The Sacramento Kings are in Portland tonight to try and improve upon a disastrous preseason opener against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night. If you missed it, and I hope you did, Blake covered everything that went wrong defensively, and Bryant, ever the optimist (kidding), reviewed the lone bright spots: Nique Clifford, Maxime Raynaud, and the 3rd stringers who made an extremely ugly game look less ugly. Anyway, on to Portland.
Who: Sacramento Kings (0-1) @ Portland Trail Blazers (0-1)
Where: Moda Center, Portland, OR
When: 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET
Watch: NBA League Pass. The Kings will also be streaming it here.
The storyline tonight is all about the starting unit. At times vs. Toronto, Domantas Sabonis and Zach LaVine looked good. Keegan Murray’s defensive effort was strong, but he didn’t show up offensively. Dennis Schröder and DeMar DeRozan were downright bad.
It’s only one preseason game, blah blah blah insert all the caveats you want here, but it wasn’t good, and the Kings only have four total preseason games this year. There isn’t a ton of time to figure this out. Go Kings.