12/9 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings

Scouting Report

The Sacramento Kings are coming off a poor effort in a home loss to the Denver Nuggets on Saturday. The old saying of a wounded animal is a dangerous animal applies here. This is a different Sacramento team than the one we defeated on November 23rd. They have their best player, Kevin Martin back and two of their emotional leaders – Mikki Moore and Francisco Garcia – are also back. This increase in talent level and fire when combined with the home crowd who still don’t like us means we will have our hands full tonight. It is important that we open the game with the right mentality and execution in order to keep the crowd out of it and to let the Kings know they are in for another long night. Sacramento is 0-12 when they fail to score 100 points so we must protect the ball and get back on defense so they do not get any easy buckets.

This team has a good combination of talent. They have big players who can shoot from the perimeter and are good passers. They have wing players who can shoot and move well without the ball. As we saw at Staples Center in the November game they can still execute their “C” or “CORNER” set with or without Martin and Garcia. They are even more dangerous in this set with those two players. This set is the one where they pass to one of the bigs at the elbow and then the point and the wing player who has moved to the strong corner run a variety of actions. The point can down screen for the corner man, the corner man can back screen, basket cuts and dribble handoffs are also options. They were able to score out of this action in the first game so we must do a better job communicating defensively in order to minimize the effectiveness in this set.

Finally, both Beno Udrih and Bobby Brown hurt us in the pick and roll game. We need to do a better job of containing these two and therefore impact their opportunities in this part of the game. This will not be an easy game but we will help our own cause if we show we learned something from the first game against this team.

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12/9 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings

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