Recent content by KCKings

Thanks for the stats and info. Wish it made things look better! It probably means that Keegan is in the same situation as last year. My hope for him is that the sober realization of contract talks that put more emphasis on offense than defense push him to do a little more. Plus I hope that Doug...

Good point. You're probably right about that dynamic of a worn out Keegan. It sounds like when it comes to paying him, unfortunately, he will be slighted because he's not scoring more. If he's the one top defensive player on the floor most of the time, it probably will undermine his scoring. The...

You're right on target for Keegan. He got about 11 shots per game last year (10.8). He had 9.8 his rookie year and then 12.8 his second year. Here's a thought when there aren't a lot of other things to think about, NBA wise! I agree that with this lineup, there's not much hope for his stats to...

I agree with all of your points. Arguably, any one of those three could have led to Mike's firing. I have often thought, with others here, that not playing Keon more was a fateful misjudgment. But the other moves about the offense and defense were dreadful. I think that there's a real chance...

Here's something I posted in the "Comments that Don't Warrant Their Own Thread," but it probably fits here the best. I do it while feeling the pessimism, and I then had some thoughts from a different perspective. So, here is some musing for the long hot off season in Texas. I was thinking the...

Here is some musing for the long hot off season. I was thinking the other day, probably with too much time on my hands, about the optimism of the last season. Many thought that the Kings had improved over the lineups of the previous two seasons that had resulted in 48 and 46 wins, respectively...

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I agree. What could they be if they are always playing 3 top level defenders? If Keegan moves up to 18-20 pts a game and feature Lavine to score more like 26, the offense can still be top 10, and also the defense.

That's pretty amazing. I doubt if DeRozan will average 24 points a game for the next three seasons, but he could still be knocking on the door of the top 10. Let's say he averages 20 points a game for 60 games the next three seasons (or 18 points a game for 70 or so); that would be 3600 points...

I appreciate that and hope it will be so. The year before that turnaround in 98-99, the Kings were 27-55!

This list of the won-loss record reminds me of the huge turnaround in the 98-99 season when Webber, Divac, Stojakavic, and Jason Williams all arrived at once! This current team did not have quite that radical a turnover, but the change reminds me of that sudden shift in 98, with a new coach, a...

I started following the Kings in 1980! When they were still the Kansas City Kings! So it's been a fan from afar, from Missouri, Kentucky, and now Texas. As many have mentioned, Kings fans have had to endure a lot. Even in the bright spot of the Webber era, we had to endure the 2002 finals. As...

You're right. But close!

My first game was around Christmas of 1979, with the Kansas City Kings! I had lived in Kansas City for a few years, but had moved to Louisville, KY. Interestingly, I was just back with family over Christmas in KC and had a chance to go. I had not been an NBA fan particularly, but that got me...

That was about the time I attended my first Kings game--yes, the Kansas City Kings around Christmas of 1979, but I don't think it was that game! :)