Game 2: Lakers (1-0) vrs Kings (0-1)

[BoogieTime]

So, just because I wanted Kevin to start over Keon doesn't mean I'm a fan of him either, just thought he had more BBIQ to not junk the offense (though statistically the starting unit last year was better with Kevin than Keon). Devin, please heal

[BoogieTime]

There you go Kevin, as I was starting to complain

[BoogieTime]

McLaughlin coming to the scorers table before Keon, and you know my opinion on it.

Keon's on ball defense isn't going to help much off the bench IMO

[BoogieTime]

Loving the play this quarter and Kevin being solid adds a dimension

[BoogieTime]

Nice play from Fox to end the third quarter when he was on pace to getting a comment from me in two games. More like that De’aaron

[KF10]

14-0 run by the Lakers

[KF10]

21-0 run by the Lakers

Fox hit the 3 to stop the run

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One of the worst coached games by Brown.

[BoogieTime]

Getting Huerter play like that, despite the terrible +/- which I didn’t think was his fault, will go along way IMO. Thought he was solid

[Jkam31]

Getting Huerter play like that, despite the terrible +/- which I didn’t think was his fault, will go along way IMO. Thought he was solid

He was good regardless of the +/- decent defense and hitting threes he looked good

[LightTheBeam]

If Keon starts over Huerter we are 2-0. Huerter shouldn't be getting minutes. Idc. Brown refuses to accept huerter was a bad trade and a bad contract. Plenty of teams have them. He's our davis bertans. He needs to go asap, but in the meantime he should be dnp.

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Zero reason at this point to keep rolling with this trash.

[Jkam31]

If Keon starts over Huerter we are 2-0. Huerter shouldn't be getting minutes. Idc. Brown refuses to accept huerter was a bad trade and a bad contract. Plenty of teams have them. He's our davis bertans. He needs to go asap, but in the meantime he should be dnp.

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Lmao Kevin has been average at worst not his fault grown won’t give Keon bench minutes

[BoogieTime]

And at the risk of going there, I think Fox overall hasn't had the pep he at least has to start the season. Thats not a good sign, if he doesn't have it to even start the season. I've enjoyed two years of his career, the second year under Joerger and the year before last, where he was clutch though not really engaged throughout the game. And that clutchness for me is what was earning him his contract. The non clutchness of last year has albeit shown itself in only two games. Awful shooting too after all these years of practice so far in regular/preseason. I'm glad we have time to evaluate before committing $$$ and I've seen the tide of perception gradually come more my direction on social media which is what's inspiring me to comment so early

[KF10]

And at the risk of going there, I think Fox overall hasn't had the pep he at least has to start the season. Thats not a good sign, if he doesn't have it to even start the season. I've enjoyed two years of his career, the second year under Joerger and the year before last, where he was clutch though not really engaged throughout the game. And that clutchness for me is what was earning him his contract. The non clutchness of last year has albeit shown itself in only two games. Awful shooting too after all these years of practice so far in regular/preseason. I'm glad we have time to evaluate before committing $$$ and I've seen the tide of perception gradually come more my direction on social media which is what's inspiring me to comment so early

He doesn't look 100% to me. He banged knees (?) with someone on the opposing team and has tape on his fingers already.

But more than this, he went away with his mid-range/floater game since last season. I really thought that was his bread and butter 2 seasons ago.

[codydaze]

Fox had 28 and 10 in the Lakers loss and double digit assists in both games so far when he only reached double digit assists 6 times total last season. It's been very clear to me that the offense is still taking a bit of team to get into its final form but overall has already looked really good. We lost by 2 to a team that went to the WCF last year and by 4 to a team with the GOAT and that looks to be very much improved with the coaching change. Count me out of the crowd that has any worry about Fox or the team in general.

[LightTheBeam]

If Keon starts over Huerter we are 2-0. Huerter shouldn't be getting minutes. Idc. Brown refuses to accept huerter was a bad trade and a bad contract. Plenty of teams have them. He's our davis bertans. He needs to go asap, but in the meantime he should be dnp.

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Lmao Kevin has been average at worst not his fault grown won’t give Keon bench minutes

This is cope to be honest.

Break down the Minnesota game. We start Huerter, which leads to us putting Keegan on Edwards because they know Huerter would get abused. Then in turn we have to put DeRozan on Randle, so Randle just owns him the entire night.

The easy solution was starting Keon and letting him guard Edwards, then letting Keegan guard Randle. But we refuse to do that, so Mike plays musical chairs trying to find a way to hide a sore thumb in the rotation.

I don't understand any Kings fans that support this decision. We went from 21st in DRTG to #3 when Huerter got hurt last year and Keon was inserted into the lineup. Suddenly everyone can actually guard their own matchups.

But he hit a few 3s so he wasn't bad. That's nonsense....

[LightTheBeam]

Fox had 28 and 10 in the Lakers loss and double digit assists in both games so far when he only reached double digit assists 6 times total last season. It's been very clear to me that the offense is still taking a bit of team to get into its final form but overall has already looked really good. We lost by 2 to a team that went to the WCF last year and by 4 to a team with the GOAT and that looks to be very much improved with the coaching change. Count me out of the crowd that has any worry about Fox or the team in general.

I'm not worried about the team. They looked good incorporating new pieces, the offense will be fine.

Ready to get crucified - I am worried about the decision to retain Brown. I understand why they did it, but even during the summer I thought we should have just promoted Jordi.

Mike doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes, and he doesn't seem to fix the same issues we keep having. Kings are consistently bad at defending the 3pt shot. Minnesota torched us, and then the Lakers (one of the worst 3pt shooting teams) went 14-34 for 41% the other night. Yet for some reason he continues to send unnecessary doubles leaving shooters wide open for 3s.

His inability to bench guys like Barnes, Huerter make no sense. While his short leash on others makes even less sense.

Last year Kings gave up plenty of big runs in the 1st and 4th quarter that would kill us, 2 nights ago was no different and allowing an NBA team to go 21-0 is pretty pathetic.

I don't want to say he's a bad coach. He's just who he is. Lacks adjustments, and lacks modern NBA gameplanning. I also understand defense can come down to personnel, and of course we are dealing with a small sample size.. But currently we are 27/30 in Def RTG, while Jordi has Brooklyn with a significantly worse roster in the top 15. Feels like we are will be similar to last year just with better offense adding in DeRozan.

[Jkam31]

If Keon starts over Huerter we are 2-0. Huerter shouldn't be getting minutes. Idc. Brown refuses to accept huerter was a bad trade and a bad contract. Plenty of teams have them. He's our davis bertans. He needs to go asap, but in the meantime he should be dnp.

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Trust me I’ve been on Keon starting since the offseason I have no reason why brown changed it only way that should’ve happened is if we started off slow and Kevin was hit off the bench. My issue is people blaming anything on Heurter when he hasn’t been bad at all especially that stupid +/- when lebron got hot.

The problem is why is Keon not playing at all why would we be playing our starters this many minutes

Lmao Kevin has been average at worst not his fault grown won’t give Keon bench minutes

This is cope to be honest.

Break down the Minnesota game. We start Huerter, which leads to us putting Keegan on Edwards because they know Huerter would get abused. Then in turn we have to put DeRozan on Randle, so Randle just owns him the entire night.

The easy solution was starting Keon and letting him guard Edwards, then letting Keegan guard Randle. But we refuse to do that, so Mike plays musical chairs trying to find a way to hide a sore thumb in the rotation.

I don't understand any Kings fans that support this decision. We went from 21st in DRTG to #3 when Huerter got hurt last year and Keon was inserted into the lineup. Suddenly everyone can actually guard their own matchups.

But he hit a few 3s so he wasn't bad. That's nonsense....

[BoogieTime]

If Keon starts over Huerter we are 2-0. Huerter shouldn't be getting minutes. Idc. Brown refuses to accept huerter was a bad trade and a bad contract. Plenty of teams have them. He's our davis bertans. He needs to go asap, but in the meantime he should be dnp.

Read on Twitter

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Zero reason at this point to keep rolling with this trash.

Lmao Kevin has been average at worst not his fault grown won’t give Keon bench minutes

This is cope to be honest.

Break down the Minnesota game. We start Huerter, which leads to us putting Keegan on Edwards because they know Huerter would get abused. Then in turn we have to put DeRozan on Randle, so Randle just owns him the entire night.

The easy solution was starting Keon and letting him guard Edwards, then letting Keegan guard Randle. But we refuse to do that, so Mike plays musical chairs trying to find a way to hide a sore thumb in the rotation.

I don't understand any Kings fans that support this decision. We went from 21st in DRTG to #3 when Huerter got hurt last year and Keon was inserted into the lineup. Suddenly everyone can actually guard their own matchups.

But he hit a few 3s so he wasn't bad. That's nonsense....

well, gee, Brown's opinion, who probably knows more bball than anyone one the board, mirrors mine. On Keon, on Keon receiving any minutes, why we went to Kevin etc. And sequentially when it happened

Its not changing due to Kevin's play against the lakers, only farther cemented