Recent content by Rain man

Yup- that is the rub. It is why it would be a huge/defining move for Monte, either good or bad. I think the hope (best possible spin) is that he wanted his shot at getting paid and being the guy, and he has now gotten two huge contracts. Now, with the benefit of hindsight he is maybe...

But here is the thing, his performance the past 4 years is skewed by how horrible his teams have been. He is a #2/#3 player who has been miscast in higher roles. Now that is mostly his fault, since he left Denver to get a bigger role he probably didn't deserve, but he has been miscast too high...

I would not trade Keon and #13 for Grant, and agree Grant isn't the solution to all of our problems, but let's also not pretend that upgrading Barnes' spot in the starting lineup to Grant, and keeping Barnes off the bench doesn't solve a lot of problems. If you can trade Huerter, #13 and filler...

To me, the Pellies are a great blueprint for how the Kings can make it work with Sabonis at the 5. JV is similar to Sabonis. Big, strong, but not super long and not really a rim protector. They make up for JV's lack of rim protection (and the fact that McCollum is not much of a defender), by...

I agree. But that team at the end of the season that couldn't score also played some really good defense. My fear would be that if you add back in Heurter and Monk at the expense of Keon, then you are once again just fixing one problem at the expense of another. The key to me is how you get...

One solution to the "we need more length" and "we need more scoring than we had at the end of the season" is to move on from Mitchell and make Monk your primary backup point guard, and also give him some combo 2 minutes. That allows you to keep Monk's offense without having his lack of length...

I agree. I think Huerter and Sasha is a better package from Portland's perspective, and also allows us to keep Barnes as a valuable bench contributor.

One thing about a trade for Jerami Grant is that we have all assumed that it would be Huerter and Barnes to make salaries match. But actually, any of these three deals would match salary-wise 1) Huerter and Barnes for Grant 2) Huerter and Sasha for Grant 3) Barnes and Sasha for Grant The...

Exactly! Things can get toxic fast, especially with Twitter and fan boards. Could this season have gone better? Absolutely! Are there real questions for the team moving forward? Absolutely! But is this one of the best seasons in Sacramento history, and one of only two times in almost 20...

With all the discussion about the Kings only being "a few games off" where people thought they'd be this year, I agree, but those are a BIG few games. I don't think the Kings needed to win 10 more games for this to be a successful season, but if they had managed to hold 20+ point fourth quarter...

I mean, its a fair point that we have a tougher schedule because of the IST. But we should have never been in the position of 1-2 games making the difference for our playoff lives. We should be VERY comfortably in the top half of the bracket.

Or any of the literally 10-12 games we have absolutely frittered away. By my off the cuff count, I can come up with 17 losses that are VERY tough to swallow, and we should have won at least 10 or 12 of these. 1) 4 losses to absolutely awful teams (Portland, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit)...

Thanks to the Clippers for resting all their starters last night... The Suns looked really ripe for the taking last night and are not playing good basketball right now, but neither are the Kings. Still, last night's results cleared up a few things. 6th Seed The Kings can still clinch the 6...

The Kings Path, after tonight 6th Seed- Kings clinch 6th seed if they finish 3-0 AND the Pellies go 0-3 (games @Sac, @GSW, vs. LAL). Kings would finish with 48 wins, Pellies 47. The Suns would lose to the Kings on Friday in this scenario and have (at most) 48 wins with the Kings holding the...

I had that same thought. That would be so 2023-24 Kings! That loss would probably move us from 6 to 7, and out of the guaranteed playoff. But of the 4 remaining games, the Suns game is the most consequential because of the tiebreaker and their hard remaining schedule. If we only lose one...