Draft Thread

[Tetsujin]

I'm sorry how many picks did Portland have and how many did they keep? How many did we keep?

It was a joke. My god, everyone is on edge tonight.

 

[Kingster]

No shots for Deng now.

Jason got 7 shots a game last year as our starting PF. Unless you tell me TRob is going to get that or fewer, then there is no room for a third scorer in that lineup (4th so long as IT is still at the PG). TRob becomes the third scorer.

There has to be a lot more discussion on increasing the FG% of players and a lot less on the number of shots each one takes. Preferably, the guys with higher % get more shots...

 

[MassachusettsKingsFan]

"Welcome to Sacramento, Thomas Robinson. Oh by the way, we sold our second round pick, which means you'll be forced to do all these ****ty PR appearances all by yourself. Have fun!"

 

[mac]

It was a joke. My god, everyone is on edge tonight.

I'm sorry, I am just not looking forward to having our little SF platter of Outlaw, Salmons and Garcia next year. Well guys, today, we addressed 0 needs other than a little overall talent. Welcome T-Rob, hope you enjoy losing.

 

[jcwkings]

I would put Jimmer, Thornton, Salmons, Outlaw, Hayes, Garcia on the block to see if we can get a starting NBA SF, obviously we will be stuck with at least 3 of these 6 guys, and you only trade Thornton if it nabs you a starting SF or Vet PG.

I want to see

Vet Pg/Isaiah
Tyreke/
Vet SF/Honeycutt
Robinson/JT
Cousins/Whiteside

 

[mac]

I would put Jimmer, Thornton, Salmons, Outlaw, Hayes, Garcia on the block to see if we can get a starting NBA SF, obviously we will be stuck with at least 3 of these 6 guys, and you only trade Thornton if it nabs you a starting SF or Vet PG.

I want to see

Vet Pg/Isaiah
Tyreke/
Vet SF/Honeycutt
Robinson/JT
Cousins/Whiteside

I'm not willing to give up on Jimmer yet. But any team that can offer me a decent SF is welcome to their pick of all the others you mentioned.

 

[Kings Fan Gerard]

With the 36th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, the Sacramento Kings select cash because the owners are broke.

Also, I've been thinking for a long time that the Jimmer pick last year was made mainly because of the media mileage/$$ he could bring to the team.

 

[rainmaker]

So we went from this:

our owners eating million dollar burgers, to owners who can't afford a non-guaranteed contract worth a fraction of those damn burgers?

Excuse me for not having much confidence going into free agency next week. This sucks.

 

[Hoovtrain]

Of course he would be horrible wiht anybody else who needs the ball in their own hands. He's great at what he does, but he's just about the most ball dominant player in the NBA, and he's lived virtually his entire career with teams respecting that and surrounding him wiht finishers ratehr than guys who like to work off the bounce.

Bullsh*t Brick. The guy is the best in the biz when it comes to making players around him better; shooters, non shooters, finishers, non finishers, etc. Reke would learn to move without the ball or he would learn to shoot. Ridiculous that we are now discussing him (along with pretty much everyone else)being a bad fit with Reke. Is there anyone you feel would be a good fit with Reke or Cousins?

 

[Big Cuz 15]

magoofs ****ed it all up. penny pinching led them to acquire outlaw 3m/year, hayes 4m/year, salmons 8m/year. all that work to get cap flexibility to **** it up in one offseason.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

With the 36th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, the Sacramento Kings select cash because the owners are broke.

Also, I've been thinking for a long time that the Jimmer pick last year was made mainly because of the media mileage/$$ he could bring to the team.

ya think????

can't believe some of the posters on this board that say geoff makes all kinds of bad moves.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

god, i'll be so sick if they do another ROY run this season.

 

[upinsmoke]

god, i'll be so sick if they do another ROY run this season.

Expect it in spades.

 

[Dime Dropper]

If Miller is still available when the Lakers pick at 60, expect them to take him.

 

[ElRey]

I was so looking forward to getting a steal in the second round, perhaps a defensive SF. Thanks Maloofs! You are the brokest owners in the NBA. Please sell

 

[kennadog]

LOL dumb move.. I wanted Miller too but the Maloofs pull a stunt like this..

Broke as bitches.

Hey, I'm a ***** and I feel really insulted by any comparison to the Maloofs. [/joke]

 

[andjel]

It is not that bad regarding the lineup.

Last year lack of size on the roster was forcing us to have Reke as SF and 6'6'' first backup "big", creating defensive issues at at least 3 positions at one time.
Just switching Reke back to be a guard and discovery of T-Will as part time SF makes us ton better than last year.

If we resign T-Will, the lineup IT(23)-Reke(23)-TWill(25)-TRob(21)-DC(22) with MT(25)+JT(26) bench makes us competitive, maybe close to playoff.
With no changes whatsoever, this is playoff team in 3-4 years easy.

Adding defensive SF veteran and shot blocker for any of our resources (IT/MT/JT/TRob/Jimmer/picks) replaces word "playoff" with contender.

 

[jpsls]

Sigh. Selling a low 2nd round pick? Any word on how much it was sold for?

Why do they need to sell picks for cash? Aren't they getting a big fat welfare check from the NBA?

 

[Prince_XY]

I don't know what's wrong with selling that pick when we still have too many players to develop and not too many minutes to give them. It is not as if those players left are surefire NBA-caliber players.

Ant to those who keeps on blaming the Maloofs on whatever they do to save money, I hope what is happening to the Maloofs family does not happen to your family.

 

[Tetsujin]

god, i'll be so sick if they do another ROY run this season.

Only difference is that this one could be warranted. Davis may need some time to adjust and T-Rob is NBA ready

 

[Dime Dropper]

So both Machado and Quincy Miller go undrafted? Give them both an invite to camp and the sour taste in my mouth from the Maloof's ineptitude will be lessened slightly.

 

[Section 101]

So both Machado and Quincy Miller go undrafted? Give them both an invite to camp and the sour taste in my mouth from the Maloof's ineptitude will be lessened slightly.

Miller was drafted #8 in rd 2 by denver.

 

[ElRey]

I don't know what's wrong with selling that pick when we still have too many players to develop and not too many minutes to give them. It is not as if those players left are surefire NBA-caliber players.

Ant to those who keeps on blaming the Maloofs on whatever they do to save money, I hope what is happening to the Maloofs family does not happen to your family.

uhhh I think you got this wrong. People are not blaming the Maloofs for trying to save their finances. They are blaming the Maloofs for not facing the reality that they are no longer financially fit to own an NBA team!

 

[kingzallday]

So both Machado and Quincy Miller go undrafted? Give them both an invite to camp and the sour taste in my mouth from the Maloof's ineptitude will be lessened slightly.

Quincy was drafted by Denver

 

[Dime Dropper]

I don't know what's wrong with selling that pick when we still have too many players to develop and not too many minutes to give them. It is not as if those players left are surefire NBA-caliber players.

Ant to those who keeps on blaming the Maloofs on whatever they do to save money, I hope what is happening to the Maloofs family does not happen to your family.

Yeah, very tough for the,. It must be hard knowing that if they're forced to sell, they'll only be multi-millionaires. People really aren't considering the awful situation they're in. It's certainly not their fault, and not a result of complete business inadequacy. And they're definitely not bringing on this criticism themselves by making a string of horrible decisions that both hinders the franchise and their own personal wealth.

 

[kennadog]

uhhh I think you got this wrong. People are not blaming the Maloofs for trying to save their finances. They are blaming the Maloofs for not facing the reality that they are no longer financially fit to own an NBA team!

I've been mad as hell about that for a while now. Especially when I heard a buyer offered them MORE than market value and they still said no.

 

[Gary]

I don't know what's wrong with selling that pick when we still have too many players to develop and not too many minutes to give them. It is not as if those players left are surefire NBA-caliber players.

Ant to those who keeps on blaming the Maloofs on whatever they do to save money, I hope what is happening to the Maloofs family does not happen to your family.

It's just a tad different. Owning an NBA team is a "luxury" and the Maloofs should not have this "luxury" when they are crashing and burning financially. I doubt normal people keep mansions, sports cars, and yachts when they have no money. They are treating the Kings organization like someone would treat a brokerage house or something.

 

[ESP47]

He's not going to bump our FG% very far unless again he's munching shots. Otherwise you are putting a guy who shot 50% in college into the lineup in place of a guy (Jason) who shot 52% for us last year in the pros. But he should hopefully shoot better than Hickson or Hayes, so we'll get whatever that bump i assuming both he and JT are on the roster.

And for the millionth time Sacramento fans, THE thing we have struggled with for oh, almost a decade now, is DEFENSE. D-E-F-E-N-S-E. As in worst in the league last year defense. I'll cross my fingers and hope Robinson can at least hold his own and maybe do better than that on that end, but he wasn't one fo the defensive game changers in the draft, adn we are too far gone for one solid defender to make much of an impact. Consider the bulk of his minutes will come from minutes that last year went to JT, Chuck Hayes, and Whiteside. How many points better do you think his defense is truly gonig to be than those guys? On the other hand, the defensive rebounding will be welcome. Cousins is a tremendous rebounder, but he's better on offense than defense.

I want defense as bad as anyone else but Kidd-Gilchrist was already gone. We had to take the best player available at that point and it was easily Robinson. It's not like we took some 6'3" combo guard chucker who scores 25ppg and can't defend to save his life on the other hand. We got an athletic guy who is ready to come into the league and play immediately. He can score, rebound and defend adequately. He doesn't have big shot blocking numbers but we couldn't take a chance on someone like Drummond who most likely has bust written all over him. I think you are too enamored with the shot blocking stat. We have Whiteside for that if he can develop.

Until then, lets enjoy the fact that we are going to be rebounding monsters for the next few years.

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

Soooo...we were going to draft our franchise SF with that 2nd rnd pick??

 

[jcwkings]

I don't really care about selling the 2nd round pick. He have way too much young talent to begin with. Cousins, Evans, Robinson, Isaiah, Jimmer, Honeycutt, Whiteside are all young players that still need developing. It's time to surround these guys with legit NBA vets that will help them grow, yet still contribute.