{"id":825112,"date":"2013-01-19T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=18493"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:23:13","slug":"road-reaction-sacramento-kings-97-charlotte-bobcats-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/road-reaction-sacramento-kings-97-charlotte-bobcats-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Reaction: Sacramento Kings 97, Charlotte Bobcats 93"},"content":{"rendered":"
Updated at 7:35 pm<\/em> After a woeful night offensively in Memphis<\/a>, the Sacramento Kings bounced back to beat the Charlotte Bobcats 97-93 on Saturday. \u00a0With the win, the Kings move to 1-1 on their current three-game trip and earn their fourth road victory of the season. \u00a0Sacramento now stands with an overall record of 16-25.<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Can the Kings move the ball?<\/strong><\/p>\n The Kings finished with a season-low nine assists yesterday evening in a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. \u00a0But ball movement was not a problem for Sacramento Saturday night in Charlotte. \u00a0The Kings finished with 24 total assists and just 11 turnovers. \u00a0Their best quarter of \u00a0ball movement came in the third period, where they recorded seven assists. \u00a0All five Kings starters recorded at least one assist, with Isaiah Thomas leading the way with seven.<\/p>\n 2. \u00a0Will\u00a0Keith Smart<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0tighten his rotation?<\/strong><\/p>\n After using 13 players against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Kings head coach played really only 10 men tonight against the Bobcats. \u00a0DeMarcus Cousins, Jason Thompson and Isaiah Thomas all played 29-plus minutes in the win over Charlotte. \u00a0The tighter rotation left Jimmer Fredette<\/a><\/strong> and Travis Outlaw<\/a><\/strong> as the odd men out against the Bobcats. \u00a0Fredette earned his first DNP – Coach’s Decision since the Kings’ Dec. 8th meeting in Portland against the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0Will\u00a0Thomas Robinson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0leave the Charlotte Bobcats wondering what if?<\/strong><\/p>\n The rookie power forward was the first big man off the Kings’ bench. \u00a0He checked into the game with a little less than two minutes to go in the first quarter. \u00a0But his stint was brief, thanks to taking a forearm to the mouth from Ramon Sessions<\/a><\/strong> as the opening period winded down. \u00a0X-rays came back negative and he was available to return to the game after halftime. \u00a0However, Keith Smart chose to stick with his starters for most of the second half. \u00a0Robinson played a grand total of a minute and 10 seconds against one of the four teams that bypassed him in the 2012 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kings win their fourth road game of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[610259938,50819177,610259674,610259684,5204276,35890,610260043,610260044,522941,610259429,15283471,610259423,610259059,3823063,67211199,610260045,76563,7161141,2629175],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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