The Sacramento Kings made their threes, played like a cohesive unit and drove the Spurs off the field on Friday. It was reminiscent of the Kings’ win over the Rockets earlier last week. Of course, the Kings followed the Rockets’ win with a terrible shooting night and a missed opportunity in Memphis. The Kings haven’t had consecutive wins in over a month. Can they buck this trend and build some momentum by showing up to a win against the Utah Jazz, or will the Kings continue their year of inconsistency?

Let’s talk Kings basketball.

When: Sunday, December 8, 6:00 p.m. PST
Where: Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA
TV: NBCSCA
radio: Sactown Sports 1140am

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And a one and a two and a three: It’s no coincidence that the Kings look fantastic on nights when the three balls drop and look terrible on nights when they don’t. The Kings are an offense that relies on DHO actions and movement to create open threes, or pick-and-roll actions with Malik Monk and Domantas Sabonis that can also lead to kickout threes. We’ve heard endless conversations about Mike Brown’s desire for more spray threes. We’ve written countless words this season about three point losses that have held this team back from success. The Kings are averaging 38% from deep in their wins this season and an average of 30.4% in their losses. The biggest and most obvious differences are in the profit/loss distribution. Sales? Fouls? FT%? Free trade agreement? 3PAs? None of this looks much different in the split. If the Kings hit their threes at a reasonable rate, they will likely win. Let’s see if the Kings can finish on top more than one game in a row.

Time to find your rhythm: The Sacramento Kings have a tremendous chance to change the narrative of their season over the next ten games if they find a rhythm. The Kings have the Jazz, the injury-depleted Pelicans, the struggling Nuggets, 3 games against the suddenly on the rise Lakers as well as games against the Pacers, Pistons and 76ers. We Kings fans shouldn’t rely on wins against struggling teams because we’ve been burned before. But if there was ever a time to snap a streak of 7 or 8 wins in 10 games, this would be a great opportunity to do it. But it won’t happen looking forward, Sacramento needs to focus on one game at a time. The Kings have proven to be too unreliable to consider any of these games a gift.

forecast

The regression to the mean works both ways, with Keegan Murray and Kevin Huerter continuing to break out of their goaltending slump and the Kings rolling.

Kings 124, Jazz 101