2023 NBA Playoffs - Other Teams

[Russ Smith]

I can't believe Sabonis is arguing that charge call he literally dropped his shoulder and knocked Looney back. he's been doing it the whole game with the lower body and the Warriors have been begging for a foul or a walk call but this time it was the shoulder and the refs called it.

Fox is so good, I don't know how the Kings will go offseason there's talk Barnes could leave but if they keep the nucleus together they're set. Murray had a tough 3 games but is showing how good he can be. Huerter is a good solid player, Monk and Mitchell are solid. They have no 5 so the only 4, Sabonis, plays the 5. That's their primary weakness no rim protection

 

[Russ Smith]

He is not back to playing %100. I thought he really hurt them in games one and two in the 4th qtr. If he was on the bench for the 4th, particularly the first game, GS would have taken one of those games.

The problem they have today is Payton is still not 100% coming off being sick, didn't look good in his first run, and Kuminga played really poorly in his first run. So they basically have to play Wiggins heavy minutes and hope he gets sharp. Right now it just seems he doesn't quite have his legs, some terrific blocks but he's struggling to finish at the rim.

Hopefully Kuminga and or GP2 play better in the 2nd half they're going to need them

 

[Mainstreet]

I can't believe Sabonis is arguing that charge call he literally dropped his shoulder and knocked Looney back. he's been doing it the whole game with the lower body and the Warriors have been begging for a foul or a walk call but this time it was the shoulder and the refs called it.

Fox is so good, I don't know how the Kings will go offseason there's talk Barnes could leave but if they keep the nucleus together they're set. Murray had a tough 3 games but is showing how good he can be. Huerter is a good solid player, Monk and Mitchell are solid. They have no 5 so the only 4, Sabonis, plays the 5. That's their primary weakness no rim protection

The Kings have a deep young team with the potential to keep improving in future seasons.

Adding a shot blocker is not that hard, but the Kings seem to play well with their style.

 

[Russ Smith]

Have to say the more I watch him play there more I dislike Sabonis. He just hit a completely unguarded 12 footer, went back on D and Poole went 1 on 3 right at Sabonis and scored on him and Sabonis goes to the bench on the timeout screaming at his teammates. Who are you yelling at you're 6 inches taller than Poole and let him go right at you and score over you. That's on YOU for not stopping him

 

[Russ Smith]

Great quarter by Poole ending with him making the extra pass to Klay for the splash.

Best game by far for Poole maybe the ankle is better.

 

[Russ Smith]

That's just unreal. Obvious kick on Sabonis they rule it an inadvertent whistle and a jump ball. Then as they're tossing the ball up, Mitchell runs through the jump circle, clear violation, and they don't call it and say nevermind we'll rejump it and then Murray nails a 3. So they don't call the kick or the violation on Mitchell.

 

[Russ Smith]

Malik Monk has found a home man that guy was always talented but always streaky as hell but he's been terrific in Sac

 

[Russ Smith]

ironic seeing Poole asking for a carry on Fox. It was a carry but Poole carries all the time

 

[BirdGangThing]

Warriors/Kings best series in the playoffs

 

[ajcardfan]

Surely Kerr doesn't challenge that?

 

[Russ Smith]

Bad challenge clearly a foul on Looney. What was Poole doing 5 point lead and a 5 on 4 and he turns it over giving them a layup. Huge mistake

 

[Russ Smith]

Surely Kerr doesn't challenge that?

Yeah really dumb. Draymond was telling him not to

 

[Russ Smith]

I guess that's why you tolerate all the BS from Draymond. He's had like 4 plays on defense in the last 2 minutes that were absolutely huge including that block on Sabonis

 

[ajcardfan]

What a mistake by Curry.

 

[BirdGangThing]

Sacramento es no bueno at least not in crunch time today

 

[ajcardfan]

Sacramento es no bueno at least not in crunch time today

Not so fast....

 

[BirdGangThing]

Sacramento es no bueno at least not in crunch time today

Perhaps I spoke too soon

 

[ajcardfan]

What a game.

 

[Russ Smith]

Holy crap survived the Curry brainfart on the timeout and hung on.

 

[Russ Smith]

Gotta hand it to Kerr I would have pulled Curry and put GP2 in for defense but he left Steph in and he wound up poking the ball away from Fox which took like 3 seconds off the clock at the end there.

 

[Russ Smith]

Draymond was brilliant on defense but 3-14 from the floor and he hit 3 of his first 4 so he missed I think his last 10 and probably 4 of them were layups.

But he made the defensive plays when he had to

 

[BirdGangThing]

Dang that was some horrible execution and shot selection there at the end by Sacramento - you gotta have a plan A, B, C, and a bunch of other possible maybes rolling off the double screens. That was more than sloppy it looked like they were stuck in the mud... 1 pt down and you settle for a improvisational 3?

 

[GatorAZ]

The dreaded timeout when you give the defense time to set up.

 

[Russ Smith]

The dreaded timeout when you give the defense time to set up.

Said the exact same thing they should have never called timeout.

Especially because Curry went down, Curry got tripped by Fox didn't get the call then took an off balance leaner and fell down. If they had pushed it they had an advantage. With Fox I'd just let him go in that situation 10 out of 10.

But it was Curry poking the ball free for a beat that was the key on that last play and then he recovered and challenged the shot by Barnes. Great by him after the brainfart timeout

All of that happened because Poole turned it over up 5 in a 5 on 4.

 

[Phrazbit]

The dreaded timeout when you give the defense time to set up.

That was a horrible decision by Mike Brown. Curry was on the ground, they had numbers in transition, they not only had a chance at a great look but they probably would have shot fast enough that if they missed they'd get another try at it.