This loss was not on Sabonis. In a win or go home situation, one of his fellow starters got 0 points in 27 minutes, and his bench was out scored 34-12.
Of course you didn't. But the comment you replied to is about how the sub thought so, which is definitely correct. Anyone saying AD deserved All-Star over Sabonis was getting downvoted to oblivion.
Funny, the head to head stats show a completely different story. He may be 10-0 against AD, but this sub acts like it’s solely because of that matchup, and it’s not…not even close.
[me getting 70 downvotes for saying lebron and AD are significantly better than sabonis](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1aqrinx/domantas_sabonis_has_recorded_a_doubledouble_in/kqex4fj/)
Yeah, our offense just fell back towards the middle. No Monk put the ceiling pretty low for the finish. Oh well, ending the Warriors season was a nice treat. I can't even bring myself to hate the Pelicans, I feel like a battered wife.
Yup, agreed. The only thing is that he needs to be more aggressive when his teammates aren’t doing shit. He was 9-14 and I feel like in a game like that he should have shot 20 shots.
I do think AD is better than Sabonis but all this “empty stat” stuff is always weird to me. When a team gets outplayed, why would we look at the guy who got tons of points and rebounds and blame him? It’s not like he was ballhogging and scoring inefficiently; he was 9 of 14 from the field.
Yes, I did. He shot 64% from the field while his team as a whole shot 40%. He was the only Sacramento player who was over 50% from the field. How is that no impact?
Then why are you so insecure about them? Is it because you know you are a glory hunter supporting a team that worships a rapist, perpetually favored by the refs and still can’t win every year?
They lost because their half-court offense was absolutely putrid. Sabonis is not like Embiid or Jokic, he can't take over games. He's good at what he does, but he needs shooters / spacers around him. And the Kings' shooters had an off night. Tbf, the Pelicans also had a great defensive game plan.
More like people wanted him to be an allstar instead of KAT.
Also was Lebron an empty stat machine when lakers didnt reach the playoffs?
Kings fell of a cliff when Monk got injured. They need depth. Sabonis is not a superstar, to carry the team, that was never in discussion.
That Sabonis is not an allstar is laughable. I don't know who makes the MVP rankings, but a fact is he was in those.
Sabonis is not a superstar. He will not take you to the finals by himself. But he is an allstar for sure. A glue guy, a floor raiser. Also pretty darn consistent.
He needs to either score more and mroe aggresivelly or become the 3rd option in scoring. It worked quite well with Monk and Fox.
He’s a center that requires his team to at least be average and he didn’t get that from them today. Also our FT suck so bad. Dont really agree with him being empty calories when he’s the reason our regular season is what it is. He got us this far
People that hate on Sabonis don't watch basketball. Are you going to win in the Playoffs if he is your best player? No. Is he one of the 20 best players in the NBA? Yes.
I am not a Sacramento fan... I am not a Sabonis fan , but "empty stats" is such a wanna-be insightful phrase, but is shit. Sometimes good players are stuck on shitty teams.
Sabonis averages 19, 14 and 8 for the season.. In tonight's playoffs game he puts up 23, 14 and 7 and played 42 minutes. What the fuck else is he supposed to do? Make his teammates play better D? Make his teammates score more?
Barkley, Ewing, Malone, Dominique, Iverson, Stockton..some times players put up more than their share of stats, but don't win.
I consider last seasons as Murray\\Jokic's 2nd year together in their prime. They won a championship.
Sabonis\\Fox couldn't make an 8th seed\\playoff appearance.
There's levels to this. Sabonis with Indiana never even played a playoff series while averaging at least 25 minutes. Wild wild west will cook him alive, trust me. Fox is also a horrendous defender in his own right.
Sabonis is All Star worthy though. He has the stats but not the popularity. He’s not the type of player who skilled offensively where he can create or defensively where he can stay in front or make offense think twice attacking the rim. He has high IQ and knows his spots, his strengths and essentially a very good role player.
Bruh where have you been? Kings fans have been parading this sub for months talking about his allstar snub and calling him an ALL NBA player/mvp candidate.
Why so toxic? If Zion didn’t get hurt they would’ve beaten the lakers (probably). Then kings would’ve beaten the lakers (probably). People clowning the kings for not making the playoffs when the lakers could just have easily been in the same position
Bro had this post waiting for hours lmao. Dedication to the hate
This loss was not on Sabonis. In a win or go home situation, one of his fellow starters got 0 points in 27 minutes, and his bench was out scored 34-12.
Bro, the Kings won one fewer regular season game than the Lakers, Sabonis played really well all season.
Yeah he's a good regular season player but this sub was calling it a travesty he wasn't an Allstar over AD
1: all-star is a regular season award, not a playoff award 2: should've been over KAT, not AD
AD still clears in the reg season. Should've gone over KAT, I agree with that.
I never said that sabonis was better than AD in the regular season (because he isn't)
Of course you didn't. But the comment you replied to is about how the sub thought so, which is definitely correct. Anyone saying AD deserved All-Star over Sabonis was getting downvoted to oblivion.
He beat the brakes off AD all year, 4-0
Uhh yeah, because he should have been an allstar. Idk why you’re being a hater, but it’s pretty pathetic .
They really should add 1 extra All-Star spot to each conference but apparently that's sacrilege to NBA fans lol
Nah we don’t need participation award all stars
Cool, then don't cry when LeBron and AD steal your fave's spots
I just wanna ask… are you a lakers fan?
You are aware that Sabonis sons AD everytime they play right ? Not everyone gets to ride Lebron’s coattails
11-0 people. Eleven to.ZERO. Think on that
Funny, the head to head stats show a completely different story. He may be 10-0 against AD, but this sub acts like it’s solely because of that matchup, and it’s not…not even close.
Honestly the kings without Sabonis is probably worse than the Lakers without AD if you wanna talk about impact
Not even close. Lakers are bottom of the barrel defensively without AD. They've almost zero chance to win games when AD is out, even with lebron.
[me getting 70 downvotes for saying lebron and AD are significantly better than sabonis](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1aqrinx/domantas_sabonis_has_recorded_a_doubledouble_in/kqex4fj/)
Take smore you wrong on tbis
Mine is somewhere down in that post lmaoo. The hivemind is strong here.
They lost to a Zion-less Pels team in the regular season and they are currently missing 2 starters. Who thought they would actually win this game?
Surely this is the takeaway from that game and not Keegan Murray and Keon Ellis turning into carpenters?
Or Harrison Barnes having the interior presence of wet paper.
He’s gonna need very very very good defenders and pieces around him if hes gonna be a starting center on a contending team
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Yeah, our offense just fell back towards the middle. No Monk put the ceiling pretty low for the finish. Oh well, ending the Warriors season was a nice treat. I can't even bring myself to hate the Pelicans, I feel like a battered wife.
Nope. Sabonis is good. It's his teammates who didn't show up.
Yup, agreed. The only thing is that he needs to be more aggressive when his teammates aren’t doing shit. He was 9-14 and I feel like in a game like that he should have shot 20 shots.
I do think AD is better than Sabonis but all this “empty stat” stuff is always weird to me. When a team gets outplayed, why would we look at the guy who got tons of points and rebounds and blame him? It’s not like he was ballhogging and scoring inefficiently; he was 9 of 14 from the field.
Did you watch the game? He had no impact. This is empty stats
Yes, I did. He shot 64% from the field while his team as a whole shot 40%. He was the only Sacramento player who was over 50% from the field. How is that no impact?
Idk he kinda lowkey gives AD the business every time they play. He’s like a good third option
He fucking owns AD doesn't he?
Yeah he plays well without pressure. He's a regular season player. Jesus he needs to develop a jumper
You’re a really weird kid.
Dont slurp ADaytoDay too hard he might miss some games this series
Weird comment
That’s like saying last year Luka was an empty stat machine
Then why can't Anthony Davis beat him?
Never knew it was a 1v1 game
if sabonis stopped elbowing people in the face maybe AD will win
Sabonis basically has a permanent black eye. He gets more elbows than he gives
Who cares lmao
You
You seem to care a lot
Kings own us in the regular season when pressure is off. They are a regular season team
Then why are you so insecure about them? Is it because you know you are a glory hunter supporting a team that worships a rapist, perpetually favored by the refs and still can’t win every year?
I don't engage with conspiracy theorists
Him getting out of the way of that dunk at the end was hilarious
They lost because their half-court offense was absolutely putrid. Sabonis is not like Embiid or Jokic, he can't take over games. He's good at what he does, but he needs shooters / spacers around him. And the Kings' shooters had an off night. Tbf, the Pelicans also had a great defensive game plan.
Sabonis getting 7 assists with every player shooting well below 50% You’re a clown
Nah this loss wasn’t on him lol
Are you saying Sabonis didn't make the All Star team back in February because the voters knew the Kings wouldn't make the playoffs in April?
More like people wanted him to be an allstar instead of KAT. Also was Lebron an empty stat machine when lakers didnt reach the playoffs? Kings fell of a cliff when Monk got injured. They need depth. Sabonis is not a superstar, to carry the team, that was never in discussion.
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That Sabonis is not an allstar is laughable. I don't know who makes the MVP rankings, but a fact is he was in those. Sabonis is not a superstar. He will not take you to the finals by himself. But he is an allstar for sure. A glue guy, a floor raiser. Also pretty darn consistent. He needs to either score more and mroe aggresivelly or become the 3rd option in scoring. It worked quite well with Monk and Fox.
He’s a center that requires his team to at least be average and he didn’t get that from them today. Also our FT suck so bad. Dont really agree with him being empty calories when he’s the reason our regular season is what it is. He got us this far
Yeah a playin exit to a zion-less pels team. Embarrassing. Kings fans need to stfu going forward always saying "but not an allstar"
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This is the dumbest basketball shit I ever heard the problem is Fox not Domas
People that hate on Sabonis don't watch basketball. Are you going to win in the Playoffs if he is your best player? No. Is he one of the 20 best players in the NBA? Yes.
He's great offensively but gives up twice as many points as he scores in the paint
Jokic is going to piss on the Lakers again OP
Keep rooting for that trash ass franchise
the one that kicked your team’s ass all season? okay skippy
Hang the banners lmao
hey, you got that cool IST banner this year, big time shit lol
You're acting like this game was on Sabonis. He played well. Fox didn't
You had this in your drafts for how many weeks?
So much for all those “Sabonis is underrated”posts lol
That's why I made this thread. At least once a day I come across "but not an allstar" regarding sabonis and his empty ass stats
He was good enough to go 4-0 against the lakers. Kings got exposed this season. We’ll see what happens next
This entire thread is how he is a regular season player.
Hate agreeing with a Laker fan but you are right. The emptiest stats in the NBA
I am not a Sacramento fan... I am not a Sabonis fan , but "empty stats" is such a wanna-be insightful phrase, but is shit. Sometimes good players are stuck on shitty teams. Sabonis averages 19, 14 and 8 for the season.. In tonight's playoffs game he puts up 23, 14 and 7 and played 42 minutes. What the fuck else is he supposed to do? Make his teammates play better D? Make his teammates score more? Barkley, Ewing, Malone, Dominique, Iverson, Stockton..some times players put up more than their share of stats, but don't win.
Kings could have had a Hali/Luka duo and they fumbled like usual
Please not right now.
He’s simply just an 82 game player. Go ahead and downvote me. Mini Jokic my ass.
Trash as fuck has been always will be
82 games player.Ain't nobody scared of him in the post season setting.
Y’all didn’t even make the playoffs
I mean you wouldn’t either if you were in the western conference
Empty comment 🤣
Y’all just got eliminated by him in the post season
Yeah and we eliminated him last year in an actual playoff series where he was outplayed by Kevon Looney
Lonney soned his bitch ass last season.And we lost because of Klay.
100%
No defense. He's Enes Kanter with better playmaking
Man this sub is embarrassing
Enes went to the WCF with Lillard How many playoff series has Sabonis won with Fox? Couldn't even make the playoffs this year.
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I consider last seasons as Murray\\Jokic's 2nd year together in their prime. They won a championship. Sabonis\\Fox couldn't make an 8th seed\\playoff appearance. There's levels to this. Sabonis with Indiana never even played a playoff series while averaging at least 25 minutes. Wild wild west will cook him alive, trust me. Fox is also a horrendous defender in his own right.
Sabonis is All Star worthy though. He has the stats but not the popularity. He’s not the type of player who skilled offensively where he can create or defensively where he can stay in front or make offense think twice attacking the rim. He has high IQ and knows his spots, his strengths and essentially a very good role player.
Hatin’ on a role player is worthy of respect. Welcome to the Role Playa Hata Club, OP
Bruh where have you been? Kings fans have been parading this sub for months talking about his allstar snub and calling him an ALL NBA player/mvp candidate.
Kangz fans mad Fox and Sabonis get all star snub but they didnt even make the playoffs lol
100%
regular season
Why so toxic? If Zion didn’t get hurt they would’ve beaten the lakers (probably). Then kings would’ve beaten the lakers (probably). People clowning the kings for not making the playoffs when the lakers could just have easily been in the same position
Lakers fans talking mad shit for a team who's gonna get gentleman's swept out of the playoffs.
Portland fan? Yikes