A phrase written atop the dry-erase board in the Sacramento Kings’ locker room captured a sense of what interim coach Doug Christie apparently wants to do. With a version of language that, let’s just say, might not be acceptable to everyone, the message was to do anything but relax.

Based on what he saw in a 132-122 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers after what he described as a “crazy 24 hours” following the firing of Mike Brown, interim coach Doug Christie thinks the Sacramento Kings are capable of turning things around.