Fandemonium

[RON ARTEST]

im going tonight at 6pm, anyone else going? and i will post details when i get back.

[Kings241]

I'm not going this year because I have to go to work. Try to take some pictures if you can.

[trueD]

I made a thread to post pics in.

What a blast! I've never been to Fandemonium and was hearing some pretty boring stuff about it on sackings.com My son scored the tix from a friend at work. Musselman had the guys on the floor doing stretching (yawn), then he ran drills then it was time for scrimmaging. Four 10 minute quarters, I was psyched!

Artest & Bibby started off with lots of hits from outside, but Bibby didn't give much else after that. Ron Artest was like 9-10 from the field, and defended up the ass. Martin also shot well from the field, hitting 3 or more tre's. I think Martin finished 2nd behind Artest in points scored.

Jeter handles the ball pretty well, and was able to pick a couple of steals, as did Martin. He got off several good shots for the hoop.

Reef gave a hard foul to Amundson under the basket, boooo... :lol

Loren Woods looked like ca-ca.

Amundson and Williams hustled their tushes off, both on offense and defense. Williams won the battle, imo, and had some great put-backs on offense.

Corliss was getting into the action, but looked a little tentative on offense (as usual).

You know who looked awesome? Ronnie Price. He was steady on his feet and fighting through pics like nobody's business, and he can scrap in the paint! A very good athelete, he kept up with his man most of the time.

[Bassfishr]

See what I'm sayin about Mr. Price........I've been sayin it since the beginning of last season.

[Calbears1]

Bibby only hit 1 shot from outside during the whole scrimmage. He was broke. I saw him take at least 8 shots, and only saw him hit 1. I'm a Bibby fan, but you could tell that his head wasn't there. Even during the pregame drills, he was just laboring through them like he didn't want to be there.

Justin Williams is a beast. He gets in there and mixes it up with anyone. I think the paper said that he had 9 points and 8 boards.

[trueD]

Fandemonium -- Artest was the best player and Kevin Martin the most explosive in a full scrimmage played under game conditions Sunday night at Arco Arena in the annual Fandemonium event.

Artest had 20 points, including four three-pointers, and Martin had 16 on a series of drives and jumpers as the Kings played four quarters with athletes rotating sides.

Defense dominated for both sides.

Rookie free-agent center Justin Williams had nine points and eight rebounds, and Corliss Williamson had 11 points. Francisco García and Maurice Taylor did not play because of a groin and calf injury, respectively.

More here from sacbee.com (http://www.sacbee.com/351/story/36132.html)

[trueD]

I remember Martin hitting a couple of long balls, maybe they weren't 3's. Both Bibby and Artest hit long balls in the first couple minutes of the first quarter.

Corliss must have scored those points while my sons buddy and I were conversing thru the most of the first quarter and part of the 2nd. ;)

[RON ARTEST]

why do you think loren woods looked bad? i thought he looked pretty damn god, i had no idea he could hit the 15 foot jumper but he can. i was also very impressed with justin williams.

[trueD]

I love Williams! I saw Woods hit from about 15 feet, but didn't see anything else from him, he couldn't hold onto the ball well and was behind in defense constantly. What else did you see?

[Calbears1]

Ya, I don't think Corliss scored 11. I watched the entire game and don't remember him scoring more than a couple buckets. It must be a miss print. I don't think that Woods looked too bad. He just didn't do anything spectacular, but I didn't expect him to. I know what type of player he is, and watched him through college and a little in the pro's. He is going to be the guy doing the dirty work, which is what we need. They need to hold onto Justin Williams though. The guy has a nose for the rim. He was always in there getting boards, and he finishes strong(he actually dunks the ball like a big man is supposed to).

[RON ARTEST]

I love Williams! I saw Woods hit from about 15 feet, but didn't see anything else from him, he couldn't hold onto the ball well and was behind in defense constantly. What else did you see?
i think loren will help out alot, not to many played well anyway, they are proably all tired from training camp. Artest justin and martin are the ones that really played great.

[RON ARTEST]

yeah everytime justin caught it down low he dunked it, he really impressed me. i got autographs from geoff petrie, kevin and SAR.

[kingsfan]

Anyone got pix? I'd like to see how they look.

[KFRebel]

I knew that Justin Williams isn't just another "garbage". There's a big reason why I'm high on this guy even though I haven't seen him play. Damn I should be a scout......


Will someone grade each players' performance!