When the Rox made a desperate comeback to nearly steal a game in Arco last night, The Queens seem to start panicking or tightning up. Bobby Jackson nearly put up an airball on his last free throw and Webber wasn't close to hitting his last 2 freethows. The reason they will not win the title is not because of talent, they still lack the killer instinct that past champions have.
I was waiting for this thread to be moved but that being said, The Kings are missing a legite superstar period. Webber is legite but he isn't clutch and can't be depended on during Crunch Time, on the other hand Bibby is Clutch, but he can't always get his shot because he isn't great.
The Kings are missing something....the ring they will be getting in June. Does anyone reallly think the Fakers are going to miraculously start playing well??? Or that the Mavs are going to play D??? IMO the only team that can beat the "queens" this year are the Spurs.
That's just what they'll do...Flop-ey Divac won't get those BS charging calls against Duncan in the playoffs
Nah, they were playing around with us until the fourth quarter. They pretty much have the Pacific Division locked up and they're saving their energy for a tough six game East road trip. Even in the fourth quarter, they let the Rockets come within six or seven, then would put a couple of baskets together. Only a couple of late three pointers by Houston made the game respectable...
ARE YOU SERIOUS THE KINGS WERE JUST PLAYING WITH THE ROCKETS THEY TURNED IT ON AND OFF WHEN THEY WANTED I FEEL THEY WERE JUST COASTING
I agree with most of this, but part of me thinks the Kings are chokers. This new Spurs team, I don't know, b/c Manu and Jackson and Parker working together gives them this whole new dimension. I think the Kings will win the blowouts vs LA, but lose the close ones. Only time will tell.
I don't know. I just have a gut feeling that Kings will choke again sort of like the Blazers of 2000 (or is it 99). I think Lakers will 4-peat.
Nah, I don't think the Lakers can get past the Kings, the Spurs, AND the Mavs (or the Rox ). They are good enough to beat any of these teams on any given game. But they aren't consistent enough to beat all of them in 7-game series.
Yeah, at first I thought Sacramento was the sure champion, but now it's looking more like the Spurs. The Queens have Webber, the second-most uncltuch player behind Nick Anderson, and the L.A. Lackers don't seem to have won many big games this season.
look, if there is something missing from the Kings then the Nets are in deep doodoo, because we absolutely turned their vaunted motion game into an unpracticed ISO game leaving Kidd on the bench. Kings are the best team.
I wouldn't call winning by 1 point "turning it on". It's the regular season, you're bound to have bad games. The Rockets didn't have a particularly good game, if they did they would have beaten Sacramento. I don't think the Kings were "playing around" with the Rockets so much as the Rockets are improving. within a year or 2 the Rockets will probably knocking on the door of being an elite teams, and they show flashes of it occasionally, like the Kings game. The Kings are fine. I think Barkley put it best a few months ago when he said that when you get to the point where you're a legitimate title contender, the regular season becomes boring. I think the Kings are playing hard, and well, but they tend to get sloppy because they're waiting for the playoffs. I still think the Kings are the best team, though I'm leaning towards the Spurs coming out of the West. A couple of sloppy regular season games and missed FTs won't change that.
The Spurs are looking better than the Kings at this point despite the depth advantage that they have over the Spurs. I think Duncan is playing like a superstar and would get my vote for MVP. Webber is very good but I don't think he is consistant enough in tough situations.
