so if Jimmer is gonna ride the bench longer and our pickups not being able to shoot threes I guess we dont plan on making any 3 point shots this year
so if Jimmer is gonna ride the bench longer and our pickups not being able to shoot threes I guess we dont plan on making any 3 point shots this year
whats the problem we got 2 PG's we Got 2 SG's.
To be fair, Jimmer hasn't really been able to shoot threes yet either.
Another thought. Salmons' only value last year was as a backup point. If he's no longer needed there, then he's a completely useless 7M contract.
You guys crack me up.
The Kings got a vet PG entering his prime (27), resigned J.T. and drafted Thomas Robinson - should be a quality PF rotation, and gave up a 2nd round pick for a player that can block some shots, play some D, and put up 10 points.
Then they got rid of Whiteside and Donte Green. Two players who should be good ... but they aren't. Their basketball IQs are too low to be players in this league.
Some people didn't like them selling the 2nd rounder. I don't care, because this team needs NBA ready players .. no more projects.
So far so good.
Starting to do things right in my mind, after some crappy off-seasons these past few years.
Gotta tend to agree. Maybe I finally found my purple-colored glasses again, but I think this off-season so far has been much more productive than the recent pass.![]()
Please don't say that on Petrie. I am pretty sure a lot of the fans think Petrie has some good reason for taking in another ball dominant midget. He is the best GM around for the Kings.One of the major probelms the last few years has been Petrie's apparent inability to distinguish between those two skills. It sunk Jimmer, Salmons, Outlaw, now again we go after more guys who shoot threes....off their own dribble! Its not the smae skilleGeoff. Spotting up is very useful and helps the rest of the team. Chucking off your dribble is a playground skill that helps nobody but yourself.
Oh, yes we do.Ugh.. Not really happy about the moves unless something is going to happen trade wise. We don't need another short PG.
Iggy Hawes. Kings fans simultaneous hold parade and burn down PBP in celebration/disgust.
Please don't say that on Petrie. I am pretty sure a lot of the fans think Petrie has some good reason for taking in another ball dominant midget. He is the best GM around for the Kings.
Actually, our roster has been pretty balanced for several years now. And if ever we're not winning with the kind of roster we have had, it is all the Maloof's fault for tying Petrie's hands!
Petrie is a genius!
My comment was referring to Reke and Thornton at the SG. That does not work. The onyl way it works is to have Reke swing to a different positoon to make room for Thornton when he comes in, because Thornton is strictly a one position player. With Brooks' addition, and with Brooks and IT not being able to play together either due to size, the ONLY way Reke can swing to make room for Thornton's minutes is back up to SF. Which is just an ugh as we saw last year.
whats the problem we got 2 PG's we Got 2 SG's.
I don’t like how they spent their money – waiting several years to clear cap – before spending 37 million on Salmons, Thornton, Thompson, Hayes, Outlaw, Brooks and Johnson in 13 months. I don’t hate the Thornton and Thompson contracts and you can defend several of the deals, but I think most GMs get more bang for 37 million.
But they’ve got a decent rotation of big men and a good point guard platoon.
The problem is that 2 out of the 3 best players on the Kings are shooting guards. Between Brooks and Thomas, the Kings would have the shooting necessary to play Evans a shooting guard assuming they spent their cap space to find a quality starting small forward over one of the past three off seasons.
But they didn’t, and Thornton is smaller than Evans. It’s a massive structural problem, and the team is now capped out. The options are either to force Evans back over to small forward for long stretches of the game. Or cut Thornton’s minutes to instead play a below replacement level small forward.
On their own, I like bringing JT back. I like Brooks, even if he’s another guy that wants to call his own number a lot. I’m just floored that a team would look at the design flaw in the team and spend their last 9 million of cap to cement the issue.
I don’t like how they spent their money – waiting several years to clear cap – before spending 37 million on Salmons, Thornton, Thompson, Hayes, Outlaw, Brooks and Johnson in 13 months. I don’t hate the Thornton and Thompson contracts and you can defend several of the deals, but I think most GMs get more bang for 37 million.
But they’ve got a decent rotation of big men and a good point guard platoon.
The problem is that 2 out of the 3 best players on the Kings are shooting guards. Between Brooks and Thomas, the Kings would have the shooting necessary to play Evans a shooting guard assuming they spent their cap space to find a quality starting small forward over one of the past three off seasons.
But they didn’t, and Thornton is smaller than Evans. It’s a massive structural problem, and the team is now capped out. The options are either to force Evans back over to small forward for long stretches of the game. Or cut Thornton’s minutes to instead play a below replacement level small forward.
On their own, I like bringing JT back. I like Brooks, even if he’s another guy that wants to call his own number a lot. I’m just floored that a team would look at the design flaw in the team and spend their last 9 million of cap to cement the issue.
Quite sad. Quite pathetic, if this was the master plan.
On second thought, all is well in Kings land. It's like Geoff is a meta of himself at this point. Grabbign a guy he's publicly pined for for the past 3 years, a guy who basically embodies all that is wrong with what Petrie covets; on ball effective, undersized, no defense. He'll never learn. If the Maloofs were any smarter than him they would have fired him a while ago, or at least demoetd him to a scout. But there's not a lot of guys who will work for peanuts, so as Maloofs stay, so does Geoff. So do the $2 mil coaches.