I do. It came down to this game. I thought if anything made it matter would be Dallas' remaining games at that point, not our last game vs Houston (which I thought we would lose).
I will say every fan that cheers for these worthless wins versus g league level competition deserves this team being bad. Ownership won’t care until the fan base makes united statement that they need to commit to a direction.
Me too, just yesterday they were willing to put away the Lakers using Paul and at least 3 guys that were "injured" today. Why couldn't they have shown us the same courtesy?
Me too, just yesterday they were willing to put away the Lakers using Paul and at least 3 guys that were "injured" today. Why couldn't they have shown us the same courtesy?
I remember when this forum was full throttle when the team was doing well and now just hand full of fans. Yet here we are , still fans that root for us to pick 7th every year.
It's true, we deserve everything coming to us. Other teams, like the Mavs and Hawks, know when to tank. When they tank, they pull out all stops. That's why they hardly miss the playoffs. Both of those teams will have good picks with good players and will be contending for playoff spots next year. We'll be in the lotto again, crossing our fingers it doesn't jump into the top 3 so we don't have to watch the Celtics get a free top 3 pick.
Next year should be a very weird year indeed. For the sake of this franchise, they better do a helluva lot better because if they don't, and the celtics end up with a top 3 pick, this franchise is gonna go down in friggin flames.
Grant realizing what winning meaningless games was going to do came through a couple weeks ago on his show. Sure felt like the kings fan at Golden 1 felt that reality set in tonight. The kings have really screwed themselves. I mean they have done themselves some serious future damage. This FO is reaping what they have sowed. Their inability to decide on how to handle this rebuild year has completely screwed themselves.
Congratulations.......
Teams like the Lakers, and now Mavs/Hawks are realizing that the 76ers way is the correct way to win now. Tank properly for 2-3 years and then come back to the playoffs for years to come. Meanwhile, the Kings will miss the playoffs again next year and we'll have to watch the pick go to Boston. At least we won against Memphis though!
If it means we can fire Vlade and Joerger and FINALLY tank a season, I'm all for it. That will never happen, since the fans will start screaming for blood after another losing season, but one can dream.
Well it kinda sucks not outright having the 6th pick but there's still the coin flip. Also last year if the kings would have lost another game or two they wouldn't have been 8th in the lottery, which was the spot that actually moved up. It's not ideal but it's not a total catastrophe.
The coin toss only decides position if neither moves up into the top 3.
The Kings and Bulls split the 63 combinations for 6th and 43 combinations for 7th for a total of 53 each.
So with tonight's W, the Kings surrendered 10 lottery combinations to the Bulls and gave them a coin flips chance at moving a spot ahead of them if neither beat the odds and land top 3.
If the Bulls do vault into the top 3, it's not necessarily because of the 10 combos they got from the tie. In fact, I'm not sure if they'd ever divulge whether the combo that got them top 3 was one of the 10 the Kings had to share.
Well it kinda sucks not outright having the 6th pick but there's still the coin flip. Also last year if the kings would have lost another game or two they wouldn't have been 8th in the lottery, which was the spot that actually moved up. It's not ideal but it's not a total catastrophe.
8th is still a very real possibility. If we lose the flip 50% chance, and get jumped by another team 20% we are 8th. Carter may well chose to not declare...
Likely you will see these players gone...
Ayton
Doncic
Bagley
Jackson
Bamba
Porter
Mikhal Bridges
How do you feel about drafting another guard as BPA?
8th is still a very real possibility. If we lose the flip 50% chance, and get jumped by another team 20% we are 8th. Carter may well chose to not declare...
Likely you will see these players gone...
Ayton
Doncic
Bagley
Jackson
Bamba
Porter
Mikhal Bridges
How do you feel about drafting another guard as BPA?
If this entire scenario played out, I'd strongly consider Miles Bridges, Kevin Knox or Trae Young. Young doesn't fill a position of need, but shooting with range is always at a premium these days and they could still try to work some kind of deal with another team to balance out their young talent.