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In fact, Childress is not even scoring 20, or even 10 points per game in the Euroleague—he’s at 9.8 ...

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:56:29 -0000

In fact, Childress is not even scoring 20, or even 10 points per game in the Euroleague—he’s at 9.8 points in 27 minutes per game, which is the lowest scoring output he’s produced since his freshman year at Stanford. His field goal percentage is also at a career low thus far (since college at least), and he’s shooting an incredibly poor percentage from the free throw line (53%) and 3-point range (14%) as well.

Needless to say, high-level European basketball requires quite a bit of adjusting to, even for an incredibly smart and versatile talent like Childress.

Need more evidence? Childress is so far turning the ball over on 1/4th of his possessions, far more than he’s ever averaged in his career (last season 16%, the year before 14%). Clearly he’s having a hard time with the incredibly crowded paint that European basketball is known for, and possibly his role on the team or the expectations, and he’s getting very few calls from stingy refs to help him with that transition.

More on the Josh Childress debate from couple of weeks ago

Blazers and Grizzlies swapping Outlaw and Conley?

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:49:24 -0000

Blazers and Grizzlies swapping Outlaw and Conley?

I think this is quite interesting in terms of pookey's proposal some time ago (here) and also in terms of mentioned Portland's interest in Mike Bibby.

'The Greatest Tragedy in Sports'

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:19:09 -0000

I think this has not been posted here yet and I thought it might be a nice kickoff for the new season.

Nicely edited and with a brilliant selection of the music background, this serial maps the highs and lows of the Kings dynasty, focusing on the Western finals 2002, but making some detours also to the 80's , bitching constantly about David Stern and the way he has put the NBA (and about the means he used for that). One can see it as a mix of complains and cries, one can see it as very touching videos with a great work done in terms of editing.

The links : (8 parts so far, hence put in the fanposts)

Part 1 / About the genesis of LA/Sac rivalry

Part 2 / The draft in 85 and some conspiracies about the lottery

Part 3 / Creation of media stars (Jordan to Kobe/Shaq) with goal to develop NBA commercially

Part 4 / Sactown up to 2002

Part 5 / The Western Finals up to the game 6

Part 6 / Game 6 (very nice)

Part 7 / Game 6 and the Western Finals continued (perhaps the best part)

Part 8 / Reference through Tim Donaughy's allegations

European leagues' preview

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:18:39 -0000

First of all sorry for placing this in fanposts, but I could not find a way how to fill the format of fanshots...

Maybe you have noticed this already, the Draftexpress gives previews of the best national leagues in Europe, so far presenting the Spanish, the Italian, the Russian and the Greek leagues.

In my modest mind, those previews are quite apt, approachable and interesting at once, and they cover both future-prospects as well as current best players from Europe making thus some significance also for Kings, both in terms of the draft (particularly having Houston's first-round pick) and of potential free agency.

If you have a time, I would encourage you to spend a couple of minutes (they are not too long and seem to be written for US-based fans) and go through that.

Warriors sign Justin Williams as a training camp invitee

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:05:45 -0000

Warriors sign Justin Williams as a training camp invitee

Being just one of 18 players for the training camp.

Kings vs US-team - Where you place the loyalty?

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:12:48 -0000

As a non-US Kings fan, I just wanted to ask you how you feel about the US basketball team. It has not been discussed here too much (so I hopeit is not a sensitive issue), but I would be interested in the cultural/individual forms of club/national attitudes.

What I mean is that here in Europe, most of the people are really interested in how national squads do in international competitions, particularly in popular sports, although they do not care about sport otherwise. However, it is quite usual that the hard-core fans would ignore or even boycott and stand against their national squads if it includes players they dislike or it is based around their rivals. In short, for the most loyal fans, the club is much more than the national team.

Therefore I was wondering what is the situation at the Kings' hard core, whether those two attitutes can co-exist, whether you actually care for national team or whether to root for Kobe Bryant no matter what jersey he wears you find to be simply immoral... Thanks for answers

Mike Bibby making people happy

KingsFanfromCentralEurope — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:17:49 -0000

Dear all, let me welcome myself to this webpage.

Perhaps some of you have seen this already -
http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/hawks/entries/2008/04/04/the_bibby_effec.html?cxnt fid=blogs_hawks

It seems (and maybe spend some time to browse through comments - suggestions of new contract for Mike at the level of Billups) that Mike Bibby is again bringing some smile to his fans' (and mates') faces.

So everybody - one big smile in the honour of Mike?