Kings trade rumor SZN 2023-2024 edition!
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I think you are looking at this from the wrong perspective. If Siakam came to the Kings, his role would different. He would no longer be the primary option on offense, but likely be the 2nd or 3rd option. That means he needs to help space the floor without the ball in his hands. This is something he likely cannot do. Defenders would sag off him, making it more congested in the paint.
To be fair, Siakam is just fairly inconsistent as a shooter. It's been bad this year, but he's not a 26% 3pt shooter. His true talent is probably around 32-33%
35.9%
29.7%
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And you're absolutely right, he'd be a negative step back with spacing, but he's also just a serious talent upgrade on both ends of the floor. Fox-Monk-Keegs-Siakam-Domas is talented enough to be a title contending starting 5. And I think would really have no problems gelling because of how talented a playmaking core everyone aside from Keegan is.
35.9%
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And you're absolutely right, he'd be a negative step back with spacing, but he's also just a serious talent upgrade on both ends of the floor. Fox-Monk-Keegs-Siakam-Domas is talented enough to be a title contending starting 5. And I think would really have no problems gelling because of how talented a playmaking core everyone aside from Keegan is.
Watched the whole game. Siakam was really good. Nice buzz going on up north let’s see if it’s just fresh trade new teammates buzz or real. He was the best player on the court, better than Scottie who was really good as well. Honestly if I were the Raptors I’d probably just keep him. They don’t have enough scoring between Scottie RJ and IQ. They need a big scorer since Scottie is a pass first dude. Either way I don’t think a HB/Kvon package is what they are going to be after. The challenge is they aren’t good enough to compete with the top 3 teams in the east. They are stuck being a 4-10 seed for the foreseeable future in my opinion. What will the raps do? I just don’t know
I think Raps had a problem with redundancy. IG is gonna really shine with this lineup. Trent and before him Van Fleet have score first mentality which you don’t need when you have top notch scorers in Siakam and Barnes. They got Schroeder who again is score first and drafted Dick who’s more a Huerter 3pt specialist. Honestly don’t know what their model for winning is against the top teams in the East
I guess we just have to see which teams are interested. Does golden state want to pay 4 guys near max money? If the answer is yes we can’t top their offer. If Pacers part with Benn we can’t top that either. If he stays and signs a free agent deal it will likely be with the Sixers. Doesn’t seem all that likely he wears a kings jersey.
Do they? Their draft this year looks awesome with Podz and TJD (Ahem, who could have seen that coming...), but they've pretty well flopped on all that high draft capital the last few years.
Moody and Kuminga are still so young, but it's pretty clear they messed up by not flipping those picks at the time for a star. And obviously the huge Wiseman miss.
Moody and Kuminga are still so young, but it's pretty clear they messed up by not flipping those picks at the time for a star. And obviously the huge Wiseman miss.
He’s been at 31.5% the last 4 seasons (counting this one).
But putting that aside for a second, I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I think Siakam is a talent upgrade and would make this team better than it is today (he’s just leaps and bounds better than Barnes) but the fit & spacing makes me question if it would be good enough to actually reach title contender level. And if it doesn’t, we’ve essentially capped out our team and have minimal assets to try and improve further.
Defenses really start scheming and adjusting to your roster in the playoffs. I could see the team looking really good in the regular season only to have teams try and take advantage of Sabonis’ and Siakam’s lack of shooting to neutralize our #1 scoring option (Fox).
You couple that “fit” risk, with the risk that he could walk in the off-season for nothing and the risk that we’d essentially have minimal assets to improve the team further, and it’s a no for me. At least in Anunoby’s case, I didn’t have the same “fit” concerns (and he’s many years younger than Siakam) making that risk a bit more worth it from my perspective.
But putting that aside for a second, I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I think Siakam is a talent upgrade and would make this team better than it is today (he’s just leaps and bounds better than Barnes) but the fit & spacing makes me question if it would be good enough to actually reach title contender level. And if it doesn’t, we’ve essentially capped out our team and have minimal assets to try and improve further.
Defenses really start scheming and adjusting to your roster in the playoffs. I could see the team looking really good in the regular season only to have teams try and take advantage of Sabonis’ and Siakam’s lack of shooting to neutralize our #1 scoring option (Fox).
You couple that “fit” risk, with the risk that he could walk in the off-season for nothing and the risk that we’d essentially have minimal assets to improve the team further, and it’s a no for me. At least in Anunoby’s case, I didn’t have the same “fit” concerns (and he’s many years younger than Siakam) making that risk a bit more worth it from my perspective.
When Vlade left, Monte got Fox and basically nothing valuable for trade. The biggest trade chip was Hali and he was drafted by Monte. If not for the notorious record he could do something like Thunder (not to that extend but similar) to gather some assets. I feel like the lack of tradeable assets has largely limit our ceiling. We need to rely on the growth of players and act smart for market opportunities. That is also why I don't particular like throwing away our FRP this year.