{"id":826611,"date":"2014-11-13T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=33799"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:00:27","slug":"game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 9 Preview: Kings at Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33811\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Marc_Gasol.jpg\" alt=\"Marc_Gasol\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Game time:<\/strong>\u00a05:00 p.m. PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0FedExForum, Memphis, TN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong> KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio), Comcast SportsNet California (Local Television)<\/p>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (5-3)<\/h3>\n<p>PG: Darren Collison<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Ben McLemore<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Rudy Gay<br \/>\nPF: Jason Thompson<br \/>\nC: DeMarcus Cousins<\/p>\n<h3>Memphis Grizzlies\u00a0Probable Starters (7-1)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Mike Conley<br \/>\nSG:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Courtney Lee<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Tony Allen<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Zach Randolph<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Marc Gasol<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. A struggle to score<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies defense can suck the life out of you. They currently rank first in the NBA in points allowed (89.4) and opponent free throw attempts (18.3) per game. Memphis is also tied for sixth\u00a0in steals per contest (8.9). The only chink in their armor is defending behind the arc, where the Kings sit tied for last in makes per game (4.8). Having Darren Collison back from injury will help, but the offensive burden again rests on Cousins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Bench play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the season, Sacramento&#8217;s bench is 23rd in the league in defensive efficiency (hoopsstats.com). On offense, the unit has struggled to find consistent contributors aside from Carl Landry, who&#8217;s been the only Kings second-stringer to reach\u00a0double-digit points at least once in the past three games. Sacramento\u00a0needs someone, whether it be Ramon Sessions, Nik Stauskas or Omri Casspi,\u00a0to step their play up against\u00a0a vulnerable Memphis bench.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b>\u00a0<strong>Where&#8217;s Jason Thompson?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s scoring has been nonexistent, and his defense is beginning to wane too. The big man is\u00a0averaging 2.8 points per night (his previous career-low was 7.1 last season) shooting 29.4 percent on field goals and 25 percent on free throws. In addition, early foul trouble in recent games hasn&#8217;t helped Thompson find his rhythm on both sides of the floor. Adversary Zach Randolph is a classic low post scorer with defensive limitations, so the King has\u00a0a favorable\u00a0matchup for his own strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings travel to Memphis to take on the Grizzlies.<\/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":[34017575,994249,5204276,610259429,1345200,67926737,21689028,841041,1419906,76563,1167179],"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 9 Preview: Kings at Grizzlies - 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-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 9 Preview: Kings at Grizzlies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-13T18:00:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Marc_Gasol.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-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Game 9 Preview: Kings at Grizzlies\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-13T18:00:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-11-13T18:00:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\"},\"wordCount\":307,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Marc_Gasol.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ben McLemore\",\"Darren Collison\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"Jason Thompson\",\"Marc Gasol\",\"Nik Stauskas\",\"Omri Casspi\",\"Ramon Sessions\",\"Rudy Gay\",\"sacramento kings\",\"Zach Randolph\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2014\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-9-preview-kings-at-grizzlies\/\",\"name\":\"Game 9 Preview: Kings at Grizzlies - 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