Right here’s Sacramento Kings head coach Doug Christie on the group’s present struggles (14-game dropping streak/tied for longest in franchise historical past/longest since shifting to Sacramento).
(by way of Sacramento Kings):
Reacts to skid: “I’ve been right here for the best possible of the Sacramento Kings — the perfect file — and now, we cope with this. So there’s a median in there that takes us to the playoffs and makes our folks proud, and we simply preserve working day by day to make these strides to get to that time. There are a lot of video games on this that we may have and may have received, and we didn’t and it occurs in streaks going each methods. I’ve been part of it as a participant, and now, as a coach. And the one factor that I do know is that adversity doesn’t outline you, but it surely clarifies some issues about you as a person and us as a collective as a result of if you face that, you come along with brotherhood, you talk, you compete at a excessive degree, and we can be higher for it in the long term.”
On getting the group again the place he needs: “The ache that you just really feel, or let me say that I really feel significantly from getting so near one thing and never having the ability to attain it for the town of Sacramento has simply pushed me for a very long time. It continues to. I received’t cease teaching them. I received’t cease being optimistic with them and exhibiting them that you just take a look at different groups who’ve struggled, and now unexpectedly, they’re sitting in actually good positions. It occurs, however it’s a must to undergo onerous instances as a result of if it was straightforward, they’d be 44-12 as an alternative of 12-44. So take these lumps and classes, be taught from them, enable them to make you stronger as a person, which then makes us stronger as a collective.”
