[Game] 77/82: Kings @ Hornets 04 APR 2025, 4pm PT/7pm ET
- Thread starter Mr. S£im Citrus
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It's all about the resistance. Things go good = they can hang with anyone. Things go bad = they can hang their heads with anyone. Speaks to a lack of confidence that eventually bleeds over into desire. This is why restructuring that much of the team at the deadline needs at least a summer and a few months of next season before you can for sure draw conclusions. Now it's up to Domas and DeMar as to whether they'll even give it a shot for a few months.
Haha, it sucks, but any GM doing what Monte did had to have that mindset going in otherwise they don't know what they're doing. He needed to target an upside ender, not LaVine in that case. Going way back it's like when Petrie started to retool the Webber team. He brought in Mobley likely because there was no long term commitment. Once Webber was able to be moved Petrie shifted course and it took him another season to start to figure it out. It could be worse but they should only have a short window should the players in question be willing to come back. The worst thing Monte or the Kings could do is take this summer and just try and top talent over talent at the expense of potential rebuild pieces. It's time to play the middle of the road here. The path that opens should dictate direction and that should be based on how they look at the start of next season with an actual preseason and training camp. If they come in next season looking competitive? Maybe you go all in. Right now though it would be crazy to even consider it.
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