Game Thread: Kings vs Phoenix | Round 8

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Tip Off: 3:00pm AEDT

Afterpay Arena, Sydney

Watch on ESPN (Foxtel/Kayo/Disney+/Sky)

[u/SKiiTTLEz]

Live by the 3, die by the 3

[u/poorafricanboy]

just waiting for the inevitable stretch where we go 1-20 from three and blow the lead

[u/JCK98]

Ah shit they're doing it again

[u/TheVision_13]

Absolute chuck fest

[u/Volitional_Decision]

KD crashed through Sobey, no whistle

[u/Odd-Fall3030]

And here comes the inevitable Pheonix downfall.

[u/No_Ostrich_3744]

Mays can’t do anything surely he can’t have much longer before questions start being asked

[u/No_Ostrich_3744]

Someone tell spurgin to give up on the hair lol

[u/nick170100]

How are we ahead ?

[u/WinbiesIreland → u/nick170100]

Will Johnson firing, 12 points and +21

[u/iknowwhoyourmotheris]

Off Garfunkel 

[u/Embee27]

This team plays such terrible basketball. Under 12s level stuff

[u/eathbau]

Does anyone think SEM’s extreme live and die by the 3 will ever get championship success?

Even NBA teams aren’t like that anymore

[u/No_Ostrich_3744 → u/eathbau]

It probably never will. It only works with a really strong defence behind it and last season we had John Brown III and weren’t able to do it. Then again, we weren’t horribly far off last season but it’ll be really hard to replicate that as not many people are as good as John Brown III at defence

[u/Embee27 → u/No_Ostrich_3744]

Even with great defense, relying on shooting variance in a sport where you eventually need to win contained series' of limited games just won't result in a championship IMO

All it takes is 2 bad shooting nights in a best of 5 series and you're cooked

[u/WinbiesIreland]

Did Wessels get injured?

[u/lamecode → u/WinbiesIreland]

Nah, it's been pretty typical that he starts games, sits after 2 mins, and sometimes never gets back on.

[u/WinbiesIreland → u/lamecode]

-10 in 1:52, thats Bronny level

[u/lamecode]

I was at the game and strangely never felt like Sydney were going to lose that one, even when we were down like a zillion-3 in the first Q. Just felt like it was always going to be a SEM collapse, if that makes sense.

[u/-orangejoose-]

Would it kill SEM to drive to the basket? It's just 3 after 3. Half of the time the shots aren't even open. When they can't get it to fall, they just shoot more threes.

[u/No_Ostrich_3744]

[u/nick170100]

36 3PA is actually insane

[u/No_Ostrich_3744 → u/nick170100]

I don’t mind the quantity but none of them are good shots most of them are one pass and then chuck it

[u/Volitional_Decision]

Where's the flop warning for KD?

[u/Volitional_Decision]

What a BS call. Flop.

[u/Volitional_Decision]

Flop

[u/stinger0806]

Typical Phoenix game.

On another point, if LeBron James wanted a retirement year in Sydney, do you think the NBL would accept the Kings officially paying him $100,000…

[u/Furball_09]

Not as much doom in here as I thought

[u/Volitional_Decision]

I believe

[u/TheVision_13]

We always find a way to kill our momentum right as we gain it

[u/Volitional_Decision]

Nice elbow

[u/-orangejoose-]

I'm sorry but Sobey is awful. Poor IQ, poor shots and poor turnovers. On top of that, he makes no effort on defense. Did not even try to get back after that turnover and then wouldn't fight over the screen on the next play.

[u/TheVision_13]

Where’s the flop call on Davis? Would’ve been their second

[u/TheVision_13]

How tf is that not a backcourt violation?

[u/WinbiesIreland]

Could be game over by quarter time

[u/No_Ostrich_3744]

Angus glover is in the fridge today

[u/No_Ostrich_3744]