I don’t think this is anything like the Denver game. This isn’t effort, this is fatigue.
It’s no fun, but when you have a team this old, you generally have to accept that they’re gonna play like shit on the 2nd night of an away back to back during a 5 in 7.
I’m not surprised the team came out so much stronger. They know they got embarrassed earlier this week, and Sacramento look like they just went through a war.
Either way, if this is the game that gets Harden asserting himself, then the Denver game will be worth it.
This Sac team is gassed
People, if we are gonna blow this up, blow it up for picks, young players, and expiring contracts.
I could see Herro, Lowry’s expiring and 2 1sts for Kawhi from Miami, for instance. But not this.
There would need to be more than 1 first attached. So no, not likely at all.
One of the worst losses in recent memory, and very bad from a schedule/momentum perspective.
If this team drops a few more in a row, there is a real chance Ballmer starts looking at blowing it up after Christmas. There are teams like Miami or New York in win now mode who would still pay a very high price in picks/young players for Kawhi or PG. And there’s real risk in waiting given injury history.
Lue is definitely a big part of the problem. He’s gotta go.
It would suck. I like these players individually, and I hope they figure it out. But I have a feeling it’s going the other way.
2 out of the last 3 first halves this team has played sloppy, unfocused defense and no team, no system hero ball on offense. Coaching is almost certainly partly to blame here, but either way: they cannot relearn this doesn’t work every other night.
I find it really wild how this whole thread is people blaming the coaches and front office. Our 3 best offensive players all had huge, game changing, critical turnovers. You can’t coach or GM for that. At a certain point, it’s the responsibility of those on the field. They’re great players, love em, but THEY blew it tonight.
I love Justin Herbert. He is an awesome quarterback who will make some jaw dropping plays every game. But after 4 years, I am more than a little worried he’s a Marino type- technically impeccably, physically gifted, but just missing that clutch ability to instinctively will his team to wins they shouldn’t otherwise get.
Lot of years to turn it around, and I hope he does. He’s not the only one- both Keenan and Austin get talk about the same way- insane talents, but at some point, you have to pull together wins down the stretch.
Fire the coach if you want, but this game was offensive players making big time mental errors at key moments. That’s it.
I am thrilled with how we’re playing tonight, awesome team effort. That said, I have watched a lot of basketball in my life and there is one thing I know beyond a shadow of a doubt:
That Mavs team is hung the fuck overrrr
8 points and 3 turnovers. Love James. Not his night.
Dear Russ and James stans that clog up every game thread: they both played pretty bad tonight. Both are great players who can work on this team. But everybody on this team needs to play like they haven’t proven anything, because they haven’t. Lue’s lineups were terrible tonight, but so was all the ego ball.
I can’t see another rolling, heavily guarded PG 3. This is not how you win close games
Someone should let these guys know there are 4 other players on the court on their side. A coach, maybe
Digging our way of the hole a bad lineup created, too late. Bad substitutions and a team that did not come out ready. This one is 100 percent on coaching
This lineup makes zero sense
Not Russ’ night.
Unselfish Harden play turns into 4 possessions of hero ball again. Why?
5 of 7 is over and it wasn’t a disaster. A scheduled loss is never fun, but that’s what this game was.