Kings vs. MAVS

[SacSanity]

Lets see what we can do today! Will the tank fest continue?

[pillwenney]

Oh thank God. Marcus is back.

[pillwenney]

We did some good things offensively, even though we can't seem to get a foul call to save our lives. Transition D was terrible in the second though. That's on everybody but especially on Cuz. I don't know if he's tired or lazy, but whatever it is, he needs to fix it and get his ass back.

With that said, outside of Cuz, the team has combined for grand total of 9 rebounds.

9

[pillwenney]

F**** it. Put Hassan in. It helped our D last time.

[Nicky Nix Nook]

Beautiful last two plays.

[pillwenney]

Oh good. Dallas is getting careless again. Well as long as they do that for another 18:18...

[Nicky Nix Nook]

So Carter just airballed a layup.

[pillwenney]

I liked a lot of what we did in this quarter. Even on some plays where shots didn't go in, most guys were mostly doing the right things offensively. Isaiah has simply got to manage the game better though. No more dribbling around and then pulling up. He has to be specifically looking to get others involved.

Defensively, things obviously still weren't great, but they did get a little better. We got back in transition a lot more, so that's a start.

[pillwenney]

Jesus Christ. If you're going to call that crap, call it on both ends.

[pillwenney]

I had a feeling we weren't out of this one yet.

[ADoaN17]

Cousins continues with the stupid fouls...

[pillwenney]

Yeah. He's not in serious foul trouble, but you can't do that kind of crap when you're in the penalty.

[pillwenney]

Come on Marcus. Don't be an idiot.

[SacKingsPejaFan]

These last couple of minutes have been horrible.

[pillwenney]

And that's why you always run back on D. God dammit, guys. That's completely on you, Demarcus and JT.

[SacKingsPejaFan]

Well that's that. Just bad basketball all around. On to the next one.

[pillwenney]

I don't think that's fair. I've been as down on this team as anybody recently, but they really did some good things tonight. And it's not....quite over.

[pillwenney]

I really don't know why we occasionally start Donte. He's not any better at guarding Dirk than JT, and playing entirely PF tonight, he had 1 **** rebound in 23 minutes.

To be fair, JT only had 5 in 24 minutes. But we still would have been better off playing him more. Rebounding was the main difference in the game.

It would also be nice if we could make some more damn free throws.

[SacKingsPejaFan]

Ok. DMC was phenomenal, monstrous. The three guards were solid. And we were playing the defending champs pretty close throughout. But still, the decisionmaking on both ends of the floor--particularly midway through the 4th quarter--was poorer than what I've come to expect from this team. And we got outrebounded 40-56 even though DMC grabbed 18. That's inexcusable that Vince Carter coming off the bench outrebounded everybody on our team but Cousins, and that we let Shawn Marion double his season average in rebounding. Well, at least Cleveland won and we lost.

[boogie-reke]

Even though he got like 6 steals today - Cuz help and team defense is just laughable at times.

It's not that he doesn't know how, it's just that he doesn't want to always put in the effort... really annoying stuff.