Game Thread: Spurs @ Kings — Mon. (2/4) - 9:00/C (5:00am Riga Time)

[StinkyWeezleteats]

This game is over

[YoungbuckMurray]

Defense is so bad. Belinelli is having a night to forget. Has bricked everything. Bring in walker

[KDKSpurs24]

Bertans drives are so predictable

[BlackAndWhite]

Spurs will get better next year. Don't mind the loss. We'll probably still make the playoffs while securing a higher pick at the same time

[timtonymanu]

Time to turn this off and watch some Spurs basketball from the 2000s. I just hate most of the players and Pop's coaching decisions on this team too much to really support them on a daily basis.

[Robz4000]

That'll do it. Just not much this team can do without White. He's as important to this team as LMA nowadays. If he's gonna be out past the ASB I don't see how the Spurs can avoid making a trade.

[Chomag]

Wish the Spurs had half an athlete on their team. They kind of do but Pop is too afraid to play him.

[emanueldavidginobili]

Put lonnie in, or is he not over himself yet. Has he not bended the knee for Lord Popovich yet?

[TimDunkem]

Still time but this defense doesn't look like it's going to get any stops tonight.

[Spurtacular]

:lmao That layup against Forbes
:lmao Forbes makes Pau look like a DPOY candidate

[Play Boban]

This is a disgrace.

[DAF86]

This would actually be a game without Pop's two stints of dinosaur ball. Oh well, into the next two losses untill our best player comes back.

[StinkyWeezleteats]

They kind of do but Pop is too afraid to play him.

Exactly. Too ethnic I reckon.

[timtonymanu]

Spurs will get better next year. Don't mind the loss. We'll probably still make the playoffs while securing a higher pick at the same time

For sure. With the return of Murray, continued progress of White and Walker. They have to get rid of Pau though. Has to be at the deadline or in the offseason. Just be done with him already.

[StinkyWeezleteats]

Lol Yogi the Colored. He owned the Spurs when he was on the Mavs too.

[Play Boban]

Forges’s man has a higher percentage shooting on him than when he’s wide open tbh.

[boutons_deux]

-13, that's game

Spurs can't fucking score on the road, can't win on the road, going to RR 10 - 16

[808]

White improving his value without even playing

[Spurtacular]

Spurs are making no defensive adjustments. Kings pic n' roll like Stockton/Malone or Nash/Stoudemire right now.

[Play Boban]

Te sours shoudmtrese for Bogdanovic

[Chomag]

Spurs are just getting schooled by a bunch of 20 year olds now...sad

[TimDunkem]

Forges’s man has a higher percentage shooting on him than when he’s wide open tbh.

To think that this team actually relies on this scrub. Dark days.

[Larry O]

If DePoision is going to be effective in this game, he needs to attack the rim, SMH...

[Hoops Czar]

Spurs have adequate depth :lmao Letting the Kings shoot 56% from the floor.

[timtonymanu]

:lol Mr. Senile throwing 40 year old Pout against 20 year old athletes. What the fuck did he expect, tbh?

[emanueldavidginobili]

Forbes can shoot and he honestly tries hard but he’s a huge liability and it’s not worth it.

[timtonymanu]

Spurs have adequate depth :lmao Letting the Kings shoot 56% from the floor.

Gasol is clearly better than Poeltl too.

[BatManu20]

Yea this one’s over

[Larry O]

4:00 left in the game, and down by 15 points. Good night and drive safely....

[boutons_deux]

Spurs gonna by 0 - 4 by Sunday

[KDKSpurs24]

Forbes can shoot and he honestly tries hard but he’s a huge liability and it’s not worth it.
Exactly. I don’t care about his 3 pt %.. he really just has to go.

[emanueldavidginobili]

Kings now own the Tie Breaker with the win

[Chomag]

Forbes will always give up more then he adds and that's all there is to it...

[Dancelot]

These brothers never have a problem starting shit with the white dudes of the nba. Bertans never backs down, dude is tough.

[Hoops Czar]

Gasol is clearly better than Poeltl too.
Yeah.

[Killakobe81]

Bagley looking lively

[808]

Spurs give most players their career highs... embarrassing

[timtonymanu]

Forbes can shoot and he honestly tries hard but he’s a huge liability and it’s not worth it.

Gonna be a shitshow seeing teams go at Forbes in the playoffs (in addition to DDR's pathetic defensive effort) in the starting lineup.

[Degoat]

Disappointing loss... hacking Stein this late!?

[Killakobe81]

Spurs never quit ...

[Larry O]

The way this RRT started out ST, the outcome doesn't look good! It's gonna be a looong month, and February is the shortest, too...

[emanueldavidginobili]

I legitmately think I can score a bucket on Mills and Forbes not even joking

[808]

Forbes can shoot and he honestly tries hard but he’s a huge liability and it’s not worth it.

You could replace Forbes with Beli and it’d be the exact same... except Marco looks like he don’t give a flying fuck

[Spurtacular]

Can see this Kings teams getting the 8 spot and then being the perfect meal for GSW.

[$pursDynasty]

Patty sucks but no choice but to play him with White out

[Chomag]

Lmao Forbes

[Dancelot]

Smh Mills, dude is jacking them up tonight

[DAF86]

Just as expected, we get trashed without our best player.

Nothing to see here. Just losing the games we're supossed to lose without our MVP.

[YoungbuckMurray]

This defense needs a tun of work. Looks like the start of the year again

[TimDunkem]

Remember when we thought Aldridge would eventually add a 3pt shot back in 2015? :lol

[Chomag]

So many players get their career highs against us lol

[$pursDynasty]

Hard to win with players out, because without a full bench, our reserves suck

[Hoops Czar]

Nothing to see here. Just losing the games we're supossed to lose without our MVP.
But Bertans played.

[timtonymanu]

Forbes/Mills guarding the Splash Bros & Dame/CJ is gonna make for some funny moments

[DAF86]

But Bertans played.

Bertans is our second banana.

[Larry O]

Sac Town had this game penciled on their calendar, tbh. They came out with energy and aggression. This team just may find themselves out of the eighth spot by the end of the month...

[DAF86]

Do we win that game if DeRozan was the one injured instead of White? I say yes.

Great trade, btw.

[Chomag]

Spurs really do need to make a trade pretty badly but will they?...probably not

[SPURt]

Forbes/Mills guarding the Splash Bros & Dame/CJ is gonna make for some funny moments
Their butt mouths must already be watering thinking about those games. It’s gonna get rapey.

[Arcadian]

:lol spurs

[slick'81]

No white=no chance in hell

[Degoat]

Man... we got GSW, Portland, Utah, Memphis, Toronto all next... in other words were screwed lol

[timtonymanu]

Do we win that game if DeRozan was the one injured instead of White? I say yes.

Great trade, btw.

:tu 27 million a year for a guy getting outplayed by a 2nd year player :pctoss

[skin27]

Welp..bad loss..3 game skid incoming

[Hoops Czar]

No white=no chance in hell
I know the Spurs said White will be out for the next three games but I'll be shocked if he plays before the break.

[Degoat]

I’m starting to get a sense that the spurs probably even feel if they make a trade how much could it help this team anyways. Unfortunate luck this year with Murray and whites injuries

[timtonymanu]

Mugen, as soon as Gasol checked in for Rudy midway through the 3rd, I knew the Spurs were fucked. Went from a 3 point deficit to an 11 point deficit with him in the game.

[Ditty]

They might beat Memphis but that’s about it. The are going to be the 9th or 10th seed after this road trip is over.

[tmtcsc]

This team is horrific on defense. The effort is deplorable.

[Chomag]

I’m starting to get a sense that the spurs probably even feel if they make a trade how much could it help this team anyways. Unfortunate luck this year with Murray and whites injuries I get what your saying but I think there are some moves that the Spurs could do to create a better built roster.

[KimmyGib]

Belinelli stank up the place. F-

[Arcadian]

Spurs will be a borderline playoff team after this road trip...

[TDomination]

We looked like beginning of season spurs.

[TimmyBuckets]

Spurs lucky to get 1 win during RRT

[boutons_deux]

54 points from K's bench

[LCM]

Bagley, Yogi, and Giles beat the Spurs tonight ... that's funny:bang

[John B]

I don’t know why Spurs now is offense first before defense. We used to hang our hats on Defense. But now it seems more important to shoot than play D. Mills, Forbes, Belli including Demar. There was a time you earn your minutes playing D.

[spurs10]

54 points from K's bench I think it was more like 62-30.

[LakerHater]

Forbes/Mills guarding the Splash Bros & Dame/CJ is gonna make for some funny moments
That Mills/Forbes is such a Shit backcourt!!

[SpurPadre]

Just came from the game. This was the biggest blowout I've witnessed at the hands of a King's team in my 18+ years of attending Spurs at Kings games. That's all that really needs to be said. Just not the same Spurs we've been spoiled by in the past. 112 points should be enough to beat teams like these and it's frustrating to see how much pressure is put on the offense to have to trade baskets and not miss for 6 consecutive possessions, otherwise the opposing team eventually controls the game. One can say our offense can't keep up with other, younger offenses when they're on fire but 112 points is alot on the road. We shouldn't have to depend on only one player in White to restore some balance off the perimeter defense. We desperately need a trade to stand a chance defensively against higher seeds in the playoffs but even just to win any series without having to go to a likely game 7. That's not to say the offense is perfectly fine the way it is. The shot selection is simply baffling. I've said it before and I'll say it again Forbes has no business taking nearly as many shots as our 3 best players...EVER. But he does. Time after time again. What exacerbates that is that we have another chucker in Mills, who took way too many shots in the 4th as he has consistently done. Pop needs to restrain them offensively because they aren't good enough to merit that kind of aggressiveness when we have LMA, DeRozan and Gay. Even Bertans and Belinelli deserve more shot attempts than those two guys. But back to our lack of defense, we can absorb having chuckers like that if our d wasn't so awful, particularly at the perimeter. Unfortunately, it seems PATFO are intent to settling for the way it is because, "hey Murray got hurt what can we do?" I have to remember that we beat Kawhi at San Antonio and that was our primary goal for the season. Beating Kawhi at Toronto should make it more than we can hope for given this lackluster roster.

[spurs10]

Just came from the game. This was the biggest blowout I've witnessed at the hands of a King's team in my 18+ years of attending Spurs at Kings games. That's all that really needs to be said. Just not the same Spurs we've been spoiled by in the past. 112 points should be enough to beat teams like these and it's frustrating to see how much pressure is put on the offense to have to trade baskets and not miss for 6 consecutive possessions, otherwise the opposing team eventually controls the game. One can say our offense can't keep up with other, younger offenses when they're on fire but 112 points is alot on the road. We shouldn't have to depend on only one player in White to restore some balance off the perimeter defense. We desperately need a trade to stand a chance defensively against higher seeds in the playoffs but even just to win any series without having to go to a likely game 7. That's not to say the offense is perfectly fine the way it is. The shot selection is simply baffling. I've said it before and I'll say it again Forbes has no business taking nearly as many shots as our 3 best players...EVER. But he does. Time after time again. What exacerbates that is that we have another chucker in Mills, who took way too many shots in the 4th as he has consistently done. Pop needs to restrain them offensively because they aren't good enough to merit that kind of aggressiveness when we have LMA, DeRozan and Gay. Even Bertans and Belinelli deserve more shot attempts than those two guys. But back to our lack of defense, we can absorb having chuckers like that if our d wasn't so awful, particularly at the perimeter. Unfortunately, it seems PATFO are intent to settling for the way it is because, "hey Murray got hurt what can we do?" I have to remember that we beat Kawhi at San Antonio and that was our primary goal for the season. Beating Kawhi at Toronto should make it more than we can hope for given this lackluster roster.Thanks for the feedback. Shame it was such a poor showing on our part. Great way to describe it as just trading baskets and then so many empty consecutive possessions. We tied it up, but then they continued to score every possession. Tough to watch.

[r0drig0lac]

Just came from the game. This was the biggest blowout I've witnessed at the hands of a King's team in my 18+ years of attending Spurs at Kings games. That's all that really needs to be said. Just not the same Spurs we've been spoiled by in the past. 112 points should be enough to beat teams like these and it's frustrating to see how much pressure is put on the offense to have to trade baskets and not miss for 6 consecutive possessions, otherwise the opposing team eventually controls the game. One can say our offense can't keep up with other, younger offenses when they're on fire but 112 points is alot on the road. We shouldn't have to depend on only one player in White to restore some balance off the perimeter defense. We desperately need a trade to stand a chance defensively against higher seeds in the playoffs but even just to win any series without having to go to a likely game 7. That's not to say the offense is perfectly fine the way it is. The shot selection is simply baffling. I've said it before and I'll say it again Forbes has no business taking nearly as many shots as our 3 best players...EVER. But he does. Time after time again. What exacerbates that is that we have another chucker in Mills, who took way too many shots in the 4th as he has consistently done. Pop needs to restrain them offensively because they aren't good enough to merit that kind of aggressiveness when we have LMA, DeRozan and Gay. Even Bertans and Belinelli deserve more shot attempts than those two guys. But back to our lack of defense, we can absorb having chuckers like that if our d wasn't so awful, particularly at the perimeter. Unfortunately, it seems PATFO are intent to settling for the way it is because, "hey Murray got hurt what can we do?" I have to remember that we beat Kawhi at San Antonio and that was our primary goal for the season. Beating Kawhi at Toronto should make it more than we can hope for given this lackluster roster.

relax, some stud will bring some advanced stats of how Forbes and Dante are great players for the circumstances, and we do not need updating the roster

[duncan2k5]

Demar is definitely not winning basketball and Aldridge is better suited as a 2nd option and not your go-to guy.

There in lies the dilemma... If Aldridge is a second banana, he pouts and becomes ineffective

[duncan2k5]

Forbes can shoot and he honestly tries hard but he’s a huge liability and it’s not worth it.

Finally! Been saying this for YEARS

[YoungSuperTeam]

Good game for my KINGS last night. We really need it.
It really hurt that White was out for you guys. He would have made a difference. You guys will probably pay us back in SA next month.

Good luck on the rest of your roadie.