I for one will not be disappointed. I know what rudy gay is.
Looks a lot better than Hayes salmons GV and ppat.
indeed, absolutely agreed, and that's all well and good... but it's also a bit of a shortsighted view to take. i don't believe the kings will actually "look a lot better" with the addition of rudy gay. i expect ball movement to stagnate often with this reconfigured starting lineup, and while i'm appreciative of the obvious talent upgrade, i'm one of the few who actually sees this trade making the
team worse in the short-term, provided there isn't an immediate follow-up trade. i'm completely fine with that, of course, because i've been looking towards the 2014 draft since tyreke evans was traded, and i'm hardly convinced that gay is actually going to impede the road to a high draft pick just because he has name recognition. high volume chuckers that require nearly 19 shots per game to come away with 19 points per game simply do not lead to wins (for the record, demarcus cousins is averaging 22 points on about 17 shots per game, and isaiah thomas is averaging 18 points on about 13 shots per game)...
there's the rehab angle, of course, that a change of scenery and a hard-nosed [rookie] head coach will do some good for rudy gay. perhaps i'm just not so optimistic. i mean, if people thought "fit" was a serious problem with cousins/evans/thomas sharing a starting lineup, well, then mike malone will have to be a magician of the highest order to make cousins/gay/thomas work.
you may know what rudy gay represents as a player, but it seems like a great many kings fans don't have a clue. "black hole" has been a term thrown around to describe carl landry since he arrived for a second stint in sacramento. rudy gay makes landry look like steve nash out there. kings fans were clamoring for a "pass-first PG" for
years. they got one in greivis vasquez. now he's gone, and people expect the offense to
improve? with three ball-dominant players in the starting line-up? and that's before we even cross the bridge of this team's defensive deficiencies, which haven't been cured with the addition of gay as a "stretch 4" or the reinsertion of the diminutive thomas into the starting lineup...
gay's only 27 years old, so i suppose all hope isn't lost that he can be reformed into a productive player who knows when to pick his spots. but it's unlikely; bad habits are hard to eradicate from a pro in his eighth year. he's had a couple seasons of solid efficiency from the field, but mostly he's been a chucker who the defense can very easily force into a bad shot. again, it doesn't bother
me, because i expect the losses to keep piling up, i expect a high draft pick, and i expect the kings' front office to either flip the asset of gay's enormous expiring contract for better-fitting pieces next season, or allow it to expire so they can become major players in the '15 free agent class. i just see a lotta kings fans attempting to rationalize gay into a player he is not. an inefficient chucker doesn't cease to be an inefficient chucker just because he puts on a kings uni. purple-colored glasses, and all that...