Domantas Sabonis: The Sacramento Kings aren’t broken, they are still…

On Wednesday, the Boston Celtics came to Sacramento on the second night of a back-to-back without Jayson Tatum and Al Horford and taught the Kings a valuable lesson. Great teams never slow down. The Kings have not mastered that quite yet and the Celtics punished them for it.

After the game, Kevin O’Connor, who already angered Kings fans with his negative comments about Domantas Sabonis earlier this season, tweeted that “the Celtics have broken the Kings” and it is a “bad sign to lose like this to Boston.” Once again, he attracted Kings fans’ and reporters’ scorn, making it almost impossible to not comment on this.

Some of his points are legit. It was an ugly loss, one of several this season, and the Kings are not title contenders yet, but overall, his comments just seem like a misconception of what this squad is.

The Kings are still building

It is unimaginably challenging to go from sitting at the lower part of the association for quite a long time to being a season finisher group. The Lords recently took that leap last season. Following quite a while of losing, they are at last a decent customary season group that can go to the end of the season games.

That was the initial step on a difficult experience to greater achievement. Indeed, the Lords need to vie for a title however this group is certainly not a completed item yet. If they have any desire to do that, they need to take a few additional actions.
That is obvious to every individual who consistently watches the Lords play, however they can’t exchange for the lacking part, snap their fingers, and vie for a title. Keegan Murray needs an opportunity to create, De’Aaron Fox needs to realize being perhaps of the best watchman in the association, and both need season finisher experience.

The present moment, the Lords are establishing the groundwork for future dispute while the Celtics are now a full fledged title competitor tied for the best record in the association. The group they are attached with is Minnesota, which has the association’s best safeguard yet couldn’t stop the Rulers up to this point.

Just three groups are in front of the Rulers in the Western Gathering standings — the Timberwolves, the Thunder, and the Pieces — and Sacramento has not lost to any of them yet.
Obviously, there is still a ton of work to do. The Rulers need to improve as a protective group, they need to become accustomed to genuineness, they should be engaged consistently, and some of the time they simply have to battle more.

Saying that they have been broken in the wake of being overwhelmed by a group that ought to beat them, is ridiculous, notwithstanding. In addition, the remarks would appear to be more tenable assuming O’Connor likewise recognized a portion of the Lords’ great minutes this season.

Fox is averaging 30 focuses per game, Murray is developing into a genuine two-way player, Sabonis is a mobile twofold, Malik Priest is a 6th Man of the Year up-and-comer, and the Rulers are a favorite in the West. This was all totally ignored.

Losing to the best group in the association by 25 is disheartening yet in addition no genuine shock, and unquestionably doesn’t imply that the Celtics have broken the Rulers. All over the court, they were simply the superior team. They have likewise been a competitor for a few seasons now, while the Lords just made the end of the season games without precedent for 16 years. This was an experience of learning.