The Key to the Sacramento Kings Winning 50 Games: Home Court Advantage | Locked On Kings
Matt George breaks down the importance of the Kings defending home court in order to reach their goal of 50 wins this season.
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The Key to the Sacramento Kings Winning 50 Games: Home Court Advantage
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4 Comments
Saw this at dinner and knew what I was watching after haha
I miss the old theme tho 🙁
Us always getting the most back to backs and getting ranked as the most difficult schedules is fishy af to me.
The NBA hates us for fighting to keep our team in sac and winning that.
I like how you be diving deep.
For the Kings to win 50+, I honestly think it is going to take 28-34 home wins. There is no question that the road schedule is going to be brutal. So taking care of the home court is the only way they can do it.
I think it is possible, but they are going to have to play their best basketball possible all season long.
I can realistically see 25-30 wins at home, 20-24 wins on the road.
45-37 at worst
54-26 at best
This is assuming of course on good health.
Even the worst teams in the league, the majority have gotten better. They aren't good teams, but they have gotten better.
Detroit, Washington, Charlotte, San Antonio…all four will he bad still.
But non of them will be nearly as bad as they were last season.
Portland, Toronto and Utah might be either way.
Chicago, Brooklyn, the LA Clippers and Atlanta, are the only ones I think that got significantly worse.
Everyone else, I think goes from being possibly mediocre or bad to really damn good.
With 3 teams I think the rest of the NBA pretty much is going to be afraid of.
Boston, OKC and Dallas I think are the 3 teams that at least right now, look like they will be right there at the end again, fighting for the Championship.
Don't get me wrong, I can see Philly, NYK, Denver, Minnesota, Indiana, Sacramento, Cleveland or New Orleans possibly having an unreal season and making a very deep playoff run.
I just see it going to be a huge challenge to get past OKC or Dallas in the West or Boston in the East.
As for the Lakers making a deep playoff run, not happening without a hell of a move. 😂😂
Dallas, Minnesota, OKC, Denver, Sacramento, New Orleans, Phoenix…I see as clearly better than the Lakers.
Memphis, Houston, Golden State…I think could be better than the Lakers or worse than the Lakers in the West.
Portland, Utah, LA Clippers, San Antonio…the teams I think are legitimately worse than the Lakers in the West, but I can see scenarios playing out where the Lakers end up worse than some of them as well.
Portland I think is going to be the worst team in the West. I can see the Clippers and Lakers not being far ahead of Portland in the standings though.
I know I might get flack over that. But, the Clippers lost Paul George, Russell Westbrook and some pretty good role players as well.
The Lakers did virtually nothing to improve the team. The only thing that is different right now is Bronny James.
San Antonio is clearly an improved tram. I don't think they will be a good team, but I do think they will be a more competitive team and that probably isn't going to make it any easier for the Lakers to get wins. Utah isn't good, but they still have some pretty good players and can take the fight to the Lakers.
LeBron is older, and say whatever one wants about the Olympics, there is still a difference between a good stretch of games for 5-10 games over a month or so vs 82+ playoffs, especially for a guy turning 40.
When it comes to the West, it is easy to see that the Lakers just are not a threat anymore. If the NBA is hoping to see them in the Western Conference Finals, 😂😂😂😂.
I think Portland winning 40+ games is more likely than the Lakers making it to the Western Conference Finals.