Recent content by vladtheimpaler

[Note: large mod edits to remove material in the first two sections of the post, first paragraph largely redacted but reconstructed for narrative sense] Yesterday, as Dallas comes to Sacramento for two games, I had some thoughts that seem to be exploring new territory with regard to the 2018...

let's face it - there is not much interest in this version of the kings... people seem to be "waiting for montegodot" to make some moves to completely dismantle vlade's "rebuild" game threads are in single digits and there are not many new threads emerging so, yesterday, someone started this...

WALTON TO REPLACE VOGEL AS LAKERS COACH After a couple of devastating losses at home (Spurs, Nets), Lakers Coach Frank Vogel is expected to be relieved of his duties before 2022, according to The Indefatigable (link at end). Luke Walton was recently invited back to pose with Laker championship...

yes - those two assists were off pick and rolls with tristan thompson. here is a link to first quarter play by play: https://www.espn.com/nba/playbyplay/_/gameId/401360299 starters holmes, barnes, metu, hield, haliburton metu rebound (9:03) harkless in for metu (6:58) (at this point, metu...

WALTON TO SERVE AS ACTING COACH TONIGHT i think i have the right link: http://captainfoamy.blogspot.com/2005/12/ Still under contract and being paid by the Sacramento Kings, former head coach Luke Walton has been pressed into service to coach tonight's game against the Washington Wizards, in...

geez, i don't know about that. i advanced just one of my many "kings conspiracy theories" and got my head chopped off for it. i'd advance some more (kings conspiracy theories) but i'm headless.

houston wins 7th straight - don't blow it up too soon. box: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360196 you focused on calendar age - i'm looking more at "experience". after all, davion and dearron are about the same age. one is in his fifth nba season and the other is a rookie...

i only went back to sunday's game, but this doesn't look like the rockets are playing all vets (not that the rockets have many)... theis started but played only 16 minutes... eric gordon played 33 but everyone else with major minutes (except wood - who i guess is a vet, but barely) are youth...

correct - we got lucky getting BOTH bagley AND fox... otherwise, our current "core" would probably be dennis smith jr/wendell carter, unless in the absence of fox, we took donovan mitchell (although point guard was our position of need at the time). this is what "blowing it up" looks like in...

what's worse is that when vlade pounced on luke (immediately after the lakers let him go), he said, "we have wanted him for awhile but he wasn't available". that suggests that joerger was really not vlade's first choice (although he also pounced on him as soon as memphis let him go and talked...

i have no idea - i think this was done by khtk on their own - they probably think that marvin won the power struggle with luke and will now become a more visible face of the franchise (possibly the only untradeable player). of course, as soon as he is so dubbed, he goes on the injured list.

fwiw: the kings have a pregame radio show for an hour, then scott leaves and hank remains, replaced by jason and gary for the half hour leading up to the game. so, the commercial set between both shows is likely the highest visibility. well, on sunday, leading into the game in memphis, khtk...

bagley only gets the blame/credit because of his timing. right or wrong, he made a statement by refusing to go in a game. the front office then had to do SOMEthing. and it appears that they told luke to downplay it and by the way, start playing marvin (which may actually BE why he sat harkless...

i'm not sure what the "assumptions" are. and i'm not sure how often it happens (perhaps cunningham gave examples - maybe not). but any player can tell any (assistant or head) coach if he isn't ready to go - even if something he ate makes him think he might, oh, i don't know, puke on the court...

i'm wondering why the kings didn't call marvin's bluff after he refused to go in against phoenix. marvin is making 11 million this season. why not simply ask him if he wants to be made a free agent immediately. that is, he and the team simply tear up his current contract and let's see what he...