Turns Out, the Sacramento Kings Offense is a Problem Too | Locked On Kings
Well, the Sacramento Kings played better, which really isn’t saying much after how horrible their performance was on Wednesday against the Atlanta Hawks. But still, the Kings lose 124 to 110 to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Everybody on the planet knows that the Sacramento Kings defense is horrendous, but it’s about time we start talking about how bad the offense has been, too. It completely let the Kings down in the fourth quarter of a winnable game tonight in Minnesota. And we’ll talk about it all right here on Locked on Kings. You are Locked on Kings, your daily Sacramento Kings podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time. Time for another episode of Locked On. Hello and welcome into Locked On Kings, your podcast hub for Sacramento Kings coverage all season long. This episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app. Create an account and use code locked on NBA for $20 off of your first purchase. My name is Matt George. I have the privilege of being your host here. I’m a Sacramento sports anchor and reporter for ABC 10 News. Apologies for how late this postgame podcast is getting out. I had Friday night football duties. It’s high school football playoffs around the Sackwalken section here in uh in the greater Sacramento area. Uh so I was keeping track of that and doing handling those duties while also uh trying to watch this uh this Kings T- Wolves game as closely as I could. And I saw enough to be able to put this podcast together. Lots to talk about on this show. First and foremost, not only did the Kings lose 124 to 110 to the Timberwolves, making it their fifth straight loss. Not only did the Kings fall to three and 10 on the season through their first 13 games, the Sacramento Kings are now 0 and2 in the NBA Cup. Yes, tonight was an NBA Cup game if you couldn’t tell by the Mountain Dew green court, which I guess I’m a psychopath. I like I kind of like it. I don’t I guess I’m just a weirdo because everybody called me a weirdo for saying that I liked it on social media. I kind of like it. I don’t know. I just looks cool to me. I I like the fact that when you zoom in on the players, you can see like a a sickly green glow on their head on their on their bodies and on the white jerseys that the Kings were wearing. I don’t know, maybe I’m a psychopath. I kind of like the court, but the Kings lose their second of their four group stage games in the NBA Cup. basically. I mean, they already knew that it was going to be a very tough ask to make it out of the group after losing by 31 points to the uh Oklahoma City Thunder. You now add this 14point loss to the Timberwolves and the Kings have a point differential so far of -45 in group Cup play. And and point differential is very important for seating or for standings. tiebreers, all that. So, the Kings would need to obliterate both the Phoenix Suns and the Utah Jazz to have any shot of making it out of their group. That would also require a lot of help, not just in their group, but around the Western Conference period. So, sorry to break it to you Kings fans. The only hope that the Kings had of of winning a trophy this season pretty much went up in smoke tonight with the uh the loss in Minnesota. But we all know and I understand Doug Christiey’s I don’t want to call it an obsession desire drive to fix the Sacramento Kings on the defensive side of the court. He was a defensive-minded player himself. That’s that’s who he is instinctually as a basketball player. That’s how he analyzes and how he looks at the game. and he knows just like we all know that defense has been a big problem for the Sacramento Kings for a long time. The Kings really haven’t been good consistently defensively at all since Doug Christie was suited up and playing here in Sacramento. That was over 20 years ago. That’s how bad it’s been defensively here. So, I know he wants to fix that. Every time we try to talk to Doug Christie or ask Doug Christie a question about the offense, whether it’s in pregame media, postgame media, media scrum, after a practice, Doug’s always kind of dismissive of talking about the offense. Ah, we ain’t worried about the offense. The offensive end, we know we can score. It’s defense, defense, defense. when he was talking and clearly frustrated after uh one of these losses um in Sacramento earlier in the week, he even made a comment like we don’t give a you know what on that end of the floor. We’re focusing completely on the defensive end of the floor. I I I get what he’s trying to say, right? Like we’re throwing ourselves completely into fixing this problem because until we address this problem and correct this mistake of being so bad on the defensive end, we’re going to struggle to win period. I get that. But the offense is a big problem, too. It really is, especially when it matters. The Kings scored 30 points in the first quarter, 31 points in the second quarter, 30 points in the third quarter, all three through all three quarters with the exception of a little bit of a slow start for the Kings. Super back and forth, fun, competitive basketball game where the Sacramento Kings looked really good in a lot of different places. And we’ll talk about that on this show today. The Kings led for a good portion of this game, playing really good basketball. In the fourth quarter of a close game, the Kings scored 19 points. They shot eight of 24 from the field, 33%, three of 10 from three-point range, 30%. They went over five minutes without scoring a single point in the fourth quarter, stuck on a 100 for five minutes. How does that happen? How does a veteranladen team, one of the third old like not one of the third oldest roster in the league with two first foul Hall of Famers in Demar Rosen and Russell Westbrook with one of the best three-level scorers in the league in uh Zack Lavine who was back tonight after missing last game with injury and with Damont Sabonis who was having the best offensive game of the season. How can that team, one, not score a single point for over five minutes, and two, how does that team with all that NBA experience struggle so mightily to close out games? It’s one thing if you’re losing by two or three or four points, like the Kings were losing a handful of close games early on in the season. And while that was frustrating like okay the difference of a one or two shots or some big shot makers or the exper whatever like the Kings are comp like recently they’re falling apart in the fourth quarter. They’re not good on either end. And again I know the Kings want to be better defensively. You have the 27th defensive rating in the team in in the league. There’s only three teams worse defensively than you in the league. Of course you want to improve that. But the Kings offensive rating is 25th. 25th. So both the offense and the defense is extremely bad. Hence why the Kings are one of the worst teams in the NBA. The numbers say they belong there on both sides of the floor. Again, I understand Doug Christie wanting to address the defense, fix the defense. all for it. But before you can truly address a weakness, you have to establish a strength, right? This roster with all the offensive ability on the planet, it seems, this roster can’t score. They’re struggling to score on a nightly basis. They’re inefficient offensively. They don’t look like they know how to play together. A lot of times they don’t have enough shooters on the floor so defenses don’t have to respect them and can pack the paint. The Kings offensively are bad. So for Doug Christie just to dismiss it as we know we can score offense is fine, defense, defense, defense. Clearly not. You couldn’t score a point for five minutes in the fourth quarter of a winnable game that was back and forth. When it came down to crunch time, your team went ice cold in addition to not being able to get any stops. And if the if the the the sum of your offense is well, we’re at our best offensively when we get out in transition when we create stops, then you’re just screwed because this team doesn’t generate enough stops for you to score enough offensively for this team to be good, which we kind of know at this point. It’s so perplexing. It’s so like thinking back to beam team one, and not to bring up Mike Brown to get on a soap box or anything like this. I’m just I’m using this as an example. Beam team one. They established themselves as the best offense in NBA history at the time. Really, really good. Now, to be fair, the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs kind of figured them out a little bit. Other teams followed suit. And offensively, the Kings were never the same from beam team one the following years. They were still a good basketball team, just not as dangerous and prolific offensively as they were at that point. But Mike Brown made it very clear going into year two that he wanted to focus in on the defensive end of the floor and and improve on the defensive end of the floor, saying a lot of the same things that Doug Christiey’s saying about the defense. Now, by the way, and I felt at the time, and you can go back and listen to the podcast, I even asked Mike Brown about this a number of times. I felt that the Kings were almost focusing too much on defense and overfocusing on defense to where they were they were they were sacrificing too much of their strength to focus in on defense. So while there was defensive improvement, it wasn’t enough to balance it out. And as we saw again, the Kings were never the same again. But at least they had an established strength on offense before throwing themselves in the defensive side of the floor. The Kings don’t have an established strength period. The Kings aren’t good at anything. They’re not like maybe one statistical category here or there. They’re good at this, they’re good at that. Like what? They’re not a good basketball team. So, you can’t throw yourselves completely into one side of the floor, especially the weaker of the two weaknesses. You’re just going to be bad. So, I don’t know if Doug Christie can get away much longer with just dismissing any thought on the And I know they work on offense. I know they have offensive sets. not pretending they just do defensive drills and offensively don’t focus at all on that side of the floor. I get that and I again I understand what Doug Christiey’s saying when he when he puts all the focus in his commentary on the defensive side of the floor but we got to talk about the offense too man because it hasn’t been good enough. There were some good things in this game for the Kings. Like I want to talk about Damas Sabonis, want to talk about Dennis Shruder. I want to talk about Russell Westbrook in a positive way. All three of those guys had uh had solid games. But coming up next, I want to talk about Demar Rosen. It’s time. It’s time for a breakup. Like the writing’s on the wall. We’ll talk about the Kings and the need for both parties to part ways. In just a second, this episode of Locked on Kings is brought to you by Robin Hood. Your ambition just met its match. With Robin Hood, you play for the win. Not just on game day, every day. locking in on every opening, beating your PR, then beating it again. Channel that drive into your money. 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That’s code locked on NBA for $20 off. Swipe, tap, ticket, go. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Demar De Rozan and the career that Demar De Rozan has had. And I know there are a lot of people, and I’ve seen it in my comment section, that think that I’m a Demar Rozan hater or I don’t like the guy. I don’t believe in the guy. Far from it. Like, I’m I’m I’ve been a big fan of Demard Rosen’s for a long time. covered or followed his entire NBA career. Like I am mesmerized by a lot of what Demar Rosen can do. And trust me, it’s been very cool to have Debo in a Sacramento Kings jersey and being able to cover his career and interview him and interact with him. It’s been very, very fun, but it hasn’t worked. Like, we can all admit. We can all like, who are we kidding ourselves? It hasn’t worked. It’s been a failure of a partnership. We can put We don’t have to put the blame on anybody. We can put it on ownership of put it on Demar. Put it on Monty McNair. Put it on Mike Brown. Who cares? Like, it doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter who’s to blame. And there’s not really solely one party to blame. It just it didn’t work. The Kings tried something. I give them credit for it. They brought in a Hall of Fame caliber player and it didn’t work from the beginning and it still isn’t working. Now, what is best for both sides, just simply what is best for both sides is to trade Demar Rozan and to move on. That’s what’s best and that’s what I believe the Sacramento Kings are going to look to do tonight. Second straight game where Deamar struggled to score. six points, three of 10 from the field, five assists, two steals. Like, not only has it not worked from the start, like he just offensively has obviously just not fit from the start, like he does so many great things offensively. He’s so unbelievably good from the mid-range and when he gets to his spots, but it it he’s always it just seems like he’s stuck out like a sore th from what the rest of the Sacramento Kings have been trying to do offensively. I mean, it’s been clear as day for years, and the Kings have tried to make different things work, and it just not it just has not worked. So, do right by Demar. Send him to a playoff team. Like, there are playoff teams out there that could absolutely use a Demar De Rozan scoring punch off their bench. And you might be saying, Matt, he’s not coming off the bench in Sacramento. What makes you think he’s going to come off the bench anywhere else? Because in Sacramento, he’s you’re trying to ask him to come off the bench for a three and 10 team. Not a team like the Cleveland Cavaliers or Milwaukee Bucks or a team that could use an extra scoring punch off the bench while they’re in postseason games, hard-fought battles where they could also lean on his experience in those moments. Yeah, it’s a lot easier for those teams to ask Demar to come off the bench than it is for Sacramento to do it given their circumstances and their situations. And Demar deserves at 37 years old at the sunset of his career like he deserves, I guess, one more shot at the ring, he deserves a chance to try and win and play meaningful basketball. Now, I’m not saying just give Demard Rosen away for scraps. And I don’t think the Sacramento Kings will do that, but I do believe there will be a good trade out there for the Kings to get something. And what is something for Demar? I don’t know like to me it’s maybe a a role player of some sort that that fits your identity better or a young player who’s maybe a bit of a project whether it’s a rookie or a secondyear player. Someone in their early 20s that you could see developing and turning into something maybe hopefully a wing or a forward. someone of the 67 to 610 variety. And no, I’m not going to say 67 do what you think I’m going to do. So, stop it. Grow up that I’m not I have realistic expectations. I’m not expecting a first round pick or anything from Demar De Rozan, but you can get something of value for your future for Demar. And I think the Kings will try and do that. And I do believe there will be at least one, maybe not contending team, but one playoff team that will be interested in bringing him in and adding him to what they’re doing to try and make a late season push or a playoff push of some sort. It would just we it would be best for Demar and it would be best for the Kings too. Look, it would in my opinion open up the freedom in the rotation. also open up the spacing period offensively, but it would open up the freedom in the rotation for someone like Nick Clifford to get the playing time that he should get as a rookie in this in the later half of this season when it doesn’t really matter. Wins and losses don’t really matter. Get Nick Clifford playing time. Like tonight, Nick Clifford played six minutes. Like what? What? We’re just wasting time. Like play Nick Clifford needs to play more than six minutes. Doug, I understand you’re trying to win this game. NBA Cup, blah blah blah blah blah, other guys playing better, blah blah blah. Like, Nick Clifford needs to be out there getting playing time. What’s the point? Like, what’s the point if Nate Clifford’s not playing? So, move on from Demar. Get Nick Clifford some playing time. Open up that rotation a little bit more. Hopefully get something of value back that fits the future, fits the vision more than Demar De Rozan does. Thank him and show him some appreciation on the way out. That’s what’s best for everybody. That’s what’s best for everybody and I hope that’s something that Scott Perry is able to accomplish here before the trade deadline. This episode of Locked on Kings is also brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA is back and there’s no better place to get in on the action than on FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you missed the start of the game or want to ride the hot hand, FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. Plus, you can even combine your live bets into a same game parlay for a shot at an even bigger payout. It keeps every game exciting, especially when your team is the one making that late push. Right now, FanDuel is giving new customers $300 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. 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He’s still playing with ribs that are clearly bothering him. But Sabonis a season high 34 points, 14 of 24 from the field. I can’t tell you the last time Sabonis has taken more than 20 shots in a game or 20 shots period. Like he was very aggressive even going against Rudy Gobear. 11 rebounds. And what I like too is typically when we see Domas trying to be super aggressive, we typically see him get sloppy with the basketball and turn the ball over four, five, six times, he only turned the ball over twice. Like this was just this was a really solid game for Deont Sabonis. And while I’m not expecting him to suddenly just become this massive offensive weapon for the Sacramento Kings, you need more of this from Domos on both ends, but especially offensively, you need him to be more of a presence, more of a part of this team offensively than he has been when you’re paying him $42 million this season and it’s only going to go up over the next two years of his contract, right? like you didn’t pay the guy and now expect him to become more than what he is necessarily or significantly more than what he is. Dom is never going to become an offensive star. Well, a scoring star I should say. He’s offensively very gifted with his passing. Although the team has not been able to figure out how to run through him effectively, probably because of how much the spacing is a nightmare. Domomas is not suddenly going to become a great scoring option in the NBA, but he can be better than what he has been. And he stepped up tonight. I got to give him credit. 34 points. Slowed down in the second half to be fair. Everybody was terrible in the fourth quarter. But a good performance from Demand Sabonis. And I would be doing myself and doing this job a disservice if I only criticized the guy and didn’t praise him for for the effort and the performance that he had tonight. Dennis Shruder got moved to the bench. That was the big change that that Doug Christie made. We’ll talk about that more in just a second. Uh but Dennis Shruder got moved to the bench and I could tell that he was playing with a chip on his shoulder. I was I could tell that he was playing pissed off and he was channeling that frustration into how he was playing on both ends of the floor. It looked like coming off the bench he was there. Whether it was less pressure or he was able to ease into the game more or whatever, it worked. He looked good. 14 points, five of 13 from the field. The shooting percentage isn’t great, but it’s still okay. Six rebounds, six assists. Like Dennis Shruder had one of his better games as a king coming in off the bench. So, let’s see if this continues cuz Russell Westbrook was put into the starting lineup. Gave the Kings a triple double. Like, yay. It’s cool, I guess. 13 points, 10 rebounds, 14 assists. And what was really cool was Russ passed 10,000 career assists in this game. He also, I think, became the second player ever to have over 25,000 points. Or was it 15,000 points? I should have looked this up. I didn’t write this down. Shame on me. But he he he and LeBron James, he did something that only LeBron James has done. I’m pretty sure it’s 25,000 points and 10,000 assists, which is pretty pretty rad. So, West Westbrook looked good as a starting uh as the starting point guard. did good job uh distributing. But I’m not gonna lie to you. When I saw the starting lineup, I guess I was a little disappointed, but not surprised. just disappointed because like is was that enough of a change after the words of how after how strongly Doug spoke after that loss to the Hawks and how pointedly his comments were at the veterans at Demar De Rozan at Russell Westbrook at Dennis Shruder at Demand Sabonis to have Dennis be the only guy that lost his starting spot. Now I know it wasn’t a oneame thing for Dennis. Dennis has been struggling as the starting point guard pretty much this entire season, but I I’m actually really torn with this because I’m not I don’t think I would have the the you know what to go up to Deamar De Rozan and say, “Hey, bud. Um, you’re coming off the bench.” Now, I’m not an NBA head coach, and I wouldn’t be a terrible NBA head coach, so it’s not my job to Doug Christie should have the respect of Demar, the respect of the locker room, and the ability as a head coach to be able to make that move if it’s what’s best for the team. But clearly, Doug didn’t feel that that was needed even after his pointed comments. I just like I don’t think it’s a coincidence. And again, I’m not trying to I’m just I’m not trying to blame Demar for everything. It’s not all Dear’s fault, but I’m just talking about fit. And it’s very clear, and it’s been clear for a week, if not two weeks, that the second unit plays better basketball than the starting unit does. Very rarely is Demard Rozan out there with the second unit. Very rarely are are a lot of the starters out there with the second unit. The spacing is better. The ball movement is better. They just play better team basketball. And we’ve seen that be the best basketball the Kings have played in the last week. Granted, they’ve lost five straight games, but I like I think it would probably be best for the Sacramento Kings to move Demar D Rose into the bench and have either Keon Ellis or Nick Clifford in that spot. I think I’d probably go Nick, not because Nick is better than Keon and Keon absolutely is a starting caliber player, but for height difference, right? Because you still have Zack Lavine who’s going to start at that two spot. I guess you could shift Zack Lavine to the three if you wanted to, but I wouldn’t feel very good about that. I like Keon in his role coming off the bench. He deserves to play more minutes, but I like him in that that sixth or seventh man role coming in off the bench. Like this is why I want the Kings to trade Demar Rosen. Just open up that spot so Nate Clifford can start. And I know Keegan Murray will eventually come back. He’ll take the spot that Precious Sichua is holding down right now. Like I want to see Nick Clifford and Keegan Murray playing next to each other consistently on the on the wing or in the forward positions. I don’t know. Like I I’m I’m not going to pretend that I would have felt comfortable saying Demar Rosen or benching Demar Rosen in this game, but I just feel like it needs to happen. It needs to happen. And maybe it maybe Scott Perry needs to make that decision for Doug by trading Demar as soon as he possibly can. And like I laid out for you, if you missed it, my uh extended special Locked on Kings podcast where I spent 40 almost 45 minutes walking you through what I’ve learned that the plan is in Sacramento or what the active plan is like the phase that the Kings are in and what phase two involves trades and why they can’t enter phase two or haven’t really entered phase two yet. What’s going on? Go and check that out because I’m not saying they need to trade Demar Rosen today. Maybe they would try to but takes two to tango, right? go and check that podcast out if you haven’t already. But once trade season really begins, I hope Demar Rosen is on the move because it would, I think, just make everything better for everybody. So, I want to hear your thoughts on this uh Kings loss in Minnesota. Now, they go and take on the San Antonio Spurs who I think lost tonight to the Golden State Warriors. So, they’ll be a little ticked off. Plus an old maybe not so friendly face in De’Aran Fox. Plus Harrison Barnes, too. Don’t forget him. Uh, I don’t expect things to go well for the Kings in San Antonio against the Spurs on Sunday, but let me know how you’re feeling about that game, too. Matt George Sack on Twitter. Email me matte [email protected]. Leave your thoughts in the YouTube comment section down below. My next podcast, I’ll take I’m taking a little bit of a break here on Saturday. My next podcast will be on Sunday evening after that Kings and Spurs game. So, I hope you will join me for that. Until then, my name is Matt George. You’ve been listening to Locked on Kings, part of the Locked On Network.
Matt George reacts to the Sacramento Kings’ NBA Cup loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, where the Kings played much better, but their offense went ice cold in the 4th quarter.
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26 comments
Matt, did you say winnable game? 😂 you know better dude.
Wolves just trolling around. There is NO WAY Kings has/had any chance.
Need an iron wrist GM and just have to start fresh with no garbage. Just keep KEllis even try to trade KMurray.
After game 7 against Golden State I was so hyped for the future. Thought it was finally gonna be a resurgence of Kings basketball like the Webber years! Now I'm coming to the realization this is more like the Tyreke Evans years and we're doomed.
It’s about time we unplug until 2027
See you guys next season! This one looks like what we call a filler episode
Coach Christie seems much nicer for this 5 game road trip. He's not going to yell at his players on opponent's turf. Everyone is anticipating the next hilarious "ya'll better start representin' Sacramento" speech.
Matt this team is missing a ALPHA DOG
Trade DeMar? The first one to be traded should be Domantas Sabonis. Trade before his numbers goes drastically down.
Mannn can we go for trey Murphy, even Derik queen, we need some youth that can actually play. Don’t send derozan to no playoff team that’ll just give us scraps
Positive note time. We're still not the Wizards.
if you can point the finger on one it had been demar his defense is bad he cant shoot 3s
Doug needs to be fired immediately
The vets don't have enough gas
Trade DeRozan for Booker so we can have a pure scorer and a playmaker
I think the most frustrating part about this team is they are good enough. The last 3 season, how many first half’s did they dominate? Almost every game. Even this game, they were right there for the first 3 quarters. They just fall off so hard at the end of every game. Is it a conditioning thing? What’s the issue there?
On the bright side, Kayte Christensen's commentary has improved and she hasn't been ranting as much as usual. I think she's been reading Kings Reddit. Keep up the great work Kayte.
Fox just lost two games in a row for the spurs . Almost looks like he tried to cause the losses as how bad he is
Eubanks getting 7 mins is crazy he's our leading blocker
Could have won it tbh, Sabonis was carrying the offense for 3 quarters but everyone else was building brick house in 2nd half
Derozan free agent signing was the downfall of this organizations recent success (if you can call making the playoffs but then losing in the first round success).
That was a poorly managed game by Doug
Offense wasn’t even bad this game besides the end of 3rd and 4th quarter unfortunately at the most important time they couldn’t get one to go. They got good shots even great ones at times. Offense in the first half was clicking played off Domas and they everyone got there’s off of that started off good, finally let Russ run the point. They just had a couple points where I would say they did need to run a set or some but other than that a way better showing effort wise.
Send Sabonis to Shanghai
Defense is important but this isn't the 80s 90s and 2000s when Refs would let you play physical.
Refs have a way faster whistle. No more hand checking. Players can shoot better and are more skilled.
Modern NBA if an opposing team gets hot from 3 you better be able to score with them or you'll lose by at least 20.
Obviously Doug knows the Game so time will tell about this huge emphasis on 80s style defense
Trade derozan laziness and Malik monk for as many first rounders you can get and some role players. A rebuild would be fun for this team
So was it just me or can we just call Zavine a complete no show whenever it matters? So the small ball unit with Monk and Clifford that really was interesting, wonder where they were in the second half. Demar is obviously pouting and might as well not even get a uniform, Domas is hurt and is 50%, Casper I mean Lavine is joke on both ends and the only effort from the vets I see is coming from a 37 year old on a minimum deal. Honest question will they win a single game on this road trip?
27/950 comments to views tells u all u need to know. Everyone hates Vivek n this team he put together. Hes gonna fire Doug n put Scottie on a very short leash. Vivek needs to go. Let the team gel after Keegan comes back. And yes we avoided the hugest bullet by not trading for kuminga n taking Russ away from golden state. Scottie is always doing the best moves. Signing Russ was our best offseason move by far. Dennis sux. For real is trash. Play Keon n the young bucks over Dennis. I ve seen enough of the German. Dennis only plays better when he’s playing head to head with lesser competition. It’s crazy obvious