[Game] 52/82: Pelicans @ Kings 08 FEB 2025, 7pm PT/10pm ET
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It’s not Fox’s job to safeguard the team’s interest. Monte had plenty of notice and failed to get done what was needed.
But we all know how this place operates. On our team the player can do no wrong. Once traded or fired everything was/is their fault. Fox took care of Fox. That was his job. Monte did a poor job balancing the roster and continues to do so with his stupid drafting.
Think we could have used Kel’le Ware at power forward instead of another guard for whom we can’t find time in the rotation.
But we all know how this place operates. On our team the player can do no wrong. Once traded or fired everything was/is their fault. Fox took care of Fox. That was his job. Monte did a poor job balancing the roster and continues to do so with his stupid drafting.
Think we could have used Kel’le Ware at power forward instead of another guard for whom we can’t find time in the rotation.
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Yeah, no reason to be playing him 3 minute stretches, they should have done this when Fox was here. The only issue is how much will it actually help him? Not sure. He can go into the G league and soak up all the minutes he can, but if he comes back and gets 3 minutes at a time that's still all or nothing. His defense and rebounding is already there. Last I checked he's leading in 5 of the 6 shooting zones in terms of DFG% against among all Kings guards defensively. And leading in 1 or 2 team wide. Hopefully he gets a chance to run pick and roll every single play and they have exact plays they want him to run so when he comes back he knows what to do.
The scary thing is there were absolute moments where Carter needed to play just for defense alone. His ability to defend up might be shown for the need it is at some point. I'm sure there's a plan with Carter. Monte first said this is a long term thing with him and I saw a clip from that interview he did and when it came to impressing his father or something he said maybe in a few years. The Kings are likely following the same path they did with Keon and are now with Jones as well. Now it's up the vets to carry it through along with Christie. If it doesn't work the who knows what the rest of the season even looks like.
Yeah, anytime they have media from any practice it certainly doesn't look like Brown's where guys are gassed and tired, lol. This was always going to be about this summer for he and Isaac Jones. They've clearly been holding both of them back for a longer term development even though they are older. Rookies are still rookies at the end of the day it's just that the older ones should have a much steeper incline so we'll see.
And Lyles is going to have issues with certain teams, we know this, we've seen it. The way DC is running this team is definitely short term thought process. We'll see how the players handle it when he benches them for need. Then as it goes on it'll be based on survival which is a way to do it, but could end up with some sad faces, haha. One things for sure, Zach is going to have to be the player they saw in this game. He's by far the most talented on the team now. Outside of that who goes in or out around Zach and Domas is probably up to the moment.
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