Again and again, there is one pervasive theme of this Sacramento Kings season: pure and utter strangeness. Today, following a weekend of speculation regarding the future of George Karl, there was no way to know what to expect. How would the players respond? What, if any, changes were we going to see in the schemes the team was in? With the league-worst Philadelphia 76ers as the next opponent, were the embarrassments about to get worse?
At the beginning, not much looked like it had changed. The Kings rolled out the same flawed and pathetic defensive scheme that's surely the laughingstock of the NBA, and the Sixers had no issues taking full advantage.