Various points:
1) Corliss flopped in Toronto, rapidly fell out of favor, and was moved. He hit his peak there for a few years under Rick Carlisle in Detroit. Then he had a year under Larry Brown, started out of favor but then came on, played little in the Finals, and was so valued he was trading straight up to Philly for Derrick Coleman. He was ok in Philly, but they wanted no part of his contract, and were encountering the same problems everybody does with Corliss -- scores, but can't defend either forward spot or rebound as a PF. Nor does he really make anybody better around him. He scores, but its just points. Good at it, but not a guy who lifts the play of the entire reserve unit. He was imminently available to anybody who asked.
2) Now he''s in Sacto, but he's a bad fit so long as Kenny is here. There are no minutes. And he can't play SF even when Peja is hurt (as now) because both the OG and PF are also post players and there would be no spacing. Throw in the simple fact that if Corliss is not being fed and allowed to score he's not helping, and you have a real issue when we have so many other scorers. Corliss's perfect role is playing alongside PERIMETER scorers on a team lacking offensive punch. Not playing alongside post players on a team with too many scorers as it is. In our situation a player who excelled at everything BUT scoring would be the far more applicable player.
3) Kenny is in the way of both Corliss and Skinner. But that said Kenny Thomas is a better, more complete, player than Corliss, and he's also critically a MUCH better rebounder, which we desperately need. If Kenny went, I would hope Skinner would be the primary recipient as the superior rebounder/shotblocker, both of which we need.
4) Garcia is actually also a much better fit for our offense. Unsure of how he is going to go, and have been mildly surprised at him displaying a pea brain as often as he has, but his game is far FAR better suited to what we want to run, and in particular with this current squad his shooting (or somebody's) is critical.
5) Re: Bonzi's rebounding. There is no way, NONE, that we EVER thought Bonzi would get 8.5rebs a game. Just none. That's the best guard rebounding in...I've stated before, 20yrs? Not sure (Braynt, McGrady, Kidd have never done it. Jordan never did. Magic last did in '83...). Close though. I was hoping for and would have been ecstatic with 6 a game. 6 is great for a guard, and Bonzi has shown that kind of potential in the past. But now we are stuck utterly dependant on a guy putting ina HUGE career year far FAR above his career numbers, or any numbers that a guard is ever supposed to get. That's incredibly tenuous. If Bonzi does nothng mroe than come back down to average a still great 6 a game for an OG, we are all of a sudden getting destroyed by 5+ a game. We are balancing on a knife.
edit -- found a guard rebounder at Bonzi's level -- Fat Lever averaged 9.3 in both '89 and '90.
Like I said, Skinner is the best Kings blocker/defender today. That Adelman can't use his resources right!
