Sacramento Loses To Sixers 102-94 As Kings Coaching Carousel Continues To Turn

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Monday marked different caller epoch for the Sacramento Kings. It was their archetypal crippled with interim caput manager Alvin Gentry aft Luke Walton was fired implicit the weekend.

Gentry becomes the 11th caput manager successful 15 years since the Kings’ past travel to the playoffs during the 2005-06 play — the past nether Rick Adelman, who was precocious inducted into the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Gentry has served arsenic an adjunct for the past 3 seasons.

“I don’t cognize if its just to look backmost 15 years agone due to the fact that nary of america was present nary of america was progressive successful that,” Gentry said.

The caller manager is promising much speed.

“We bash person to velocity up the gait and beryllium accordant with the pace,” Gentry said.

The team’s archetypal crippled nether Gentry was against a short-handed Philadelphia 76ers. Sacramento mislaid 102-94 Monday night.

For fans frustrated by a playoff drought, a Sacramento playoff tally can’t travel accelerated enough.

“I conscionable anticipation that we tin get disconnected to a caller start,” instrumentality Austin Writesman said.

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“I deliberation the players are going to respond,” instrumentality Jeffrey Shelton said.

Lisa Daniels and her 15-year-old girl Alex are excited for the coaching change.

“The past clip they made the playoffs, she wasn’t adjacent born,” Daniels said. “So, its breathtaking due to the fact that there’s immoderate truly bully players.”

Daniels remembers being successful labour with her daughter, and watching NBA playoffs from the infirmary bed. The Kings were not on.

“I was watching the Phoenix Suns-Dallas Mavericks crippled astatine Kaiser South, and Kings weren’t successful the playoffs then, truthful I had to bash something,” Daniels said.

The past clip the Kings were successful the playoffs:

• George W. Bush was president.
• Facebook was conscionable launching to the world.
• The iPhone did not exist.

“It’s truly scary to enactment it successful position similar that, erstwhile you enactment it that way,” Daniels said.

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Now, there’s a caller manager — and a caller era? Kings fans cognize by now, they whitethorn not beryllium capable to number connected a post-season. They tin ever clasp connected to hope.

Steve Large