WMC 24-25: Free Threw It Away!

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  1. LaVarBallsDad

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    Nunn and TA still out.

    Apparently, just reading that Nunn might be out for awhile.

    Hoping Trevor is back in December.
     
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  2. wcsoldier81

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    1st game I'm watching for a while ... This team is really bad
     
  3. ZenMaster

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    We suck donkey balls. We need triple doubles from Bron and Russ playing nearly 50 minutes and a triple overtime to even have a chance against a mediocre team missing 3 main players. Awful.
     
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    We rebound like a wnba team.

    Too many fruit cakes on this team.
     
  5. FrontOfJersey22

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    Still not even close to a playoff team.
    For all the experience this team has, they play a very dumb brand of basketball. They don’t play to their strengths. They rely on jacking too many threes.
    There is no offensive system.
    They don’t box out and thus, are a terrible rebounding team.
    Frank is going to get canned, but it’s not going to help.
    I sure hope LeGM doesn’t get to pick the team again this summer.
     
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  6. FrontOfJersey22

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    Mediocre? Nah- the Kings are a trash Franchise.
     
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  7. ZenMaster

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    Well... we are 10 - 11 and they are 8 - 12, so... pot and kettle.
     
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  8. The Rock

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    You had 4 Hall of Famers play 40+ mins and still could not beat these Kings. Pretty close to sticking a fork in this group
     
  9. ZenMaster

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    Nah. The mummy of Trevor will soon come to save us.
     
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  10. FrontOfJersey22

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    We just won a Championship a little over a calendar year ago with LeBron and AD. The Kings have never come close to even the Finals.
     
  11. ZenMaster

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    That's irrelevant. This season we are not much better than them as this game and respective records indicate. Oh, and we had the 5th easiest schedule. They had one of the toughest, I think 6th.
     
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    I didn’t watch the two extra overtimes. But I watched the end of regulation and the first overtime. What on earth is it with us settling for threes to finish the game. You have Lebron and Westbrook who can attack the basket damn it!

    Lebron did it tonight and it pisses me off. Attack the basket, score or get some free throws and ice the game.
     
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    He most certainly didn't, save for the second OT. He shot like 2 for 10 or something... on 3s.
     
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    Lebron drove to the basket a little bit more in the 2nd OT and just ran out of gas in the 3rd.

    But it shouldn't have even gotten to overtime, our boys had a 13 point lead in the 4th Q and choked it. SMDH
     
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    theres no system that why
     
  16. ZenMaster

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    LeGM is reaping what he had sown.
     
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    It’s just so frustrating, I’ve seen 3-4 games now where we have the last possession and it’s Westbrook or Lebron hoisting up a three. They aren’t Lillard to be doing that crap.

    Like you said Rock, we shouldn’t be going to overtimes.

    This and our habit of coasting when we feel the game is under control - examples tonight and twice against OKC. The effort is clearly not good enough.

    I have to also call out AD and Lebron. I thought Melo, Monk & Westbrook all brought it tonight. Meanwhile AD and Lebron went 2/18 from three. That’s just resting on outside shots because they don’t want to expel energy during the regular season.
     
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    Russ actually has been nothing short of spectacular the last several games, IMO. Played controlled, hustled for rebounds, didn't settle.

    The rest of them, excluding AD on defense, should f*** off.
     
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    no rebounding and no defense-pretty much the story of the season

    this team isn't going anywhere
     
  20. The Rock

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    This team is too Lebron-centric and they've turned into ball watchers. Reminds me of 2014 Heat and much of his CLE tenure. The others are not involved on offense.
    1) Lebron is to blame for that because he needs to pound the ball taking up much of the shot clock to get into rhythm
    2) Coach Vogel has no creativity.

    They've successfully turned AD into a pedestrian. SMDH

    Defensively there are bigger issues too.

    That win vs Indy from the JV conference only put a lipstick on a pig of a season this has been.
     
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