryan they’re in they’re in Vegas so yeah check out the 13th round and
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Something Ain’t Got No Hands yeah that’s this Kim ain’t got no hands I’m glad I got rich is smiling today though look you you could look I’m I’mma put you wide screen you can see these what is did Kimmy just picked something off the ground and smelled it oh my
That’s today’s podcast title what are you doing oh man act like desk working oh look oh B yeah boss must have walked in yeah everybody walking different now it’s bro it’s Valentine’s it’s not even like a real holiday to like mess around like it’s not even like coming
Into the weekend it’s another day at work tomorrow these fools acting like it’s Christmas break out here it’s February 14th is the Thursday it’s Wednesday dog oh it’s wednes see yeah today’s Wednesday right yeah today’s Wednesday Wednesday yeah they just out here having a blast just
Chilling do uh do you guys have any Valentine’s Day memories I really don’t to be honest with you I’m just asking like did you did you ever like you know like like get out a girl in high school or something like really like Valentine’s Day was the
Day where you like sealed the deal or you know got got got the number you know what I mean like but it was your Valentine’s card and candy like you made the big Proclamation no no that didn’t happen to me Jesse uh not really like in high school like when
Me Chrystal were like first starting the date like um we’re not starting the date we were like first starting a talk or whatever so the dude liked her she like oh I think’s ask me like be Valentine like no like I’m be Valentine or what and kind of
Serious since then like 11 years later like yeah that’s what I’m talking about that was high school that was me sophomore year little Jessie every every every Valentine’s Day Jesse ask hey Chris what’s that other little doing what’s he doing still single yeah I bet hey you know who really might have
Had game was was crystal because that might have been a plant there might not have been another guy maybe she she might have gave the situation Crystal got her man sewn up let’s go know how to press his buttons Mr Tapia said That’s my boy that’s my boy yes inde she about a
Story too I’m not yeah I can’t I can’t think of any I can’t think of uh any standout Valentine’s Day stories no I’ve had good Valentine’s Day obviously with my now wife uh we had a lot of had some good Valentine’s days I’m not like to be
Honest with you I’m not a big fan is this your first yeah first married Valentine’s Day but like your 19th overall yeah it’s been a long time um I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day I love the idea of like love and hearts and all this other stuff but the
Way that it is just like super expensive in Mass hysteria I don’t like like I don’t like that it it for not not I’m not speaking for anybody specifically but like the way that it can’t be simplistic you know what I’m saying like I can’t just the way the 999
Flowers were $24.99 this morning 249 they must have been on sale well yeah shout out shout out to nugget they only doubled the price they didn’t quadruple it I don’t like I don’t like how I just can’t show my love my well my wife can
Do it for me I you know we’re good but like I can just show my love with a a card you know Candy you know maybe a dinner at home just I love you it’s got to be this Grand thing and but you know social media has made it even worse now
Right because now everybody want to put their grand life-size teddy bear with you know roses all throughout the they got them put it on there and then it makes everybody else who doesn’t get that feel like it’s less than well that’s all social media is it’s an
Attempt to make you feel bad about yourself I started I realized I’m following the wrong why am I following League fits I can’t wear none of this stuff I need to switch it up yeah I like the idea of Valentine are you guys exchanging
Gifts uh yes and no I mean I can’t tell any surprised she might be listening but I know I’m not expecting a GI I don’t she don’t have to give me n for Valentine’s Day did you get her a birthday gift that was two days ago yeah
That’s a killer man that’s a killer and Christmas was not that long ago my mom’s birthday was in July that’s tough Ryan’s birthday Reese’s birthday was in November it is a nasty four month stretch for me I’m just trying to get out of here above water good
Luck and then Mother’s Day is Like Wrestlemania tickets haven’t even gone on sale WrestleMania Easter I don’t never get a break I guess I guess after after Mother’s Day is when I can like breathe a little bit that’s my off Mother’s day is May yeah that’s my offseason until
Well then there was the anniversary then we got the new anniversary I guess just the summmer is when I doesn’t the new anniversary replace the old one yes and no you still know it’s there though we can’t act like it’s not there yeah how does that work
I’m already like 11 years in in March like I’m going to be getting married like I just start over again like we go one year or what uh it well I’ve never experienced it but my my guess the way I’m treating it is that it was June 19th like that’s never
Going to go away like we all like there’s got to be some kind of acknowledgement it may not be as Grand as the wedding anniversary but there’s got to be something let’s go to dinner or maybe we take a weekend or something like that like it there’s gonna be some
Type of acknowledgement of it okay I was just asking life is hard It Ain’t Easy pimp that’s what the go that’s what the Godfather said wow that’s what or did he say pimping ain’t easy he said pimping ain’t easy that’s right Godfather said a lot he also said light a fatty for this
Pimp Daddy Vince had no idea what any of this meant it was just like yeah no it’s cool it’s funny it rhymes actually Godfather didn’t say Pimpin a’t easy he’d hold the microphone out to the crowd and the crowd would say Pim a easy little seven-year-olds out
There yelling pip a’t easy it’s always funny scroll on Twitter and you just see like like what were they thinking back then I saw one I can’t even like talk about it like on here I’ll send you if I find I’ll send it in the group it’s just
Like what were you guys thinking bro he had a HO train that came out and you know Jr oh here come the hoes bro King is all excited and hyped up yeah every Monday night here come the hoes and they were from the local they were from local wherever City they were at
Establishments no one B than I wait wait that’s a shoot yeah I didn’t know that yeah he would go to the local establishment I get maybe five or six Y and I mean a few of them a few of them were uh yeah I think they got paid like
$200 or something like that of a few of them were like people like because I think uh what’s that one girl’s name she was she she BEC she became she was a wrestler she’s a really good wrestler but she well well here’s the sentence she was a really good wrestler
She started out as a hoe well she was The Godfather so wait a minute I can’t remember her name no if if if if if Bryce is listening he’ll remember hey I look I just I just it’s funny I think it’s Victoria I think I think it was Victoria I think Victoria
Was the one not the little little uh she was like short no her name was Ivory no Ivory Ivory I no I think Ivory was a hoe too what what she I think she was I think I think so I think Ivory was Victoria definitely was definitely
Was he was definitely one of the Godfather’s ho man hey I just said you something every Monday night USA Network I just sent you something man it it cracked me up because we’re talking about the wrestling and everything and and this one of the realest tweets I’ve
Ever seen because man NXT they be having where is he keep F they say Shawn Michaels keeps in the Explorers page on Instagram Shawn Michael Shawn Michaels got a type boy I ain’t even mad at The Heartbreak Kid they said I need to see Shawn Michael search
History she got on black Air Force [Laughter] Ones she got the other girl got dunks on she sure do I love wrestling I love it so much Supreme Talent evaluator I can’t believe how bad wrestling in the 90s was it was allad I mean my favorite is still um the
The little white kid throwing up the fist everybody says that’s Matt George when he joins the show oh man hey I’ll say this everybody talking about the Rock and Heel Rock what we’re seeing right now from the rock is a heel we’ve never seen this this version of The Rock we’ve
Never seen this vers Hollywood Rock was funny and he was like hey no I’m in here in crappy ass Sacramento no no shut up I’ll get to you in a second like then there was the nation of domination Rock which for some reason he had like a
Country accent when he talked and the rock is telling you here that you know whatever and then you had that’s the best rock of all time and then you had corporate Vince you know corporate Champion Rock which didn’t last long because it was just the rock who was
With Vince McMan but what we saw at that that’s we’ve never seen that version before is this high chief Rock I know it’s Peter Twitter yeah I like that idea that’s that’s good this is a different I don’t know how long it’s going to last but this is a different version of the
Rock yeah it can’t last that long because I even saw something the other day that just because of who he is in the time we live in he can’t he can’t be that the whole time did you see that thing where he had to address the the
People in Hawaii yeah like like that’s who The Rock is like he is a humanitarian right to a certain degree so I think our plan is right like it’s gonna that rock is going to end in WrestleMania this one and then he’s going to be the the face for the match the following
WrestleMania yeah well that’s how you set it up you just have him turn on Roman and Cody gets the boat and then you know what can happen after that I don’t know how you get there though it’s a it’s a long it’s it’s still a year
Plus away because you got to get through the rock Roman you got to turn Roman yeah you gotta turn Roman Roman I think Roman’s at the end of the row though I if I’m Roman that’s that’s that’s why you start to turn it like no he’s not Roman’s not gonna be
Done like he can’t do it but he’s I mean he’s he’s had a good career like I think Roman can we’re not done with Roman are we can you already putting him out to pasture Roman Roman Roman’s 38 Oh I thought he was a little older than that
But I mean you see the beard it’s changing a little bit little bit yeah Roman Roman could go to Hollywood man Roman could be in The Avengers he could be like I think I feel like he’s he’s done all he could do in wrestling this
Was how do you how do you come back from this tribal Chief how do you you you you you you you you fade away like you just don’t do as much yeah maybe come back like Cena came back every now and then right do that yeah but you’re not gonna
Be in a you’re on ra every Monday Austin Theory again God God no absolutely the his days is a wrestler coming to an end he’s carried this company for a solid four years we’ve been since we started the show that’s right yeah yep he’s he’s a Hall of Famer um yeah yeah
Roman’s that guy just love I love the chat uh IV’s first appearance was as a ho well Lita’s wasn’t y’all keep saying was not no no no no Lita was not what she’s not on there as a whole but Victoria she definitely was a Victoria no yeah Lita came out with uh
His name was poppy something yeah he was he was like a yeah he was like a little Luchador guy it didn’t last long and then she got with the hardies and that took off like crazy Lita was dope I love meet some I wasn’t
A big Lita fan I love meet some Lita I I mean she was I did not like her but I wasn’t a big leita fan um Rona shelburn and Adrien wowski reported this morning that the Warriors made a real attempt to acquire LeBron James before the trade deadline did you
Get an opportunity to read that article I did not I saw I saw it um I’m going to read a specific part of that that article that I just couldn’t help but chuckle at uh this article has become increasingly difficult to find uh give me two seconds
Um well I got a question for you after this okay the line here um it opens over a 24-hour window Warriors made an unsuccessful bid LeBron James uh warriors were eager to present a package to deal to la blah blah blah blah blah armed with the encouragement of warrior star Draymond Green Golden
State owner Joe Lup reached out to Lakers owner Jeanie bus to inquire whether James apparent public frustration could be interpreted as an opening to discuss a trade I love that line so much armed with encouragement of Warriors star Draymond Green how did he get Joe Lake up reached out to Lakers
Owner jeie bus like yeah stop uh your boy darl mury reached out to the Lakers as well in an attempt to chire LeBron James and if from what it sounds like and I don’t know if this was true just for Joe Lake up or if it was true for both of
Them Jeannie was like no you know we’re not interested in trading LeBron LeBron’s not interested in being traded and somehow it was like oh okay talk to Rich and they contacted rich and rich rich Paul and Rich Paul was like not trying to LeBron’s not going anywhere
He’s focused on La so that’s what I was just going to ask you does doeses the the guy in La does he get any any type of maybe maybe maybe he was told something who remember the guy that you dismissed and said he was nobody he said he said there was there
Was I can’t I was looking for exactly what he said but I thought he said something to the effect of there’s offers out there for LeBron James I he almost said it was like the top of their list or something like that no that’s
Not what he said he said that it was the Lakers intention of trading LeBron James I think he might have said thato that’s right I was trying to find the Tweet absolutely not okay I’m just say the man was a nobody I said like I’m not gonna
Give that any Credence you guys buying all this stuff though because I feel like with LeBron every time he’s getting ready to go somewhere like there’s always smoke to it and it’s always just kind of like you know there’s always hints I’m not saying he’s going to the
Warriors or whatever but more so like is he’s you think he’s out of there come this off season do I think he’s out of there I don’t know I think he should be I think he wants to I think he’s I think the Nicks thing is real I don’t know if he’s
Going to go I think he’s really really interested in the nck and trying to figure out how to make that happen I think that’s a real well y’all hate it but I think the Cleveland thing’s real too uh I’m not g i don’t hate it and I’m
Not gonna you do hate it I ha it you do you you you hat it especially yeah I really ha it all over yeah you already did your return and stuff think he should it don’t it don’t bother me though I think the Knicks is the better
Play though I think the Nick I like I think they’re both title contenders if he winds up over there I think the Knicks might be a little bit better if he winds up over there like like the Knicks like LeBron with the Knicks versus LeBron with the Cavs I think
LeBron within they’re they’re a title like a favorite maybe yeah yeah if he go what if Donovan Mitchell leaves though but Donovan Mitchell won’t leave this offseason oh he’s still got a few off Seasons out yeah Donovan Mitchell could do whatever he wants to that’s true but
He gonna play with LeBron James next year you think um you think Bron’s going into the draft this year by own tense of purposes he’s not I don’t know he’s not like a prospect like that that should but he’ll be drafted if he is eligible um I mean what’s what’s the advantage to
Him staying I mean he he he has a little better at basketball you know and see he could could he could he raise his draft status cuz that’s not really how college basketball works anymore yeah no he could he could like right now if he well
Me meaning these what I mean is these these teams these schools they turn them out quick like that’s I I talk about this with uh Coach Cal all the time Coach Cal sold the league and sold us on scaller he didn’t even play scalla beier but he needed that roster spot he said
Hey I’m gonna get you into the draft I got you right and he did the the pre-sale and the post sale and did it beautifully like that’s they just they turned these guys over so quick yeah I don’t think I don’t think bronnie Bonnie’s good enough where if he stayed
He’s not losing a spot to some to three freshman okay you know what I mean so um yeah I think he could boost his draft stop but what does that really like what does that really matter like you’re getting drafted regard like a lot of people do that because say you’re a
Second round guy right now like man I I need to go back to school CU second round I’m like this close to being overseas Ronnie you ain’t gonna do that no so got nil money well that might be the reason why I stay yeah well I mean
Well the nil money the nil money might not go anywhere true true because like isn’t one of them Nike yeah I don’t think he’s losing his Nike money right he’s he can literally do whatever he feels but I wonder nothing wrong with wondered about no I’m not we just
Talking about it I don’t have no problem with it but I was I just wondered what he’s going to do and I say does that have an influence on what LeBron does yeah that’s what I think about because if he stays in USC is he G he’s gonna
Want to stay in LA or do you I should rephrase that if he stays at USC do you think LeBron wants to stay in LA right or if he leaves does is that an indic the Knicks with the 12th pick take bronnie does that uh like kind of
Foreshadow where he might where LeBron might do next year I it it sounds like there’s no it it sounds like there’s you’re not watching the draft it sounds like you’re watching well wait is this the third year no I know is this the the the first year is this the three round
Draft or no not the not the three round the two night two night draft yeah tonight this year’s two this year is the two night draft he’s a night two guy but he might be like a he might be like a race and you know free agent he’s he’s a night two
Guy he is the story of night one if he’s eligible he might be if he’s eligible and that might mean he goes 27th but with the the Sacramento King select we sure he’s not the story of night who NBA tries to push it so you
Get to um get people to watch the second night maybe but like they’re pushing like WatchON goes in the second round all that he is he is but even if he are they inviting kids to that night I think the SEC I went to double check I think
So that’s the that’s the that’s the story to add that’s that’s we’re doing numbers yeah they’re doing numbers no agree I’m watching if Ronnie’s eligible and they went Wednesday Thursday right they didn’t go Thursday went Thursday Friday I thought I thought it was Thursday Friday thought it was Wednesday Thursday
Um yeah you’re especially when there’s no like there’s no guys in this draft right that people have known for years there’s some good ball players but no no guys that you think a franchise Ronnie’s the story If he if he declares for the draft shout out to all the uh all the
The high school boys and girls uh players basketball players starting their playoffs tonight starting their playoff talk to to Jo D later this week yeah yeah we going to try and track him down man but shout out to all them man getting you know somebody trying to
Get a championship the CIF sectional the sanen sectional and the state championship back at the golden one Center in March so that’s always a good time I hope it never leaves that’s always good stuff uh TC Lewis both y’all hang on uh just just one second longer
Uh we’ll come back uh we’ll talk to those guys 91690 91320 if you want to get in on the phone lines and of course we’ll talk to James ham at the top of the hour as well as D and Casey continue on Sacramento Sports leader ESPN
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47 she’s still relatively young I thought she was a little older uh the pizza is from Mountain Mikes it’s really good all right 91699 1320 want to get in on these phone lines let’s start with our man TC TC what’s good baby what’s up with my two brothers can
Y’all hear me clear yes sir we’re not on the Bluetooth okay what’s yeah man listen now check it out DLo Kenny that’s sad that’s a sad situation Kenny you already know what I’m talking about man the Kings last night don’t trip we gonna win tonight we gonna putton it up DLo I
Heard you earlier I got the same frustrations with this team like man is this a playing Team what are you guys doing bro like I was frustrated but the Hulk Kenny Steve wils man and Shanny bro like I hey I I love you K hey I love
Both you dudes bro but like you sticking up for Shanny like too much bro what do what do you want you want him to keep Steve wils honestly they use him as a skate go we we knew it was when it’s really on you Shanny you get what I’m saying it
Ain really on W but hey when you calling a shot and I mean G gave you all the power I mean tell that no you think Steve wols did a good job this year Steve wols was like he was all right like in the beginning I was
Frustrated because I I was calling in like you know what man what is this dude in the booth but then when he came down out the booth he was like cool but I just I mean can you respect how Shaney did that bro like you getting up here
Talking about n n and then all of a sudden later on you want to hide and Duck and get on the interview talking about we have to let him go you should have said that from the jump I would have respected that more bro so what so what if he hadn’t talked to
Steve wols at that time and they asked him is he is he going to be fired it would have been okay for him to be like so it would have been okay for Steve wils to find out during the press conference that he wasn’t coming
Back I can see that part that’s what it that’s what it sounds like to me it sounds like they didn’t have an exit interview conversation and they asked him that question and he was like I’m not here to I I expect he just bypassed it then he had the meeting with Steve
Wils told him he was going to move on and that’s how it came out that’s you could call defending it but I’m just asking you if they hadn’t had a conversation about it yet he should have Steve wiol should have found out in that press conference that he was
Fired somewhat it could hey look Kenny it could have went Hey Big Dog it could it could have went down that way I’m just feeling hey I’m just hey you know how I feel about dude bro you get what I’m saying and a lot of everybody a lot
Of people are starting to really figure this dude sh out I get you like d but hey I’m here baby I got you T why hey TC TC you never explain why you don’t like Kyle Shan because like it has to be more than Trey Lance because you you think everything
He does is wrong why don’t you like go shedan to be honest with you bro I don’t like how he h the quarterback situation that land situation and also being here seven years your way the highway nobody like that’s why look you turning Brock into a robot let people be them bro like
You gotta get out your you gotta get out your own way everything gota be that dud Listen Hold On everything got to be dude’s way if it ain’t his way he in a dog house he trying to trade you away he trying to do this and that when listen
When you be at the Forefront of your CLE what’s your mistake who’s in the dog house and who’s getting traded ba wasn’t in a dog house who else a dog two years ago and ba himself said like yeah it helped me out he said that himself he had to say d
He had to say what he had to say big dog jie than you for letting me you’re the manad TC you the Bic dog oh that is tremendous I don’t even know what to do with that so let’s just talk to Louis lisis what’s up baby wow y’all really on
Your clown mode today huh we a’t even doing nothing what do we do you guys no but listen though please respectfully y’all don’t know what to do with folks who who don’t understand the Steve WI expiring I’m G tell you right now this is where I’ve been for the last three
Days I’ve been um traveling to Fairfield uh and so forth for for training with my job and I’ve been listening um you know not obviously not in y’all’s hour but on my way on up there and so forth I’ve been listening to the 680 crew or what
Whoever right the Bay Area crew and I could see it man I saw it on Monday you know what they said they said Bosa Mr I’m going to crash down the line and get beat on the play that actually loses it for us that after the game Bosa came out
And threw wils up under the bus he this is what they saying in the Bay Area they said Bosa said he knew that um that on that last play where uh momes went up the middle and got that 18 yard piece and so forth that extended the game and so forth right
That Bosa said he knew it was coming and he wanted to crash down but he didn’t and guess what Bosa you know what you crash down all game long and they they burnt you up like toast here’s what I’m gonna say about Mr wils seems like he
Can’t quite catch a break he was there in Charlotte right how’d that go got it now here he is no no no no no no no no no no no no no how’d it go in Charlotte yeah how how’s it g for the for the most recent coach I didn’t
Ask you that how’ it Go in Charlotte didn’t go well okay all right so don’t act like don’t act don’t let’s but but no Lewis let’s not act like let’s not act Lewis Lewis let’s not act like he went 15 and0 and Charlotte and they let
Him go I like Steve wols I think he’s a good coach I I don’t I probably wouldn’t have let him go but let’s not act like oh man was 15 and0 he didn’t do good in Arizona either some of that was out of his control too that’s all I’m saying is just be
Fact what I’m saying he had the number three defense in the league there are a there’s there’s six or eight defensive coordinators who didn’t win at all oh y’all cut me off no we right here bro you cooking we listen that’s what I’m saying right is he he he dur there’s eight coordinators
Who didn’t win at all right this thing went down to he called The Zone but but people would have wanted him to to have bump in press man come on that that’s enough to lose your job now so okay I just I just want to be clear obiously
Because we’ve had Salah a man of color uh you know we had Domo a man of color wil a man of color right it’s not about that I’m just saying somebody’s the Fall Guy here and it’s Steve wils he’s he’s he’s catching the fall on this momes is
An amazing he’s the greatest quarterback we seen this decade right or whatever he he found a way to come back he found a way to beat him man come on y’all be tripping y’all trip on E like oh my gosh y’all trip on everything this is not
That big of a deal like it it’s not and there’s always some conspiratorial situation and somebody is just like go guy lost the defensive coordinator job for the 49ers where apparently like if if you’re really paying attention like that Lewis they hadn’t been seen eye to
Eye all year to be honest with you that’s that’s the part that I because I didn’t understand what Lewis was insinuating then I’m like does he think he was fired because he was black and then he was like no it’s not that I was like because there’s one organization in
The entire league where you can say that’s not the case they’re actually the rest of the league the rest of the league is actually mad saying they shouldn’t be able to hire right and many or be rewarded for it I’m uh I’m just out of the belief these two
Didn’t Vibe together together for whatever reason but you ha you have to yeah when you’re the head coach you have to Vibe with your defensive coordinators for whatever reason these two these two didn’t we saw are those the two longest calls in the history of
This show we let TC and Le right like Jesse kept asking I was like no no no no let it go let it go let it go then Le LS got mad because he anticipated the cut off I love that and look I don’t I don’t have any problem with with me personally
I I wouldn’t have fired Steve wols but I’m on the super outside looking at I don’t know what them meetings is like I don’t know if he was executing what Kyle Shanahan wanted to do or or how the players I don’t know any of that I know
That they didn’t I didn’t like the way things were going at the beginning of the season after the bye they got a lot better and the last four weeks or so um of the Season including the playoffs they weren’t that good against the run and they played really really well in
The Super Bowl so make of that what you will is that enough to save somebody’s job or is it enough to lose some job I don’t know but the the the real situation is they weren’t on the same page all year like there wasn’t a comfort level with Kyle and a defensive
Coordinator all year long and once again if I’m Shanahan I’m going to do what I feel needs to be done to win because it doesn’t matter if it was my fault or not you’re going to blame me so I’m not sitting here trying to save somebody’s
Feelings not doing it I’m G do what I feel needs to be done and if we need to move on from the defensive coordinator then so be it okay well they did they did this is great timing oh from the athletic the Lakers are opening open to adding bronny next
Season and listen to the show there’s a number of people credited to this Sam amck being one Anthony Slater being other uh the another and is it Javon bu I hope I didn’t pronounce his name too too wrong I think he’s a Lakers guy I’ll just say this Sam is very well connected
To Los Angeles oh yeah very well connected to Los Angeles he don’t miss with Laker report he don’t miss period he really don’t miss with Laker reports yeah but hey good good luck I’m fine with that the question is and this is it’s almost a disservice for for Ronnie
I kind of feel bad for him like the Lakers let’s just say they make the plan they’re gonna draft like they be drafting like 17th 18th who’s to say the Bulls don’t draft Brony because they think it gives him an opportunity or whatever are the Lakers does this mean
The Lakers are going to trade up so they get in a position to draft bronny I don’t know this is gonna be this is gonna be kind of wild this is gonna be kind of wild gives us something to talk about in June I’m on for it oh King’s
Championship is the other thing to talk about well that would take a drastic turnaround uh as we welcome in our good friend uh James Hammer the Insiders Hammer I’m down not out but I’m down where are you with did did did last night’s law I I know you’re not a fan
Whatever did last night’s loss change your feelings about the Sacramento Kings team at all actually I I don’t want to say it’s a good loss but I think that there were good things in that loss that gives me some sort of Hope For What the final 28 eight
29 games will look like so like dearon Fox like whatever’s going on with him whatever has been going on with him for the last six weeks I’m not sure you know we had the media uh like sort of issue with him for a little while but that
Wasn’t even like a media driven thing that was like a I don’t know if it’s a misunderstanding as much as it was just a miscommunication and he like so we had that situation but whatever’s caused him to like slip into this funk and not be the same player for six weeks I’m not
Sure what it was but to see him wake up out of that and to be try to will himself back into the game and try to you know it’s almost like you have those those moments where you you leave a player who’s struggling in in the fourth
Quarter of a blowout and you’re you’re waiting for them to catch it and all of a sudden they find their Rhythm and it’s like oh okay cool maybe that will carry over that’s kind of the way felt with Fox like I don’t at a certain point it
Was like win or lose I don’t think that really matters the only thing that matters at this moment in time for the Kings is that Deen Fox finds himself and he seems to be finding himself in this game and if this is how he has to do it
Then okay that’s fine go ahead and do whatever you got to do you don’t need he’s gonna get a week off here but I’d rather have him find himself before the week off and not try to find himself coming out of the break so yeah I’m not
As down on what happened last night as I think some fans are U you know Deon sabonis was incredible Malik monk was incredible uh you know that you now know that Trey Lyles is so valuable that you you can’t have him out for long stretches like those are those are
Issues that showed up last night but I also look at the the fox saying and go okay look if if that’s who we can be part of that part of who we can be in the second half then the king got a shot I’m with I’m with you I’m with you
I mean y’all are alone then because I’m I think I think that’s what I had asked for going into that game is I needed to see de’arra Fox Step Up be a leader lead this team and be aggressive and he did that now he doesn’t have to have 40 points all the
Time but it’s his attacking mentality that we hadn’t seen in a at least a couple of weeks maybe even more and I think if he can bring that the second half they’re GNA win a good amount more games than they lose I think I think
He’s I think dearon Fox is the key to everything I think if dearon Fox is averaging 28 to 30 points a game for the rest of like for the rest the remaining 29 games they’ll be a top 16 I I think it’s kind of that simple you
Talk about herder and Murray they can play the same way inconsistent at all if de is giving you that type of aggression and Leadership they’ll get to the playoffs but you got that last night and they didn’t even get a win and they gonna win every game okay yeah but I
Would also say Dame I get your point but I would also say it’s almost like that that thing where you’re waiting for a team to learn how to win that’s what it just felt like whatever he was doing it wasn’t perfect it it wasn’t you know he turned the ball
Over five or six times um he took 31 shots which is absolutely crazy for a regulation game all of these things like there were things in that loss that he did he did not do well and like you can point to and say hey look you got to
Clean this up you got to clean that up but I think the overall like tenor of what we were seeing was the old fox trying to find himself and in that game where it’s been a while since he’s looked like that I’m okay with him shooting too much I’m okay with
The mistakes just find yourself because you can fine-tune that finding yourself over the next couple of games and you can you know he’ll look better with a with a week off to rest his body especially after uh you know the a very not dirty player in in Grayson Allen I
Don’t know what Reggie Miller was talking about like a guy without a reputation as a dirty player clubbed him in the head and took him into the into the uh the back stanion but um yeah I I think this is what he needs he needs to
Have a couple of games and like look it can’t be just last night and tonight you scor 13 and your team gets clubbed and you walk away thinking okay well at least I got one under my belt no no no no like show us who you are because
That’s what what this team at this point they need they need somebody show them how they’re going to get to the playoffs because as of right now I think they’re a little rudderless rudderless all right well I’m outnumbered so whatever so I mean I well I don’t know if James if you
If you heard the whole uh the show or what we were talking about earlier but Damian thinks and tell me if I’m wrong but he thinks he does not see this team the way they are making the top six I don’t think they’re I don’t think they’re capable of executing in a way
That gets them to the top six and I say I’m not closing the door on that yet I think they have the talent um they have the the Top Flight players on the top of that roster uh and I agree and I agree with that I I absolutely agree with that
I just don’t agree with the your belief that they can get it done no I mean that’s fair Daven because I mean what would make you think that they can get it done you can’t just say well last season I have 50 some odd game sample size that makes me feel like see
It I don’t you know it’s it’s a magic trick now you see it now you don’t so my but my my my point my the way I would look at that is it’d be one thing if they were battling up if they were in this spot for the entire season it’s
Like they’re not going to be able to get over to H like if they were in eighth seventh eighth for the entire season like they don’t have enough to get back up there they were just there like three games ago and three games from now they
Might be right back up there and that would that honestly is more so what this season has been as opposed to them completely falling off to the point where they’re they’re out of contention for six the the the story of this season is three games after the All-Star break
They’ll probably be six and then four games after that they’ll probably be seven and then they’ll go back up to six like that’s probably what’s going to happen where that P that’s the problem but that hasn’t happen if we’re if we’re going off of what they’ve shown us this year that
Hasn’t happened this year what they’ve shown us this year is they’ll be they’ll win seven out of three and then they’ll lose four out of five and that’s not gonna get you down to 10th that’s going to keep you around where you’ve been at if we’re using the metric of what
They’ve shown us this season yeah I don’t disagree I mean like look at they’re kind of they got to a certain point they plateaued they needed to push it give them over the the top and that push was you know trading for a guy that you waved in cash
Considerations you didn’t mix it up you didn’t give them the jolt of energy that they probably needed and now you got to create it yourself and I think that’s what I believe the dearn fox game was like him creating the energy again to try to get back to who he should be and
You know I I don’t know if he can sustain it but we have seen him sustain it for a second half of the season going into the playoffs I just don’t like that we have this question mark about what’s going on for six weeks and that’s what
It is I mean he’s like before last night he was averaging like 21 and a half a game since calendar turn two 2024 and that just he’s too good to average that and it’s not like he was taking a step back so others could take no he just
Wasn’t playing well like straight up he his three-point percentage was around 33% his shot his overall field goal percent was at 43 point something down five or six% or eight% off of what he shot last year he just wasn’t playing well so whatever is going on he needs to
Move past that and and get um you know this is a group that you’re you’re going to fight with the rest of the season that’s it so make the best best of it and let’s see what happens and um maybe this summer they’ll go get the big help
That the that some of these guys need but I think it it really does we always say it begins and ends with dearon Fox I don’t think we could he could have showed us more of that like realistically he just proved it it begins and ends with him and that’s how
This entire season has been when he’s great they’re tough to beat when he’s not they’re they’re extremely beatable and when he doesn’t like when he’s turned off like the switch isn’t hit at all they lose to bad teams and that’s what we’ve seen all season and James if if if the success of
The Sacramento Kings begins or success or failures begins with and ends with dearon Fox I’m of the belief that this trade market begins and ends with Kevin herder I have a theory that Mike Brown hates Kevin herder not Kevin herder the person Kevin herder the basketball
Player and I feel like what we saw last night just was a kind of a microcosm of what really has been happening the season between these two maybe not as outward is that little exchange that they had last night but just Mike is frustrated with something Kevin herder does on the basketball floor
And he’s sick of it and that’s what we saw last night and you know Kenny made a great he can’t be sick of it there’s no better option he’s these two have to figure out for for Sacramento to get to top six or to get anywhere those two
Those two yes it starts and ends with here no doubt those two they’ve got to figure out their issues it’s Valentine’s Day make love work here you you’ve got to figure out your issues so you guys can move on through these next 29 games hopefully 29 games plus together yeah we
Had someone in the chat earlier um during the Insiders that said something to the effect that you know Mike Brown makes his makes some of these guys afraid to shoot right and that just couldn’t be further from the truth like Mike Brown is is told all of these guys
Shoot shoot shoot he I have never seen him yell at a player for taking a shot ever that I can remember the only thing I can remember is him yelling it uh at Keegan Murray for not taking a shot like the offensive side of the ball they do a
Lot of empowering with every single player that steps on the court whether it’s you know dearon Fox and Kevin hurder and Malik monk or it’s uh you know ke Ellis and and Kessler Edwards the the general consensus is look if you’re going to step on the court you’ve
Got to do the job that the guy that you stepped off that you’re you’re playing for does which means you got to space the floor you got to take the shot when it’s in your hands you gotta do all of these things that are very basic we’re
Not asking you to go out there and be Michael Jordan or go out there and be Kyrie Irving and try to take everybody off the dribble we’re asking you to take the open shot and for the most part please hit it if you can but just take
It because that’s all right but on the defensive side of the ball Mike can’t deal with the the frustrating errors and I think it’s really interesting like one of the Hallmarks of last season was Mike Brown calling a timeout 40 seconds into a game and we’re like what in the world
Are you doing this year that shifted he doesn’t do that at all like I don’t even know what happened to that because I thought it worked like more often than not it was like hey no no no that’s not who we are tonight that’s not what we’re
Doing tonight now it’s the like what he’s known for is the really really bad uh coaching challenges right but when it comes to the defensive side of the ball they have such basic principles and if you don’t follow the basic principles and you you slip into these these really
Easy mistakes he’s going to call you out on it and and I get I get it that it was Kevin this time but the last time they played the Suns the entire Focus after the fact was on the fact that they didn’t defend the three-point line late
In the game that when the Suns went small ball that uh that the Kings kept dropping back too far and and acting like they were defending a regular team but realistically they’re defending five guards and so they just kept going in scramble mode and giving up these open
Threes that’s what happened in this game again and so I’m assuming that what Mike was angry with which I’d have to go back and watch the whole tape is that Kevin herder kept doing exactly what they did last game that cost him the game and that’s really frustrating as a coach if
You’re going to go into a contest against a very specific team that you know exactly how they beat you last time and we’ve got a a game plan to stop that and then you start giving up those same exact things it’s got to kill you as a
Coach and so that’s what I think happened with Kevin again I’ve got to go back and watch the tape and see the timeline matches that was the third yeah that was the third fourth quarter stretch where they hit those threes that eliminated the Kings uh lead and then they they took a lead
Of their own so that so and he called the the the it was it was clearly something on the defensive end that he was pissed off about so yeah just looking at the play there’s a screen at the top of the key first of all the the first three Kevin’s guarding the ball
And I don’t know whose decision it was to go double that was an asinine decision if you ask me I don’t know if it was Mike I don’t know if it was one of the players but Kevin’s guarding the ball he’s guarding Kevin Durant Harrison leaves Royce
O’Neal for no real reason to go double Kevin Durant who’s looking right at him and Kevin passes to Royce O’Neal Royce O’Neil passes to Eric Gordon there’s a three that’s your first one the second one Kevin uh herder’s guarding KD again there’s a screen and roll Kevin doesn’t
Fight through the pick or whatever and Harrison is playing this or excuse me um herder Garden Royce O’Neil there’s Kevin Durant is being guarded by Harrison Barnes KD sets the screen herder goes under and just kind of Fades and looks for a switch Harrison does whatever he does leaves Royce
O’Neil wide open that’s the three Mike Brown clearly upset with Kevin Kevin didn’t do his job Kevin herder and it feels like if I’m Kevin herder if I’m Kevin herder what I think the argument would have been was all right number one we got our signals cross but it’s not okay to just
Let this guy shoot a walk up three look at the play I have no idea what Harrison Barnes is doing and how that’s okay that I I don’t know what defense that is even if Kevin is supposed to um is supposed to like fight through that instead with
Royce O’Neal Harrison Barnes going from the three-point line to the free throw line as a Defender that that’s not that that’s nobody’s strategy like what the hell was that and Kevin is probably like what the hell was that what was he doing and to your point earlier Kevin’s
Always the one getting yelled at in those situations that’s right I can’t imagine whatever Harrison was doing on that play I just watched it twice I can’t imagine that’s the plan whatever Harrison was doing that is not what Mike Brown teaches or anybody else and but
Kevin herder is the one that gets yelled at and Kevin probably had enough and was like go talk to him what is he doing and I think there’s a disconnect there they need to get on the same page one way or another and we’ll see we’ll see if that
Ever happens that’s part of like what you talk about some of the things they need to do to become a top six team like talking to each other like having these hard conversations and meeting in the middle and coming together I don’t know if they will I
Don’t know when I say I don’t agree with you it’s not to say you might not be right like what you say might actually be the C they may not have enough I just think they can overcome that but there’s no guarantee we’ll see yeah well then and
I’ll tell you the I mean like what it looked like to me real specifically last night was the idea was to send a second body at both Kevin Durant when he was at the top and Devin Booker when he was at the top and get the ball out of their hands
And if you’re gonna lose with a royce O’Neal 3 who’s shooting like who who hadn’t been shooting well at all coming in like over a stretch um if it’s gonna be Josh aogi that beats you if it’s going to be even at this point Grayson Allen that beats you then
That’s who it’s going to be you’re not going to get beat by Kevin Durant and by uh again Devin Booker hitting a hitting a top of the key u open jumper or breaking you down and creating something at the basket for someone else that’s so
I do think that that was part of it the problem that you have Kenny is that I mean just look at the numbers like every single one of those guys hit a three that mattered so you look at Grayson Allen goes two for five and Royce O’Neal
Goes two for five and Josh aogi goes one for one and then the other one was nir little so you have these four guys who are not like known as great they’re not what Mike likes to call Hot Shooters Grayson Allen yes but the other guys are
Not what you call Hot Shooters and when Grayson is on the floor with like three other stars then of course he’s not going to be someone that you pay a lot of attention to the the difference is is that the Kings got nothing out of the guys that they had in those situations
So they didn’t even take any shots your Keon Ellis your Kessler Edwards your uh your Davon Mitchell Davon Mitchell goes one for three but Keon Ellis Alex Lyn Kessler Edwards they didn’t even take a shot when they were in the game and you you also look at you know Keegan Murray
Harrison Barnes those are hot Shooters those are those are like the the like guys that you key on that you don’t allow wide openen threes if you’re the opposition they combine to go one of six you know and it’s not even the the one of six that’s the problem it’s the six
That’s the problem like those guys needed to shoot more Threes And while you got these other guys for the other team that are marginal three-point Shooters impacting the win and loss the Kings other guys didn’t at all and that’s that’s where number one I I think Fox maybe could have pulled back a
Little bit but again I’m okay with him trying to go get his in one game but it’s also where everyone else has to be more conscious of what the offensive is uh what the offense is and how open some of these guys are and how you know it
Just can’t be one guy every time and so again I think that the the Suns they did a really nice job of making the king scramble and then the guys that you wanted shooting shots they hit them that’s it and you lose by a couple of points and it’s because you just take
Away start taking away one or two of those those wideopen threes that you gave those uh the non you know hot shooters for them you win the game but they didn’t miss yeah you said there were some um positives from last night’s game James is you know
Positives in the loss are you where’s your confidence level in this team moving forward um I don’t know I mean they’ve got to get through this stretch of games it’s not easy um you know again like tonight on the second night of a back toback you can’t mail this in you need
To go in there and and fight like crazy and and try to come away with a win um but then coming out of the break you know you have the Spurs and then you’ve you’ve got more of the same it’s like the Clippers Timberwolves and and Denver
Again after that you get to early March there’s a a group of like 10 winnable games and that’s where the Kings if they’re going to make it that’s where they’ve got to put their foot down and say this is who we are and this is where
We’re going and if they don’t if they don’t go something like eight and2 in that stretch they’re not they’re not going to be they might be a they’re going to be a playin team but they’re not going to be a playoff team I don’t think and we’re already gotten we’ve
Already gotten to the point where even if they win all they they do the exact same thing they did last year they go 16 and nine to finish the season right that still puts them at like 46 wins that to me is like a in this season a seven or
An eight seed in the west which means you’re a playing team and I I don’t think we’re going to see a collapse from all of these teams I mean I still you know there there still could come a point where either the Lakers lose one of their two stars or The Warriors lose
Steph Curry for a stretch of games like they do every year or the Pelicans get hurt like they do every year or KD um so there’s always an opportunity one of these other teams has a major injury issue that allows you to sneak through but like I’m not putting my my money up
On them being like a fourth seed or a fifth seed or tracking I know I don’t think they’re going to track down the top tier group I don’t know that they can climb to the top of this group either at this point yeah I don’t know there there are
Definitely question marks with this team and you know it feels like I’ve said it at least uh a couple different times but it feels like a fork in the road feels like a Crossroads of moment for this team where are they going to go now we’re at the All-Star break and how you
Come out of the allstar break you know the first couple weeks May dictate where you end up eventually you know fighting in the playin or you know it’s not comfortable but in a in a playoff series comfortably in a playoff series um we’ll see what these guys got man we we we’ll
See what they got well a good thing about you know the Kings you some unanswered questions it’s not like New Orleans questions are answered right or Phoenix’s questions are answered Phoenix got dealt you know another question mark last night we we don’t know how long
Bradley Beal will be out if he’ll be out any length of time uh at all but he was playing really well and was part of why Phoenix was playing really well but that’s that’s that’s part of the that’s part of what Phoenix is this year like I
Don’t all is not well with Phoenix uh and I’m leaving one team out oh Dallas I think there’s still some question marks about Dallas andamento you know trying to take the positive approach here for the first time in three hours and 23 minutes Sacramento has a lot of control over
What happens with Dallas and real quick to your point what we talked about earlier ah New Orleans I’ll I’ll hesitate a little bit with them but Dallas and Phoenix they don’t play defense just like the Kings so if we’re worried about like man it’s gonna be hard to they they’ll give opportunities
They’ll have those games where they can’t stop anybody and if you play them again I think they played Dallas twice you got an opportunity at your house to put up points and beat them and win that season series yeah I mean Dallas is a team that
Like again the Kings haven’t had a lot of problems with and actually before last night you could have said sort of the same thing about Phoenix the Kings you know very well could have been three and0 against Phoenix coming into that game um and then Kings have played
Really well against Phoenix every time they played obviously they won two of them they played really well for 41 minutes last time and they didn’t play bad last night you can say the same about uh Denver they played I mean they they’re two and0 against Denver they played Denver really really well um
Denver hasn’t had their for full arsenal at at any time against them not our but uh but you look at yeah you look around there’s you know the Clippers and and the Pelicans who just crush the Kings every time they play them but you know you’re you split against Minnesota
Already um well you’re what one one and one against Minnesota like you’re two- one against OKC like most of the other teams around you you’ve played really well you’re 2-0 against the Lakers you split with the the Warriors there is a lot of positives here especially when it
Comes to tiebreakers and stuff uh later on in the season but kind of go back to what Mike Brown always says and What mo most coaches say it doesn’t really matter what the other teams are doing it the only thing that really matters is if the Kings can get right themselves
Because that’s the biggest problem right now it’s not who they’re playing or anything else it’s that they just aren’t 100% who they should be and you know again you lose a game to me last night was a totally respect respectable loss that’s a that’s a good team it’s a good
Team in your tier that’s right around with superstars they got hot and hit shots and you lost by a couple of points you know it’s the Charlotte loss it’s the Detroit loss those are home losses you know it’s the the Blazers loss it’s the two losses to Houston there’s all of
These other games where you just to and say okay like you don’t have a margin of error because of that like if you take out like four of those other losses that they shouldn’t have had you know this team is all of a sudden sitting there you know playing tonight against Denver
Battling out who’s going to be like the the third or fourth spot in the west I I just don’t know that we’ve seen the inconsistencies of this team all year long and I don’t know how they fix it and I don’t know if they can fix it in a week
Off well we’ll uh talk more about Kings basketball we’ll talk more about the Sacramento Kings and the Denver Nuggets coming up tonight with uh James Hammer the Insiders when D with Casey return here on Sacramento sports leader ESPN 1320 Elite defense by oh my God the nasis is the nasis is phenomenal NIS is about 5 feet away from the oh he’s got his hands up that is incredible wild the nasis is incredible hey I I am not ham um the Kings don’t turn the ball over too much
They last night they turned the ball over 13 times and they had way more fast break points in the other team they had all kinds of other points like way more Second Chance points in the other team um and right now they rank 16th in the
NBA at like 13 and a half they’re like middle of the road they’re middle of the road in turnovers but they’re also number four in assists per game at 28.8 per game like if you were to say hey the Kings don’t block shots I’d be like yeah
The Kings don’t block shots you’re right they’re 29th in the league but just saying it feels like the Kings just turn the ball over at the wrong time sometimes that’s probably why people think they turn it over too much yeah well and in their losses they turn the ball over too
Much but in their wins like there are plenty of games this season where they’ve just been really really really good with the ball so like middle of the road in in the NBA when you play one of the fastest paces and you know you’re you’re ninth
In Pace and uh and you’re fourth in assists like if you’re a pass happy team there’s a good chance you’re going to turn the ball over here and there look at up they just gota they gota and I don’t know if they can I don’t know if they can they just need to
Button things up they button things up make be better at the free throw line have those games where they don’t turn the ball over feels like that’s that’s worth five wins alone but we’ll see if they can do it they might not be able to do it yeah here’s a funny stat they
Actually turned the ball over more in their wins 13.2 to 12.3 in their losses be sloppy they also they shoot the exact same percentage from three 40% oh no those are 40% attempts um no they shoot way better they’re field goal per their problem is when they lose for the most
Part they’re averaging 125.77 in their losses that’s not great and they’re shooting 40% in their wins from three and 33% in their losses and that stupid free throw number 74.6 in their wins and 71.2 in their losses yeah they also don’t play defense in their losses that’s always a I find that hard
To believe James you don’t believe it don’t do you I do not yeah find that hard to believe yeah oh man it’s weird it’s just like expectations it’s not even that they aren’t living up to expectations it’s that they’re finding new ways to like shake your confidence that offensive
Rebound last night was tough well the the the offensive Rebound in a back-to-back play with the almost never called out of bounds foul was incredible oh yeah absolutely incredible like like this is how they’re gonna lose sabonis I know he took that hard I mean you have 18 rebounds and you
Don’t leave your feet to go get the 19th and that just to me it wasn’t even that the ball flew over the top of him as much as it was he didn’t go all the way up because he he thought he boxed out yeah I do not want to Bryce I do not
Want to be the defensive coordinator for the ners because I like to sit in the booth when I am a defensive coordinator I don’t like to be do can’t do that James but I would have fired him I gotta be honest like I think that was the right
Move I don’t know complained all season long that their defensive line couldn’t get to a quarterback that doesn’t make any sense you had too much talent how can you not get to the quarterback and the defensive line coach issue ceric well you’re a defensive coordinator man
Like you you gotta sit there and you got a trillion dollar defensive line there should be no scheme needed well they Prov that you needed a scheme and they and they also prove that you didn’t have the scheme in your back pocket no CH yeah they I ain’t gonna do it James is
Here I man more highlights no bro no thoughts to the people in Kansas City though this country’s so broken man it ain’t never going to get fixed this country is never going to get fixed and it’s going to get way worse over the course of the like next eight
Months yes laughable was just awful this this the stuff that’s coming out of Kansas City just absolutely awful um James ham with us we continued the conversation during the commercial break about the Sacramento Kings and how how they can turn things around why they can’t turn turn things around
What things are are are are are are are wrong what things can be fixed James do you think let’s go with a scenario let’s go with a negative scenario I don’t think they’re falling out of the top 10 like I think that’s a that’s a that’s a drastic
Fallof that I’m not even like prepared for that’s a great word I’m not prepared for that yeah but Um if they lose in the playing and don’t play a series do you think that changes or heightens anything because you’ve already been vocal about the offseason Monty McNair needs to have do you think not playing in a playoff series uh heightens that in any sort of
Way for this front office and this team oh it makes its own New Nightmare I mean it does I mean if this team doesn’t make the playoffs like I don’t know if everyone’s gonna have a job at that come summertime like and I’ll just point out this crappy
Thing that would happen that means that you don’t give up your 2024 first round pick if you don’t make the playoffs yeah and that means you’re GNA have like the 14th pick or the 13th pick and a bad draft that nobody really wants one of these picks and it also means that your
25 26 and 27 first round picks are now not just wide open there you you go from having four if they do make the playoffs and that the 2024 pick conveys on July 1 they have four first round picks that they can offer in a trade they’ve got
Three pick swaps on top of that or they’ve got seven pick swaps like whatever however you want to look at that grouping of first round picks from 2025 to 2031 they’re all wide open if you don’t make the playoffs you keep your 2024 and now you you might have to give
Up your 2025 or your 2026 which means you can’t also trade your 2027 and we go right back to where they are today with their draft picks um with just a little bit more leeway because you can go out to 2031 so the best you could do is offer a
Protected with an asterisk 2027 first round pick uh at 2029 and 2031 so again like it could really hurt who they are and what they want to do moving forward if they don’t make the playoffs not just because um there’s going to be a lot of noise from behind
The scenes about how this happened and what is the postmortem on them missing the playoffs this year and why didn’t they make more of a move during the offseason why didn’t they make more of a move during free agency uh I mean during uh during trade
Deadline like those are all going to be like really really legitimate questions that someone’s going to have to answer and as of right now again like we talked about it maintain and improve like we got the maintain where is the improve and there has been a conscious decision
To move forward this way and that means that whoever made that decision you’re you’re gonna have to answer for it um yeah so I think there is a big deal um with what happens right now and it’s not just you know oh the fans are going to
Be really upset man you does anyone out there know how much Kings jacked up their ticket prices because they made the playoffs one time like all these fans have waited for years and years and years you know showing up for a bad team this team wins one time they make the
Playoffs one time and lose in the first round and they just Nitro their their first their uh their season ticket packages so what are you gonna give it back you’re not going to so again you got to put a product on the floor and sometimes that means you got to make
Hard decisions you got to you can bite the bullet and make a trade when it maybe isn’t all that uncomfortable and they didn’t do it and so now you’re in a situation where look if this team fails in the second half that there’s gonna be some in Pace for that
Failure I don’t know who that is what James is saying is it’s gonna be you I’m not saying that I’m not I’m not saying they’re GNA fire the GM or or whatever but there’s going to be an angry owner if they don’t make the playoffs this season and like where are you gonna
Point the fingers like I don’t know is he is he should be angry in this situation everybody should be angry if they don’t make the playoffs but um and not saying that you’re wrong I mean it’s I would definitely listen to you if you say some you know uh some
Some ads are going to roll if they don’t make the playoffs but I also think that would be the wrong move you know what I mean like it’s you you you don’t get anywhere by just drastically changing things all the time yeah you know what I’m saying and um I
Think I think that everybody should be out there with it you the people that you have in place to make decisions to coach this team and to play on the court I would the way I would have gone about it when I’ve got any of these guys is they’re self-motivated to be great
They don’t need to be motivated with their job on the line to to be better if that’s the motivation you need for these people that you have in these positions you’re probably not going to win because you can’t have everybody’s job on the line every time
So I hear what you’re saying I hope that’s not the case I really hope we don’t find out you know what I’m saying what that would look like but this whole thing is supposed to it it was supposed to be about building something sometimes when you build something you don’t make
A straight line up to where you’re trying to go there are setbacks and if there are setbacks how they deal with them uh I hope they deal with them the right way yeah and okay so I’m going to stick with the building mentality there right so the thing about building is
Sure you know you can have you can get part of a house done and it starts raining and you got to wait right and you got to hope that there isn’t too much damage done and all that stuff but if we get to an offseason where they didn’t make the playoffs doesn’t that
Feel like like you started building a house but like you didn’t do enough on the foundation and like the whole back corner of the foundation broke and fell off and now you can’t just like go in and repair that you got to tear back and you like you got to make a pretty
Substantial like adjustment to what your plans are and how you’re going to build a house moving forward MH so that’s where I’m at like like this isn’t about you know again I would even say that at this point they haven’t maintained I don’t care what the record is this team
Is not as good as they were last year just straight up they’re not they’re not as resilient they don’t have the same mentality uh they don’t bring the same energy and effort why do you think that is you got me like I you know like I I
Once uh I once had somebody while I was sitting in front of him they asked Paul Westfall about like trying to control momentum and I I remember Paul said man if I knew how to control momentum I wouldn’t use it to be a basketball coach there’s a lot of things in this world
That you could use momentum for and make a whole lot of money doing that it wouldn’t be doing being a basketball coach like if that’s where like if there anyone knows how to control momentum positive momentum negative momentum like I you should be doing like great things
And that’s where I kind of like with this team I I can’t tell you what it is but they’ve lost a little bit of who they were and it’s it’s right now it’s that battle to can you find who you were can’t and that even like who they were
We were hoping they were going to maintain and improve off of that right that’s so we’re still trying to get back to like realistically who they were and after that um you gotta you know again we even heard it with Mike Brown and you know Mike Mike has been the defensive
Guy all year long trying to push push push on the on the defensive end and then after the the trade deadline we hear monik McNair talk about how the offense isn’t good enough and it was like okay like we got to be on the same page moving forward here because if your
Coach is asking for defensive players to improve a defense that he doesn’t think can hold up in the playoffs and you think that you’ve got enough offensive weapons to outscore everybody and so you’re not going to make a move then those two aren’t on the same page moving
Forward and you got to figure something else out that’s that’s not like a cohesive unit moving forward and so I don’t know that that’s totally the case that that they’re just like it’s a battle of wills but I certainly would say like when your GM is saying one
Thing and your coach is talking about defense there you know you got to figure it out yeah I don’t know how you do it then maybe these two maybe those two aren’t exactly on the same page I’m not sure I don’t know and I’m not saying that like
I just know I mean something for some reason their offense is off and maybe that’s something that M and and Mike can’t pinpoint you know I mean obviously they’re a lot closer to the team than we are but you know you see the same guys out there for
The most part domas is having a phenomenal season lost in all this man had a 30 some odd Point triple double last night 50th triple double of his career what what are we up to James 16th or 17th of the Season 18th 18th of the
Season in a row five in the last six 10 in the last 15 30 some OD consecutive double double like dude is having a phenomenal season and it’s getting lost by deficiencies on the offensive end in other places uh the ups and downs a little bit of of dearon fox the strange
Stretch that that Keegan Murray is having the disappearing act of Harrison Barnes through 40 games the reemergence uh you know for for a 10 game stretch and now the now he’s like right in between he’s right between oh my God Harrison Barnes and oh my God Harrison
Barnes he’s like right in the middle and then herder who’s just up and down and and Malik is phenomenal right now yeah this team win some games that dude could be six man at a year but I mean that’s what it looked like last night he just
Went out and audition for Sixth Man of the Year I he was so good he wasn’t a auditioning for a six man of the year he was auditioning for how much money this league willing to pay me yeah how much how much money is this league willing to pay me I know
What Sacramento can pay me what’s the rest of this league gonna be willing to pay me well and I don’t know the answer to that to be honest like I really don’t every every time he has a big game oh my gosh he’s We’re not gonna be able to afford
Him it’s like all right what does the rest of the league think of what what Malik’s doing though that the rest of the league has decided defense is not a thing they’re going to do anymore maybe maybe maybe Malik’s 20 points in this upscale NBA offense maybe
That’s what they want maybe so like what what it really comes down to um with with all of this is in my opinion is winning winning cures all you know and The Vibes will be right back uh to how we had them last year if they can start
Winning some games and whenn games on a consistent basis and stay there um will they be able to do it I don’t know I don’t know we we’ll see we’ll see but I think the I keep saying I think the the pieces are there I do think the pieces are
There they just got to dig deep you know they got to dig deep and and figure out uh who they are and who they want to be and we’ll see what they got man yeah and that Detroit game was a killer wasn’t it yeah yeah that that was the ultimate VI
Gut punch killer yeah because even if you if you win that game then it’s okay to lose to the Suns it’s okay to lose to OKC and it would even be okay to do like these three in a row but if you would have won that you would have been what
Six- two then you go on to win the next one seven- two over nine game stretch if you have a little bit of a slip up right before the deadline right before the the All-Star break but it’s against three really good te teams okay no big deal
But that you throw that uh Detroit loss in there and it just magnifies everything that’s why again the margin of of error for this team is nothing at this point yeah and you just start looking through the schedule and starting to find like heightened importance and we
Keep pointing to those two games against Dallas how big those will be those game I mean that game this is a month away already looking at those coming out strong against San Antonio on the 22nd uh hope to set the tone you know for what they could do moving forward and
Then you still you know I didn’t realize I knew there was one left I didn’t realize till KC pointed it out the Phoenix games the last game of the season that probably isn’t going to have as much emphasis on it as it would have if it had taken place like four weeks
Earlier where winning the series might not matter by the time you get to the last game of the season yeah or could matter for everything well it could yeah yeah there’s a flip side to that shout out flip side uh but so so you look at
It like this shout out to Kamar he sent us um a text saying they got to go 18 and 11 to finish with the same record that they had last year okay looking at the schedule the easiest opponents toughest was or whatever one with Washington two with San Antonio one
With Portland one with Memphis one with Toronto one with Brooklyn that’s one two three four six seven s and0 there s and0 there means you gotta go softly sofly kind on your part for a team that lost to Detroit last week I’m just saying I’m just saying I’m not I’m
Not no I’m telling you this is what they have to do not what they’re going to I hear you all right this is what you have to do yep even if you even if like in a season you even if in a season you get two or three where you trip up against
Teams like that they’ve wasted that yeah all right so they you don’t get anymore yeah you don’t get no more you go seven and0 there that means you’ve got to go for the rest of your schedule that has quote unquote tough teams mid teams or whatever what’s that
Uh what’s my math looking at 11 and 11 yeah because you had them seven and an0 18 and 11 yeah 11 and 11 500 outside of the B the bad teams but that gets you so that get you to where you’re at which probably gets you six so
I was going to say the follow-up question is what does that get you in the standings what does last year get you in the stand I think they gets you six 48 gets you six this year it might not but Phoenix is up in like someone has to play different right and that’s
What we were talking about with Sacramento Sacramento’s gota they got to up it a little bit 18 and 11 really isn’t upping it they’re seven games over 500 right now it’s the same it’s the same thing um of course at this point in the season now Phoenix could play the
Same New Orleans could play the same like if those teams all play the same the kings are eight mhm right Dallas play the same um that’s probably not happening for all four of those teams right uh who’s going to take advantage you know Dallas is they’re they’re working with their new lineups they’re
Cooking for sure Phoenix will remain a question mark to me all year they have the toughest schedule in the league and New Orleans I just I gotta I don’t I don’t I don’t understand New Orleans at all I I don’t I don’t know I can’t describe that basketball team no I think
Waren could be potentially good they lost I I think they could too like I I don’t understand why New Orleans isn’t better right that’s the crazy thing especially the way we see them against Sacramento and then you look up and they’re just a game better than them you
Would think the way that we’ve seen them play like man that’s probably team that’s five games better than Sacramento but for whatever reason they got 20s something losses themselves and they also they haven’t been hit fully by the entry bug they just lost tyon Daniels you could see them easily having more I
I guess Alvarado’s been hurt uh on and off throughout the season but you could definitely see them having more injury issues between now and the end of the season because that’s who they’ve been forever and I mean if they stay healthy I I would be surprised if they didn’t at
Least like Trend up to like the 46 to 48 wins that we’re talking about and I looked at I think I’ve got the Kings at right around like 11 games against what you consider sort of non-playoff teams and that’s a lot like and if they take care of those games and
Then the games that you you know the tough games that you got to split if you if you can come away like 500 um with the rest of the games you got a shot the the the other thing um about the kings in the second half is they just went
Through basically a pretty tough month and a half two Monon schedule where they were barely ever at home yeah that’s going to change in the second half they’re going to be home a bunch pry in in a good amount in April and they’re what is it 15 to nine at home yeah look
At the other Home records for the teams in the western there’s a it’s like there’s there’s it feels like some teams might have played all their home games already and then you’ve got Sacramento yeah they’ve got 11 home games in March who have been here twice since Christmas
Yeah they have 11 home games in March and four and four in uh in April so I think it’s 11 home games four Road games in in March gotta cook at g1c starting with HBCU night that’s James Where Are You Gonna Be HBCU night with the Deltas have you picked the fraternity
For the 22nd James we’re getting to that James we’re getting to that game early James GNA need you to pick a fraternity uh what I’m not doing is I’m not wearing uh Jason Jones’s uh yellow and purple like no I’m not wearing his Laker colors out there for my fraternity choice idea
That ain’t happening right color choices is important yeah that’s for sure that’s for sure yeah all right yeah James James is hyped James is as hyped as we are for HBC oh you know he is man see David Dr David I got you Lambda Lambda lamba yeah so believe
That’s a Revenge of the Nerds reference yes very good that a’t a school reference I know that yeah yeah no it’s a Revenge of the Nerds reference yeah so so uh buckle up buckle up I mean we talking like we’re GNA do this all again tomorrow that’s what I’m
Saying buckle up we gonna do this all again tomorrow I think we all like well I don’t know I forgot about injuries but like we feel like they’re not winning tonight huh everybody I don’t know it’s just hard like I don’t know I’d be I’d
Be a little I’m not gonna say Yeah they ain’t winning be be a little I’d be a little surprised if they won t night they gonna be Denver again I’d perk up my like however you know maybe Denver just wants to get to the break too it’s not like Denver’s you
Know incapable of just wanting to chill right and they’re potentially no Murray no kcp and they’re they’re at home they ain’t gotta go nowhere yeah yeah they also they’ve added uh Julian Strather to their injury list U as questionable with the left ankle spring and uh Trey lyes
Is still questionable yeah I don’t like that I heard Marcus Burton might be available make his King’s debut tonight I read that oh the guy the two-way guy they signed he’s been elevated I think I think J who had that who is it like no what’s his name though uh Marcus Jones
Right oh Marcus Jones what I say Burton I’m think of DeAndre Burton uh yeah it is mar Deontay Burton yeah it’s not Deontay Burton what Marcus Jones yeah I don’t think it’s Marcus is that his last name this is good good this is this is no this is
Fantastic we’re we’re talking about a player we can’t get his name right hey make sure you guys turn into our purp Mason Jones there it is it’s good this is good Mason Mason Jones he’ll save the day yeah it’s very good terrific this was this was high quality
Radio here hey hopefully Chris hey Chris DTE like you can’t get any scoring Off the Bench throw Chris dwte in like you can’t go another game no I’m I’m no Chris G gonna do just play I don’t know kin no no no I I’m not saying over Kevin
Hder I’m saying like look if you can’t get more than three points out of everyone not named Malik monk off your bench you got to find points somewhere that’s like and go ahead probably more likely probably more likely we see Alex Lynn tonight for more sustained period
Of time than we did last night oh totally no no we’ll see Alex Len tonight against joic um you didn’t see Alex Lenn because you know you can’t really run him out there only played two minutes and like well we don’t need to do this and also let’s point out that the Kings
Completely fell apart when damont sabonis tried to catch his breath for a couple of minutes you talk about the center of an offense good Lord they died last night all right we’re leaving this sence I’m I’m I’m I don’t know if I’m going to be
In a better mood I’ll be in a different mood tomorrow hopefully man the same only better about that yeah the same only better yeah there you go we are headed over to 1025 to do some giveaways here in this four o’clock hour come check us out if you’d
Like uh we’re gonna run it back next year on ESPN 1320 and of course we got the purple and black it’s just such a great name the purple and black pregame show yeah rolls right off the tongue what time is that 5:30 be there very good Happy Valentine’s Day everybody
We’ll see you tomorrow at 10: a.m. beginning with the Insiders on Sacramento sports leader ESPN 1320 BOS Kings like the beam we still love you oh that was Frank now you’re I got awar this you’re pretty you’re pretty spot on imagine poor Mason Jones listen the show before the game starts we Justus
Burton marus Jones Jones and what really got me is like the fact that James hasn’t confirmed either one of these means there’s no way that that’s his name I think it is Mason Mason Jones Mason it’s Mason yeah just we just call him a different name
The whole time so we call we’ll call him Michael Jones tomorrow he’s gonna go for 20 tonight he’s gonna be the the broadcast do you know my name now DLo and Casey yeah that’s right like looking in the camera know my name say my name H amazing amazing my
Name yes indeed all right I can’t believe they they fired uh the defensive coordinator just as we got off the air oh yeah just as the Insiders got off the air yeah yeah went in on his ass I’d already like no I would have fired him sorry like he got a window that’s
Closing and I I ain’t holding it up with that guy sorry all right guys we are uh headed over we will see all of you wonderful people tomorrow uh 10: a.m. oh well
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KC has never been more right with his thoughts on Mike Brown and his handling of Huerter. I have watched opposing players shoot 3's with no one within 15 feet and the closer stands under the basket waiting in case there is a rebound. Coach doesn't say nothing after.