“Fans definitely deserve better than what we showed today,” said Mike Brown after losing four consecutive games on Sunday. It was a hopeless statement from the Sacramento Kings suffered a blowout loss at the hands of the Indiana Pacers after a promising start. During the post-game presser, Brown’s speech was filled with a lot of internal introspection, and locker room atmosphere, and most importantly, he ended it with hope.

At the end of the first half, the scores were tied at 52. It looked like the Sac Town would end their streak and bounce back from the slump. “we had a great great walkthrough, and guys were feeling pretty good. We thought we were in a pretty good place.” But the Pacers had other ideas. They started the third quarter with a 21-9 run, immediately igniting fans’ wrath, as they began to “boo” their own team. 

Addressing that, Coach Mike Brown said, “We owe it to ourselves… when you look in the mirror you wanna say that you left it all out on the floor and you try to play the right way, but giving up 70 points the way we did, it’s for sure it’s understandable why the fans, let us have it.” The Pacers ran down the Kings dropping 70 points in the second half and restricted the home team to just 95 points. It’s the third straight game for the team, scoring under 100.

Following that, Brown confessed that it was the lowest point of this season. However, at the same time, he believed that there was hope. He added, “If things aren’t going good it’s gonna flip so don’t get too low. Keep trying to be locked in on the next task at hand and go from there.” Looking closely into Brown’s words, one thing is pretty clear, the Kings’ locker room is in a somber mood.

Can Coach Mike Brown flip things around?

What’s the team’s biggest issue? DeMar DeRozan certainly hasn’t fit well with the Kings’ roster mix. Tonight, he had a disappointing night, scoring just two points with a 1-7 FG. Meanwhile, the rest of the team also didn’t have a great shooting night. They shot at 36.5% FG and the Pacers put up a stellar 58.1% FG. Truly outperformed the Sac Town team.

At this point, a reporter asked Brown if he still had some confidence left in the team. Brown confidently said, “We’ve been doing it for almost 2.5 years now… I’m gonna keep preaching it, try to make a little adjustment there here, and then keep searching for, and it’s not gonna always be right, but I can’t sit back and just let stuff snowball and happen and say it’s gonna be OK because we all want more than this.”

We might expect a trade coming into the fold anytime soon. At the same time, it’s pretty early in the season to write off a team. Especially with more than 50 games left in the regular season. Will the Kings bounce back? Who will the team trade? Let us know in the comments below.