NBA Highlights: One point matters, Sacramento Kings trounced at home ground
Monday night turned out to be a dilemma for the Sacramento Kings who were defeated, just by one single point, by the Los Angeles Clippers. Sacramento Kings hosted the Los Angeles Clippers at home ground, where they saw a very close fourth quarter that rounded
up into a 100-99 loss for the Kings.
Champs
Tyreke Evans shined with 32 points for the Kings and Eric Gordon made 31 points for the winning team.
Highlights
Play by play
1st Quarter
The ball was jumped between Samuel Dalembert (Sacramento) and DeAndre Jordan (Clippers) and Blake Griffin gained possession of the ball for the Clippers. Jordan made the first jump shot for the Clippers at 11:21 on the clock and Dalembert leveled the scores
2-all, with a jump shot assisted by Beno Udrih, some moments later. Francisco Garcia made a three pointer and Udrih was there to give his team an assist, as he pulled out five points for the Kings.
Scores were tied at 12-all, with 6:54 left in 2nd quarter, after Davis made a lay-up shot for the Clippers. Al- Farouq Aminu made a tip shot to score six and Evans made a jump shot for the Kings, Clippers led the Kings by the end of 1st
quarter 28-21.
2nd Quarter
Udrih started off with a lay-up shot as DeMarcus Cousins gave him an assist and Randy Foye missed an opportunity to grab a three pointer for LAC. Darnell Jackson made a dunk shot and Omri Casspi gave him an assist, Kings were 25-28 at that point. Jackson
committed a shooting foul and Griffin grabbed the free throw that came the Clippers way. Cousins made a jump shot to score his first individual points and Casspi took a driving lay-up shot right after, to further the scores for Kings 32-33.
Udrih committed a shooting foul and Davis grabbed one of the two free throws that came their way and the Clippers took a sharp 56-43 advantage, over the Kings. The Clippers led the Kings by the end of 2nd quarter 58-49.
Scores: LAC 30, SAC 28
3rd Quarter
Carl Landry missed a jump hook shot at the very beginning of the 3rd quarter for the Kings. Griffin grabbed a rebound for the Clippers and Gordon made a running jump shot to further the scores 60-49.
Jordan committed a shooting foul that gave the Kings two free throws that were earned by Landry and the Kings started closing on the Clippers 63-69. Another personal foul committed by Gordon bounced some more pebbles into water for Kings and Evans took hold
of both the free throws to make it 65-69. Udrih made a personal foul for the Kings that invaded Eric Bledsoe’s free throws and once more the Clippers edged past the Kings with a six point lead 71-65.
After the Clippers timeout at 3 minutes on the clock, LAC experienced a turn of events. Gordon missed one shot whereas Bledsoe missed three straight shots that came his way. He finalized with a turnover that was stolen by Cousins for the Kings. Scores were
tied at 73-all when Griffin made a jump shot that was fortunately assisted by Bledsoe.
Both the teams kept it close till the end of 3rd quarter and the quarter ended with 76-76.
4th Quarter
After Ike Diogu’s dunk shot and Gordon’s assist, the Clippers edged over the Kings once again and kept a tight hold on the game. Both the teams kept close after that particular shot and Diogu’s turnaround fade away shot, gave the Clippers a four point lead
over the Kings, after that they never relinquished.
Casspi made a jump shot scoring 13 for the Kings. Landry’s shooting foul prompted another free throw for the Clippers.
The end of the 4th quarter had a one point advantage in favour of the Clippers and they won the game by that one point, 100-99.
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