JD Skeets

Kings coach Doug Christie called for forward Doug McDermott to foul Seth Curry off the ball despite being in the penalty.

And so the play immediately had everybody on Twitter going, what the hell are the Kings doing?

And a lot of people were like, this is next level intentional tanking, this tactic here.

What are you doing, Doug?

The Kings say it was just a mistake.

This is what the reporting says from all the insiders.

Doug just needed more smelling salts is what I would add.

But apparently the strategy was just a misstep.

Christie wanted to use a timeout before he automatically lost it when the clock would go below three minutes.

But he miscalculated that the Warriors were in the bonus.

That's what they're saying here.

And it's not like, hey, we're actually trying to lose the game on purpose and we're trying to tank.

It was just we screwed up here.

Doug Christie sort of lost track of how many fouls had been called.

Do you buy it or what's your takeaway?

I buy it.

The Kings are not tanking.

If they're doing it, they're doing a horrible job of it.

Very Kings like to do that.

But yes, they've won seven of their last 16 games.