Malone fired

John Galt

John Galt

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Merdiesel said:
As someone who has had to work through two management takeovers in my previous job, it really sucks!

Hiring Coach Malone before your GM was a huge mistake. I can see why Vivek did it. There were rumblings of interest in Malone throughout the league and he didn't want to miss out on his guy.

Two things come to mind...

Vivek looks flat out unprofessional in this.
Will Cousins regress back into his angry, lost self?

It is never going to happen but how insane would it be if Rick Adelman came walking through that door with Peja?
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It would have been better.. a thousand times better, to announce that Coach Malone has been replaced by "Coach Premium" (Karl, Adelman, Sloan) I could live with that.

But to let Corbin coach for a while... that wastes the whole season - the next to last season in Arco. I predict a lot of season ticket defections this off-season. I have three parters to think of so I'm in a bit of a quandary. If I was on my own - I probably bail. As it is, I probably hold my nose and stick with it - hoping for the best.
 
Kingster

Kingster

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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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THIS is HIGHLY CONCERNING. Did anybody see the TO machine Josh Smith the other night? Let's aim to be the highest TO brain-dead team in the league - trade for Josh Smith!
 
DesertFox

DesertFox

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And for the talk of "the team should've beat the pistons, etc" the Kings minus Cuz are that lower caliber of team.
Going before the season started, with Cuz, you had to squint to see 35 wins.

It's still Gay, Collison (the supposedly exposed starter) and a patch of role players that Malone has coached into a team with expectations.
 
D-Mass

D-Mass

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John Galt said:
Just got an email from Kings ticket rep. Special offer... up to 40% off games thru December.

Yes, I told her where to shove them. Hope she forwards it on. Called Vivek "Joe Maloof 3.0".

I'm really ambivalent about the freaking franchise now. So morbid. Hopefully this just lasts a day or so. Wish I could shake Mike Malone's hand.
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This worries me a TON. So many rookie season ticket holders (like me) jumped in when the franchise was saved...and it's financially straining for me. But, the appearance of stability combined with the promise of a new arena was really enticing. And now? This feels like a punch in the gut.
 
Big Cuz 15

Big Cuz 15

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we know what life will be like w/o cuz in the lineup. we got 2.5 years of seeing cuz in a kings uni. i say that bc by year 4, we'll know if he wants to stay or force his way out.

they better be stacking picks or something bc basketball will be really ugly for the foreseeable future w/o cuz.
 
Chubbs

Chubbs

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How many season ticket holders will bail before next year?

Beyond the basketball related problems with this, it's a terrible business decision.

Fans could hang with Malone and the team struggling, but a new coach completely failing in comparison to Malone?

Open the floodgates.
 
Double-K

Double-K

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This is a bad decision any way you look at this. Similar to Mike Brown's firing by the Lakers, you just don't do this kind of things in the early stage of the season.
 
chief bromden

chief bromden

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At least I got to feel hopeful and jazzed about this team for 2 months. Now it's time to go back to "I'm just watching this to see what a train wreck caused by ineptitude looks like" mode. Can we still trade for IT?
 
Chubbs

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