Doug McDermott, Kings reportedly agree to one-year, $3.6M free-agent contract

[Jdbraver137]

This puts at at 15 barring any trade or Davis cut.
Sabonis/Eubanks/Maxime
Keegan/Jones/Saric
DeRozan/Nique/Dougie
LaVine/Keon/Davis
Schroder/Monk/Carter

We should just cut derozan

 

[Caccia]

The band is getting together again.

 

[iowamcnabb]

It’s really not a big deal one way or the other. 15th guy that can hit 40 percent from three if needed but never really plays. Vet leadership kinda deal.

We have to be getting close to the luxury tax though no?

 

[kingsboi]

roster filler is all this is. Kings rookies aren't getting any playing time regardless or very minimal until the dynamic Chicago duo is out.

 

[kingsfan101]

We should just cut derozan

Just take a deep breath.

 

[Jdbraver137]

Just take a deep breath.

I guess but I don’t want to watch the ball stopping and slow pace he forces on the team. We lost some decent wings got 1 back but other than that it’s the same team.

 

[ESP47]

This just bumped us from a play in team to the 4th seed. West is now on notice.

 

[TheMobb]

I guess but I don’t want to watch the ball stopping and slow pace he forces on the team. We lost some decent wings got 1 back but other than that it’s the same team.

The game will inevitably slow down in crunch time. And at that point you need to put the ball in someone’s hands to create. Who else could the team have gone to?

 

[dude12]

When you are a team competing for a play in at best, you should be sprinkling in your young players to get them experience NOT creating an older roster. The Schroeder and McDermott moves as well as us being connected to Brogdon and Westbrook smacks of appeasing Sabonis and possibly Derozan.

 

[Padrino]

It’s really not a big deal one way or the other. 15th guy that can hit 40 percent from three if needed but never really plays. Vet leadership kinda deal.

We have to be getting close to the luxury tax though no?

You're not wrong. It's a largely inconsequential move. However, this off-season is starting to develop the stink of futility, and each move, however slight, just ends up adding to the general haze of malaise surrounding this franchise, especially when those moves (and nearly every rumored trade/free agency target) makes the roster older and more defensively inept.

I will give Scott Perry until the trade deadline next year to figure out a direction for this franchise, but I am not the least bit encouraged by his strategy so far, which seems driven by ego and absent self-awareness. If we take him at his motivational speech-loving word, he actually believes that clearing cap space/shedding talent in order to sign Dennis Schroeder to the MLE is a winning move.

I'm not really inclined to be charitable. However, I suppose I could imagine a scenario in which Perry is biding his time and plotting to dump DDR on the first contender who comes calling at the deadline, ship out LaVine when he becomes a useful ending contract, trade Monk after he's rebuilt his value as a super sixth man, and invest in the Kings' existing young talent by clearing space for them to get real minutes/inhabit larger roles, but I'll believe it when I see it.

For now, wasting another season of Domas' prime on a roster of ill fits and rancid defense is just foolish.

 

[The_Jamal]

If this is just end of bench, 14th, 15th man depth, it's totally fine. If he takes minutes from Nique or IJ at the back-up 3/4, then it's horrible

 

[The_Jamal]

You're not wrong. It's a largely inconsequential move. However, this off-season is starting to develop the stink of futility, and each move, however slight, just ends up adding to the general haze of malaise surrounding this franchise, especially when those moves (and nearly every rumored trade/free agency target) makes the roster older and more defensively inept.

I will give Scott Perry until the trade deadline next year to figure out a direction for this franchise, but I am not the least bit encouraged by his strategy so far, which seems driven by ego and absent self-awareness. If we take him at his motivational speech-loving word, he actually believes that clearing cap space/shedding talent in order to sign Dennis Schroeder to the MLE is a winning move.

I'm not really inclined to be charitable. However, I suppose I could imagine a scenario in which Perry is biding his time and plotting to dump DDR on the first contender who comes calling at the deadline, ship out LaVine when he becomes a useful ending contract, trade Monk after he's rebuilt his value as a super sixth man, and invest in the Kings' existing young talent by clearing space for them to get real minutes/inhabit larger roles, but I'll believe it when I see it.

For now, wasting another season of Domas' prime on a roster of ill fits and rancid defense is just foolish.

The truly sick thing is I think we actually HAVE the defense to put around Domas, but we just aren't going to do it. If you cycled 3 of Carter, Keon, Nique and Keegan around Domas and 1 of LaVine/Monk/DDR/Dennis, this team would have a much higher chance of actually being a playoff team. But we're going to put the "all offense" squad on the floor a majority of the time while our best defenders, sans Keegan, are going to have minor roles and probably struggle to get PT

 

[reptilexcq2]

McDermont is a dumb move. Kings need to get their act together. Get Ben Simmons to help out team defense....it is sorely lacking.

 

[Caccia]

The truly sick thing is I think we actually HAVE the defense to put around Domas, but we just aren't going to do it. If you cycled 3 of Carter, Keon, Nique and Keegan around Domas and 1 of LaVine/Monk/DDR/Dennis, this team would have a much higher chance of actually being a playoff team. But we're going to put the "all offense" squad on the floor a majority of the time while our best defenders, sans Keegan, are going to have minor roles and probably struggle to get PT

That's what Mike Brown did. Maybe Doug Christie has a different idea. He spent a good deal of time at summer league. In any case, at the moment it sure looks like Mr. Perry has set him up as the fall guy.

 

[iowamcnabb]

If this is just end of bench, 14th, 15th man depth, it's totally fine. If he takes minutes from Nique or IJ at the back-up 3/4, then it's horrible

He didn’t play last year, no reason to think he will this upcoming season.

 

[iowamcnabb]

You're not wrong. It's a largely inconsequential move. However, this off-season is starting to develop the stink of futility, and each move, however slight, just ends up adding to the general haze of malaise surrounding this franchise, especially when those moves (and nearly every rumored trade/free agency target) makes the roster older and more defensively inept.

I will give Scott Perry until the trade deadline next year to figure out a direction for this franchise, but I am not the least bit encouraged by his strategy so far, which seems driven by ego and absent self-awareness. If we take him at his motivational speech-loving word, he actually believes that clearing cap space/shedding talent in order to sign Dennis Schroeder to the MLE is a winning move.

I'm not really inclined to be charitable. However, I suppose I could imagine a scenario in which Perry is biding his time and plotting to dump DDR on the first contender who comes calling at the deadline, ship out LaVine when he becomes a useful ending contract, trade Monk after he's rebuilt his value as a super sixth man, and invest in the Kings' existing young talent by clearing space for them to get real minutes/inhabit larger roles, but I'll believe it when I see it.

For now, wasting another season of Domas' prime on a roster of ill fits and rancid defense is just foolish.

Yeh every intel we have heard is that Scott doesnt see a path to a reset this season due to the contracts. If he can’t move those deals, why not try to win for a year and then take a look in the offseason? Nothing he has done this offseason has hamstrung our future. Deebo can be bought out if not traded and there will be a bit more flexibility with the other contracts. If Nique or Maxi Or IJ or any other flyer turn into a plus starter things can get interesting

 

[Joshyjosh31]

The game will inevitably slow down in crunch time. And at that point you need to put the ball in someone’s hands to create. Who else could the team have gone to?

lol same crap we heard last year all it did was lose us games when we’d go away from the offense the second the fourth started to spam that nonsense

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Yeh every intel we have heard is that Scott doesnt see a path to a reset this season due to the contracts. If he can’t move those deals, why not try to win for a year and then take a look in the offseason? Nothing he has done this offseason has hamstrung our future. Deebo can be bought out if not traded and there will be a bit more flexibility with the other contracts. If Nique or Maxi Or IJ or any other flyer turn into a plus starter things can get interesting

For one it’s a generational draft why miss out on it to land outside the play in or lose by 30 to GSW

 

[TheMobb]

lol same crap we heard last year all it did was lose us games when we’d go away from the offense the second the fourth started to spam that nonsense

Bro we don’t have the talent to be contenders. That’s what it comes down to

 

[NewArena]

This just bumped us from a play in team to the 4th seed. West is now on notice.

Facts lol

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Bro we don’t have the talent to be contenders. That’s what it comes down to

Ya I know that’s why you get rid of the old man taking shots away from Keegan and blocking minuets from Nique

 

[kingsfan101]

You're not wrong. It's a largely inconsequential move. However, this off-season is starting to develop the stink of futility, and each move, however slight, just ends up adding to the general haze of malaise surrounding this franchise, especially when those moves (and nearly every rumored trade/free agency target) makes the roster older and more defensively inept.

I will give Scott Perry until the trade deadline next year to figure out a direction for this franchise, but I am not the least bit encouraged by his strategy so far, which seems driven by ego and absent self-awareness. If we take him at his motivational speech-loving word, he actually believes that clearing cap space/shedding talent in order to sign Dennis Schroeder to the MLE is a winning move.

I'm not really inclined to be charitable. However, I suppose I could imagine a scenario in which Perry is biding his time and plotting to dump DDR on the first contender who comes calling at the deadline, ship out LaVine when he becomes a useful ending contract, trade Monk after he's rebuilt his value as a super sixth man, and invest in the Kings' existing young talent by clearing space for them to get real minutes/inhabit larger roles, but I'll believe it when I see it.

For now, wasting another season of Domas' prime on a roster of ill fits and rancid defense is just foolish.

These thoughts are fine in theory, but almost impossible to pull off. It would be great if we can dump off DDR/Lavine/Monk, and even Domas and Dennis (might as well go into a full rebuild then, why waste Domas's prime. Get something in return). However, you can't dump such salaries to clear space for your young guys. You have to take back salaries. Unless you get really lucky, and have a contender with an ender and assets that you want, you have to take a significant player back. Could be a long term salary. If he can be part of your future, great. More likely, he is a middling vet, whom the fans will start hating pretty soon, and demand that he be traded. For larger salaries like Lavine, could even be two or more middling vets. Would you rather have them, or let Lavine's contract expire/bought out at the next season's trade deadline?

 

[Tetsujin]

At this point, we’ve signed so many of Mark Bartlestein’s clients (McBuckets is another one) that I feel like Keon and Keegan are going to get their extensions sooner than later.