"Sorry, Vlade, that is only one quarter. A game
is four quarters, and you gotta have 4 good
quarters to win the game, not just one."
. .

YUCK

Reno Lady

I could slap them when they do this. They beat themselves again with unforced TOs and missed FTs. The Mavs certainly played better tonight but not good enough to have won the game had the Kings not helped them out! I guess they just can't do anything the easy way.

Now they have to go to Dallas and get one for sure! I hope they're good and angry at themselves after tonight. I'm certainly angry with them.

Think I'll go for a drive and calm myself down a little.

morisofb Hedo Fan

Kings Lost in on the 4th
It was a close game till the mid 4th quarter, but the kings didnt have anyone the assist Hedo in the final minutes. He made12 of kings 22 in the 4th, despite playing only 21mins on a 7 man rotation (and why pollard didnt played!?!)
Peja is so inconsistant in the playoffs, he shot 25% this game and he is 2 of 12 for threes in the series. Bibby was 7for8 early and missed 11 of his 12 shots on the second half
I can say we handed the game to the mavs, bibby and webber missed unlikely shots that would have given the lead to the kings midway and peja missed two 3 pointers late. i he had hit one it would be a two point game.
And i can blame adelman for giving Peja and Webber so mich time cause they really did nothing on the 4th quarter, maybe they were tired. I think kings lost this on bibbys and jacksons defense on nash and van exel : the scored 50
Kings need peja to shoot better and the backcourt to defend to win the series.

Critic

A tough loss, but a great game to watch. Lots of intense effort from both teams. Refs had the hardest job of the year with that pace and intensity. They let both teams just hack and hack but at least they were consistent. I don't understand having Vlade out with the game on the line, unless his shoulder was really bad. I don't understand not playing Pollard -- period. An uptempo game with a 7 man rotation vs 11? Not a good plan, at least IMO. I predict that they also split in Dallas. This looks like a 7 game series and one that will be fun to watch.

Cat Man

OK, so it's a five-game series instead of a sweep. When they're raising that championship banner, who's going to remember?

Whatever the situation was that led to Vlade Divac going from 16 boards to one was the biggest factor tonight. Whether it was matchups or a change in Dallas's game plan, the Kings need to revert to Saturday's situation.

And shooting 71 percent for the entire game wouldn't hurt....

Bonnie49erKings

I was FURIOUS in the 4th quarter that Vlade was on the bench. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Webber had inside position but NOBODY could get him the freakin' ball. Vlade usually passes it to him in there. No Vlade. Webber kept having to come out to get the ball, then drive a mile to the hoop. By that time, 4 guys descended on him. I couldn't see if he was fouled, but I'm shocked that he wasn't.

The entire 4th quarter I kept screaming for Vlade. Adelman said in his post-game comments that he was worried about defending against the Mavs. Heck with that. We needed SCORING.

Our strength, our huge advantage is our big men. But you need TWO of them on the floor or they just gang up on whoever the ONE is.

And where the heck was Pollard? That's total BS that anybody is afraid of Wang.

Bibby said something about Vlade's neck being hurt. But Adelman never mentioned it.

I never question Adelman. But that was totally stupid, stupid, stupid.

JB

Webber left the majority of his shots on the front of the rim. Seemed to be more arc in his shot tonight. Even the free throws were front rimming. Fine time to be tweaking the form.

Vlade had ice on his shoulder. I think he's been icing it since he injured it months ago. He had to have hurt it tonight because there is no good reason to sit him when he was toying with every defender they put on him. My guess was that drive to the basket on Bradley early in the 3rd quarter may have been the play where he got hurt.

Well, the 7 game series is looking more likely now.

lilbrother45

Now we are down to a 7 man rotation? What the hell is that? Im usually very hard on webb but tonight, he played like a mad man. He did revert back to his jump shot when he should have been down low but he was TOTALLY EXHAUSTED!!! Adelmans post game comments were so weak. Even the post game guys were in awe that adelman would let the mavs dictate the way the game was played. Adelman admitted that he tried everything and couldnt counter the mavs!!! What the hell is that?????