Now that the positive is out of the way, here come the defensive negatives.
After the game, both Alvin Gentry and Holiday, while citing defensive lapses, also noted that the Kings hit tough shots from the onset and that got them in a groove. Gentry also discussed Bogdan Bogdanovic specifically and the gameplan coming in involving him slipping screens for threes.
Which brings us to the second possession of the game for the Kings. Lonzo Ball is on Bogdanovic at the top of the key. Sacramento’s set looks to be a ball screen between De’Aaron Fox as the ballhandler and Bogdanovic as the screener. Ball plays to switch the screen when Fox comes off.
Instead, Bogdanovic slips the screen and races across the court. By the time Ball realizes his error, Bogdanovic is well on his way to a wide-open three.