The pill was “hard to swallow” for Sacramento, as Kevin Huerter had slipped before tonight’s meeting, following the defeat conceded against Golden State, partly due to a new refereeing error at the end of the match. The former Hawks back had even confided that he felt an arbitration ” different “ since arriving in California.
But the Kings did not give up mentally and after starting with four straight losses, Mike Brown’s team has just had four successes in six games and therefore responded last night with their most successful performance of the start of the season. , beating Cleveland, 127-120. What to restore the morale of the troops.
“We think we are better than our balance sheet says”added Kevin Huerter. “We just have to keep proving it, stick together, not spread ourselves too thin. It’s a long season.”
On the right track
For Mike Brown too, this success bodes well for the future, especially against one of the best teams at the start of the season. “For us, going all the way against a good team and finding a way to win, it helps to reinforce the guys in terms of our beliefs”he added.
“It’s a very good team, from A to Z”continued Davion Mitchell. “They have scorers, strong players, defenders. It helps us to gain confidence, to realize that we can beat these teams who have all the pieces of the puzzle. It makes us a very good team, yes”.
For the Kings, the important thing is to be consistent on the way, despite random results.
“I think with us, the trick is to really focus on the process and put the result aside a bit,” confirmed Harrison Barnesperfect lieutenant of Domantas Sabonis with his 20 points this night. “We put in place good things in the previous matches, and even though we didn’t win, it wasn’t like we were abandoning this process to go in another direction. I think when you have a game like tonight, where everything falls into place, it kind of validates what we’ve been doing from the start.”
Confirmation expected this Friday on the road to the Lakers floor then during a series of four home games, against Golden State, Brooklyn, San Antonio and Detroit.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| De’aaron Fox | 8 | 32.7 | 54.5 | 37.2 | 86.4 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 26.5 |
| Kevin Hurter | 9 | 31.9 | 49.5 | 51.5 | 71.4 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 16.9 |
| Domantas Sabonis | 9 | 31.5 | 54.0 | 9.1 | 65.5 | 2.4 | 8.6 | 11.0 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 16.3 |
| Keegan Murray | 8 | 32.1 | 44.8 | 35.3 | 77.8 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 12.9 |
| Malik Monk | 9 | 21.0 | 42.0 | 36.4 | 93.3 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 12.0 |
| Harrison Barnes | 9 | 32.0 | 36.8 | 16.7 | 80.0 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 9.9 |
| Davion Mitchell | 9 | 19.1 | 45.8 | 35.7 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 7.3 |
| Trey Lyles | 7 | 14.9 | 41.7 | 38.5 | 57.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 6.3 |
| Terence Davis | 9 | 12.1 | 39.5 | 31.0 | 83.3 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 5.9 |
| Richaun Holmes | 8 | 12.7 | 70.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
| Chimezie Metu | 5 | 10.1 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 2.8 |
| Matt Dellavedova | 3 | 9.5 | 42.9 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 |
| Kz Okpala | 6 | 6.4 | 20.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| Alex Len | 3 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Chima Moneke | 1 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
