Brown shoulders blame for Kings’ self-inflicted mistakes

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Brown shoulders blame for Kings’ self-inflicted mistakes originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

SACRAMENTO – After another game filled with self-inflicted mistakes, lack of focus and determination, Kings coach Mike Brown saw no reason to yell at his players in the aftermath of Thursday’s 113-100 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.

For weeks, Brown has been preaching pretty much the same things to his players over and over, yet the results never really change much.

Whether it’s a failure to block out, take care of the paint, make better and cleaner passes or simply following the coaching staff’s game plans, the Kings have been stuck pretty much in the same rut, and there’s been no indications that things will improve any time soon.

“It is what it is,” Brown told reporters at Golden 1 Center. “That’s why I didn’t yell at the guys. There’s nothing to yell about. They know exactly what we have to do. It’s whether or not we go do it. Tonight we didn’t go do it.

“It starts with me. Somehow, someway I got to figure out how to get them to do it.”

Of course Brown had to shoulder the responsibility for his team’s failures. That’s what most good coaches do.

But with the Kings, the issues run far deeper than the coaching staff.

From the beginning of training camp, Brown and his staff have tried to stress the details to the Kings’ players, though it hasn’t seemed to have made much of an impression.

While Sacramento made a slight improvement in defending the paint – the Lakers scored 44 points in the paint compared to the 76 that the Denver Nuggets dropped on them a few days earlier – the Kings still are not matching the physical aspects that their opponents have been bringing.

That has led to the breakdowns in boxing out while opening things up for opposing teams to be active on the boards. Three days after allowing a season-high 15 offensive rebounds against the Nuggets, the Kings matched that by giving up another 15 to the Lakers that led to 18 second-chance points.

Then there were the turnovers (17) and a lack of ball movement that clearly frustrated the head coach.

“The way we played both…

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Publish date : 2024-12-20 07:26:00

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