Davis’ 28 Lead Kings To 2nd Straight Win Over Clippers

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December 5, 2021 astatine 4:24 pm

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Terence Davis scored 23 of his 28 points successful the 2nd fractional and the Sacramento Kings bushed the Los Angeles Clippers for the 2nd clip successful 4 nights with a 104-99 triumph Saturday.

Davis made each 4 of his 3-point attempts successful the 3rd 4th and finished 6 of 11 from beyond the arc.

“I deliberation he’s getting a small much comfy successful stuff,” Kings interim manager Alvin Gentry said. “I deliberation with him, the full thought is down what is simply a bully changeable and what is not, oregon erstwhile bash you sprout it and erstwhile bash you not sprout it. I deliberation helium did a bully occupation contiguous of picking those opportunities.”

Tyrese Haliburton added 18 points, six rebounds, and 5 assists for Sacramento, which bushed the Clippers 124-115 connected Wednesday successful Los Angeles. De’Aaron Fox had 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists, and Marvin Bagley III recorded his archetypal double-double of the play with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

“When you marque shots, everybody’s feeling good,” Haliburton said. “It feels similar you’re throwing a stone successful the ocean. It feels similar everybody’s going and everybody’s having fun. It decidedly feels bully for america and we’ve conscionable got to support this momentum going.”

Marcus Morris Sr. led the Clippers with 21 points and 9 rebounds. Reggie Jackson added 18 points.

Paul George had 15 points and 9 assists but changeable conscionable 5 of 21 from the field. Ivica Zubac had 12 points and 11 rebounds.
“Terence Davis comes successful to marque six 3s, large shots, and momentum killers,” Clippers manager Tyronn Lue said. “He had a large crippled — 2 large games. He was aggressive. Tonight helium wounded us.”

Sacramento utilized a 12-2 tally aboriginal successful the 4th fourth to unfastened its biggest pb of the crippled astatine 90-76. Los Angeles answered with 9 consecutive points to get wrong 90-85, but Davis’ three-point play pushed the pb backmost to 8 with 4:24 remaining.
Morris made a heavy 3-pointer with 10.4 seconds remaining to chopped the Kings’ pb to 102-99, but Buddy Hield made 2 escaped throws to seal the win.

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Sacramento held the Clippers to conscionable 38% shooting from the field, including 13 of 34 from 3-point range. The Kings changeable 42%. “I thought defensively, obviously, we were truly good,” Gentry said. “We person to effort to get to that accordant level wherever we’re doing it each night.”

Los Angeles opened the crippled connected a 9-2 tally and led by arsenic galore arsenic 8 successful the archetypal half. Sacramento went connected a 10-0 tally precocious successful the 2nd 4th to instrumentality a 50-45 pb into halftime.

It’s Been A While

The Kings’ triumph marked their archetypal location triumph against the Clippers since March 19, 2013, snapping a 15-game losing streak.

Tip-ins

Clippers: Nicolas Batum missed his eighth consecutive crippled successful the league’s wellness and information protocols, but Lue said that helium was nearing a return. Morris assessed a method foul successful the 3rd quarter.

Kings: Harrison Barnes (right ft sprain) missed his 5th consecutive crippled and Moe Harkless (left genu soreness) missed his 4th straight. Gentry was hopeful some could play the adjacent game. Bagley returned to the lineup aft missing 2 games with a non-COVID-19 illness. Chimezie Metu had a career-high 5 blocks.