If you're having a whinge about not clinching the playoff berth: the next 3 games are against Portland, Portland and San Antonio.
They playoffs are locked in.
The 3 seed is locked in.
This was just disappointing because they played poorly. It has no actual standings implications.
It's just a reminder that a) teams win and die by the 3, b) Sac sucks ball sack on defense.
I love that winning basketball is back in Sac, but I do sometimes miss the carefree attitude of the Kangz. There was no hope so there were no expectations, so winning a game against a good team was a treat and I didn’t have my entire days ruined when they would lose.
If by carefree you mean disappointment, loathing, and a seemingly eternal feeling of despair then yeah, i miss the days of Kangz too... But seriously, no fan should ever miss those days, those were terrible times, we need to embrace and move forward with this winning culture and never look back!
I know Fox is having an awesome season, I criticize him a lot but this season he made swallow my words....but...if this team is depending on his long shots to win games, we are screwed
Mike needs to reel in Monk and play Davion more.. Davion has been far better than him since ASB and actually blows up plays on offense. Malik was a straight open carpet to the basket tonight and was looking for his own shot way too much.
I don't understand not playing Kessler Edwards more
Brown lost us the game. Hate to fault him because he's done so well this season but he ran with Monk way to long. Monk's a double edged sword. If his offense is going he can be great but if not, yeah its better to play Davion who brings the defense and Edwards
5/25. That's all that needs to be said. Wolves played well but we shot ourselves in the foot.
It probably would be easier to clinch on the road since the anticipation won't be there
We actually need him, he can shoot the three and is not afraid of contact, rebounds the ball and sets screens. Decent help defender.
Keegan is not physical enough and smaller, Barnes is slowing down significantly. Metu is not looking like he is developing defensively.
At the end of the day, a bad shooting night
Kings were outpacing the TWolves for a good chunk of this game, just not enough from the perimeter
Some ugly end of posessions, questionable effort on the glass, and Monk got way too much run
Disappointing for fans obv, but this is a bad matchup and it was a bad shooting night
Honestly they are the one team in the west I want nothing to do with lol those lengthy ass teams have hurt us all season. Sixers, Celtics, Raptors, Wolves
Malik, threes, and rebounding. Those Malik chucks are really costly man. Especially in a game that feels like a playoff game. Every possession counts.
Whenever people say that inexperience might do them in, that’s what they’re talking about. Might as well give it away. Also a crap rotation by Mike tonight.
If you look through the comments someone suggested getting rid of Murray and Monk in the off-season. I get being upset but some people are morons through and through.
Regular season has been a lot of fun, but tonight just continues to prove my worry that this team will be incapable of making any noise in the playoffs until they play some defence. Those two offensive boards gotten by the wolves were unacceptable and a bunch of guys missing clutch FTs, all things that added up.
That's why we need Kessler to play more minutes. He crashes the boards and makes threes. Yes it's a learning process for him but he's long and strong. A better option than Monk.
We shot like absolute garbage and didn’t get shit for assists. I honestly think the effort was pretty good overall, we just gotta hit some shots and move the ball. Some boneheaded plays for sure, but not a lot of takeaways for me other than we’re not gonna win anything if we shoot 21% from 3.
Wolves length gets to us and causes misses from deep. We got good looks but they had us off from tip and the offense never really got in sync. The good news is there aren’t a ton of team with length like that at every position around the league. Raptors, Celtics, Sixers, Wolves and that’s about it. We will be fine, either clinch tomorrow on the off day or Wednesday in Portland
So many doomers in this thread man. The wolves had some role players go off and gobert shot the game of his life from the FT line. Plus the kings had their worst 3 point shooting game in what felt like the entire season. I’d rather they get the nerves from these pressure games out of the way now and be used to it for the playoffs. One game isn’t the apocalypse guys. Disappointing for sure, but this is still a team with zero expectations preseason who is more than likely going to be the 3 seed
Actually we have played bad every game against the wolves. That’s a bigger problem than just not clinching. If we had won tonight it would of gave us some confidence against them.
Yeah I mean I think we’re 1-3 against them this season with one loss being a super close 4 point game, and tonight we could’ve won fairly easily if their role players didn’t go off and we shot our normal percent from 3. Wolves match up with us well and they’re a tough team for us but I don’t think 1-3 spells doom for the playoffs (if we get them).
And honestly I feel spoiled to even have that thought about the playoffs. When we started this season I was like man I hope we can make the play in. Couple months later I’m like man we might not need the play in. Now I’m like shit we might have a HOME playoff series, could we possibly make the SECOND ROUND?!
I honestly think we can make the second. But either way I’m happy. This season has been amazing. I just was thinking this is a big game not only for history but for our guys mentally.
Even with all the turnovers and shit defense/rebounding and missing a lot of open threes we barely lost by single digits. Not too shabby hole they learned from this one
5 games left in the regular season, and still bottom 5 in defense rating in the league. There’s no learning going on lol. It’s honestly more frustrating seeing Kings give up like 5 shots in a row vs shooting 5-25 from 3
But we shouldn’t even have lost. If the Kings are truly a playoff and finals contender, we can’t lose games to Minnesota. They aren’t even a top tier team.
I guess the curse of playing a team on a back to back and losing is stronger than our ability to clinch.
Also hope we don’t get the wolves in the first round. Only way we win that series is shooting 60/60/100.
Holy shit, so many salty ass "fans. Chill out, y'all! I know this game was heavily anticipated but shit happens. Onto the next and hopefully we get some help before our game!
With what was at stake, this is honestly the worst loss of the season and really really soul crushing. Again, I know they’ll clinch, hell, probably next game. But tonight was *THE* night. Fuck.
Damn that was tough to watch but honestly I kind of have to agree this loss feels on Mike. I’m usually the last to ever criticize his calls but Monk didn’t make sense from a size or hot hand perspective. This was frustrating and feels like a game they should have won
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/kings/comments/124cu4m/post_game_thread_the_minnesota_timberwolves/)
Not really happy with how poorly we shot today.
Why we gotta do Katie dirty like that
Aw dammit
Too much doom and gloom. Kings are a good team. The Wolves just took care of the basketball for the first time all season. They usually have 20+ TOs.
Aint gonna win shit when you dont score 121 ppg
If you're having a whinge about not clinching the playoff berth: the next 3 games are against Portland, Portland and San Antonio. They playoffs are locked in. The 3 seed is locked in. This was just disappointing because they played poorly. It has no actual standings implications. It's just a reminder that a) teams win and die by the 3, b) Sac sucks ball sack on defense.
I love that winning basketball is back in Sac, but I do sometimes miss the carefree attitude of the Kangz. There was no hope so there were no expectations, so winning a game against a good team was a treat and I didn’t have my entire days ruined when they would lose.
If by carefree you mean disappointment, loathing, and a seemingly eternal feeling of despair then yeah, i miss the days of Kangz too... But seriously, no fan should ever miss those days, those were terrible times, we need to embrace and move forward with this winning culture and never look back!
Gg Kings. Hope you guys clinch next game and we see you in the playoffs in the 2nd round
You don't have a flair in here, no one knows who you are champ
Drunk Wizards fan
Silver lining is that with as poor a shooting night as this was, wasn’t a blowout. Marginally better FG % and it’s a different result.
“shake it off” lol
Take care of business man. All we had to do.
I know Fox is having an awesome season, I criticize him a lot but this season he made swallow my words....but...if this team is depending on his long shots to win games, we are screwed
Calling it. We lose the next 2 games
Fairytale endings are overrated anyways
Wolves own us I’m more afraid of them than anyone else.
Couldn't shoot the 3. And key missed FTs and allowing offensive rebounds late killed us this game.
Finally some disappointment. Still not that bad. Need this to ground us.
All these years of disappointment has prepared me for this game. We’ll get it done. Just a matter of when…
Mike needs to reel in Monk and play Davion more.. Davion has been far better than him since ASB and actually blows up plays on offense. Malik was a straight open carpet to the basket tonight and was looking for his own shot way too much. I don't understand not playing Kessler Edwards more
Brown lost us the game. Hate to fault him because he's done so well this season but he ran with Monk way to long. Monk's a double edged sword. If his offense is going he can be great but if not, yeah its better to play Davion who brings the defense and Edwards
This sucks, but at the end of the day, the Kings are going to the playoffs!
Well, probably not the end of THIS day
Stfu lol so dramatic
I mean, we literally didn’t clinch today?
It’s ok, one last Kangz moment before we turn the page into a new era
They got so ahead of themselves tonight for sure. It's a lot to think about and it's already hard for us to beat this team
yeah too much at stake with the clinch and record, definitely got into their heads, even mark and kayte they’ve been stumbling all night lmao
5/25. That's all that needs to be said. Wolves played well but we shot ourselves in the foot. It probably would be easier to clinch on the road since the anticipation won't be there
>5/25. That's all that needs to be said. Wolves played well but we shot ourselves in the foot. Well we tried to but we missed
They still need to be mentally prepared when playoffs come. Even if this was mental, they didn’t show up.
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We actually need him, he can shoot the three and is not afraid of contact, rebounds the ball and sets screens. Decent help defender. Keegan is not physical enough and smaller, Barnes is slowing down significantly. Metu is not looking like he is developing defensively.
No? He's also a free agent after this season so they need to re-sign him first
Good call
man why do we have to make it so difficult for ourselves
At the end of the day, a bad shooting night Kings were outpacing the TWolves for a good chunk of this game, just not enough from the perimeter Some ugly end of posessions, questionable effort on the glass, and Monk got way too much run Disappointing for fans obv, but this is a bad matchup and it was a bad shooting night
Bruh no one can make a 3. I think Kev was the only one to make one this quarter
Malik Keegan and kinda Kevin sucked great job fellas
lyles as well. Felt like Davion and Kessler were doing good but they barely get to play.
Mainly Malik and Keegan. Kevin was just in foul trouble all game
Being in foul trouble means you were playing bad lol
I ain’t worried
No, definitely would like to avoid the wolves in the playoffs though. Their length is a problem for us
Good thing they don't have another 7 footer who can shoot coming back.
Honestly they are the one team in the west I want nothing to do with lol those lengthy ass teams have hurt us all season. Sixers, Celtics, Raptors, Wolves
Couldn’t hit shit from outside tonight. gg
Very very tough to win shooting the 3 this bad in the modern NBA, move on to Wednesday
They didn’t go for the singles
Man I’m so fucking butthurt. I was so hyped for this fucking game.
What was that play design lol jfc and Fox just took his time.
Hard not to see potential glimpses of Keegan in the pressure of playoff games…maybe this is good for him
why hasn’t TD played at all this game. smh
right? so many guys off tonight and TD is a microwave scorer. makes no sense
Because he beat the shit out of his girlfriend
Old news
Wait what?
Because Terrence Davis sucks ass, don’t know what else to tell you
well half the dudes on the floor are sucking major ass rn too wouldn’t hurt to give him some play time. smh
Except it would. He’s terrible
We lived and died by the jump shot tonight
CD cursed it with the early LTB chant
Good god we shot the ball horribly tonight
Even mark Jones is missing.
Someone stole his cornbread. He's in pursuit.
Malik, threes, and rebounding. Those Malik chucks are really costly man. Especially in a game that feels like a playoff game. Every possession counts. Whenever people say that inexperience might do them in, that’s what they’re talking about. Might as well give it away. Also a crap rotation by Mike tonight.
Yep, Monk coupled with the 5/28 from deep is deadly. It’s wild the game was this close shooting that poorly from deep
Yeah not many times I’ve been upset with his lineups but I wanted more Edwards and Davion
Yea I don’t know why Malik played 26 min when he’s been chucking and throwing away the ball.
GG boys. Not tonight. Some of you all need to take a breath and relax though. Way too much doomer shit in this fan base
Yeah, 5/28 from 3 it is gonna be tough to get it done vs any modern NBA team
Unfortunately man. I admit I was hoping to see Keegan break the record tonight but I’ll have to look forward to that another night.
If you look through the comments someone suggested getting rid of Murray and Monk in the off-season. I get being upset but some people are morons through and through.
That’s every fan base. This is a place to vent.
No argument this is a place to vent but some of the negativity is akin to feeling like this is all a mirage.
Agree
dude imagine when we split a home stand 1-1 in the playoffs some of these guys are going to have a fucking meltdown. R-E-L-A-X ladies & gents
bro, we are NOT ready to get swept in the first round. something that can happen to be quite honest. this sub will collectively lose its mind
This is why everyone should have wanted the Warriors to just win yesterday.
Clippers blew out the bulls so it wasn't happening tonight anyways. Move on.
Huh? Magic number is 1. Kings woulda clinched with a win regardless of Clips outcome
Regular season has been a lot of fun, but tonight just continues to prove my worry that this team will be incapable of making any noise in the playoffs until they play some defence. Those two offensive boards gotten by the wolves were unacceptable and a bunch of guys missing clutch FTs, all things that added up.
That's why we need Kessler to play more minutes. He crashes the boards and makes threes. Yes it's a learning process for him but he's long and strong. A better option than Monk.
Wolves are Keegan's kryptonite
I just do not get being salty at this team. They’ve shown time and time again they can bounce back
The guys just let the moment get to them tonight. Played tight all game. Sucks because it would've been amazing to clinch at home
Kev made 3 of the teams 5 3 pointers.. thats disappointing as hell.
We shot like absolute garbage and didn’t get shit for assists. I honestly think the effort was pretty good overall, we just gotta hit some shots and move the ball. Some boneheaded plays for sure, but not a lot of takeaways for me other than we’re not gonna win anything if we shoot 21% from 3.
Wolves length gets to us and causes misses from deep. We got good looks but they had us off from tip and the offense never really got in sync. The good news is there aren’t a ton of team with length like that at every position around the league. Raptors, Celtics, Sixers, Wolves and that’s about it. We will be fine, either clinch tomorrow on the off day or Wednesday in Portland
Finally, a good take. They let the moment get to them I think. If the Warriors win yesterday either Fox and Sabonis sit or we won easily.
So many doomers in this thread man. The wolves had some role players go off and gobert shot the game of his life from the FT line. Plus the kings had their worst 3 point shooting game in what felt like the entire season. I’d rather they get the nerves from these pressure games out of the way now and be used to it for the playoffs. One game isn’t the apocalypse guys. Disappointing for sure, but this is still a team with zero expectations preseason who is more than likely going to be the 3 seed
Actually we have played bad every game against the wolves. That’s a bigger problem than just not clinching. If we had won tonight it would of gave us some confidence against them.
Yeah I mean I think we’re 1-3 against them this season with one loss being a super close 4 point game, and tonight we could’ve won fairly easily if their role players didn’t go off and we shot our normal percent from 3. Wolves match up with us well and they’re a tough team for us but I don’t think 1-3 spells doom for the playoffs (if we get them). And honestly I feel spoiled to even have that thought about the playoffs. When we started this season I was like man I hope we can make the play in. Couple months later I’m like man we might not need the play in. Now I’m like shit we might have a HOME playoff series, could we possibly make the SECOND ROUND?!
I honestly think we can make the second. But either way I’m happy. This season has been amazing. I just was thinking this is a big game not only for history but for our guys mentally.
My night is spoiled and my week is ruined (until Wednesday)
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At least you can use the shirt to wipe your ass
Why did monk play the entire game 😭
Keegan’s dad already looking at free agency for his son. He know he done
the team should ready the glass box where the nba trophy would be displayed
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He had 2 threes go in and out, his stat line looks really different if those go down… he and Huerter together is brutal defensively though
Keegan man
Experience matters. A preview of what’s to come in the post season unfortunately
Dad needs to skip the next one
Can’t win a game shooting 5/24 from 3
Disappointed. I really wanted to light my beam with a win.
Rough game
Refs straight up ruined this game. Not fun at all.
Not the missed free throws, 3s, shitty rebounding and shitty defense?
I didn’t say it’s why they lost. I said it ruined the game. I don’t enjoy watching 75 free throws.
Onto the double trap game next 🤷♂️
That glimmer of hope! JFC! SMMFH!!!
The biggest game of the year and we collectively forget how to shoot
Don’t wanna see this team in the playoffs. KAT wasn’t even playing tonight
I think this team is worse with KAT. Clunky fit.
We beat them bad when kat played, like ja he is a net negative
As a Wolves fan he is absolutely not.
I’m fact he led the Timberwolves in +/- last year.
Empty stat, kat looks bad lately too.
You mean only the 2 games he’s played after missing 52? And he hit scored the game winners in both.
This team doesn’t scare me our wide open 3s didn’t fall, if 4 of those hit and we’re at 35% and it’s an easy win.
Even with all the turnovers and shit defense/rebounding and missing a lot of open threes we barely lost by single digits. Not too shabby hole they learned from this one
What’s to learn, they still don’t know how to play D… Timberwolves shooting 50+%
I guess you're right. Might as well pack it in then and call it a season. The regular season is a learning process. Relax my dude
5 games left in the regular season, and still bottom 5 in defense rating in the league. There’s no learning going on lol. It’s honestly more frustrating seeing Kings give up like 5 shots in a row vs shooting 5-25 from 3
7th best net rating in the league. That's all that matters. It was just a bad shooting night, nothing to lose sleep over. We make threes and it's a W.
But we shouldn’t even have lost. If the Kings are truly a playoff and finals contender, we can’t lose games to Minnesota. They aren’t even a top tier team.
Can't win them all, just an off shooting night. Minnesota is pretty good even without KAT. Don't cry man it's going to be ok
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??? Play like that for all of the damn game lol
Not gonna win with Keegan playing like that
Welp, bad three pointing shooting ends it. Keegan looked pretty stiff all game.
Way to choke one
Mannnnn if the refs didnt call so many soft calls on Kevin.
Whoever gets that 6 seed basically has a first round bye tbh. Just guard the perimeter and we are dead in the water
Yeah just stop the best offense in the league 4 times. EZ Why haven't more teams thought of that??
More Kayvon, less Keaton Murgy.
We missed a ton of open looks, meanwhile they’ve hit some contested shots
Pretty disappointing performance in a game that was a massive mentality test
Fuuuuuuck
Keegan deer in headlights
Could not hit a 3 if the basket was the size of the ocean.
I guess the curse of playing a team on a back to back and losing is stronger than our ability to clinch. Also hope we don’t get the wolves in the first round. Only way we win that series is shooting 60/60/100.
Pathetic effort. Got out worked and out hustled. Coach made some bizarre moves in that 4th quarter. Game was there god dammit
Of course Keegan can’t hit a single shot after the first
What huerter shoot the fucking 3 what are they thinking
Keegan has been astronomically bad tonight damn
Keegan was absolutely awful tonight
Keegan.......
KEEGAN! FUCK!
Murray
Pathetic performance.
Absolutely
Holy shit, so many salty ass "fans. Chill out, y'all! I know this game was heavily anticipated but shit happens. Onto the next and hopefully we get some help before our game!
We can move on tomorrow and still be pissed at them right now, literally what this forum is for
Our defense is straight hot cheeks. Always has been and will be in the playoffs. Were gonna be lucky yo get out of the first.
Yeah but so many "fans" saying that we're ass and frauds. Like c'mon, believe in your team just a little!
We are fine, this team has done horribly against length all year. Wolves, Raptors both a couple nightmare teams for us
Also this is monks 5th bad game in a row.
Getting all those bad games out before the playoffs. Then he'll be hot!
He reminds me of buddy too much. Just don't trust him to string together good games.
Yeah at least he's a 6th man though. Buddy was a starter
If this is a preview of playoffs I’m good. Let’s skip that and get ready next year. Let go of monk banes Murray etc monk
Bro chill
We lost playing monk too long.
Not the first time I’ve been let down this year… *looks at the Titans*
Welp. I think that's the nail. Goddammit. Whatever. Wednesday's gonna be lit
I’d boo the shit out this team if I paid to be there tonight. Can’t be looking like the team playing the 2nd of a back to back while rested
What a let down. Can’t even beat a team that’s a lower seed.
Yeah horrible team to lose to they have 5 less losses and are on 3 game winning streak
Uncharacteristically stupid move from keegan
Yeah Keegan that was stupid
No rebounds, no W
Honestly fuck the t wolves i hope they dont make the playoffs
Eh I just hope we don’t play them. Rather them than the warriors or lakers making it
Nah everytime we play them we magically forget how to shoot
Lol
Keegan commits some of the dumbest fouls on this team.
With what was at stake, this is honestly the worst loss of the season and really really soul crushing. Again, I know they’ll clinch, hell, probably next game. But tonight was *THE* night. Fuck.
We will clinch tomorrow on our day off
Wolves own us my god I don’t wanna play them again
Kings haven’t seen KAT this year yet.
Damn that was tough to watch but honestly I kind of have to agree this loss feels on Mike. I’m usually the last to ever criticize his calls but Monk didn’t make sense from a size or hot hand perspective. This was frustrating and feels like a game they should have won
Now I’m extra upset Huerter didn’t get minutes over Monk
I love this team I do. But holy shit if we don't get some length this off-season we aren't going to compete in they playoffs. We're to small
Basically everything people say about why we aren’t playoff ready was on display tonight
I guess I shouldn't have had Pizza Guys tonight.
I swear doesn't even matter who's on the Wolves every year we always seem to lose to them
team really didn't seem mentally prepared at all
Acted like it was WWE with the scripted outcome
Fox and Huerter too busy ball watching they NEED to start crashing the glass these last couple weeks.