Klay Thompson made the big basket in 0.2 minutes, a positive performance from Vezenkov even if he didn’t put up numbers

In the final 18 games of the regular season and preseason, the Kings faced the Warriors 12 times. In the early hours of Thursday morning (November 2nd), the Sacramento team had to overcome the loss of the injured DeAaron Fox, which they managed to do satisfactorily, but in the end they lost to San Francisco (102-101) with Sasha Vezenkov sitting and Klay Thompson made the game-winning basket from six yards, 0.2 inches from the final.

Vasiliades lost to 2-2 (1-1 home and 1-1 away), with the former Olympiacos player performing remarkably in defense against both big and small players and being effective in rebounding but not in attack . He held on to two points with six shots in 17:26, but three of them were late shots when the ball remained in his hands and he simply had to execute. Under bad conditions.

The leader for Sacramento was Domantas Sabonis, who had a lot of weight in the attack (23 points, 8/15 two-pointers, 7/12 shots, 11 rebounds, 6 assists) and previously made a very difficult basket with a board “hiding” his shot Thompson . Mitchell, Monk and Barnes helped, but Keegan Murray finished the game with 0 of 7 shots from distance, hurting his team.

The Warriors went 4-1 (1-1 home and 3-0 away), with Steph Curry as the leading scorer and a lot of fans, without anyone, except perhaps Dario Saric, really being in good shape that night. It’s just that Klay Thompson knew what to do in the finale. He didn’t make the pick the Kings expected, put the ball on the floor, shot from mid-range and made another big basket in his great career.

Sasha Vezenkov’s report

He entered the game with Malik Monk with 4:23 left in the first game (21-17), missed a layup on his first touch, did a great job on the defensive rebound and at the end of the twelve minutes the…Kings had an increase from -4 to +3. After a nice cut and an easy finish, he made his first basket at the start of the second and had to go to the bench at 8:13.

He returned to the game with 5:48 minutes left in the third period and the score was 66-72, immediately took a three-pointer at the end of the attack and found an iron, collected the fourth rebound and shortly afterwards missed a runner. On the next attack, he committed an offensive foul on Draymond Green, who was waiting for him in the center of the stick, in the last minute of the period he missed an open three-pointer and in the end, although his attempt was very valuable, his statistics did not fill up.

Most importantly, he is showing improvement on defense as he now understands the power and speed of the NBA. The negative is that it is unfair to the rotation, time of participation and the formations in which it is used. It is difficult for a player with his characteristics to “survive” in the second unit, where there are people who “murder” to take advantage of these opportunities and who do not have all the priorities in mind.

• 2 points
• 1/3 two points
• 0/3 threesomes
• 5 rebounds
• 1 error
• 2 fouls
• -3 to +/-
• at 5:26 p.m

46-38 points on stick, 7-10 points on surprise, 34-30 points on substitute, 20-18 points on opponent’s errors, 10-12 points on second chances.

The Kings’ next opponent is the Rockets in Houston (Sunday morning, November 5th, 2:00 a.m.).

THE DODECALEPTA: 28-31, 56-55, 74-79, 102-101

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS (Steve Kerr): Wiggins 14 (6/9 2-pointers, 2/2 shots), Green 13 (2 3-pointers, 2 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks), Looney 6 (9 rebounds, 6 assists). ), Thompson 14 (5/11 2-pointers, 1/4 3-pointers), Curry 21 (4/10 3-pointers, 5 rebounds, 3 assists), Paul 2 (4 rebounds, 8 assists), Saric 15 ( 3/4 2-point player, 3/5 3-point player, 6 rebounds, 2 assists), Peyton 4, Cuminga 12 (1), Moody 1

SACRAMENTO KINGS (Mike Brown): Barnes 14 (4/7 3-pointers), Murray 10 (0/7 3-pointers, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals), Sabonis 23 (8/15 2-pointers, 7/12 shots , 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 turnovers), Herter 11 (1 3-pointer, 9 rebounds, 3 assists), Mitchell 13 (3 3-pointers, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals), Monk 16 (3), Vezenkov 2, Jones 4, McGee 6 (6 rebounds), Duarte 2

Golden State Warriors team stats: 28/50 2-pointers, 11/31 3-pointers, 13/15 shots, 44 rebounds, 32 assists, 5 steals, 6 blocks, 17 turnovers, 17 fouls

Sacramento Kings team stats: 25/53 2-pointers, 11/35 3-pointers, 18/23 shots, 57 rebounds, 21 assists, 8 steals, 4 blocks, 12 turnovers, 17 fouls