Here’s Sacramento Kings head coach Doug Christie on the team’s current struggles (14-game losing streak/tied for longest in franchise history/longest since moving to Sacramento).
(via Sacramento Kings):
Reacts to skid: “I’ve been here for the absolute best of the Sacramento Kings — the best record — and now, we deal with this. So there’s a median in there that takes us to the playoffs and makes our people proud, and we just keep working daily to make those strides to get to that point. There are many games in this that we could have and should have won, and we didn’t and it happens in streaks going both ways. I’ve been a part of it as a player, and now, as a coach. And the one thing that I know is that adversity does not define you, but it clarifies some things about you as an individual and us as a collective because when you face that, you come together with brotherhood, you communicate, you compete at a high level, and we will be better for it in the long run.”
On getting the group back where he wants: “The pain that you feel, or let me say that I feel particularly from getting so close to something and not being able to attain it for the city of Sacramento has just pushed me for a long time. It continues to. I won’t stop coaching them. I won’t stop being positive with them and showing them that you look at other teams who have struggled, and now all of a sudden, they’re sitting in really good positions. It happens, but you have to go through hard times because if it was easy, they’d be 44-12 instead of 12-44. So take these lumps and lessons, learn from them, allow them to make you stronger as an individual, which then makes us stronger as a collective.”
