it would certainly be the right approach to retain demarcus cousins, re-sign tyreke evans, and bring in assistant coaches that can specifically aid these two players in their further development. the notion of honest-to-goodness player development in sacramento is exciting. but it should be noted that, while the kings have apparently reached out to patrick ewing, his interest in the job has yet to be determined, and the team's interest is based entirely on a scant rumor...
we also don't really know the reason that mike malone has decided to tap chris jent for a possible position, other than the fact that the two of them previously worked together in cleveland. i've been among the biggest supporters of building this team around cousins and evans, and though we've received extremely strong signals that vivek and malone have designs for DMC, we have yet to determine if they have similar plans for 'reke...
i was definitely encouraged to see that tyreke was made a part of the Long Live the Kings rally, and recent tweets indicate that he appears to have at least some interest in remaining in sacramento (
https://twitter.com/TyrekeEvans/status/334851536142340097), but it seems a bit ahead-of-ourselves to assign ewing to demarcus and jent to tyreke before either of those individuals are hired, and before tyreke is re-signed. that said, after years of maloofian sabotage, i am glad to see that there is a plan, and that it's moving forward expediently...
