Analyzing Sacramento's Unexpected Loss and Team Dynamics
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00:00I completely, like, overthought this, because to me, the thought of, like, you play a team
00:11five times, you beat them five times, no way to beat them six, right?
00:15Like, that doesn't happen.
00:16And then you throw in the Zion injury, and I said, oh, I like Sacramento in this spot,
00:23plus a point.
00:24And I like Sabonis to go over 41 and a half.
00:27Kosti Sabonis did his job, 23 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists.
00:31Darren Fox did his job.
00:33But the problem is, is besides Harrison Barnes, they didn't really get anything.
00:37You got to look at the fact, I misthought how much losing both Malik Monk and Kevin
00:44Poynter was going to hurt Sacramento.
00:47Ellis with zero points.
00:49They used Davion Mitchell off the bench, who doesn't play a lot, to give you 10.
00:53But the other big thing is, I should've saw it coming, because Brandon Ingram was awful
01:00against the Lakers.
01:01I mean, awful to the point where that they benched him, well, even benched the guy in
01:07the fourth quarter.
01:08He was so bad.
01:09So I completely thought that wrong.
01:12Great game out of Brandon Ingram, 24 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists.
01:17So a good performance by New Orleans, and a Sacramento Kings team that now has lost
01:22Game 7 at home last year in a legendary performance by Steph Curry.
01:28And then they lose in the playing tournament, right, to after winning the 9-10 game and
01:34beating Golden State again.
01:35Now they lose to New Orleans without Zion.
01:39You wonder with the Sacramento team, like, are changes maybe coming with this team, Joe?
01:46And if you go changes, what is it?
01:49Is it, do you break up Fox and Sabonis?
01:52Is it Keegan Murray?
01:53Like, there needs to be a better, more consistent third guy, no offense, even though he played
01:58well last night, than Harrison Martz.