Sac Kings Therapy

The Kings pick up a tough loss in Utah against the Jazz. If you take out the 1st quarter, the Kings played a really good, high paced Kings style game. They got up and down the court and made a ton of 3s. But boy was the 1st quarter bad … The Kings got outscore 40-19 in the first quarter and were in a huge hole for much of the game. But they managed to dig themselves out of that hole to take the le...

Kings went into DC and scorched the net from 3 to take down the Wizards. The game started out rocky, with the Wizards coming out scorching hot from 3 from lackluster Kings defense. But the Kings responded with 5 3s in a row, 2 from Keegan and 3 from TD to take the lead and never looked back. The Kings for the rest of the game got whatever they wanted on offense, plus they just couldn’t miss from 3...

Kings start their 4 game road trip with a gritty win over the Bulls in Chicago. The Kings overcame a 16 point deficit, 19 TOs, 13 offensive rebounds by Chicago and the referees to take down the Bulls. It wasn’t pretty, the Kings looked like they didn’t have it, but they kept pushing, hung around and capitalized when the Bulls made mistakes. Culminating in an ending game sequence where DeRozan gets...

It was Kings appreciation Monday, all of the National NBA Media decided to band together and give the Kings praise for their terrific season. They also couldn't wait for the Kings to take on the Bucks in what was anticipated to be a fun matchup between the best offense of all time vs the best defense in the league. And boy was it a banger. The Kings got a big lead playing their fast paced, up and...

The Bench Mob game, the Kings came out looking rough, giving anything the Suns wanted on defense, and on offense, they weren’t bad but not at the peak of their powers. But then the bench came, and they were the stars of this game. They combined for 65 points and in a game where no one from the starters exploded, they needed all of it. Kessler and Davion changed the game on the defensive end and Tr...

On a stormy Thursday Night the Kings welcomed the Knicks into the Golden 1 Center for the King's 2nd TNT game and it was a banger. The Kings came out fast and furious, running their offense to a T, scoring in bunches against the Knicks in their fast paced, high powered offense. That got them a 16 point lead at halftime and everything was going for the Kings while things looked dire for the Knicks....

A weird game that resulted in a really good bounce back win for the Kings. The Kings basically picked up right where they left off from the Timberwolves game on defense, letting the Pelicans shoot 60.5% FG and 56% 3FG in the first half. The Kings offense wasn’t far behind, but the Kings couldn’t get consistent stops and so the game was tied going into halftime. But then the 2nd half came, it’s sta...

The Kings faced the Clippers on the 1st of a back to back in the G1C. It was their much anticipated rematch from last Friday's insane contest. While neither team scored over 170 this time, there was still plenty of scoring to go around. The result was the same however, with the Kings winning with a measly 128 points to beat the Clippers.  The Kings looked like they were running away with the...

The Kings faced the Thunder again on Tuesday, again without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander but this time the Kings were without De'Aaron Fox. Regardless, this game based followed the same script as the game on Sunday, Kings get out to big lead powered by their offense, the Thunder keep fighting and refuse to get blown out, rinse and repeat.  The Thunder were able to tie the game in the 4th but the K...

The Kings went in to Oklahoma City to face the Thunder and they started out hot this game and look like they were gonna run away with it. But the Thunder hung around, constantly trailing by 8-14 pts. In the 3rd quarter, they hit an avalanche of 3s, 8-12 in the quarter to cut the lead to 4 going into the 4th to make it a game. But the Kings punched back, with their own barrage of 3s to give them a...

It was the first game out of All Star Break and the Kings started out UUUUUGGGGLLLY, trailing 19-4 and getting blown off their own home floor by a Blazers team missing 4 starters and stuck at the Portland airport until 2 PM the same day. It was looking like one of those games the Kings inexplicable lose despite the deck being stacked against the opponent.  But, the Kings got everything under...

It's All Star Weekend! And unlike years past, the Kings are well represented this year. But, none of them really made a mark, Keegan Murray didn't have a breakout showing in the Rising Stars game, Kevin Huerter had an all time worst performance in the 3 point contest, and the 2 All Stars from Sacramento didn't exactly blow the roof off in the All Star game. That being said, none of this matters, w...

A loss by the Kings going into all-star break. The good, the Kings finally got a good shooting night from 3, they got to the line a bunch and out rebounded the Suns overall. The bad, they shot horrible from inside the arc, gave up alot of big offensive rebounds to the Suns, got destroyed in the paint, only had 23 assists and turned the ball over 17 times for 25 points. The Kings for the most part...

In the first game of the back to back series against Mavs, the Kings came out flat to say the least, getting outscored 45-25 in the first quarter, and that was basically the game. The Kings actually outscored the Mavs in every quarter after the 1st but that was the difference in the game as the Kings lost by 8 points. The other difference, 3 point shooting, the Mavs were smoking hot from 3, the Ki...

The Kings escaped with one here, after trailing by 5 with less than a minute to go, the Kings came up with a series of defensive plays to get back within 1 after not playing much defense all game. They miss a series of shots at the rim, the play ends with a jump ball, Keegan wins it but the ball is batted out off the Kings. The Kings then steal it back on an inbounds and improbably draw a 3 point...

The Kings went into New Orleans and got their asses handed to them by the Pelicans. They were unfortunately without their star point guard De'Aaron Fox for the 2nd game in a row, and for the 2nd game in a row, it was noticeable. That must have been why they got destroyed right? No, because the Pelicans were also without Jonas Valančiūnas, Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram. The Kings simply got ou...

There is a phenomenon with the Kings, they cannot beat teams that are on a 2nd night of a back to back. They simply can't. Now you can make the argument that they didn't have De'Aaron Fox this game and that's why they lost. And you would have a point. That still doesn't excuse the fact that the Kings should've gone into Indiana and punched first, establish the tone and finish them out early. Inste...

Someone definitely told the Kings players that they played soft in the loss on Saturday. The Kings took that message to heart came out the 1st quarter and showed a certain edge and played incredibly physical to start the game and it rattled the Wolves early and held them to 17 points in the 1st quarter. But there was another issue,  the Kings couldn’t score at all from 3, 1-14 in the 1st half...

The Kings go into Minnesota and drop their 1st of a 2 game series to the Timberwolves. The Kings were in a dog fight with the Wolves in the 1st half, back and forth with plenty of scoring from D'Angelo Russell from the Wolves and the Kings doing it by committee. Then the 3rd quarter happened, the Kings had a scoring drought through much of the quarter, while the Wolves or specifically Anthony Edwa...

The Raptors came into Golden 1 Center on Wednesday and lay the smackdown on the Kings on their home floor. The Raptor's physicality, length and defensive pressure overwhelmed the Kings and they were never able to properly adjust. Sabonis was flustered, Fox struggled to find his rhythm, it was just a ugly game for the Kings. The Kings will now head out on a 7 game road trip starting with Minnesota...

The Kings started out smoking hot against the Grizzlies Monday night in the G1C, shooting 12-13 from 3 and 17-24 FG overall, setting an NBA record and franchise record for 3s in the first quarter and led the Grizzlies by 14 after 12 minutes. But if there was ever a fragile 14 point lead this would be it. In the midst of this scorching hot shooting, the Grizzlies were scoring easily on the Kings de...

Kings get a good win on the front end of a back to back against a very tough OKC team. The Thunder came out smoking hot in the first, shooting 12-21 from 3 while the Kings went 4-18 from 3. But the game was still close at halftime, 66-59. How? The Kings were scoring in the paint really well and getting to the line, and that kept them in the game. In the second half, the Kings started to hit from 3...

The Kings went into LA Wednesday night without Domantas Sabonis, Alex Len and Matthew Dellavedova and escape with a win against the Lakers. It wasn’t pretty, but they got the job done. The starters were all spectacular, including a newly resurrected Richaun Holmes, just about all them had big nights and in double digit +/-. The bench on the other hand … oof, scored a total of 21 points all night a...

It started pretty sketchy for the Kings, the Spurs were shooting over 60% from the field in the 1st half, yet the Kings were somehow down 1 at the break. How was that possible? Well, it wasn't only the Kings who didn't play any defense, neither were the Spurs. It was a shootout early and whoever blinks first probably loses the game.  Well, the Kings came out of halftime and kept up their offe...

They finally did it, the Kings go 5 games above .500 for the first time since April 2006. The Kings have had 7 instances before where they were 4 games above .500 but weren't able to get over the hump, until now ... The Kings handled business against the Rockets once again in front of a sold out G1C crowd in a similar fashion to Wednesday's game. They had a competitive first half, but then locked...