Aaron Brooks
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I Agree!!! It or Brooks can start
IT should have starting job - his to loose based on last year
And if Brooks is 3 in taller then maybe better matched up with MT anyway for defense
but if Brooks a better 3 pt PG then maybe better as a starter for Reke to kick out to
Reke needs to be our SG to keep our no 2 guy happy, MT great off the bench
Plus if any of the 4 has injury we still have a 3 man guard rotation or could use Salmons or Jimmer depending on who is injured
IT should have starting job - his to loose based on last year
And if Brooks is 3 in taller then maybe better matched up with MT anyway for defense
but if Brooks a better 3 pt PG then maybe better as a starter for Reke to kick out to
Reke needs to be our SG to keep our no 2 guy happy, MT great off the bench
Plus if any of the 4 has injury we still have a 3 man guard rotation or could use Salmons or Jimmer depending on who is injured
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.
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.
We have to make a trade, but considering Petrie loves to collect mediocre offense talent I doubt it. If we do go into the season as is, then Petrie is truly one of the worse of general managers and please don't blame the Maloofs for this. Petrie has wasted 10+ million of cap space on deep bench players and pieces that don't fit.
We are not worse off this year than we were last year, so I'm not sure why everyone is upset. Brooks is an upgrade over Jimmer in the pg department, no matter how you measure it. We didn't get worse at SF. Kings didn't all of a sudden go on a 10 game win streak once we got Terrence Williams, so he wasn't going to save us. So what are we stressing over? A few pieces got move around. Kings don't have the pieces to land a really good player in a trade without giving up one of our top talents. It would be a net zero transaction. We won't land a top notch free agent in a small market with a losing team and an uncertain ownership situation. Not trying to be negative. Just realistic. We have to build through the draft and try to find the right role players to fit in with them.
Drafting Jimmer, signing Hayes, even trading for Salmons were all attempts to fill those roles. Hasn't worked out, but the direction is clear.
Drafting Jimmer, signing Hayes, even trading for Salmons were all attempts to fill those roles. Hasn't worked out, but the direction is clear.
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!
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!
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Yah I don't want to see that again this year, but I am sure we will in order to get MT minutes at SG.
I wouldn't mind playing Reke at SF in stretched in order to get both Evans and MT 30+ minutes but I want about 25 of those minutes at SG when it comes to Reke. Hell I wouldn't mind a stretch of about 5-6 minutes at PG either.
So here is a Reke breakdown
29 mins SG
6 mins PG
5 mins SF
There is your 40 mins right there. If he's used in that capacity I wouldn't mind at all.
I got a feeling though that Evans will play more minutes at SF then we want him to in order to get MT his 35 mins.
As for Brooks, and IT there really isn't that many minutes (if any at all) at SG so they are stuck splitting about 25 mins each. Unless for those 6 minutes Evans is at PG Brooks is moved to SG.
I am not looking forward to seeing how the minutes are managed. I foresee midget lineups and players out of position.
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.
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.
That's why a 2 for 1 move for an overpaid SF makes too much sense. Thornton + a contract, preferably Salmons or Hayes, but probably Garcis's expiring.
Ideally for a core you want 3 guards (IT/Brooks/Reke), a swingman (???), a combo forward (JJ) and 3 bigs (JT/Cuz/Trob). Then fill out the roster with another one of each (Jimmer/Salmons/Outlaw/Hayes) and a project (Honeycutt).
Ideally for a core you want 3 guards (IT/Brooks/Reke), a swingman (???), a combo forward (JJ) and 3 bigs (JT/Cuz/Trob). Then fill out the roster with another one of each (Jimmer/Salmons/Outlaw/Hayes) and a project (Honeycutt).
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.
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.
Petrie and the Maloofs have a nice shell game going. When the moves go bad, Petrie can hide behind the Maloofs' shallow pockets. In turn, the Maloofs can hide behind a combo of a lot of bad recent moves by Petrie, his past good moves, the loyalty in this town, and the fear over who the Maloofs might fire next.
If you took away one of the shells, fans would just blast the person left standing.
Just like a proper shell game, in the end, the sucker always loses.
Petrie is heading into a contract year. Whether the Maloofs want to bring fans back here or are headed out of town, they want this team to be better now. The team sold you long term vision for 4 years, and now they chase the 8th seed with a messy roster.
If you took away one of the shells, fans would just blast the person left standing.
Just like a proper shell game, in the end, the sucker always loses.
Petrie is heading into a contract year. Whether the Maloofs want to bring fans back here or are headed out of town, they want this team to be better now. The team sold you long term vision for 4 years, and now they chase the 8th seed with a messy roster.
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