Brown shoulders the blame for the Kings’ personal mistakes first appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
SACRAMENTO – After another game full of personal mistakes, lack of focus and determination, Kings coach Mike Brown saw no reason to yell at his players after Thursday’s 113-100 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
For weeks, Brown has been preaching the same things to his players over and over again, yet the results haven’t really changed much.
Whether it’s a failure to block, keep the color, make better and cleaner passes or simply follow the game plans of the coaching staff, the Kings are very much stuck in the same rut, and there are no indications that things will get better. any progress. recent time.
“It is what it is,” Brown told reporters at Golden Center 1. “That’s why I’m not yelling at the boys. There’s nothing to yell about. They know exactly what we have to do.” .It’s either or we’re not going to do it. Tonight we’re not going to do it.
“It started with me. Somehow, I have to figure out how to get them to do it.”
Brown certainly has to take responsibility for his team’s failures. That’s what the best coaches do.
But with the Kings, the performance issues go deeper than the coaching staff.
From the start of training camp, Brown and his staff have try to emphasize the details to King’s players, although it didn’t seem like we had made much of an impression.
While Sacramento made some progress defensively – the Lakers scored a total of 44 points compared to the 76 that the Denver Nuggets dropped on them a few days ago – the Kings still couldn’t match the physical points of their opponents. has brought us. .
That has led to breakdowns in boxing out while opening things up for opposing teams to be active on the boards. Three days after getting a season-high 15 offensive rebounds against the Nuggets, the Kings matched that by giving up another 15 to the Lakers leading to an 18-point second-place advantage.
Then there were turnovers (17) and a clear lack of ball movement frustrated the head coach.
“The way we played both defensively and offensively was not good,” Brown said. “They touch our skin whenever they want, they drive us whenever they want. They carried us in hand on the planks.”
Because of all the mistakes the Kings are making, Brown has been forced to run through his seasons faster than he expected. He had one for the final 14 minutes of the game and used that with about four minutes remaining.
“To be really good in this league, you have to fight through hard,” Brown said. “It’s not easy and it won’t be easy anytime soon. Sooner or later, we just have to make up our minds, no matter how physically tired we are, no matter how tired we are, no matter what the authorities call or not, no matter what goes well or what’s wrong… We have to decide that we’re just going to leave the ground and try like hell to play the right way at both ends of the ground.
“In one way, we have to make up our minds and decide who we want to be. Tonight was not a good job at any level in terms of trying to let the Lakers and everyone else know that we want to get back to where we feel we should be in terms of. “
Brown didn’t rule out lineup changes, though point guard De’Aaron Fox sounds like it’s not important that he starts for the Kings. It comes first to the desire to be better.
“We have to go out there and make the plan. If you’re thinking about it (and) not doing it, then that means something,” Fox said. “At some point, especially in this conference, you keep losing games like this, and then we look back like last year and it’s out of reach. until we are able to roll regular wins or be regular as a team that means nothing.”
