The Sacramento Kings are Practicing Less & Winning More | Locked On Kings
Matt George is joined by the Sac Bee’s Chris Biderman, who is on the road with the Sacramento Kings during their three game road trip. Chris and Matt discuss the differences with this team during their 7 game win streak, including less practice time, which the players say is making a big difference.
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25 Comments
The KINGS are BALLING!!!
It's most telling with Keegan Murray's shooting splits since his injury.
I think if Doug takes em to the playoffs he wins coach of the year
How far can we go by practicing less and playing "free?"
5:35 Mike Brown's structure is perfect for a very young, developing roster that's just figuring it's way around the league, which was fine 2 years ago. However, these guys are mostly seasoned vets at this point and don't need their hands held.
Heard three players say a long time ago, i.e. last season as well as this season. the practicing was too much. Even Brown said once (when Jordi was here) that he was having the team do something over and over and over and over and his coaching staff told him he couldn’t do that. Brown said well nobody left practice.
I heard a former nba player say in a podcast that he told his coach at the time he could either play hard in practice or play well in a game, but he couldn’t give him both. That player was not in his prime, but the message is still relevant. I figured a long time ago, Brown needed to be more in tune with his players. I also always felt he had a stubborn characteristic, too. Coaching in the nba is unique. All coaching and teaching is a balance act, but nba coaching is even more of a needy balance act. They are adults. Plus Brown was not maximizing the players he had.
To be fair to Mike Brown, the following happened:
– Keegan took time off to get healthy and has played much better under DC
– Devin Carter started playing and proved to be a rotational player
– Trey Lyles has been playing much better
What you can't give Mike Brown a pass for is not playing Keon Ellis and practicing too much. Also, I do think he mishandled Sasha who has been balling out in Europe which feels like a missed opportunity.
Hey Matt, I thought you had the best Locked-On opening of them all, but I have to admit the opening to Locked-On Celtics is hella dope. We need to get you a song!
Team is the strength you cant break up the team now!
Go kings
I brought up over playing TD in game 7 yesterday and you gave me shit lol.
My apologies but He lost me when He undermined the Kings win AT BOSTON. Sabonis had 29 rebounds and played his azz off and Demar started making 4th quarter shots WITHOUT Fox .
I see this b.s. all the time with Pacers media too. When they win it was because so and so on the other team wasnt playing.
But when Kings are missing players He literally didnt even mention it. They beat Boston AND Miami WITHOUT Fox. Miami plays better on the road. Miami is NEVER an easy win.
There ie no such thing as an easy or automatic win in the NBA. A team will be FAVORED to win but somehow the casual NBA fan base and talking heads national media who have NEVER competed in anything as high level as the NBA if at all somehow imply a win didnt count because the opposing team was missing a player.
Why not just forfeit the game then? For now on if an opposing team is missing a starter or two they should automatically forfeit and not play the Game.
Goodness God that narrative drives me nuts. In a 7 game playoff series could it have been a factor? Of course. But when it happens literally ALL THE TIME that an NBA team will win when missing A star player or starter the narrative becomes just a talking point of fluff.
All star players have bad games ALL THE TIME in the NBA.
GOODNESS. My apologies but that narrative boils my blood. The fact hed undermine A Kings win AT BOSTON WITHOUT FOX literally makes me speechless almost. AND he covers the NBA.
No wonder why players develop chips on their shoulders and become closed off. Your damned if you do and damned if you dont.
Its HARD to win in the NBA.
Goodness God
Devin Carter ha said a few times in the last few days that he is 6''3".
I’ve been saying this for months or a year but nobody listened.
Turns out I was on the money that too intense practices exhausted the players and their shooting %
I would trade Kevin Huerter and a first round draft pick to Golden State for Moses Moody
We talking bout PRACTICE???
Sacramento Kings fans who are original know how special of a moment it is to see Doug Christie succeeding.
Doug Christie is taking a few pages out of the rick adelman book. Grant said, adelman use to coach with less practice and giving days off. Great job by Doug!
If Brown worked the team too hard, but now, Christie is letting them rest their legs, we may just be in the sweet spot where the team is incredibly fit, but now more fresh for the games. If the trend of not practicing hard continues, we may start to lose some of that peak fitness. But for now, they are amazing to watch!
SIMPLICITY GOES ALONG WAYS. COACH DC. GIVES THE RIGHT MOTIVATION THAT MOVES MOUNTAINS. X
Kings need to use Huerter and pick(s) to acquire a true backup big and a rotation level wing(doesn't have to be starter level). If you acquire Cam Johnson, it would have to be because you are punting on Derozan, which at this point looks unlikely. So the logical thing is to upgrade Alex Len and make a lateral move on Huerter to balance the front court.
Please tell this guy stop touching his mouth every 5 seconds
We talkin about practice?
Practice? We talkin' bout practice?
You guys didn't even mention players saying that Mike Brown wasn't good at communicating, which seems crazy for a HC
Monk clued in the trouble during media preseason games." Players are Tired" Brown was stubborn, out of touch