Not worried at all. The team hasn’t even all been healthy yet. It’s been a tough schedule, Lyles was hurt, Fox was hurt, Keegan is hurt, there was one game where everyone was hurt. Get us healthy against some East teams and let us feast.

Clippers play the Warriors tomorrow too. They’ll come out hot and try to put this one away early to ensure a win. I hate this schedule.

Move on bro.

I’m with you until the last part about dealing 30% of our roster, but what struck me was how sloppy the offense looked with Sabonis out. It’s like all the plays we’ve drawn up where everyone knows what to do involve him starting the play and if he’s not there it’s just a bunch of individual gears spinning with no connection. I think Monk HAS to be in if Sabonis is out, as the secondary playmaker. And really we should be training a backup secondary playmaker, whoever that might be. It’s not Fox, he’s his own machine at this point, and it’s not Davion, though ideally it would be. But somebody has to connect the gears if Sabonis and Monk can’t be on the floor.

Wolves defense without Ant is still legit and doing well, but the offense is literally just KAT dribbling his 7-foot ass into four players and throwing up a prayer for a foul. It’s ugly.

Ant is down, bad sign for the Wolves long term and the Kings short term.

For me it was when he talked about getting emotional going through the tunnel in game 1. I was out there screaming for him, that was all of us right there, feeling the exact same thing.

Dammit. In that case, I’m afraid they’ll go with Duarte, but I think that’s a mistake. He’s still pretty foul prone and Curry knows how to draw those fouls, and refs won’t hesitate with that matchup. I’d like to see Davion get a chance since it’s like his biggest reason for being on the team, but I don’t see that either with Huerter playing well. So personally I’d start with Fox on him and then move to Kessler.

Only Jluc gets to say GameDay.

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: maybe? I think there’s a possibility where if we lose a close one and someone else beats someone else by some score I can’t remember, we still move on.

The Raptors don’t owe it to anyone to blow up their own team. They’re allowed to roll the dice and go for it just like everyone else, and the only people annoyed about that want something from them. They won a championship a few years ago and anyone in the playoffs have a chance, and maybe they’d rather take that chance than blow it to pieces to give other teams a better chance.

Why didn’t the Lakers blow it up last season? They were one of the worst teams in the league and their only good players were ancient and broken. But they chose to be buyers instead and somehow got to the WCF. Why isn’t this post about them?

These are the tie breakers, in order:

Head-to-head record in the group stage

Point differential in the group stage

Total points scored in the group stage

Regular season record from the previous season

Random drawing if all else fails.

Hey I was harassing my kid with my music playlists yesterday, which is like my newest hobby, and a song came on that he actually liked. It was distantly familiar but I couldn’t place it, but it sounded good and we were dancing around. Afterward I checked and it was called “Enjoy the Night” by Lucero. Awesome song, might be our new victory song! Hopefully we get to play it later today.

I can’t even drink tonight to black this memory out forever, so I guess this one is just gonna get tattooed on my mind forever. Oh well. Never seen one team hit so many crazy shots while the other team literally can’t drop the ball into the basket. Weirdly looking forward to Wednesday.

I feel like you’re criminally underrating Huerter’s contributions last night.

We jest. Sabonis is garnering MVP level appreciation around here on a daily level. Anyone saying he doesn’t have charisma, and I mean anyone saying he doesn’t have charisma, can get dickslapped and choke on a salmon. Sabonis is sometimes understated by those who know because he has normalized excellence. He does it every day. Remember the last time he got a triple double? Sure, it was yesterday. When’s the next time? I dunno, probably today. I was listening to the Mavs broadcast for like a second yesterday before I realized I could switch to the Kings broadcast (god, what a magical moment when I realized that). The more annoying of the two guys asked “I wonder who holds the record of almost having a triple double, but he’s like one off?” He was insinuating it was Luka, but I knew the real answer. It’s the guy who’s gotten a double-double 88% of his games in Sacramento. If they kept stats on giving up a bucket because you’re bitching about a call, then Luka would be there.

Domas normalizes excellence and we take him for granted, but we appreciate him.

Anyways, here’s a salmon.

I just don’t like boring basketball, or like I told my wife, video game basketball. One guy doing his thing every time down the court. It’s the equivalent of shoving a running back up the gut on every play because they can’t stop it. Maybe it works, but it sucks to watch.

I definitely picked the wrong game to watch.

Steve Kerr said his actions were inexcusable? How many excuses did he run through before he got to that one?

McGee and Len have probably played the same amount of games with the second string, and McGee is likely to blow that split out of the water with Len out 6-8 weeks. Sasha also feels more like a second string than a third. But yeah, massive depth. Different pieces that can do different things, play different matchups.

Maybe so, and I have a friend that’s a big Pacers fan, but I have difficulties rooting for them. For no fault of their own, I find myself rooting against them merely to win a media storyline that I couldn’t care less about, and it infuriates me.