Game Thread GAME# 22: KINGS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 4, 2019 - WEDNESDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

Defenses didn’t show up tonight

 

Tonight defense been bad.

 

Well I think the plan has become clear, try to out score teams. They didnt bring melo in to play D.

 

Remember these Kings are sans Fox, Bagley and Bogdanovic...

 

He's the first high schooler drafted in how long? Not unreasonable but imo it's good he's had the opportunity to even struggle in live action.

 

He's putting himself in better position instead of slipping every screen. Starting to do what made every other center successful here. Set screens, roll hard, hit the offensive glass, protect the rim even if he's not getting blocks. He is starting to learn where he's gonna get his touches in the offense and it's made him so much better.

I dunno if he's back in Portland next season, but I will say Dame is turned an empty stat guy back into a quality starting center.

 

There are tons of talented players in the NBA that never amount to being a star. Saying someone is talented means they have the ability to be a star not that he'll for sure be one 22 meaningful games into his career.

Why would they extend CJ if they thought Simons would be a star this season?

 

Hood needs to be getting more touches than Ant for now ...Ant shoots way more than Rodney

 

Good inside out pass Hassan!

 

The thing is he’s 20 now... I know he’s super young and has a lot of time in his career to grow and I hope he does, but you look at the list of 21 and under guys in the NBA theres a lot of really talented guys. Right now Im not sure if Simons is even top 15-20 in that list. Definitely not an indictment on who he will be someday, but we’ll see.

 

With the subs coming in let see if we can sustain this league.

 

Anfernee is much better than Dame and CJ were at his age.

 

Melo getting abused on defense. Kings are just putting in in PnR action and it causes the rest of the team to scramble. All our guys are capable of making defensive plays, but you miss the consistent effort of Aminu/Harkless/Zach on defense out there at all times.

 

Would hate to get relegated.

 

By the way Whiteside has a career high in assists at 5.

 

Simons isnt defending well at all... so why the hell is Stotts putting him on Hield?

 

Is it a teaching moment to have Simons on Buddy? I think Dame would actually do a good job on him.

 

He never ran a college team.

He never played with grown men overseas.

He's literally played 22 games in his life before tonight that mattered.

Anyone who expects more from him at this point are just looking for reasons to be disappointed or to prove they were right for not buying the hype.

 

Youre not answering the question at all. Why talk him up all summer? What do they get out of that? Why have their media members saying he’s untouchable, why use Nas’ press conference to bloviate about Simons. Why not just give him minutes without heaping all that on him and let him grow up. Its like if Apple had a new product they thought was going to be amazing and went in 20% into its developement and started selling it hard, and pushed it to market long before its ready, then acting confused when people are like well its not their yet, but maybe someday.

 

Lol.