Sacramento Kings 2018-19 Season Watch Thread

[CelticsElite]

Marvin Bagley III will be held out of basketball activities for at least two more weeks.

Bagley suffered a bone bruise on his left knee in a game against the Warriors on December 14th. An MRI showed no structural damage.

Bagley is averaging 12.7 points and 6.1 rebounds per game this season

[trickybilly]

Bit of a lucky loss today. Ingram hit a few tough 2's down the stretch..

We'll take it Warm up Tankathon!

[Jiri Welsch]

The Kings have 7 out of their next 8 at home. It would be amazing if they lost more than they won!

[GreenShooter]

The Kings have 7 out of their next 8 at home. It would be amazing if they lost more than they won!

I will take that bet but it will be close. It's either 4-5 or 5-4.
They play Portland (L); Denver (L); GS (L); Orl (W); @Pho (W); Det (W); Char (L); Port (W)...how the hell do they end up starting the "home stand" and finishing it with Portland at home? So basically you are correct, they could easily go 5-4 or even 6-3 and it wouldn't surprise.
After that it gets a little tough with long road trip. They play all teams that are above or 1 or 2 games below .500 except for Brooklyn. And after that I see them winning about 8 or 9 games so that would add up to about 35 wins. Still a lottery team which will add up to about the 10th pick. I hope they finish about 8th. Not much depth in this draft but a few good/solid players could be had in the top 15 - 20 picks.

[JBcat]

The Kings have 7 out of their next 8 at home. It would be amazing if they lost more than they won!

I will take that bet but it will be close. It's either 4-5 or 5-4.
They play Portland (L); Denver (L); GS (L); Orl (W); @Pho (W); Det (W); Char (L); Port (W)...how the hell do they end up starting the "home stand" and finishing it with Portland at home? So basically you are correct, they could easily go 5-4 or even 6-3 and it wouldn't surprise.
After that it gets a little tough with long road trip. They play all teams that are above or 1 or 2 games below .500 except for Brooklyn. And after that I see them winning about 8 or 9 games so that would add up to about 35 wins. Still a lottery team which will add up to about the 10th pick. I hope they finish about 8th. Not much depth in this draft but a few good/solid players could be had in the top 15 - 20 picks.

The Magic are close to .500 and the Suns have been playing better of late with Booker back.  Charlotte won’t be easy either.  Hopefully this is a bad stretch for the Kings even being at home.

[CelticsElite]

Kings lost


If the kings can squeeze into being a bottom 8-9 team, that increases greatly the chances the pick jumps into the top 4.

[mef730]

Kings lost


If the kings can squeeze into being a bottom 8-9 team, that increases greatly the chances the pick jumps into the top 4.

I keep thinking, if we had only had the Kings pick this past year instead of in 2019...

Mike

[hpantazo]

Kings lost


If the kings can squeeze into being a bottom 8-9 team, that increases greatly the chances the pick jumps into the top 4.

What we need is for the Jazz and TWolves to pick up the pace and get into the playoffs in the West so that both the Kings and Grizzlies end up in the lottery. That would greatly increase our chances of at least one of those 2 picks ending up in the top 5.

[MattyIce]

Kings lost


If the kings can squeeze into being a bottom 8-9 team, that increases greatly the chances the pick jumps into the top 4.

What we need is for the Jazz and TWolves to pick up the pace and get into the playoffs in the West so that both the Kings and Grizzlies end up in the lottery. That would greatly increase our chances of at least one of those 2 picks ending up in the top 5.

although we wouldn’t get memphis’s if it were to be top 5

[Moranis]

Kings lost


If the kings can squeeze into being a bottom 8-9 team, that increases greatly the chances the pick jumps into the top 4.

What we need is for the Jazz and TWolves to pick up the pace and get into the playoffs in the West so that both the Kings and Grizzlies end up in the lottery. That would greatly increase our chances of at least one of those 2 picks ending up in the top 5.

although we wouldn’t get memphis’s if it were to be top 5

Yeah.  9 and 2 is the best we can do.

[Phantom255x]

My hope is that DAL makes some sort of move to help their team and maybe in turn also prevent SAC from nabbing that guy as well (like Beal, or Porter, or someone else before the deadline). Hope MIN + UTAH figure it out as well and make or at least fight hard for a playoff spot. If that happens then suddenly this could be a pick in the 9-10 range, maybe even 1-2 spots better IF any of BKN/WAS/ORL slightly improve.

This could also help the Memphis pick too as they could slip and maybe we can snag that pick in the 9-10 range too, otherwise it's still a valuable pick for 2020 or 2021. Clippers pick could end up a solid 15-20 range and that's good.

Things certainly do look a bit more promising than they did a few weeks ago, that's for sure 

[Phantom255x]

If SAC was just 1.5 games worse, they'd be the 2nd worst in the West and that would likely be the 7th or 8th pick for us. Even at 7 or 8, the odds of getting a Top-4 pick out of that is 26.3% if #8, or 32% if #7, not too shabby!

On the other hand, YIKES, I simulated just once on Tankathon this morning and that first try, it had the SAC Pick going up 12 spots to #1 and therefore going to PHI...     

[rondofan1255]

7-8 best case scenario?

[konkmv]

They have an easy schedule next 5 6 games and then the trip to east begins.. if they stay under 0.50 till then they will start losing more and more because playoffs will be far away.. i do not know if we get the memphis pick this year though... they start losing bad

[Sophomore]

7-8 best case scenario?

Yeah, I think even if they tumble hard (like they lose a key piece to injury) it’s going to be hard for them to catch the dregs of the league and wind up with 6th worst or better. 12-14 is my guess, anything better than that is gravy.