Fire Walton
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Giving up 100pts in just 3 quarters for these many consecutive games now is right on Vivek yellow brick road of just playing 4 vs 5 on defense. Or make it 3 vs 5 on defense with Bagley camping under our goal and Buddy right on the 3 pt line. Vivek has some kind of hacker mentality. He just want to hack to rules of the NBA now. LOL
Anyway Luke better start running triple screens by 2nd half of the game if he wants to keep shooting from outside because his drive and kick are getting old this early of the season. Kings outscoring teams in the first half but running same plays by the 2nd. That's one way they got pinned down once the second half starts.
Gentry should have those plays in his books. But not sure if Gentry is just waiting till he's turn as HC comes. This is probably the closest he gets to that Suns 2008 he used to run competitively. So a good chance for redemption is right around the chair Luke is sitting on right now.
Anyway Luke better start running triple screens by 2nd half of the game if he wants to keep shooting from outside because his drive and kick are getting old this early of the season. Kings outscoring teams in the first half but running same plays by the 2nd. That's one way they got pinned down once the second half starts.
Gentry should have those plays in his books. But not sure if Gentry is just waiting till he's turn as HC comes. This is probably the closest he gets to that Suns 2008 he used to run competitively. So a good chance for redemption is right around the chair Luke is sitting on right now.
I don't think it's up to the Capt to make sense of Walton's decisions. That's something you need to ask Walton. Neither the Capt or myself are mind readers. I only care about results. I have no idea why General Custer decided to attack 3000 indians with 400 men, but somehow, he probably convinced himself it was a good idea at the time. Why Walton decides to do what he does is unimportant, however, the results are important. McNair didn't hire him, and it's just a matter of when, not if, he's fired.
In the short term, it makes sense to ride him out for this season until McNair can make some changes. After which he can bring in his own choice for the position. The worry of course is will any long term damage be done in the short term. How long will Vivek be able to hold it together?
In the short term, it makes sense to ride him out for this season until McNair can make some changes. After which he can bring in his own choice for the position. The worry of course is will any long term damage be done in the short term. How long will Vivek be able to hold it together?
I think that you and I, and I'm fairly sure both McNair and Vivek know this team is very unlikely to make the playoff's. You know your going to be in the lottery. So the question is, how do you approach the season with that knowledge? With a good group of players coming in the next draft, you want to get the best player you can, hopefully a future star. So you need to lose a lot of games. At the same time, you want to see improvement and growth out of your future core players. You want to start building a winning mentality. That's a very fine line to walk.
And, your trying to do all this with a head coach that's desperate to reverse his fortune. Desperate men make bad decisions. I think I can safely say that Walton cares more about his own future than the future of Whiteside, or any other player on the team and I would be shocked if otherwise. Personally, I would have fired Walton along with Vlade, but that was a Vivek decision, and probably a financial one. Needless to say, McNair has his work cut out for him.
We as fans have little to go on when it comes to the inner workings of McNair's mind. So it should be an interesting ride. So far, like Petrie, he appears to keep everything close to the vest.
And, your trying to do all this with a head coach that's desperate to reverse his fortune. Desperate men make bad decisions. I think I can safely say that Walton cares more about his own future than the future of Whiteside, or any other player on the team and I would be shocked if otherwise. Personally, I would have fired Walton along with Vlade, but that was a Vivek decision, and probably a financial one. Needless to say, McNair has his work cut out for him.
We as fans have little to go on when it comes to the inner workings of McNair's mind. So it should be an interesting ride. So far, like Petrie, he appears to keep everything close to the vest.
Walton is the coach, and the coach decides who plays and how many minutes a player plays. So yes, he's the general on the field, just like Custer was. And while Custer answered to the president of the United States, the president never got involved in tactical decisions on the field. McNair isn't telling Walton how to coach the team, but he is sitting in judgement on how Walton coaches the team. I think the last thing McNair would want, would be for anyone to think he's in anyway responsible for any of the coaching decisions that have been made.
All three of those teams had a superstar to dangle in order to acquire those future picks. Who exactly on the Kings roster would get that kind of return? How long has McNair been running the team? He's barely had enough time to put together his staff much less make a bunch of great trades to entirely rebuild the team. I've seen impatience before, but your statement is ridiculous. How about we give McNair a little more than five minutes to figure out what he wants to do.
Players are players, when they are done with a coach they are done. They either have to start going all out for themselves or nothing. These are the issues with front office changes and holdover coaches. When it starts heading downhill the players will be off and on with effort. It goes from game to game to then moment to moment. It's a broken record since the glory days in Sac. It is what it is. Denying it is pointless if you're in a position to make change and the NBA is all about change.
If Walton really was worried about ticking off a vet be playing a rookie as can be the case many times with coaches, then he’s had every opportunity now, after the team has been blown multiple times, to give Woodard some burn. Historically bad defense, a Known defensive 3/4 on the bench in Woodard. And we all know about Whiteside.
Especially when this situation is perfectly mirroring George Karl sticking when Vlade took over. That dumpster fire was so catastrophic it not only ended up with firing the coach but trading the teams franchise player anyway. This is in no way similar to the Malone/PDA situation. The only similarity is that Vivek creates about the worst possible FO environment basketball has seen. And we're talking in comparison to some of those Knicks years.
I didn't say this was an easy job.
How about... 1. Be willing to trade any player-especially highly paid players or any player not named Fox, for draft choices or high ceiling young guys. 2. Get way under the salary cap. 3. take on other team's bad contracts combined with draft choices. 4. draft assets are your priority.
Coaches number 1 goal is to win games anyway they can. I suspect the Kings wanted to see if the speedy pace could make them a playoff team.
Why is Whiteside not playing. Have no doubt that the Coach would be playing Whiteside, if it would help the Kings win. Could it be Whiteside in not a up-tempo offense player. You have to wonder why he on an NBA minimum veteran contract playing on our second team.
How about... 1. Be willing to trade any player-especially highly paid players or any player not named Fox, for draft choices or high ceiling young guys. 2. Get way under the salary cap. 3. take on other team's bad contracts combined with draft choices. 4. draft assets are your priority.
Coaches number 1 goal is to win games anyway they can. I suspect the Kings wanted to see if the speedy pace could make them a playoff team.
Why is Whiteside not playing. Have no doubt that the Coach would be playing Whiteside, if it would help the Kings win. Could it be Whiteside in not a up-tempo offense player. You have to wonder why he on an NBA minimum veteran contract playing on our second team.
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Pels commentator made me remember that the last month the Kings was in the playoffs was also my last month before I moved and lived overseas. That was May 2006. So never in my 15 years now of leaving overseas did I saw the Kings at post season. Maybe I was the jinx and not Luke. LOL
And freakin COVID just blocked my plan to retire back home last year. Maybe the Kings made it back to playoff had I settled back home last year.
But then again, I won't be mad if Luke gets the boot this early.
And freakin COVID just blocked my plan to retire back home last year. Maybe the Kings made it back to playoff had I settled back home last year.
But then again, I won't be mad if Luke gets the boot this early.
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