{"id":826603,"date":"2014-11-09T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=33698"},"modified":"2014-11-09T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:00:48","slug":"game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 7 Preview: Kings at Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33717\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sacramento_Kings_DeMarcus_Cousins_Kendrick_Perkins.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento_Kings_DeMarcus_Cousins_Kendrick_Perkins\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Gametime:<\/strong>\u00a04:00 pm PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, OK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong> KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio), Comcast SportsNet California (Local Television)<\/p>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (5-1)<\/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>Oklahoma City Thunder\u00a0Probable Starters (1-5)<\/h3>\n<p>PG: Reggie Jackson<br \/>\nSG:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jeremy Lamb<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Lance Thomas<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Serge Ibaka<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Steven Adams<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. Showcasing the defense<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minus Kevin Durant (foot) and Russell Westbrook (hand), the Thunder enter Sunday&#8217;s contest\u00a0dead last in the NBA in points per game with 90.5. The Kings are currently ranked fifth\u00a0in the league in opponent field goal percentage (41.4), so as long as Sacramento maintains\u00a0its defensive intensity and avoids cheap fouls, the Thunder should struggle mightily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Initiating the offense<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday the Kings struggled to operate their halfcourt sets to open the first and third quarters. When Darren Collison was replaced by Ramon Sessions, the structure in the offense practically collapsed. Playing the Thunder will provide\u00a0a good opportunity to rediscover their rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b>\u00a0<strong>More bench time<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are Sacramento&#8217;s lightest opponent for\u00a0the foreseeable future, so this match may be the best time to ease the starters&#8217; minutes and go deep in the rotation. Along with the whole second unit, Ray McCallum should get his chances, and it wouldn&#8217;t be a shock to see Derrrick Williams and Ryan Hollins snag a little run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings travel to Oklahoma City in search of sixth straight victory.<\/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":[34017575,994249,5204276,610259426,610259429,733332,4957930,294428,1419906,2479569,610260552,76563],"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>Game 7 Preview: Kings at Thunder - 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\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 7 Preview: Kings at Thunder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-09T18:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sacramento_Kings_DeMarcus_Cousins_Kendrick_Perkins.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\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Game 7 Preview: Kings at Thunder\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-09T18:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-11-09T18:00:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sacramento_Kings_DeMarcus_Cousins_Kendrick_Perkins.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ben McLemore\",\"Darren Collison\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"Derrick Williams\",\"Jason Thompson\",\"Kevin Durant\",\"Ray McCallum\",\"Reggie Jackson\",\"Rudy Gay\",\"Russell Westbrook\",\"Ryan Hollins\",\"sacramento kings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2014\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-7-preview-sacramento-kings-at-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\",\"name\":\"Game 7 Preview: Kings at Thunder - 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