{"id":826592,"date":"2014-11-05T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=33582"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:02","slug":"game-5-preview-denver-nuggets-at-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-5-preview-denver-nuggets-at-sacramento-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 5 Preview: Denver Nuggets at Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33583\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brian-Shaw.jpg\" alt=\"Brian-Shaw\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Gametime:<\/strong> 7:00 pm PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, Ca.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong> KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio), Comcast SportsNet California (Local Television)<\/p>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (3-1)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Darren Collison<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Ben McLemore<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Rudy Gay<br \/>\nPF: Jason Thompson<br \/>\nC: DeMarcus Cousins<\/p>\n<h3>Denver Nuggets\u00a0Probable Starters (1-2)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Ty Lawson<br \/>\nSG:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Aaron Afflalo<br \/>\nSF: Wilson Chandler<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Kenneth Faried<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Timofey Mozgov<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. Can the Kings make it four in a row?<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After dropping their home opener to the Golden State Warriors, the Sacramento Kings have pulled off the rare 3-game win streak.\u00a0 The Kings have only had five 3-game win streaks over the last four seasons and the last time the Kings won four games in a row was during the 2010-11 season under coach Paul Westphal.\u00a0 No one expected Sacramento open the season this hot, but after Sunday&#8217;s win over the Nuggets, anything is possible with this team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0Production at shooting guard<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We keep going to this question and the shooting guards keep opening new doors for us to explore.\u00a0 Ben McLemore and Nik Stauskas will get the first shot at the spot, but Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and Ray McCallum are hungry for minutes and willing to play out of position to find a spot in the rotation.\u00a0 Malone needs to find an answer quickly and if not, he needs to ask Pete D&#8217;Alessandro for a little help.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> <strong>How will the crowd react to a team with a winning record?<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Kings fans have been through the ringer over the last few years.\u00a0 Constant instability and relocation chatter has taken away a bit of the fire from one of the proudest fanbases in professional sports.\u00a0 But now their team is coming home with momentum and a winning record.\u00a0 How will they react to their team and can they be the 6th man that has helped carry the Kings to victory in the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings return home to take on the Nuggets<\/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":[34017575,994249,5204276,610259429,610259643,67926737,21689028,1419906,610259428,76563,757267],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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