Are we not good at coming back from behind anymore?

I agree. Tmac has always been that go to guy, even though he wasnt always successful. He was supposed to be that go to guy this year, with enough energy to last into the 4th quarter with Ron Artest here. Unfortunatley, we dont have that superstar here who can take over a game and help us get back into a game. Ron Artest sure cant do that in a game, let alone a playoff series. Yao Ming can, but refs, and fronting will take him out some games.

 

what are you talking about?

"coming from behind"?

 

Ron Artest has the ability. If you remember, he single handedly led the Kings back against us last year before Novak put in the game winner.

What we don't really have is a clutch 3 point Game Winner shooter. Von Wafer needs to be left wide open or he air balls.

Artest could be it, hasn't gotten the chance.

Tmac sucks, got blocked against Indy when he tried it.

Battier hasn't been able to hit crap from out there.

Brooks, judgment is reserved.

We don't have the James Posey or Kobe Bryant or even an Eddie House to put the ball in the bucket from 3 in the waning seconds.

 

I seem to remember a game last season, right before the all star break, where Ron Artest single handedly brought the Kings back from a substantial deficit in the last minutes of the fourth quarter against one of the top defensive teams in the league last year.

He was unstoppable and nearly got his team the "W" and then some guy named Steve Novak hit a 3 and the Kings lost...

 

Nevermind the guy a few posts up beat me 2 it...

 

I agree but there is a reason to be optimistic. Just look at the 90s teams, where even though we had Maxwell & Olajuwon as our go to guys mainly, they were known for not closing out teams, letting them come back in the 4th and be complacent. Now we don't have any players like that and as a team we're much worse but do we have guys who can make a clutch shot (Brooks, Wafer or Battier).

 

aside from t-mac's 13 in 35, when was the last time we had a monumental come back? the stat 2 years ago was that we we like 0-22 whenever we were losing going into the 4th quarter, and this was with t-mac supposedly still healthy.

 

I don't remember that. Any team down 10 points with 4 minutes left will most likely lose.

 

I prefer not having to come back in the first place

 

We use Yao for way too many things.

We use him to start out games, we use him to score on every play, and we use him on the clutch. Since Clutch is the last thing we use him for, He struggles then.

Artest is the only player that can put the pressure off him.

 

That's basically it.

Conversely, it does not appear to be so difficult for other team to pull it off against Rox and only Rox, lol

 

I am with you. Playoff will be very tough, especially when we meet teams like the spurs which can play suffocative defense. We do need players like the old-time Tmac to score during the clutch time. Although this season we can't get a player like that any more, i still very optimistic because we play a better and better team basketball. Think about the Pistons in 2004. They didn't have that kind of score machine either, but they won by playing as a team. Hopefully we can go further like them.

 

Defense and effective offense will bring you back just as well.

 

You don't NEED a "go-to-guy" to come back in games. In my opinion, that is one of the worst offensive strategies you can have. It is so damn predictable to give one person the ball every time.

Just run an offense. Stop standing around and waiting for one guy to make the play.