Game 78 Preview: Sacramento Kings vs. Houston Rockets

Cousins has great basketball gifts,including excellent vision and a very good passing ability. But his fundamentals are so incredibly awful. One of the most amusing sights on a basketball court is Cousins attempting to drive from the hi-post. He makes Miller look graceful! He is a load to move and uses his body well to position for rebounds. Tends to make really silly fouls and loses his minimal concentration on D quite frequently.
While his skills are perfect for an Adelman offens,you have to wonder when or if he will “grow up”.

Evans uses his strength to bull rush into lane ,but this yr his foot problems have killed his ability to make the very difficult shots around rim he made routinely last yr. Hasn’t yet,and may never,learned that setting up others will make life much easier for himself.

Thorton is vastly more aggressive taking it to rim than Martin. Outside shot is far more streaky. Loves to run and score in transition.

Garcia is their only reasonably consistent 3pt shooter. Was a good defender,not as good now. Except for him getting hurt all the time,would have loved him on Rockets. Most important role is mentoring Cousins and overall locker-room influence.

Their bigs crash the boards hard. Among League leaders in offensive rebounds(helps they miss a ton of shots.) Everybody on Rockets better be willing to help out on defensive boards.

Dalembert blocks a lot of shots,a lot of shots. And every few games his jumper will go down and if that’s the game you see him play,he looks like a great player for your team. What you won’t see are the other 4,5 games where he throws up enough bricks to build a new Pyramid.
He really believes he is much better on offense than he actually is.
If ever Fools Gold applies to an NBA player,it’s Dalembert.

Back-up PG Pooh Jeter is a perfect back-up for a team w/a quality PG who logs heavy minutes. He’s full of energy,presses,passes and can get hot.

Marcus Thorton is an athletic SF who hs limited basketball skills. He can drive,get hot from outside,but never consistantly. (One of my fav stories from a few yrs ago was when Clips owner went into locker-room and ripped Thorton for being the most selfish player on the team. This from an owner who loved Corey Maggette!)

Sac coach has flip-flopped all season between Greene and Casspi. Casspi can’t defend and Greene can’t shoot. Right now he’s going w/Greene. If the season had another 15 games or so,their coach would probably flop back to Casspi.(Interesting dynamic-guys who complain about playing time in public sit for a game,then get lots of minutes.)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/229352/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-sings-friday-with-the-roots

As long as we play OUR game as they have lately we will be OK. Hope Hill is having a good night and he and Patrick log a lot of minutes in a win.

on Sac…or really on Bud, I think you overrate him. He is not a starting SF on most teams, and would not start over Garcia or Thorton. But he is all we got or the best we got, (well cause obviously TWill sucks) so there it is.
I still think we win one or should at least.

Now that Landry is with NO there is no longer a reason to support Sac. With Evans and Cousins I am constantly suprised the team has won any games. They are two of the more selfish players out there. Just glad we got their real gem, Martin, out of there before he got tainted. Too bad we had to loose Landry to do that though, but we got PP so all is good.

But its all super young.
If they can get their shit together they should be scary in a few years.

However until then. Rockets win.

friday friday wanna get high on friday

I agree that NCAA championship was ugly. Haven’t seen so many misses in a single game.
Makes me wonder why they don’t ask the semis losers to play also. Might have been more exciting