{"id":826909,"date":"2015-02-27T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=37300"},"modified":"2015-02-27T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:00:18","slug":"game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 56 Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Sac Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cousins-v-Spurs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33879\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cousins-v-Spurs.jpg\" alt=\"Cousins-v-Spurs\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Game time:<\/strong>\u00a07:00 p.m. PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong> KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio), Comcast SportsNet California (Local Television)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (20-35)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Ray McCallum<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Ben McLemore<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Rudy Gay<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Jason Thompson<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Carl Landry<\/p>\n<h3>San Antonio Spurs\u00a0Probable Starters (34-23)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Tony Parker<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Danny Green<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Kawhi Leonard<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Tim Duncan<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Tiago Splitter<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Three things to ponder<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. Halfcourt defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spurs can say confidently that defense wins championships. When Sacramento beat San Antonio way back on November 15, the Kings held the reigning\u00a0titleholders to 42.5 percent shooting from the floor and 29.2 percent from behind the arc. No coincidence there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0Bench play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sacramento&#8217;s bench has noticeably improved since point guard Andre Miller and head coach George Karl came to town, but they&#8217;ll face a San Antonio second unit which ranks top five in the league in points, rebounds and defensive efficiency. Would-be starters Manu Ginobili, Boris Diaw and Patty Mills can&#8217;t be overlooked by the Kings&#8217; reserves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Battle of brains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl coached a flawless\u00a0fourth quarter in a win versus the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.\u00a0The 63-year-old will be put to the test in a duel\u00a0of basketball chess against legend Gregg Povovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lineups and notes as the Kings face the Spurs.<\/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":[34017575,5204276,1419906,76563,93601,194210],"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 56 Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Sac 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\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 56 Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Sac Kings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-27T18:00:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cousins-v-Spurs.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-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Game 56 Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Sac Kings\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-27T18:00:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-02-27T18:00:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cousins-v-Spurs.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ben McLemore\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"Rudy Gay\",\"sacramento kings\",\"Tim Duncan\",\"Tony Parker\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-56-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-sac-kings\/\",\"name\":\"Game 56 Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Sac Kings - 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