{"id":826940,"date":"2015-03-11T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=37616"},"modified":"2015-03-11T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:00:42","slug":"game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 63 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Charlotte Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BenMcLemoreNewHair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37272\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BenMcLemoreNewHair.jpg\" alt=\"BenMcLemoreNewHair\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Game time:<\/strong>\u00a04:00 p.m. PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Time Warner Cable\u00a0Arena, Charlotte, NC.<\/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 (21-41)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Ray McCallum<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Ben McLemore<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Rudy Gay<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Carl Landry<br \/>\nC:\u00a0DeMarcus Cousins<\/p>\n<h3>Charlotte Hornets\u00a0Probable Starters (28-34)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Mo Williams<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Gerald Henderson<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0Michael Kidd-Gilchrist<br \/>\nPF: Marvin Williams<br \/>\nC:\u00a0Al\u00a0Jefferson<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Three things to ponder<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0A hint of defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On their current four-game losing streak, the Kings have allowed their opponents to score at least 110 points per match and shoot over 50 percent from the floor. After letting the Hawks reach\u00a0130 points, shoot 60.2 percent on field goals and 20-of-36 3-pointers on Monday, Sacramento must look within themselves to find the pride for playing defense against a Charlotte club that ranks 28th in the league in scoring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0Ball control (by default)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reborn Hornets, much like the Kings, struggle to force turnovers, placing last in the NBA in steals. Sacramento is averaging 17.6\u00a0turnovers a game under new coach George Karl, but have few\u00a0excuses for sloppy play facing Steve Clifford&#8217;s\u00a0conservative schemes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0Ben&#8217;s bounce back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After opening the Kings&#8217; road trip with a 20-point outing versus the Knicks, Ben McLemore notched nine points against the Spurs and went scoreless versus the Magic. Then the second-year pro dropped 17 points in a half before cooling in Miami, and shot 4-of-16 in Atlanta. As the losses pile on, Sacramento is dependent on\u00a0McLemore to shake off his inconsistencies on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lineups and notes as the Kings take on the Hornets.<\/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":[610259504,34017575,5204276,2597075,4957930,1419906,76563],"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 63 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Charlotte Hornets - 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-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 63 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Charlotte Hornets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-11T17:00:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BenMcLemoreNewHair.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-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Game 63 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Charlotte Hornets\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-11T17:00:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-03-11T17:00:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BenMcLemoreNewHair.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Al Jefferson.\",\"Ben McLemore\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"lance stephenson\",\"Ray McCallum\",\"Rudy Gay\",\"sacramento kings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-63-preview-sacramento-kings-at-charlotte-hornets\/\",\"name\":\"Game 63 Preview: Sacramento Kings at Charlotte Hornets - 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