3-Pointers: The Nemesis of the Sacramento Kings | Locked On Kings
Matt George reacts to the Sacramento Kings’ 116-96 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, where, once again, the Kings struggled to hit shots while their opponents couldn’t miss.
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3-Pointers: The Nemesis of the Sacramento Kings
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24 Comments
Tired of this fucking team man. I see why so many MFs jumped ship and became Laker or Warrior fans.
I refuse to do that but is it really worth it being a fan of a team that's apparently gonna be MID or TRASH for what, the last 20 years and who knows how much longer? ARE WE EVER JUST GOING TO BE GOOD.
Last year Keegan’s shooting suffered getting used to giving extra energy on D. This year I’m starting to be at a loss. Is the trade off focusing on rebounds? When does Keegan’s shooting become a Kings priority? They sure need it.
You asked why we are saying it's a coaching issue when it's the players missi5shots? Coaching brown is saying if you don't shoot I'm pulling you. So the players on other teams when they aren't feeling the shit they drive. Kings can't they gotta jack them when they aren't feeling it. They r handcuffed
Great seeing you Friday brother. (I said hello from the line at Star Ginger pre-game)
What really hurts is right now is they are ALL struggling. As you pointed out most everyone on the squad is shooting more than 10% lower than their career average. I’d love for Keegan & Huerter to find their 3 point shot again, let Fox and monk dribble drive downhill, let Sabonis cook in the paint, and demar light up from mid range. With all that including the DHO and some hard hustling defense we can be 4 or 5 in the west. And formidable opponent fir anyone in the league
This supposed to be a three game losing streak if KD play they lose to the suns yall was happy to beat us then lose lol 😂😂
You can’t trade 3s for 2s that why the kings can’t make big comebacks. They need elite 3 point shooters
It wasn’t just a 2nd night b2b… it was 3rd game in 4th night, in 3 states. Yes they were fatigued.. but shooting has been awful all season
Historical Kangz play pre 1998-2006 . No three's,no Ft ,no rebounding, bad third quarters…get blown out by 15+. Oh yes, and what everyone knows the holes are already. No bench talent or thin bench. No back up PG, no true center or backup pf. Keegan is a SF, sabonis is really a PF.
We can’t blame coaches for shooting poorly but can we blame them for the 3 point defense? 15:25
Hey Matt, I think you are dead on Brother. We have a leadership problem.
When there’s a team wide problem, it’s a coaching issue
It’s a coaching issue and also players as well. Communication is key to playing defense and the Kings play too much traps and double teams way too much. The players need to be able to trust and switch and also eye what’s going on during their opponents play. They also swarm the paint to often they really need to stay on their man and adjust accordingly. Why did we get here? The Front Office is to blame when we had that crew from that playoff run they played way much better and shot more efficient but what do you know they pulled the plug because they wanna go cheap contention and dont wanna dip into the luxury tax. These guys are running out of time both stars are nearing 30 as well and this window is closing.
the SPURS STINK!!!!!!!!!!!!
The kings just suck.
What dont you all understand lol.
How u get beat by san Antonio lol.
All they got is wemby lol
Seems the help defense and the rotations are not on point.
@mattgeorgesac: re: coaching . I do think the perimeter defense is. Maybe worse as the defensive acheme has changes some. Dropping to the middle to get deflections (which seems to be working) but it leaves guys a couple steps late to the perimeter shooter. And the theory it will decrease the ball getting to the perimeter isn't materializing. Thats a coaching decision and needs to be fixed.
Been saying this since pre season we have no defense
But they were tired, please understand!
Sacramento team needs to do trades if not they will not go to playoffs needs to do trade for a big man for defense purpose the reason why they can’t shoot threes is because the players were to tired on defense. Given the example on Keegan he is doing everything in defense come on offense specially threes he went down on percentage.
but it's definitely Mike Brown's fault that kings gave so many wide open 3s. Kings gave Suns 22 corner 3s!! Stop over helping! If you can't shoot 3s at least try not losing so much on 3s!
I said it over and over again. Improved defense
And the coach keep ignoring. It. It will be another DeJa Vu
the answer to the mike brown question, is this team sucks at playing great defense AND shooting 3's. Keegan was his best from 3 when they were a terrible defensive team just sayin.
"In the grand scheme of things, it's just one game", yeah, a game here, a game there, before you know it… How many more "it's just one game"? That Western Conference is brutal. Your Sacramento team cannot be "phenomenal" one game then, "unwatchable" the next game.
Heurter is the only one that is hitting 3s at a decent pct.