by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–The easy answer about the Sacramento Kings is this is a team that is in total disarray against the Golden State Warriors Tuesday night at Sleep Train Arena the Kings actually had a fairly good size lead in the first quarter and then just watched it get chipped away and chipped away in a whopping 121-96 loss. It was a lack of defense and a lack of cohesive offense on the part of the Kings that just killed them.

The Kings allowed Golden State to complete 46 of 91 shots from the field letting the W’s to shoot 50.5 percent from the field, any team that allows 50.5 percent from the field deserves not to win and in the NBA your not going to win that’s just the fact of the matter. They let them shoot 10-23 from three pointland. 43.5 percent average right there on three pointers that would make the W’s get the higher average in that game in all of the NBA.

The Kings have shot 44.3 percent from the field, they shot 43.8 percent from three pointland which was way too late and once things got going for them they weren’t able to stay consistent for those three point shots. So it was a real difficult situation throughout the whole game and it looked like Ben McLemore was going to get the Kings off to a real good start he came down and had four three point shots.

After the four shots by McLemore in the first quarter he just disappeared and it wasn’t because he wanted to disappear it’s just they feel that they don’t have him working the offense properly. The Kings DeMarcus Cousins said afterwards “I’ve got to do more to get Ben into the offense” because you have a guy who scores 13 points in the first quarter and winds up scoring only 18 for the ball game.

The Kings forgot that McLemore was out there and they can’t afford to do that and if they get McLemore involved that takes some of the pressure off the Big Three because now it’s the Big Four with McLemore. It also makes other defenses have to respect them more because they’ve got more people to watch. Tuesday’s loss to Golden State was not a pretty game, we didn’t expect that it was going to be but it even got a little uglier than we thought it might.

Then they turned around on Thursday night and played the Dallas Mavericks, now here’s the deal the Mavs Rajon Rondo was not available because he’s got that fractured eye socket. The Mavs decide to give Rondo the game off, so now the Kings are going “Game On!” it should be a good chance for the Kings right? Wrong. The Kings just folded up in this game quickly their biggest point total in any quarter was in first quarter with 23, they scored 20 points in the second, 17 points in the third, and didn’t show up in the fourth with 18 points.

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