by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–The biggest part of the Kings three game win streak success has been they’ve been listening to head coach George Karl. Karl came in and said, “I want to look at these final 30 games as a mini season and see what we can do.” The Kings have been working at becoming that team with a dribble drive offense.

Basic philosophy shoot the three or score in the key that’s the whole point of the dribble drive. It’s interesting because one of the reasons why they let former head coach Mike Malone go was over the pace of play. They started to try to make some of those changes with former head coach Tyrone Corbin and they weren’t really able to get those things implemented.

Karl came in and the team has really bought in and there working hard on it. There is nothing in the world that’s harder for a team in any sport to have to try to make changes on the fly during the course of a season and Karl has been able to get a team that has obviously been down in the mouth.

The Kings had a season that went so poorly and their on their third head coach and he’s been able to get them to buy in playing a different style of basketball. You look back over this three game win streak starting off last Friday night against the Charlotte Hornets the Kings beat the Hornets in Charlotte.

So the Kings have a little bit of confidence coming in but Charlotte has a pretty good team and the Hornets are more than likely going to the playoffs. That’s not saying a whole lot because a lot of people would have picked them anyway to go to the playoffs in the eastern conference.

The Kings came in and played some great basketball without DeMarcus Cousins, Cousins has been up and down all season long, as long as we know since he had that battle with meningitis. He’s just not been that tough physically as we might have expected because Cousins is still battling health issues. The Kings are in Phoenix tonight and then in New Orleans on Friday in a bid to try to get a fourth win in a row.

Charlie O is a beat writer for the Sacramento Kings at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below