Malone fired

Tetsujin

Tetsujin

The Game Thread Dude
#244
#244
Capt. Factorial said:
If nothing else, Karl has an amazing track record. He's sitting on 21 consecutive seasons at or above .500 (and only one of those 21 was exactly .500). He hasn't been under .500 since the '80s. He's a career .599 coach. And some of those Denver teams were at .600+ with quite a bit of smoke and mirrors.

That said, he's in his mid-60s and has been in and out of poor health lately. So caveat emptor. But for all of his teams' defensive deficiencies, he wins games.
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No, Karl's definitely a successful coach. I'm just not sure what he'd be able to do with our personnel. Demarcus is unlike essentially any player's he's ever had. That said,
Jason Jones ‏@mr_jasonjones 4m4 minutes ago
Been asked about George Karl: don't see that during season, but Karl is a big fan of Cousins. Denver tried to get him via trade w/ Karl.
 
fansinceday1

fansinceday1

Starter
#247
#247
Albatros said:
Malone is definitely more popular on this thread than he is in the game threads.
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People (including me) complained about Malone sticking with sessions to a fault and his sometimes weird rotations but in no way were reasonable kings fans calling for him to be fired. NO WAY!
Coaching stability means something. Malone was not a keith smart or a reggie theus. When DMC was well, the majority of us could see the direction he was going and we were seeing what having DMC's back was doing for DMC's growth.
 
Bosnian Diehard

Bosnian Diehard

Starter
#250
#250
SacramentoKings said:
This was the right decision, although the timing is crazy. The organization want to win now, and this sends that message. Our record might be better than we all expected, but it should be better than it is. Once Cousins went out, it was clear that his coaching decisions were questionable at best, especially his rotations. He is responsible for a lot of the losses in which we could have won. Ultimately PDA noticed the same horrible coaching that was being displayed, and instead of dragging it out, they just pulled the trigger. It took nerve but like I said, it sends a message to the players. Mediocrity is not acceptable, and unfortunately Malone was the epitome of that. Now if we can only do something about Sessions and JT.....
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Vivek, you've already lost your rep. Don't make it any worse bro.

(This person joined today and is the first fan of 100s defending the move, has to be a member of the Kings organization)
 
BamBam52

BamBam52

Bench
#251
#251
defend er said:
So odd when Malone was Vivek's guy and praised repeatedly by Vivek, although the philosophical differences with PDA were pretty obvious. I am hoping the players will respond with Corbin. Can't say Corbin inspires a lot of confidence after his stint in Utah.
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Not to defend Corbin, but this team is far superior in talent than any of his previous 4 teams in Mormon land! I'm still heated over this
 
Glenn

Glenn

Hall of Famer
#253
#253
I agree with everyone which is novel. Feels like we just slid back to the "Sacramento is where fools go" situation.

Let me throw in one point of optimism and I promise to remove if people who follow the games in the game thread have a different memory. Malone got kicked out of a game and Corbin took over. There were several positive comments about Corbin along the lines of "so that's how a good team is coached." Does anyone remember that?

Vivek scares me.
 
pdxKingsFan

pdxKingsFan

So Ordinary That It's Truly Quite Extraordinary
Staff member
#256
#256
I hate this move more than I hated it an hour or two ago. I will say I'm willing to play along and "raise my expectations" now.

Of course being a fan of the team I don't really have any alternative. But hey, "you're on notice".
 
L.A. Brian

L.A. Brian

G-League
#257
#257
Normally you don't want to loudly utter an expletive waiting in line in a busy Japanese train station and draw attention to yourself, but I couldn't help it after finding out.

I guess I was more angry about this than shocked. The big red flag for me was how Reno has been turned into a farce. I'm a Loyola Marymount alum who was there during the Gathers/Kimble years and adored how fun it was to watch and experience, but the concept of trying to implement that in a pro game is so ridiculous that I didn't think any management in this day and age would be dumb enough to try such a stunt ever again. But it's a more logical extension of what they'll be trying to go for with Corbin at the helm. God help us. Mullin never ceases to amaze me.
 
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randymoss1881

Starter
#258
#258
rainmaker said:
Interesting:

Malone had disagreed with ownership's pursuit of a Josh Smith trade in July, and made his position known to Ranadive, league sources said. Ranadive joined D'Alessandro in talks with theDetroit Pistons, but no agreement was ever reached.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--kings-fire-coach-michael-malone-061241211.html

The article is worrying as can be. Den/GS part II is the plan.
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Malones is a fool doesn't he know you trade for smith when you have the chance he's a game changer.

Now that we know smith will be here say goodbye to any chance of Ben becoming a star when hell get his lion share of 5-8 shots.
 
Glenn

Glenn

Hall of Famer
#262
#262
L.A. Brian said:
Normally you don't want to loudly utter an expletive waiting in line in a busy Japanese train station and draw attention to yourself, but I couldn't help it after finding out.

I guess I was more angry about this than shocked. The big red flag for me was how Reno has been turned into a farce. I'm a Loyola Marymount alum who was there during the Gathers/Kimble years and adored how fun it was to watch and experience, but the concept of trying to implement that in a pro game is so ridiculous that I didn't think any management in this day and age would be dumb enough to try such a stunt ever again. But it's a more logical extension of what they'll be trying to go for with Corbin at the helm. God help us. Mullin never ceases to amaze me.
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I can picture it. :p

I have never seen more people revert to Christianity in a few hours time.
 
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PHXSUNSFAN

Bench
#264
#264
Malone had disagreed with ownership's pursuit of a Josh Smith trade in July, and made his position known to Ranadive, league sources said. Ranadive joined D'Alessandro in talks with the Detroit Pistons, but no agreement was ever reached.
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Via Woj.

So looks like the Kings wanna get a Gay-Smith-Cousins front court.

Honestly, I'm not sure that would work. Would be a super athletic trio but are three are very high volume shooters.
 
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206Fan

All-Star
#265
#265
D-Mass said:
Malone's post-game comments were strangely positive. Thought he made good points, but in retrospect, I think it makes more sense now. He also took a long time to come out of the locker room to speak with media.
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I've noticed that too.. he was ok with mediocrity on Friday. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seemed like he wasn't expecting a win since Cousins was out. He just wanted to see the guys do the right things do the right plays and just wanted them to move the ball. I don't know, but this isn't right..
 
Hoovtrain

Hoovtrain

All-Star
#266
#266
L.A. Brian said:
Normally you don't want to loudly utter an expletive waiting in line in a busy Japanese train station and draw attention to yourself, but I couldn't help it after finding out.

I guess I was more angry about this than shocked. The big red flag for me was how Reno has been turned into a farce. I'm a Loyola Marymount alum who was there during the Gathers/Kimble years and adored how fun it was to watch and experience, but the concept of trying to implement that in a pro game is so ridiculous that I didn't think any management in this day and age would be dumb enough to try such a stunt ever again. But it's a more logical extension of what they'll be trying to go for with Corbin at the helm. God help us. Mullin never ceases to amaze me.
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Lucky you...I was there during the stretch where LMU was dead last in the nation. It was a magical time
 
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swisshh

Starter
#270
#270
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/stor...-sacramento-kings-go-firing-another-coach-nba

Surely Malone couldn't have been fired for basketball reasons, not with Sacramento tied for its best start through 24 games in a decade despite playing more than a third of those games without star center DeMarcus Cousins. Yet apparently that's exactly what happened, with a source telling ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne the Kings "expected more."

Expectations? In Sacramento? Certainly not from objective outside observers. My SCHOENE projection system forecasted 35 wins; a projection based on ESPN's real plus-minus pegged the Kings for a dismal 25-57 record. The ESPN Forecast panel split the difference, predicting an even 30 wins, and the Westgate SuperBook set its line for Sacramento at 30.5 wins.
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