Celtics @ Kings

[bjax24]

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Wanted to find this in the highlights but it wasnt there so I had to do my pet peeve and record my tv and youtube it so it could be seen by the masses... i love that man.

[SacKingZZZ]

Crazy game to attend! The ball movement was a sight to see. And seeing jump shots actually fall--because they were not coming from Tyreke Evans--was beautiful. Thornton was not human today. I hope he can keep this up. This is what he was doing last season when I became such a big fan. Get him more touches! He can score in more than one way unlike Tyreke.

Our starting bigs, Cousins (when he wasn't committing questionable fouls...) and Thompson were dominant in every sense of the word. If there was any question about who our second big next to Cousins should be, that was made crystal clear today (and in the last few games). Cousins was abusing the platinum blonde dude Stiemsma (who turned around and abused Hayes lol).

The traditional, non-three-guard line-up of Thomas, Thornton, Salmons, Thompson, and Cousins worked extremely well on both ends of the floor. Lovely not to see a ball-stopper like Evans ruin the flow of the offense much like Melo ruined the Knicks' flow in their 8 game losing streak. Also lovely to see Hayes play only 10 minutes and confirm he's terrible in person.

Great game, great atmosphere. Arco (I'm not going to call it Power Balance) was rockin. It's just still the oddest thing that we beat all of these top tier teams, and look convincing doing it, then turn around and get embarrassed by teams like the Warriors missing their two best players and the Pistons...Oh well, gotta enjoy this while it lasts. Outlaw stroking it! Honeycutt's first NBA points! Salmons playing decently! Go Kings!

What? Stiemsa's 0 points, 0 offensive boards and 2 turnovers are you talking about?

And Jesus. SacKingZZZ is more pro-Hayes than what I can agree with, but good lord dude.

Just think he's a good fit for Cousins, never said the dude was a superstar or anything. I'm in full belief that this team needs role players more than anything right now.

I'm firmly convinced Hayes dunked this dudes head in the toilet in high school or something. It's almost hit the level of "disturbing" at this point.

[3gbrrrfkyt]

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[ADoaN17]

Cousins has been complaining too much lately. Someone needs to get him to shut up.

[humblebum]

Celtics fan here: Impressive performance by your young Kings team.

Some impressions: Thornton is the real deal as a scorer. He doesn't look like much on the outside but his stroke is pure and he's a better athlete than I thought. Excellent SG long-term, disappointed I didn't get to watch Evans.

I also really like Thompson and Thomas as role players and Jimmer could have a future in this league if he can get to a basic level of competence defending and staying away for TO's.

Cousins is a wild card but he's really talented.

Yours is going to be a fun, fun team to watch develop over the next few years.

Here's a question for you all: any interest in Rondo and what would you be willing to part with in order to acquire him if so?

[rpa]

Here's a question for you all: any interest in Rondo and what would you be willing to part with in order to acquire him if so?

There are a lot of Kings fans that are interested in Rondo. The general consensus is that it Evans (and maybe some sweetener) would have to be used to get him. First because Rondo's not going to be traded for a bunch of spare parts and second because a Rondo/Evans backcourt may be the worst shooting backcourt in league history.


That said, I'm not a big fan of Rondo. Even if you discount his off-court issues (hard to deal with, mainly; Walton called him "mercurial" last night and I've seen some Celts fans agree with that) I don't think he'd work well with this team's lack of talent. He looks great hitting the likes of KG, Pierce, and Allen for open jumpers. Or running pick & rolls with them. But how good is he going to look passing to the guys the Kings have or will be obtaining in the near future?

[SacKingZZZ]

Cousins has been complaining too much lately. Someone needs to get him to shut up.

True, but you have to like Cousins not backing down from KG. KG did eventually get under his skin though. Young fella will learn.

[pillwenney]

It was definitely an improvement for Demarcus last night. Having been at the last few games, Demarcus' attention was wavering at times to say the least. To me, he didn't look like he was into the Detroit game from the opening tap, and things get exponentially worse for him when we start to lose.

His temper was an issue last night, but I think he used it positively. Stayed fired up, and used it for good. With that said, I think he was mainly only able to do that because we were winning. Had we been losing, I think things would have gone bad for him again.