Buddy Hield CANNOT start.
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SLAB
Hall of Famer
pfftt... if this team isn’t Fox/Haliburton and 13 minimum contracts before the season starts I’m not even watching.
captain bill
All-Star
Reverend
Bench
We don’t owe him any favors at this point. If you look at someone like Harrison Barnes who has been a model citizen through the ups and downs if he requested a trade I’d do him a favor by flipping him to a contender if I can. But someone like Buddy who has actively sh****ed on Sac any chance he gets in subs and post game interviews? F it, he can go to the Hornets or the Bulls for all I care for a protected 1st, at this point that’s all it’d take to get him off our team
HndsmCelt
Hall of Famer
Right idea wrong rationale. Starting Buddy exposes all of his downside playing him off the bench makes him look like a superstar. If the team plans to keep him you use him or he's most effective if you plan to trade him you want his trade value at maximum. either way starting Buddy is a bad idea.
KingsCitizen
Starter
Basketball is a team game. With exception of a few HOF, an NBA player shines or sucks depending on who the other 4 guys he will be playing the floor with. The best games for Buddy as a Kings was the sprinting backcourt with him and Fox on early season run with Dave. Both players were in top 10 of NBA sprinters that season. Remember this article in Dec of 2018 (https://hoopshype.com/2018/12/22/sa...-fox-fastest-nba-russell-westbrook-john-wall/), Buddy's speed topped the league during that early run and we were winning until injuries came and eventually slower players joined the roster and then totally benching Buddy followed.
With Bogi (our main man at half-court plays) gone, the only way for this team to compete is with speed again, especially with the T.H. pick. So McNair is really getting Buddy a good chance to shine as a starter again. I don't see a Buddy benching at all. That check is gonna get it's worth this season.
With Bogi (our main man at half-court plays) gone, the only way for this team to compete is with speed again, especially with the T.H. pick. So McNair is really getting Buddy a good chance to shine as a starter again. I don't see a Buddy benching at all. That check is gonna get it's worth this season.
No, really? First I'm hearing of it.
That's what Doug Christie thinks too btw (not that he has any insight - he just said it based on what he thinks Buddy is like)
steelevt
All-Star
Everyone wants to build up buddy’s value to trade him. For what? A draft pick or player that will hopefully be as good as “good” buddy? If he gets to somewhat tradeable status I can understand. If he gets to contract year buddy, then last year was an anomaly/luke is an idiot, and he’s back to normal. Keep him and let him grow with the team.
Excellent point. And I'd go one step further and add that the most likely scenario where Marvin Bagley justifies his top 5 pick status is on a team that gets out and runs every chance they get. Taking Fox, Hield, and Bagley and forcing them to play flat-footed half court offense is incomprehensible to me. No team in the league can keep up with these guys for 48 minutes. Putting pressure on the defense to contain an athletic big man, an elite shooter, and the fastest ball handler in the league all at once is how we win. As far as I'm concerned, it's the only argument worth listening to for drafting Bagley over Doncic and if we waste another year trying to run some garbage single action iso-heavy offense it will be a tremendous missed opportunity to see what this group of players is actually capable of when set loose.
Livinthedream
All-Star
I think McNair likes Buddy..
Yeah, I’m going to stop entertaining trade ideas for Buddy and see how the early part of the season works out. It appears to me that Walton is not long term, Buddy and agent might see it the same, and this is an exciting young team with a real sense of direction now.
Livinthedream
All-Star
Here is the actual video clip of McNair discussing Buddy.
gunks
Hall of Famer
Hinkieball eh? Trust the process!
King Baller
All-Star
Good news on a system to Free Buddy Heild
! That’s what all the young players are for.....Run, run, run!Livinthedream
All-Star
Good news on a system to Free Buddy Heild
Sounds like Luke has been neutered. Playing to the players strength now.
burekijogurt
Starter
As long as Fox can stay healthy. He missed 33 games last year I beleive, which is one of the reasons Buddy played with Cojo.
Shaqfuey
Bench
Only the Kings would have Buddy handle the ball while bricklayer Cojo spots up for threes. Not sure how that developed. Never really thought about it until now.
How it developed is if not for his time "coaching" a championship Warriors team on autopilot and association with the Lakers, Luke Walton's coaching resume would be arguably worse than most of the terrible coaches we've had in the past 15 years.
bruh relax. He is starting until if/when monte decides to trade him
I don't pay much attention to his Instagram but is there a chance buddy just likes everything with his name on it?
SactownShaq
G-League
that's twitter not instagram lol
My guess is that the Kings were only getting lowball offers for Buddy with teams thinking they could grab a disgruntled player who was pushed out of the starting lineup at a discount, especially with a new front office in place.
If so, I think the message McNair have Buddy and his agent was that the offense was going to be retooled to play to his strengths and it was in everybody's best interest for Hield to start and put up good numbers. Either it makes him happy to stay in Sacramento or it raises his trade value.
But McNair does have one good GM skill down which is answering questions without really saying anything and keeping his cards close to his vest. Hard to say if he actually sees Buddy as a long term piece or just wants to be patient and get a good deal to move him.
If so, I think the message McNair have Buddy and his agent was that the offense was going to be retooled to play to his strengths and it was in everybody's best interest for Hield to start and put up good numbers. Either it makes him happy to stay in Sacramento or it raises his trade value.
But McNair does have one good GM skill down which is answering questions without really saying anything and keeping his cards close to his vest. Hard to say if he actually sees Buddy as a long term piece or just wants to be patient and get a good deal to move him.
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