Responding to Locked On NBA's Sacramento Kings Pessimism | Locked On Kings
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- Matt George responds to an episode of the Locked On NBA podcast, where the hosts discussed the Sacramento Kings as the 10th best team in the West, and Domantas Sabonis not being a top 20 NBA player.
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The moment he said “the Kings never had a problem being an offensive juggernaut” I knew he was going to be spouting nothing but regurgitated talking points that scream “I don’t watch Kings basketball” 😂😂
I agree with quite literally everything you said.
Absolutely love videos like this! Put them in their place 😂
The Hoops Collective ranking: 1 - OKC, 2 - Denver, 3 - Minnesota, 4 - Dallas, 5 - Phoenix, 6 - Memphis, 7 - LA Lakers, 8 - Golden State, 9 - LA Clippers, 10 - Sacramento
I would rank the Kings higher than Suns, Grizzlies, Lakers and Warriors! Put them in 5th and the Clippers in 6th. Go Media Underdogs!
National Media really dislikes this team 😂
Get em, Matt!!
I rank the Kings best team in the West for the 24-25 NBA season, and I'm sticking to it.
We’re supposed to be the Browns or Jets of the NBA, a team the national media can just make fun of no matter what. They’re mad because we flipped the pecking order of the NBA and are beating their preferred Cali teams in the Lakers and Warriors bc they have made the media more money the man us over the years and they don’t want to do journalism on all 30 teams.
I love this podcast.
You are the man Matt George. THE. MAN.
10th seed in the west is a little disrespectful to the kings.
I would put them in the 8th or 9th seed this year.
Go Kings .. 🏀🏀
Even that's ridiculously low imo
The downfall of the Kings last year was Huerter, Barnes and Murray all playing beneath expectations, Monk being out the last month of the season, and Fox being our only reliable offensive weapon for long periods of time. We would get in deep offensive lulls, fall double digits into the hole, and even lose nice leads. It's all a momentum thing, and that's precisely what DeRozan fixes for this team. Make that one offensive patch, and suddenly the Kings not only beat the OKCs and Minns and Denvers of the world, but also the teams they are supposed to beat. I see at least 55 wins.
Matt.......that you acknowledge you are a homer, but legitimately keep it real is a testament to you. Keep it up, you're doing a fantastic job!!!🎉🎉🎉. LIGHT THE BEAM!!!!!!!
I had to laugh at some of their takes - especially the Houston passing up Sacramento 😂
I hope this motivates the team to play with determination, focus, and with a huge chip on their shoulders!!!!
Great program Matt!!
In my view, the best way for this team to garner national viewer and media attention is to learn from what they did 2 seasons ago - focus on offense, and shoot the lights out!
Talk the talk! GO KINGS!! 🎉
The statement that Nick made, suggesting the Warriors could surpass the Kings makes me doubt his credentials as an NBA podcaster.
National media is wild 🤦
How everyone has managed to forget that Sabonis had injured hand playing through the pain and first games in playoffs been jumped on by Green... Most players wouldn't even try to come back and play after that... Forgot those playoffs as those are irrelevant...
We’re used to this by now. Their narrative is the Kings are fools gold. I like Demar doing the Babe Ruth home run point. Western Conference finals is the bar, let’s go!
Sabonis will be under rated by national sports media because of the Haliburton trade unfairly until the Kings make a deep pllayoff run. Domas could ave a triple double and still be under rated by the media outside Sacramento
Shall we win a couple playoff rounds? We’re not gonna get the respect.
The problem with the National media types, is that they never actually watch the team. They may watch highlights, they look at what other media types are saying, they look at a box score, and then make assumptions. They don’t do actual journalism and investigate-analyze, they just go for hot takes or make pronouncements from an echo chamber.
Couldn't have said it any better 💯
It's true, but the Kings' offensive woes last year resulted in some ugly losses, and those memories might be camped out in the minds of a lot of pundits.
@@SapphicTwist Understandable… but this is not the first time national media pundits misread or were misinformed on what was going on with the Kings.
National media is always telling us how much they don’t watch kings basketball. Keep sleeping!
people can comprehend it but basketball culture is so proud and ignorant just look at the goat debate
Matt, you said at the beginning that these guys are “great reporters” you can’t be a great reporter and regurgitate other people’s opinions. Those two just don’t go together. They are locked on nba which means they shouldn’t be so ignorant on ANY nba team. They are awful reporters and should be replaced honestly
It's a small market thing, and not just for the Kings, just ask Mavs fans and all small market teams. The big franchises get the love and down playing small market teams gets the clicks. The answer is to perform and prove them wrong.
These guys don't watch Kings basketball. It's ridiculous. Offense, defense ratings do not win games. Re-watching last year's games, the Kings can beat OKC, Minn, Denver, Memphis, Phoenix, Lakers, etc. The only teams I worry about are the Pelicans and Mavs.
Sabonis, Murray, DeRozan, Ellis, Fox, Monk. I really don't get it. Who has a better rotational 6 than that? Besides the Pelicans, I can't think of anyone in the West we can't beat.
I look at teams 5-9 and their stars are old and/or injury prone. With the Kings you can very safely pencil in at least 75 games each for Fox, Sabonis and Demar (maybe 80 for the last two.
No way Kings aren’t passing at least one of those teams in the regular season. Likely most.
Also Matt, did you watch the Kings-Rockets games last year. They scare the hell out of me!
DeRozan is a great addition, but how this affects Keegan’s growth this season is a big concern. I expect the defense to be at least average or slightly better. Go Kings!
I dont understand this take at all. I think it's lazy (and many have said it). The Kings can't afford to wait for anyone. They know Keegan can be a lethal catch and shoot weapon now, and his defensive development has nothing to do with DeRozan. Plus, working with one of the best iso mid range scorers in the league will help Keegan improve his ability to create for himself.
How fans have come to the conclusion that DeRozen’s presence will stunt Keegan Murray’s development is beyond me…
meamwhilw lakers draft bronny and they're title contenders?
I see kings ending somewhere from 5th to10th. And i think there will be like 3 wins that will separate it. Well adding derozan is a but risky move. He will need to play role he isnt used play. How fast will he adapt? Its not like we added milal bridges when you are sure he will fit perfectly. But i am sure he knows that he is coming to help not to be 1st option. Sabonis is fore sure top20 player but to shut all doubters he needs a good playoff run. Thats it. Same as with doncic, he had one good playoff run and he insta became a top3 player. And noone cares about his defense anymore.
Wow, such disrespect 😤 💯
55 wins for the Kings this season. LTB!
Cool. 2nd round exit.
I dislike how a lot of folk pigeon hole us as play in only. As if we fought tooth and nail to just make the play in, we slid from 4th after Malik's injury. With out thay happening, we would of had back to back top 5 seasons.
I am tired of barely scraping by working 2 jobs
I am tired of the Kings being dismissed in the national sports media
I am tired of our city not getting respect when we have the best and most loyal fans in the league
I am tired of Sabonis and Fox not making All Stars
I am tired of the Warriors the Lakers and the Pels
I am tired of Murray not dunking on heads when we all know he can
🫡😤🟣🔦
I am tired of the not winning in the playoffs
If they can get off to a good start this season and get some early streaks I think they'll be a top five seed.
Love me some kings but don't sleep on the rockets they gonna be good
Matt do you get to speak frequently to any of these LONBA hosts in person or in any form? I wish they would ask you to drop some knowledge for the LONBA viewers sometimes.
I'm always available for invite. And typically only one host (Jackson Gatlin) actually has me on.
@@LockedOnKings Mannnn that is sad and unfortunate, if only they understood the common sense of promoting each other team promotes themselves in the long run😔
Cook them Matt😂
And the Kings never lost a game for 57 years!
Kings are in no way going to be a team that is lower than a 6 seed if they stay healthy. They could've been a 50 win team this year if Huerter and Monk don't go down and they would've be at least a 6 seed last year. If the Kings stay healthy, I see at least 55 wins and a Top 3 seed in the West and 1st again in the Pacific Division
We don't care about national nba folk...
Mark it down. The Kings will win 57-62 games this season and they will win the NBA CUP!!!
Assembled
Assembling
West Regular season standings (not playoffs or playin)
1. Dallas Mavericks
2. Oklahoma City Thunder
3. Minnesota Timberwolves
4. Sacramento Kings
5. Denver Nuggets
6. Phoenix Suns
7. Memphis Grizzles
8. Houston Rockets
9. Los Angeles Lakers
10. New Orleans Pelicans
11. Golden State Warriors
12. Los Angeles Clippers
13. San Antonio Spurs
14. Portland Trailblazers
15. Utah Jazz
10th in the west? Are they on drugs??
i honestly dont even have dallas making the play off this season maybe play-ins, anything can happen, people shouldnt write off kings, also i would be remised to doubt the warriors this season so lets see
You gotta protect your coworkers, but fk that. Straight garbage take. And then the media wonders why we listen to player podcasts vs the garbage the national casuals put out
I honestly can't figure out why they think the Kings are going to be bad this season.
1. DeMar DeRozan - Adding him gives that 2nd offensive option to De'Aaron Fox. The guy who can be 20-25 ppg and make it that much harder for teams to beat the Kings.
2. Keeping Malik Monk. A highly underrated move. I saw so many posts about how they knew Monk would be in Miami or New York or with the Lakers it wasn't funny. Not understanding that Monk found home here in Sacramento. He is playing with his best friend, loves the city and the fansand loves the direction of the team and he respects the coaching staff.
Those things have to matter as well.
3. A better Bench. - getting PG Jordan McLaughlin, F Jalen McDaniels and backup Center Orlando Robinson are highly encouraging moves. All of them add a lot in terms of athleticism. McLaughlin is a really good defender and has more upside to his offensive game than Davion Mitchell. Orlando Robinson hasn't had his chance yet to show what he can do. But, a lot of teams seemed to want to get him as well because he is a young, athletic big who plays hard and has a good upside. He isn't likely ever going to be an all-star player, but he can be a really good backup center, maybe even a guy who van be trusted to start and do well if someone goes down with an injury. Jalen McDaniels is a really solid backup forward.
4. Devin Carter. - While this draft class was not a great one, Carter was one of those guys a lot of really good teams were hoping he would fall to them because they can see he has a good game and plays hard. He might not play much during the regular season, but he has some significant upside and teams wanted this kid. I know Philadelphia, Cleveland and Minnesota were all interested in him. Not expecting him to be a star player, but because they feel like the Kings obviously do, he could be a really good role player for a team.
That is 5 upgrades from last season.
Then add on the returners.
Keegan Murray, Domantis Sabonis, Kevin Huerter, Malik Monk, De'Aaron Fox, Trey Lyles, Alex Len and Keon Ellis.
That is a team 13 deep. With 1 question mark and 1 open roster spot. Last season, I think they had nearly nothing once past the top 9 guys. The final 6 guys, should have been at least pretty good, but none of them provided much. That is why they are gone.
Adding DeMar DeRozan, fixes a couple of issues the Kings had on the offensive side of the ball vs last season with Harrison Barnes.
1. Free Throw Shooting. - DeRozan is an elite free throw shooter. Something the Kings needed as an incentive to get better from the foul line. They gave away at least a good 5-7 games last season because of poor shooting from the foul line. I expect that someone as elite ss DeRozan is with thet skill, to help with not just his own elite skills, but to help guys like Keegan Murray get better at it as well.
The other thing that it helps with, the mid-range game. Another area the Kings struggled with. Sure, Sabonis is overall a good mid range player, so are most of the Kings, but every team knew if you could disrupt the flow of Sabonis and Fox, you would shut down the mid range game for the team. DeRozan makes that impossible to do, because they can't slack off of Barnes to put help on Sabonis snd Fox defensively. Now they have to play man to man and that lets Fox thrive. That lets Sabonis thrive. That lets DeRozan thrive. Not many people can keep up with Fox or guard Sabonis or DeRozan one on one.
Then you add in that DeRozan and Fox each are clutch players who thrive in 4th quarter pressure situations and are the last 2 clutch players of the year, that should earn a lot of respect from any team and it's fanbase.
I still think the Kings are in the 4-6 range for this upcoming season.
Dallas, Minnesota and OKC, yes... clearly better right now.
Denver, it is close, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray are beasts. They have still a pretty good supporting cast around them.
But they aren't as good as that championship team from two seasons ago. They might not be as good as last season after losing KCP.
Then you look at Sacramento, Phoenix, New Orleans...these should be the 4-6 teams. They are just clearly better than the teams below them.
Memphis, if Ja Morant isn't on the floor because of injury issues or more behavior issues then they are a bottom 2-3 team in the NBA. Just because they lose their identity without him. When Ja is on the floor, they are a dangerous team. But right now, they can't be trusted.
Houston, I will agree is an up and coming team.
San Antonio will be better than the disaster they were last season. I still don't think they will be a good team, but they will be better.
The Lakers did nothing to really show they could get better. It is nearly the exact same cast as last season. People need to stop acting like LeBron James is the same olayer he was 5-7 years ago. He has changed his game to be a perimeter player, but he isn't on the same level as he was years ago. He is hitting the age 40 wall this season. Which no matter how good any athlete is, they all hit. It is that place where injuries take longer to heal, you don't have as much bounce as you used to. You just can't run as fast as you used to do. Your eyesight starts to decline a little.
It doesn't mean you can't still be really good, it means that with an injury that might take 2-4 games to heal up, it now takes 4-6 games for that same injury. A pass you could hit 3 years ago, you might not be able to hit because of court vision decline. Stuff like that.
The Clippers clearly got worse.
The Warriors are a play-in team at best. If Steph Curry goes down, they might be in the top 5 picks in the draft conversation.
The Jazz, at best a play-in team. At worst, one of the worst 5 teams in the NBA. I tend to be more optimistic on them because of Lauri. He has just shown he can be a really damn good player. I know they don't have a ton behind him, but they aren't garbage either.
Portland.... probably the worst team in the NBA. The single team who should be trying to trade Anfernee Simmons, Robert Williams 3 and Jeremi Grant for picks so they can really get the next great Blazers team developing.
So I don't know how the Kings aren't a 4-6 team with the possibility of higher depending on how the trade deadline shakes out.
It makes zero sense to me. This is a dangerous team. If they do the same on the Defensive side (10-14) with a top 1-5 offense, this is going to be a tough team for anyone to beat. It isn't to say that the Kings are perfect, they still have some issues to work out. Who will win that 14th roster spot? Who will be the 15th man? Will they be able to improve in the areas they struggled with last season?
Legitimate questions. But to ignore the upsides of what they did is really stupid as well. They are more athletic, have a deep bench, imo. Have a harder offense to stop, should be a pretty decent defense, have great coaching and have a team that doesn't give up when it matters. Mike Brown also has a 94-70 record over the last two seasons. I think if I am correct, better than the last 3 coaches combined or at least very close to it.
He is already the second best coach in the Sacramento era.
That is a big deal and it shouldn't be ignored. People are still sleeping on the Kings. Fine. But that just means the Kings get to give them nightmares while they sleep.
8-10 is just disrespectful. But what's new with anyone outside of Sac?
With Sabonis, i definitely think he's Top 30 at worst. This year i expect a reduction in scoring and he'll be around 15/12/8
If keegan murray don’t perform this year he needs to go, we could have gotten markannen if we gave him away
In all fairness, if Sabonis played like He did the entire 82 game season in the playoffs against Golden State 2 years ago they win in 6 maybe even 5.
That ruined the perception. Had the media talking heads with millions of followers calling him soft on twitter and on the morning talk shows. He shrank for sure.
I was Sabonis biggest fan in Indiana so im not saying this as a hater or spiteful, its an absolute fact.
Great thing about the NBA is its a what have you done lately league. One dominant playoff series will change that perception but until it does he will have his naysayers.
Warriors visibly got into his head and he shrank on the biggest stage after having an almost MVP regular season.
Unfortunately players are ultimately judged by how they do in the playoffs. Just the way it is.
it's too bad that once de'aaron fox got hurt in December the men in black hit the media with the memory erasing shit cuz he was fr averaging 30 ppg through Christmas. seen it mentioned 0 times.
sometimes I imagine your job is frustrating cuz paying constant attention to the kings discussion in the media is like seeking out the newest disrespect at all times lmao
He not a top 20 player he can’t even shoot a free throw
Sabonis is for sure a Top 20 NBA player
Golden State and Memphis wont even make the playoffs.
Why would anyone on the planet trust Ja Morant? Its absolute insanity to have any positive expectations from Memphis whatsoever.
Let me tell You about A player that was BETTER then Morant before the host of this podcast was even born. His name was Anfernee Hardaway.
Yes BETTER then Ja Morant. 1st team all NBA his SECOND year in the league and the NBA was absolutely filled with star players back then.
Then after his 2nd injury, He wasnt. Was a shell of himself the rest of his career. Never came close to being the same player after his 4th NBA season.
Morant has Missed ALOT of time already and plays reckless to say the absolute least.
I absolutely love Morant as a player and hes the best in game dunker ive ever seen and its not even close.
Id place a wager with this host that Sacramento finishes ahead of the 3 teams He mentioned.
Kings and Pacers will NEVER get respect from the opposing fan bases and media until they aactually win it.
Golden State was doubted that 1st year they won it all because of its past history. The entire perception of the Toronto franchise has changed since they won the chip.
Just the way it goes. Difficult to not get fired up and riled up about it but its just the way it is.
No one is picking Indiana to do much of anything this year let alone win the chip and they just made the conference finals and outplayed the eventual champs 3/4 games. No one cares or believes. Just the way it is.
If Kings make conference finals they will be perceived differently absolutely. I think they havE A GREAT chance to do so.
Sabonis is definitely not a top 20 player.
He 1000% is a Top 20 player. Give the League Leading Triple-double man the respect
I agree because he’s top 10
Instead of whining, go out there and win something
Doesn't mean we can't ridicule straight BS
Ask yourself: 1) who is it that you think is “whining” in this case and 2) are they the same person/people who can “go out there and win something”?
9:07 i said the same exact thing matty ice, like please make this make sense 😂😂
This has been said for like the last 2 months. I'm ready for the season already
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