{"id":826527,"date":"2014-10-11T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2014-10-11T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:00:26","slug":"preseason-preview-nets-at-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Preseason Preview: Nets at Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33055\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ben_mclemore_vs_joe_johnson1.jpg\" alt=\"ben_mclemore_vs_joe_johnson\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Gametime:<\/strong>\u00a010:00 pm PST<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai, China<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong>\u00a0NBA TV, KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio)<\/p>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (1-1)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Ramon Sessions<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Nik Stauskas<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Rudy Gay<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Reggie Evans<br \/>\nC: DeMarcus Cousins<\/p>\n<h3>Brooklyn Nets\u00a0Probable Starters (1-0)<\/h3>\n<p>PG: Deron Williams<br \/>\nSG:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Bojan Bogdanovic<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Joe Johnson<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Kevin Garnett<br \/>\nC: Brook Lopez<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bogutan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-cowbellkingdom.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Three things to ponder<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. The point guard race<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through two preseason games Darren Collison and Ramon Sessions are de facto options A and 1A for head coach Michael Malone. Collison started the opener and shot 5-of-7 field goals, while Sessions earned the nod in Game 2 and produced six assists to zero turnovers.\u00a0Both guards have logged\u00a0even minutes and executed plays, and their versatility to slide to the two may\u00a0make the final choice for starter\u00a0trickier\u00a0for Malone. Sophomore Ray McCallum made his first preseason appearance with less than four minutes to go in their last contest, so his role remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0A situation at small forward<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one should be alarmed by Rudy Gay&#8217;s cold shooting thus far, but the role behind him seems up for grabs. In Game 1 the Kings opted to slide Nik Stauskas to the three and run Collison and Sessions in the backcourt. Derrick Williams played 15 minutes, but he was a healthy scratch on Tuesday, the same day Omri Casspi scored 15 points in 26 minutes after an underwhelming seven-minute showing in the opener.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b>\u00a0<strong>Intriguing DNPs<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Big man wonder Sim Bhullar has played one minute with Sacramento to date. Summer league standout Eric Moreland has yet to make an appearance. Journeyman Ryan Hollins has nibbled a few minutes, but it&#8217;s likely the Kings will soon need to fork over floor time to see what they have in their rim protection department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings take on the Nets in China<\/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":[851878,5204276,829797,288632,67926737,841041,610259840,76563],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Preseason Preview: Nets at Kings - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preseason Preview: Nets at Kings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-11T17:00:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ben_mclemore_vs_joe_johnson1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Preseason Preview: Nets at Kings\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-11T17:00:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-10-11T17:00:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ben_mclemore_vs_joe_johnson1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Brooklyn Nets\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"Deron Williams\",\"Kevin Garnett\",\"Nik Stauskas\",\"Ramon Sessions\",\"Reggie Evans\",\"sacramento kings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2014\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/preseason-preview-nets-at-kings\/\",\"name\":\"Preseason Preview: Nets at Kings - 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