Russillo recaps the Sacramento Kings’ victory over the Golden State Warriors to advance in the NBA in-season tournament and talks about some of the Warriors’ struggles during the season and why players like Klay Thompson and Draymond Green have hurt the team so far.
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Couldn’t agree more. Was more willing to give this a chance after being, gladly, proven wrong about the play-in games. People will realize it more after Vegas too, but this has been great. Probably could do with a few small tweaks, but huge fan as a whole.
This has been a great idea. It's just a shame that most of the NBA's best games & teams happen when most of the country is asleep.
I've been a skeptic on this as a product from a marketing team. I don't care about the outcome. But if it fires up the players I am 100% for it.
Loved all the step back 3s…great product
Warriors still don't have size so they aren't winning anything. They choose draymond over Poole…. So no one to pick up the scoring from a declining klay… But hey, at least at least draymond got one last bag am I right?
Kings offensive number is going to go way up. Fox missed 5 games. Huerter, HB, and Keegan all started AWFUL from 3. HB awful in general til recently.
Draymond has narcissistic tendencies. His ego has been costing the warriors to many games recently.
Y'all are missing the big picture. The Celtics just gassed themselves running up the score on a trash Bulls squad so they're probably going to rest on Friday when they play an actual marquee match up against the 76ers. You got 5 more ultimately meaningless minutes of J&J in exchange for 36 J&J minutes in a much better game. The in season tournament is dumb. The FA Cup it ain't. They couldn't even figure out how to schedule the pool games correctly.
Naw the okc wolves game was sick
Malik Monk left Charlotte and turned into a competent NBA player. Makes you think. He might bag the Sixth Man Of The Year award one year.
Man this guy loves boring topics 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just need to know what's on Ryen's thumb. On his right hand.
What is that 😂
Moses Moody goes off and Kerr decides to bench him for weak ass washed Klay. Ridiculous
Nah Bucks Heat game was better last night
This was a dumb idea, can we admit this was a fake way to get Lebron another fake ring?
I think it’s brought more competition to the regular season that was SEVERELY lacking. Bring that same sense to the all star game.
That Wiseman pick is Bob Myers’ biggest failure as Warriors GM. It cost them the “2 timelines” approach. If you swap Wiseman with Ball or Halliburton, the Warriors are set for another decade.
Shout out to Mike Brown, Fox and the squad for growing into the team they are now 🔥🔥🔥
Was definitely lukewarm on it at first but the tournament is a W. I would just change:
1. Make the courts 25% less extreme
2. Make standings the tiebreaker
3. Most importantly, make the prize worth something to both the viewers and players, like a guaranteed play-in spot.
All of sports is a “television project”
That game was genuinely one of THE WORST games I've ever watched. Over 70 free throws. Multiple non-challenge reviews. The game took 3 hours to play out.
Totally agree with Ryen here. I am surprised with how the players responded too. It produced a way better product this time of year.
Think its pointless to discuss kings season rankings w out mentioning fox has missed 1/3 or so of games. They barely have lost with him this season
So in football as in proper football we play extra games and smaller teams tend to play better players and it’s a knockout. So end of the season bigger teams concentrate on bigger competitions like league and Europe so little teams play against weaker teams.
Klay looks kinda awful & it was even worse last night w Moody playing lights out.
As a Kings fan, I wouldn't have been inclined to celebrate a less that got the Kings into the knockout round. And I don't think it needed to be a tournament game for that kind of atmosphere, even in November. It's the Warriors. That's always going to be intense, and I think that for most of us, beating the Warriors is a bigger deal than the tournament.
Nothing better than seeing a team full of obama supporters lose by the absolute slimmest of margins.
The Kings still have a top 3 offense as long as Fox is on the court. The offense disappeared during his 5 games missed. Totally agree with Draymond being most protected player in league…..makes no sense to me
Truth is this game would be just the same if it wasn't a tournament involved. The tournament is a gimmick.
Love the Jays gear Ryen!! Great show as always
Ryen not wanting CP3 to win the first in-season tournament for fear of the memes is hilarious 😂
The Golden State Warriors are getting closer and closer to their golden years. They’re getting old bruh, deal with it
Love u , fans from MALAYSIA❤❤
Feet to face is cool but what does 25k get me?
The increased TV revenue is a product of people wanting to watch. Nothing wrong with that…
The only thing I disliked was how much the broadcast kept pushing the point differential instead of who was gonna win the damn game
I'm ready to clown heat culture also and I'll go first. "Heat culture? That sounds exclusive"