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Adelman is congratulated after he reaches the 500 win plateau.
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ORLANDO UNABLE TO KEEP ADELMAN FROM 500

Feistyfan

Over the past 3 games Bibby has 24 Assists and 0 Turnovers..

This was a great game for the Kings. They sort of felt out their opponent in the first half - much like a boxer does - then once they figured out the weaknesses, they went and attacked them. They took advantage of any obvious mismatches and when Orlando thought they had some Magic left, the kings pulled their own rabbit out of the hat. Hedo hit some very key shots that broke whatever momentum the Magic thought they had in the second half and Peja kicked in a few for good measure.

It was nice to see Gerald Wallace get some PT tonight. This was a good team to put Flubber in against. A running, gunning, high-flying team. He had a very nice alley-oop from Bibby that I thought was fun, and showed us that he really might be able to jump out of the gym.

Reno Lady

Ahhh, the Kings win, the Lakers lose. An almost perfect day. The Kings played a good game tonight; they've played better but they were solid tonight with only one or two lapses. Congratulations to Coach Adelman for his 500th win - not too shabby I'd say.

I hope someone talks to Chris about his one glaring defensive move - leaving his feet and flying past his man who then gets an open look or the ability to pass the ball to someone who has an open look. Keep your feet on the floor Chris, get up on your man and pin him down, make it impossible for him to pass so that he has no choice but to shoot. With his long arms and great hands Webber doesn't need to be taking those flying leaps at his opponent, or if he's going to do that then his timing needs to improve a whole bunch. On the plus side Chris really used his head and those hands to the Kings advantage tonight. Instead of going for the dunk or powering the ball into the basket unnecessarily, he made a couple of "soft" baskets that took the Magic by surprise.

It was fun to see Wallace get some PT - the kid can fly. He just needs to work on his timing a bit more but he's really fun to watch - and he has great speed. It won't be long before Adelman will be using him more in games where the Kings have a comfortable lead. The guys who played in the 2nd quarter tonight were terrific; they lost the lead but got it back and gave the starters a good rest; hope the starters buy them breakfast tomorrow!

CHALUPA SQUAD

Kingboy00

My gurl and I were wondering what that little hand signal meant!! It was killing us...People always say that playing in Arco is very much like playing in a college environment, but I think our team, acts like a college team. I mean that in a good way. Did you guys see them (the starters) on their feet while the rest of the guys were finishing the game....It was great...Ain't chemistry great???

Congrats Coach A!!!!!

GO KINGS!!!!

PHOENIX READY FOR LISTLESS KINGS

Bonsy

I was worried about this game after "too high" a home stand. Phoenix hasn't forgotten how we humiliated them on their home court in the playoffs and came out fired up.

Maybe the Kings will be angry enough to play hard in Minnesota on Friday.

If not, that could be ugly too.

We can't seem to handle

success. Something we need to learn.

Was is just me, or was anyone else ticked off at TONY DELK shooting 3s with 2 minutes left in garbage time? What the heck was that? He shot 3 of them, made 2. Is that some sort of challenge?

I could see a rookie or some bench player who never gets to play putting up 3s in that situation, but not someone like Delk.

Does he think the Kings won't notice that?

And John Wallace with a taunting foul after a slam, in garbage time up 24+ points?

That's some challenge to put up to a team like the Kings.

sacnick

Well, I'm strangely apathetic about this one.

Gerald Wallace sounds like he'll be a player: Petrie is tha man, one gem after another....

But damn, lots of turnovers: sign of lack of respect or trying too hard: While we can put together nice runs with ease, We can't expect to come back when down 20 odd points without making D a priority.

While this game doesn't have me upset, the Minnesota game is going to be a real challenge.

el donut

Did you notice how many shots didn't fall? Did you notice how many Sun defenders were all over the place, out rebounded, boxed out, out hustled the Kings? Did you notice how aggressive their entire tame played against the Kings? Well, then, my friend, you know why the Kings lost tonights game. The Kings were flat from the tremendous exhibition they put on against the Magic last night. They left much of themselves back on the floor at Arco Arena--didn't even look like the same team.

Critic

Sometimes it just isn't your night; sometimes it is.

You can't win them all, especially on the road against a decent team in the second game of a back-to-back. The Kings should just shrug that one off and move on to the next one. The descriptions here and the box score suggest that this was just one of the games the Kings were meant to lose this year. Even teams that win 70 games lose 12 along the way. In a way, getting butt-whipped probably leaves less of a mental scar on a team than losing a squeaker at the buzzer. The Kings already KNOW they can, should and usually do play much better than they apparently did tonight. No biggie, or so it seems from afar.

My Zards won their fourth in a row and still lead the NBA in attendance at home and on the road -- every single game so far has been a sellout. Okay, so they had a nail-biter at home against this year's dreadful version of the Heat -- it still counts as a W and it's been a while since they have strung four together against ANY level of opponents. That makes them 6-3 since Haywood came off of IR. Lue has also been helping much more in this stretch than he was earlier in the year. I still don't think his offense is NBA level, but his D is pretty good. Tonight Collins asked MJ and Lue which of the two should guard Eddie Jones on the last possession with a two point lead and seconds to go. All ended up agreeing that it should be Lue. Jones never touched the ball. I think it says a lot that MJ would pick Lue over himself for that role. It says he respects Lue's D and it also says his knees must really still be restricting his mobility. If 100%, he would have picked himself to D up Jones over any player alive.

SWEEtness

That was real team bball....we sucked as a team

I could only watch the 1st half...my husband forced me to go to sleep sensing my increasing frustration and that the Kings might not make it out of this one like they did last year.

I just now woke up and couldn't figure out if it was night or morning and completely forgot we played tonight...too bad reality sunk in.

Time to shake it off. It's a new day. We have new challenges to face. Our guys should wake up by Friday.

Pondo

The Kings arrived in Phoenix as "Welcomed Guests" and were treated that way! Think that is what the spider said to the fly "Welcome to my web." The Hosts did everything they could to make the Kings players wished they had not left Arco Arena after the game on Tuesday night. The Suns out ran, out shot, out scored, out rebounded and just flat out played them. This sure was not a game the Kings Fans could say any bad things about the refs! The game was lost by the players, not the refs.

Now is the time to get back on the plane and fly to play the T-Wolves or as some one wrote yesterday, TreeDogs. Maybe they will not be better Hosts but if I were a Kings player I would not count on it. The players need to bring their A+ game, not the L- game they got off the plane with in Phoenix.