MEMPHIS -- The four-game road trip the Kings began Monday night was supposed to start with a "sure" victory against a Memphis Grizzlies team that had won just one of its first 12 games.

Oh, well, so much for that theory.

"We talked about how we needed to get this game," a disappointed Rick Adelman said after the Kings had lost 98-94 to the Grizzlies. "Now we've put ourselves in the position where we've got one heck of a road trip in front of us."