The Official SPOILERS 2022 NBA Draft Thread

[SacTownKid]

Unless something big is on the horizon, our only hope of sniffing the playoffs in 2023 rides on the idea that the team drastically under performed last year.

I’m bummed.

Who knows. I think overall the talent is there but for sure, via the draft/trade, some very direct competition got better and the Kings didn't do much tonight to prepare for eventual turn over to a youth movement.

 

[Tetsujin]

Fans complain because this team misses the play-offs year after year and consistently makes short term decisions. Instead of making upside 2nd round picks and developing them like good organizations we consistently sell them.

Vivek is the worst owner in all of sports hands down.

Daniel Snyder is literally being investigated by Congress as we speak and Rob Sarver once tried to honeytrap free agents.

 

[SacTownKid]

Considering the sheer amount of second rounders we had in the building for workouts, if there was anyone we really wanted in this second round, we'd have gotten 'em.

Work out nothing but 2nd rounders, trade both picks. Way to swerve 'em Monte!

 

[sactowndog]

In this draft, it's debatable.

Who would you have liked us to pick with the 37 then?

I was happy with Hardy as an upside 2 guard. He was a Gary Trent type swing.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Daniel Snyder is literally being investigated by Congress as we speak and Rob Sarver once tried to honeytrap free agents.

also Merritt Paulson protects abusers.

 

[Tetsujin]

Work out nothing but 2nd rounders, trade both picks. Way to swerve 'em Monte!

Or work 'em out, don't see what you want, leave the store because you don't HAVE to buy something for the sake of buying something.

 

[sactowndog]

Daniel Snyder is literally being investigated by Congress as we speak and Rob Sarver once tried to honeytrap free agents.

And both organizations are better run than ours despite that fact….

 

[sactowndog]

Or work 'em out, don't see what you want, leave the store because you don't HAVE to buy something for the sake of buying something.

1 year sure. Every year. Likely not. That’s Vivek being cheap

 

[LoFi]

Signing off.

Great news.

 

[Tetsujin]

also Merritt Paulson protects abusers.

Glenn Taylor spent most of the T-Wolves playoff run having different protestors glue themselves to the hardwood.

There are tons of crapty people who own sports teams.

Our issue is that Vivek is a non-terrible person who hasn't shown himself to be any good at running a team.

 

[Tetsujin]

And both organizations are better run than ours despite that fact….

The Commanders had part of their stadium cave in on another team's QB and then traded a bunch of picks for Carson Wentz. That is debatable.

 

[joemama]

Guaranteed contracts:
1. Fox
2. Sabonis
3. Barnes
4. Holmes
5. Holiday
6. Mitchell
7. Harkness
8. Davis
9. Len
10. Murray
.........
Non-guaranteed contracts:

11.Divincenzo - qualifying
12. Lyles- team option
13. Metu - non-guatanteed
14. Jones - free agent
15. Queta - qualifying
16. Vezenkov - rights

MLE?
Bi-annual?

Looking at it from this perspective, we don't really have the room on the roster. What if trades net more players than are sent out?

 

[pdxKingsFan]

And both organizations are better run than ours despite that fact….

Washington went from being one of the most successful/best run teams of the 80s and early 90s to utter dogshhhh under Snyder.

 

[BillyStrings]

it's pretty much an entirely new team post trade and we had a joke of a coach, so yeah, I think you might be having an overreact.

Maybe. Or maybe a constant churn of coaches and missed opportunities extends this thing to 17 years. If I had to make a bet, I know where I’d be putting my money.

 

[Tetsujin]

1 year sure. Every year. Likely not. That’s Vivek being cheap

We drafted Queta last year and Woodard and Ramsey in the year before that. How many second rounders do you want us to pick every year?

 

[Dongoodboy]

Guaranteed contracts:
1. Fox
2. Sabonis
3. Barnes
4. Holmes
5. Holiday
6. Mitchell
7. Harkness
8. Davis
9. Len
10. Murray
.........
Non-guaranteed contracts:

11.Divincenzo - qualifying
12. Lyles- team option
13. Metu - non-guatanteed
14. Jones - free agent
15. Queta - qualifying
16. Vezenkov - rights

MLE?
Bi-annual?

Looking at it from this perspective, we don't really have the room on the roster. What if trades net more players than are sent out?

You can have 20 players on roster in off season

 

[SacTownKid]

Or work 'em out, don't see what you want, leave the store because you don't HAVE to buy something for the sake of buying something.

When you're hungry, you take what's available.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

You can have 20 players on roster in off season

17 after it starts though right? which means we either cut last years second rounders or we give them 2+ years to maybe be ready.

I'm not a fan of having more than one second round pick most years, Vlade stockpiled the things in a way that made it almost impossible to keep them under contract long enough to see what we have.

 

[SacTownKid]

Guaranteed contracts:
1. Fox
2. Sabonis
3. Barnes
4. Holmes
5. Holiday
6. Mitchell
7. Harkness
8. Davis
9. Len
10. Murray
.........
Non-guaranteed contracts:

11.Divincenzo - qualifying
12. Lyles- team option
13. Metu - non-guatanteed
14. Jones - free agent
15. Queta - qualifying
16. Vezenkov - rights

MLE?
Bi-annual?

Looking at it from this perspective, we don't really have the room on the roster. What if trades net more players than are sent out?

Man, now that is a team of PF/C's that would make even Vlade blush, lol.

 

[ESP47]

We have way too much talent on this roster to waste roster spots on first round talents that drop to the second round

or something...

 

[joemama]

You can have 20 players on roster in off season

Yep, but for the roster 15 and 2 (two-way players).

 

[Tetsujin]

17 after it starts though right? which means we either cut last years second rounders or we give them 2+ years to maybe be ready.

I'm not a fan of having more than one second round pick most years, Vlade stockpiled the things in a way that made it almost impossible to keep them under contract long enough to see what we have.

We've somehow had multiple second rounders the past two seasons despite Monte doing everything in his power to shed them during the season (trading two for Delon Wright, trading another two for Terence Davis, trading one for Harkless). Maybe it's okay to not stockpile all the second round picks?

 

[SacTownKid]

We have way too much talent on this roster to waste roster spots on first round talents that drop to the second round

or something...

Especially ones that can play some defense.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

We need to get rid of some fringe NBA talent before we bring in more fringe NBA talent. Honestly hope we have some trades of these expiring contracts on the horizon so that we can try to pry away a nice complimentary piece or two that will actually see minutes under Brown.

 

[Tetsujin]

Yep, but for the roster 15 and 2 (two-way players).

Yeah but imagine how exciting it would be to have to cut Jaden Hardy and hope he clears waivers long enough to get him on a two-way in October!

 

[ESP47]

Especially ones that can play some defense.

Yep had multiple defenders and a guy who could potentially be a Jordan Poole type find. Basically a no downside type situation and instead of even taking a chance, they just decide to sit this one out.

 

[sactowndog]

Washington went from being one of the most successful/best run teams of the 80s and early 90s to utter dogshhhh under Snyder.

Sort of sounds familiar doesn’t it?

 

[Livinthedream]

Work out nothing but 2nd rounders, trade both picks. Way to swerve 'em Monte!

Exactly. Doesn't make sense. I don't understand the plan. It has nothing to do with Murray, but how is this team going to make a jump if they don't have enough of the right pieces. Leveraging the 4th pick was a perfect opportunity to do that. We don't know what exact deals were out there, but there was enough talk that there must have been something to be had.

Disappointed that with all the hype surrounding this pick, the team may not have got significantly better.

 

[The_Jamal]

We drafted Queta last year and Woodard and Ramsey in the year before that. How many second rounders do you want us to pick every year?

Never stop drafting second rounders. That's what thing I've really liked about Monte's approach until this season; he's actually invested in some developmental pieces that might pop. It's more or less random if one does or not, but the point is to keep giving yourself shots on goal. Smart teams make a point to get into the 2nd round as often as possible.

But when Liddell is playing 18 minutes off the bench for NOP in the playoffs and Hardy fills in for Brunson, I'm sure we'll be thanking our lucky stars we held onto the Len and Harkless expiring contracts.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Sort of sounds familiar doesn’t it?

Maloofs ran this team into the ground though. Vivek has had a learning curve. I still feel like we're on the right course since Monte got here.