[Game] Kings @ Pelicans (Play-In Tournament) - 4/19 6:30PM PDT/9:30 PM EDT
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I get it that the 3 ball is likely the best option overall if you are hitting them. But it seems like this year our offense would stagnate more often into a simple weave and screen for a 3 ball shot or even into an iso play. It just wasn't as fluid or threatening offensively. Maybe teams figured us out last year? But I think with more options and screens, etc., we'd get better open looks and cuts to the basket than we did most of this year.
Nobody is a bigger Keegan Murray fan than myself bro. But he can't go 4 for 12 and 11 points. We need 20 points from him. It's that simple. Of we want to be a team that contents, Murray can't really have those games unless somebody (Lyles for this year) steps up and drops 15-19 in that game. Keegan can't get outscored by Barnes in a playoff type game unless Barnes is going absolutely ham.
I do take umbrage with you telling me to have a limoncello and chilling. I'm not fired up. I accepted this result before it happened. Stop being condescending.
I do take umbrage with you telling me to have a limoncello and chilling. I'm not fired up. I accepted this result before it happened. Stop being condescending.
I was referring to his overall season and you changed the scope to try to make a point. I then brought you back to the point I made but now you are simply refusing to engage on my original claim. Keegan Murray made major strides as a player this year.
I made this point in the context of a comment on the Coach - that was the relevance. But please continue to have a conversation with yourself.
I made this point in the context of a comment on the Coach - that was the relevance. But please continue to have a conversation with yourself.
So from MB the only statements that were shown from the presser was that Kings were passive in offense, did only some short passes to players that were close by, didn't spray the ball (not long passes, he didn't mention spray 3s) so they couldn't score that easily.
I am not part of "Fire MB" but I would like once more in that end of the season to try and tell us what he did to change that, to improve the offense, and why it didn't work out at the end. And I guess it was only part of the presser, somehow when Kings are on the road we don't get to see that many post game statements, normally it takes hours for them to appear on social media.
I am not part of "Fire MB" but I would like once more in that end of the season to try and tell us what he did to change that, to improve the offense, and why it didn't work out at the end. And I guess it was only part of the presser, somehow when Kings are on the road we don't get to see that many post game statements, normally it takes hours for them to appear on social media.
Yeah, you need to put some baking soda in that Nona sauce cuz the acidity is frying your brain.
Obviously Keegan is having a better overall season, even if his % are down. But in a game like tonight, his weaknesses were very much on display. And I would argue that is the #1 reason why we beat GS as well as lost tonight. Keegan's strength vs his weakness.
Obviously Keegan is having a better overall season, even if his % are down. But in a game like tonight, his weaknesses were very much on display. And I would argue that is the #1 reason why we beat GS as well as lost tonight. Keegan's strength vs his weakness.
Now these are QTNA. I tend to think that it's the height of entitlement to want to fire a coach that has led the team to back-to-back winning seasons for what is, for all intents and purposes, only the second time in forty years. BUT... I do think that it's absolutely fair to ask, "Hey Coach, you like to do the whole 'spray' thing, and it wasn't working tonight; why you ain't try nothin' else?"
Murray has been the key to the Kings and their future. Tonight he was the key to this game. Against GS he sailed and had 32 points on 15 shots and the Kings sailed with him. But New Orleans shut him down and the Kings were trying to fight with one arm behind their back because of it. He couldn't get the shots he wanted. He couldn't drive like he wanted. With about 10 minutes left in the 2nd quarter Sabonis yelled to him, "Come on!" trying to encourage him. Sabonis knows how important he is to the entire Kings offense. Murray did make a 3 pointer on the next possession, but for all intent and purposes it was "game over" after that. Eleven points off of 12 shot attempts isn't remotely close to what was required.
He's still young. On the one hand he has the GS game to give him confidence, but on the other hand he has the New Orleans' game to challenge him to get better. This one is going to sting for the entire off-season. He's not a finished product. My 2 cents: Don't practice with a guard who prohibits you from going inside in their practice sessions. IMO, it would be much better to practice with a hurly burly forward who pounds on him and who he can pound on to get him toughened up for the upcoming season.
