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Kings started their back to back in Indiana and get an impressive win by taking advantage of a shorthanded Pacers team on the 2nd night of a back to back, and might I say, imposed their will on them. They played the Pacers really well on defense, where they were active and constantly creating TOs which led to plenty of transition offense which was pretty much the difference in the game. A good bou...

It was always a trap game. Heat came into this game having lost their last 7 games were going to be motivated to break out of their slump against a Kings team that is always very sus in these kinds of games. Well the result was what a lot of us feared, but the reason is a bit more complicated than what meets the eye. The Kings played the Heat very tough for about 2 and a half quarters, but in the...

It was tight one, and it never should have been. Had the Kings lost this one, we would’ve had another worst loss of the year contender. The Kings played a skeleton crew of not the Memphis Grizzlies, but the skeleton crew of the Memphis Hustle, their G-League Affiliate. This team, with a bunch of G-Leaguers and Jaren Jackson, played the Kings almost dead even and got dangerously close to beating th...

The Kings had a tough task ahead of them, they had to contain Luka Doncic after he scored 73 points against the Hawks the night before. Would the Kings defense be able to contain Luka or is he going to feast like he has against so many other teams? Well, the good news for the Kings is that it was the former, they made it very difficult on Luka to get off any easy looks and made his teammates make...

The Kings and Warriors just cannot a boring game. Pretty much every game they've played these past 2 season have been thrillers, and this one was no different. It was an offensive focused game, both teams ran beautiful offense and displayed remarkable shot making. Both defense did what they could to limit the other's offense but most of the efforts were futile. On the King's side, Harr...

It has been 10 days since the Kings have won a game, but it has felt like years. And it wasn't easy, the Kings held the Hawks to 24% FG in the first half, but they heated up in the 2nd half with multiple barrages to make the game competitive. But the Kings answered each run from the Hawks with one of their own, and held strong with their good defense to eventually win going away. Harrison Barn...

The Pacers came into G1C without Haliburton, Nesmith, Nembhard and the newly acquired Pascal Siakam and still found a way to torch the Kings. The Kings defense was bad all night, they let the Pacer destroy them in the paint and their rotations to the perimeter were way too slow. Even then, they battled down 16 with 2:20 to go and somehow were only trailing by 3 with 32 seconds to go. They get a st...

Coming off a heartbreaking loss against Milwaukee, we were expecting the Kings to come out strong to wash away that memory. And come out strong they did, their offense was running on all cylinders, their defense had the Suns all out of sorts, and they completely controlled the game for 42 minutes. But then the last 6 minutes happened, up 22 with 8:22 to go, the Kings got a little too cute and play...

After a stinker in Philly where the Kings couldn't hit a shot, the Kings came out in Milwaukee guns blazing against the Bucks. The problem was the Bucks were also red hot shooting the ball and the Kings found themselves down by 10 in the 4th quarter. The Kings would continue fighting however and force OT. In OT they went up 6 early and were up 4 with less than 20 seconds to go and the Bucks ha...

The Kings just couldn't find the net on this night. They lose to a shorthanded Sixers missing Joel Embiid, Kelly Oubre and Robert Covington. It's another deflating loss for the Kings, but perhaps not as dire as it seems. The Kings overall process was very solid on the offense end. They got open 3s all night but shot only 8-39 on them, it's tough to win when you can't knock down sho...

The Kings made their fans sweat, they gave up 47 points to the worst team in the league in the first quarter. They looked like they did in a lot of their losses, slow, lethargic and just unfocused. But lucky for the Kings, they are playing the Pistons, who proceeded to go cold and basically gave a red carpet down into the paint for the Kings. The Kings would take the lead going into halftime and t...

Well, just when we thought there won't be another horrible loss for the Kings this season, they seem to top the latest one with an even more horrible one. This time, the Kings lose by 33 on a Sunday afternoon to the New Orleans Pelicans. And don't let that score fool you, it was much worse than 33. The Pelicans are a bad match up for the Kings as they have long, athletic and mobile wings t...

It was chaotic day for the Kings on social media. According to Jake Fischer earlier in the day, Kevin Huerter, Harrison Barnes and Davion Mitchell have been brought up in trade talks. And then later in the day, Shams Charania comes out and breaks the news that the Kings are in serious discussions with the Raptors on Siakam. And then about 50 minutes before the game between the 2 teams, Shams repor...

The Kings have not been good on back to backs. But this was an opportunity for the Kings to buck that trend by beating 2 depleted teams both of whom were coming into the G1C on 2nd nights of back to backs. They unfortunately, began by crapping the bed by losing to the Hornets who flew in from Denver the night before and with 4 of their starters out injured. The Kings were simply off on offense all...

The Kings go into Memphis and just take the Grizzlies lunch money. The Kings put on a clinic on the offensive end, moving the ball around for open 3s and slicing the Grizzlies in the paint. But more importantly, they shut down the Memphis offense who couldn't get anything going on the inside or outside the arc. This game was a preview of what the Kings can be at their best, and it's a grea...

It's started out really ugly again, it looked like the Kings were still suffering the effects of losing to the Blazers. Their defense was again putting up little to no resistance, they were missing shots from 3, and the Hawks jumped to a 31-8 lead. It looked like it was going to be a long night ... But the Kings didn't give up, they slowly clawed their way back throughout the game. Despite...

Every year, there's always losses to team that make you say "how the hell did you lose to this team?!" It happens to all good and bad teams, there's just losses where there really isn't a logical reason why our favorite teams played so bad against an opponent they should have easily dispatched. Well, the Kings looked to have had one of this game as they give us this turd sand...

Another back to back for the Kings and another 1-1 split. On the first night in G1C, the Kings simply outplayed a short handed Suns team who had even more injuries than usual. The Suns simply couldn't match the King's speed on offense and the game was never in doubt after halftime. On the 2nd night however against the Wolves in the same building, the #1 defense in the NBA held the Kings to...

Everything was set up for the Kings to make a statement against the Celtics. The Celtics were on a 2nd night of a back to back, they went into overtime against the Warriors the night before and they were without Tatum and Horford in the lineup. The Kings decided to get into a shootout against the Celtics, and for every 3 1 team made, the other matched it. It was one of the greatest battles from 3...

It didn't look great to start the game, the Wizards and the Kings came out guns blazing, and the Kings weren't hitting their 3s ... A bad sign on most nights. However the Kings settled down and began to attack the basket and the 3s eventually started falling and the game was never really in doubt after the 1st half. There wasn't much defense to be spoken of, but the Wizards had no hope...

It was the Keegan Murray game, he set a career high in points with 47, he set the franchise record for made 3s in a game with 12, he also becomes the youngest player make 12 or more 3s in a game. Even Steph Curry was impressed. Beyond just the Keegan Murray explosion, the rest of the Kings without DeAaron Fox played really good defense along with executing their offense to a tee, finishing with 36...

After the disappointing loss against the Clippers, the Kings rebound with an impressive win against a very good Thunder team. The Kings fought through 43 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, unkind whistles from the refs and giving up 16 offensive rebounds to OKC to grind out the tough victory. The King's offense was humming throughout the game and they matched every flurry OKC threw at them w...

It was a tale of 2 Kings teams in this back to back games against the Nets and Clippers. In the Nets game the Kings could not miss from 3 and set the new franchise record for most made 3s in a game with 25. And then on the next night in LA against the Clippers, it was the complete opposite side of the coin because the Kings couldn't hit anything from 3. Not only could they not hit from 3, they als...

The Kings bounce back after the deflating loss to the Pelicans on Monday with a solid victory over a skeleton crew Suns team led by Devin Booker. Knowing that Booker was the only real creator on the Suns, the Kings doubled him as often as possible and it wore him down as the game progressed and torpedoed their offense. It wasn't the prettiest game for the Kings, who struggled on offense to sta...

It's deja vu at this point, the Kings lose to the Pelicans for the 3rd time this season. The Kings came out gangbusters in the 1st quarter and jumped 32-17 lead at 4:27. And it was all downhill from there, the Pelicans brought in their defensive unit off the bench and they imposed their will on the Kings and took them out of their game. In a theme with a lot of the Kings losses this season, th...