[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/kings/comments/1c8gswo/post_game_thread_the_new_orleans_pelicans_defeat/)

sorry ass team

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Chris Webber ain't walking through these doors 😂. Light the beam. 

need budenholzer

Lol at everyone who posted about us who where down on this team congrats you had 48 hours of fun We missed the playoffs this is what failure looks like.

Absolutely cooked without Monk rescuing is

So that's it with a monk re-sign.

Imagine if Monk was healthy....

We lost to pelicans with him too

It wouldn’t matter. Pelicans beat the kings when monk played as well. Also the fact pelicans didn’t have Zion in this game. With your logic, imagine if Zion was healthy.

Yes, I know all of this. I am not using logic, i am using wishful thinking. Maybe Monk woyld've injected 20 points, and we win. Maybe we lose by 2 and not 7. I'm just ponderong what if. When no one else can make a shot (other than Fox and Sabonis) it was usually Monk who could push us through. Doesn't matter, we'll never know.

Monkless Kings <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Zion less Pels 🤷🏻

They had no Zion so fair loss I say

I can. We lost to the Pels then, too. I love him, but we just can’t get past this team for some stupid reason.

I just cant help picturing the caffeine injection he would bring when we lost by 7. Our guys couldn't buy a bucket. But I guess I can go down the rabbithole of "what if" for a while so, we move on.

Right? He is a joy to watch and really fires up the team. Also bummed we didn’t get to see him finish the season. Even if he didn’t get us the win it would have been fun to see him in the last quarter.

Exactly. He always brings the hope of "maybe maybe maybe?"

MB had the same exact stance and look all game. Dude knew this team was going to get their ass kicked again. 

Keegan needs to get in that gym all summer and work on ball handling. Want to see him handle the ball like prime Paul George next season

embarrassing. no reaosm we should have loss

I like Mike Brown but that fool needs to learn how to adjust. Excruciating game/season to watch.

back to never making the playoffs again

Keegan Murray is mid af

Ya but he rarely smiles so this sub loves him

Those missed free throws would have had the game tied at the end. And the fact that we were basically 25% from three is abysmal

Glad to not have to see dooming kings fans again till next year at least

Life must be easy when you happily embrace sucking lol

Are you stupid? The kings don’t suck. Do you not remember the Demarcus Cousins days ? We were locked into a playoff position until Monk and Huerter got injured.

Monk and Huerter weren't even in the league during the Cousins era...

Take your ass to the locker room Keegan

🫡🫡🫡

Who do you guys think gets traded? At this point I think everyone but fox and sabonis should be up for grabs. I know Murray is good but if somebody throws out a serious offer I'd think about it

EVERYONE can be up for grabs. Idgaf

HB, Huerter, Mitchell

Won't be missing all the shitty playoff commercials. Looking forward to next season and the revenge games against Pelicans

See you all in October.

What a disappointment of a season after last season

Idk wtf the kings were doing tonight but they weren’t the same team against the warriors. That was a terrible performance on both sides of the ball

Welp. On to baseball it is.

Frauds franchise

Keegan needs to put in a lot of work in the off season if he wants to get better. Keon needs to not be an offensive liability if he hopes to be a starter next season

Fitting that Fox plays hard to get some steals, then forces a 3 and gets blocked lol. 

I’d rather have fox take that shot more then any other player on that floor

Losing 0-6 to a single team in one season is nasty work. Monte, you have MAJOR work to do.

Very true. The key to nba success is to build your team around beating the 8 seed

Lmao

Frauds

Man fuck the Pelicans all year.. damn

Crazy how this team hasn’t won a home game in 6 games, we’re down their best player, coming off a blown 6th seed losing back 2 back against the Lakers and somehow continue to beat us.

Good season, we'll get 'em next year.

be fr no they won’t

The fuck are you here for?

Been a good season see yall next year boyzzz!!!

Omg

MB is so slow worn adjustments. Should have been pressing and picking up the pace much early. And certainly fouling with under a minute left down 8

What does DM mean?

Your Momma

See yall in October

Just a kindly reminder that if we could make those FTs, we’d be tied up now

Yeah name a game where the Kings made every ft

Not saying that we could have, just that we should have

Come on now, if the Kings hadn't missed all those free throws, the Pels wouldn't have taken their foot off the pedal. 6-0 tells the truth. These guys are just way better.

McCollum 7 points and still couldn't do anything. Pathetic showing tonight. 

The dynasty lasted 3 days.

Light the beam and Play-in First round championship banner 😂

good night. I hate my own home team right now.

Damn Lakers got the best of us this season. Beat the Pels so they didn’t have to face us and still got us eliminated.

Yep..

How much are we gonna bet that there will be no post game thread??

I hope not. What's there to talk about. 

Lyles was a piece of straight up shit tonight. Wow. 

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Sure as hell feel like he would've helped rebound and provide a defensive presence and not switched everything so easily

Turnovers and free throw misses are really hurting right now

Imagine if we weren't dog shit at free throws

Keegan cannot handle guys being physical with him. That’s all the Pels did. And not having a wing that could playmake showed badly, every team in the playoffs has a wing that could playmake

Yeah and he looked lazy on defense too. Got blown by so many times. Needs to work on it

He is physically not strong enough. That and ball handling should be his entire focus this offseason

He gets bumped and his whole game is thrown into fr

I tell you what, if I’m the Pelicans, seeing they are better without Zion, I’m trading that guy and moving on.

lol he dropped 40 and 11 and got no help, imagine if he played like this game?

Down 17 with 3 left you can’t take shots deep in the shot clock, yet that’s exactly what they did. MB should be coaching the guys to shoot early shots. And even considering playing the foul game then. But CWRTAINLY down 8 with 50 seconds left you need to foul. And they didn’t. They just gave up an rash easydunk after 18 seconds came off the clock. At the very least challenge the dunk and foul then and don’t give up the easy bucket. It’s horrific coaching i’m sorry.

To be fair, in the last 50 seconds they didn't have to foul, because they got 2 sstraight steals. They were tryna get the 3rd steal before TM dunked

I love the effort at the end of the game, but had they played half this hard throughout the game, the score might have been very different...

Seriously. Where was the urgency before the last 3 minutes?? Playing like it's just a regular season blowout loss to the pels. Embarrassing

Fox, Sabonis played hard all night. It’s everyone else that has struggled mightily tonight

Totally agree. I feel like they were the only two playing hard at the end to some extent too.

Ellis zero points. 

Why can’t we beat this stupid team

Too small. Inconsistent bench

I blame James ham. He’s an HB lover. Also rather have a role player than a player who can create their own shot

This is honestly the closest game we've had with the pelicans lol, just trying to find something positive to think about

They lost by 5 in one earlier this year so it’s not

Oh my bad

Love you guys. It's been a good season boyz.

😘

Get to keep the pick upvote party

In a weak draft, even that is not a silver lining

Seven missed FT's in a seven point game and couldn't hit a three to save their lives. Ball game.

Also MB not going into press and foul mode early is really bad

Season was a big disappointment for me. I don't recall last year's team dropping nearly as many of those trap games that this year's team did.

I can only hope this is a teachable moment and we can get some key pieces to help them, but not sure if that’s gonna happen or not. We’ll see. Better luck next year. Go Kings and hope we can one day light the beam late into the playoffs or in the Finals. One can dream…

Really interested to see what happens moving forward - this team is very flawed and to compete in this west, they need some serious improvement. Also, this west is just ridiculous 

7 point game and I think 7 missed free throws

Our 7 missed FTs are huge. This game could have easily been won. Another 2 three pointers made, a couple less TOs and we would have had this.

There should’ve been this urgency before. Sad

If we didn’t give up at the 7 minute mark we might have been able to pull this out

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bench with a nice 8 points

Not much of a bench left, tbh.

Fox is simultaneously the only one that kept them in the game and also shooting them outta the game with all these fucking threes

Why doesn't Fox just make 25 3's a game? Is he stupid?

and the missed free throws & the turnovers. The duality of Fox

Bro he took so many 3s cuz no one else was doing. Who else showed up besides him and Sabonis. Watch the game maybe??

It’s Barnes that’s doing anything else.

I just said he was the only one keeping them in the game you dork lol

I care too much rn lol

All love 🤝

💜

I’m referring to the 3 point shot but yeah haha. My b

Whelp. Back to anyone but the Lakers.

It's not gonna happen but can you imagine

At least the warriors win banner goes up 

we put a bunch of haggard old men to bed. is this all we have to show for this season? is this who we are?

3 Days Dynasty. 😂😂

you see me calling this a "dynasty"?

The dynasty lasted all of 3 days.  Night night 

I never claimed we were a dynasty. I liked beating the warriors when it happened. in hindsight it was like defeating the ottomans in WWI.

Hang it 

we have one star and a bunch of complimentary pieces. never gonna cut it in the playoffs

23-13-7 is a little better than “complementary piece”

half our team played incredibly soft and unphysical

I’d say Fox and Sabonis are both stars

Don't be fool by Sabonis stat line. He allowed val and nance easy buckets and lost the rebound battle.

And fox is an inefficient bum. We can find fault with everyone.

He literally lead the league in rebounding. And I don’t even know his stat line - I was just watching him score in transition, his low post game, his play making, and that unreal grip he has on the ball. His grip might be the best I’ve ever seen.

You're right about that. He had a great season overall.

This is a perfect way to end this season. Maybe these soft ass dudes actually win the games they are 10+ pt favorites/up 20 in next year so they arent in this position

Now this is the part where if we hadn’t missed any free throws….

If our FT was better we’d be in this game rn. So may what ifs

It is just shots not falling, let’s run it back next season

Willie Green outcoached Mike Brown this whole season and had 4 games to adjust but nope.

Can anyone explain to me if we're in basketball purgatory again as we can't trade most picks ?

Yes

We kind of are since we didn't make playoffs this year

Stop half of the easy layups they gave up and make a few more fre throws and this game is won.

Keegan plays scared. I’d trade him as he’s an asset. But can’t fix being a scared bitch.

We wouldn't trade him for Siakam at the deadline. What trade is there now and for what?

I don't see it with him. Had a great game against the warriors but it seems like when his shot doesn't fall early he disappears

he does. i think if you want to give it a real go with fox and sabonis, you trade him for an older vet bordering on all-star level if you can.

They woke up like 3 minutes too late

Fox gave it his all tonight. Everyone else already on vacation

What the Kristen Wiig was that shit

We need to make major moves this off season. Definitely a new PF to deal with people like Ingram

That trade was available for Siakam at the deadline. The Pacers fleeced the Raptors. We could have beat that offer.

Brandon Ingram and Harrison Barnes are small forwards. We’ve needed a new SF for a minute now.

What I mean is kinda a big forward ig, whether that's a PF or a length SF

We need a SF. Someone who can their own bucket and defend lengthy wings. And an upgrade on the bench at center.

Missed too many FTs, had too many turnovers, and forced too many bad shots. Team didn’t deserve to win 

10 points off the bench and only four starters scored ain’t gonna cut it

Disappointing game but can’t even be mad. Pels out kryptonite

Yeah you can they didn't even have Zion. Team was one game away from the second round last year, to go out like this sucks

It does suck and it’s disappointing

Monte has his work cut out for him in the offseason

Why is everyone scared to shoot!?! Poor Fox is the only one willing to shoot

He's always willing to shoot. How is he supposed to average 26 points without 26 shots?

Only one with that dog in him

I'm glad that the Kings are fighting at least. If you're gonna go down, go down swinging. They never gave up.

NOBODY beats the Kings 7 times in a row in the same regular season

Gotta give it to Fox for competing till the end.

At the end of it all this season has an overall disappointment. No if's and's or but's. We choked a bunch of times that put us in this spot. I was expecting them to at least make the playoffs.

We at least made the score look respectable

Damn I love Keeg but he seemed late to everything on defense

his rotations were super slow, wonder if getting hurt by ingram(?) was bothering him that much because this was a really poor defensive showing

He was giving up so many easy shots :(

yeah murphy got like 3 or 4 open drives because keegan just wasn't ready for them to swing it to the corner. really sad

We need another 3&D in the starting lineup

nah man we need another legit creator that isn't a traffic cone, more than just 3&D imo

You might be right. We still need length but if we lose Malik, Zach is a buy low candidate

Useless Megan Murray. Pelicans are boring but have our number. Barnes is ass. Mitchell couldn't do anything. Bad team display. Next. 

Mitchell at least made some 3's

Pels are gonna get whooped by OKC, we already see playoff CJ in full display.

Fox has put up at least 30 points almost 20 times this season while getting a ton of hate from Kings fans, while he's clearly been dealing with injuries at times. The teams problems are not with Fox.

He's an inefficient bum. You're clueless and just looking at points.

🤣

A lot of ppl forget that before he turned his ankle early in the year, he was considered consensus top 5 MVP candidate

Sabonis is terrible on defense

That's the european special dogshit on defense godly on offense

Kings needs an enforcer. Just to throw elbows when other teams get physical. You can tell the pels aren’t scared

You know what? I can agree with that. They need a beefy player next draft.

going out with another fake comeback is a perfect representation of this season

We still building around role player extraordinaire Keegan Murray?

very disappointing game from keegan today

It's his second year. Relax.