However, you most likely did not need to spend assets to select these guys. All could have most likely been signed as undrafted FA.
Wise asset management should not be overlooked.
Thing is, you have no clue whether this is true or complete fiction.
Furthermore, if they didn’t select the guys they did in the 2nd round. Wouldn’t the players you’d rather have seen them draft in the same spots been in the same boat? The entire 2nd round, especially 40 and on is a complete crapshoot.
It all comes down to what a team sees in the player and how they might fit in with their team.
They had to use the ‘asset’ to draft someone. Or trade or sell it. People are upset when they sell one pick to drop 8 spots and they’re also pissed when they don’t draft the player they want — who is also far from a sure thing. I don’t get it.
I guarantee someone could say the same of whomever you feel would have been ‘wiser asset management’.
In all seriousness, what qualifies you to know that? I’ve been watching basketball since the late 70’s and haven’t missed many KINGS games in the past 25 years and I readily admit that I don’t know. I have preferences and players I like, but I don’t ever truly know for sure.
Hint, neither do you.
Lastly, you act as if other teams wouldn’t have been interested in the same players as undrafted FA’s. There’s no guarantee they sign with the KINGS if given multiple options. Drafting them ensures it. They obviously wanted these players and didn’t want to compete for them in FA, assuming nobody selected them before the end of the draft.