ESPN says Kings have decided to KEEP George Karl

[IfAt1st]

Why the **** would Vlade be calling him on the phone?!?!
That makes no sense whatsoever!

Vlade has been at almost every single game, in person, either behind the basket at Sleep Train, or at courtside on the road.
Are we supposed to believe he couldn't bother to meet Karl in person when they're in the same damn city?!?!

Further unbelievableness:
We're supposed to believe that this 5-minute phone call is the first time Karl has been told to REALLY focus on defense, the 3-pt shot, switching less, etc?
If that is true, than every single Kings employee on the basketball side needs to be fired immediately and hire anyone with the brainsize of a walnut, because everyone who follows the Kings has been screaming about it all year long!

 

[funkykingston]

I wonder how Karl answered the phone when he saw "Vlade Divac" on his caller ID during lunch.

Probably, "Hey Vlade"

For better or worse, I'm pretty sure Karl has reached the IDGAF point of his life.

 

[NowImLost]

Probably, "Hey Vlade"

For better or worse, I'm pretty sure Karl has reached the IDGAF point of his life.

Yeah man. Old plus surviving cancer should lead to a stress free life and that is what he is doing.

Props to GK for not stressin' anything.

 

[winston]

Luke Walton anyone? Helluva W-L record





I kid, I kid................................I think so anyway

 

[Iced Espresso]

I've got to wonder some if the pressure was to try and buy out Karl for less and he simply said FU.

 

[KingMilz]

Awesome we got a scapegoat and excuse for losing for the reminder of the yesr

 

[VF21]

It's not clear that the leaks came from the front office or that they were legitimate in the first place.

Exactly. I urge everyone to remember what a master of social media manipulation PDA was and George Karl has been.

 

[ParniValjak]

This is not going to end well at all!

 

[Bricklayer]

Luke Walton anyone? Helluva W-L record





I kid, I kid................................I think so anyway

No you don't. Owner.

 

[ParniValjak]

Adrian Wojnarowski@WojVerticalNBA
2 minutes ago
Kings never decided to fire Karl, which is why...they didn't fire him. Ranadive leaned toward dismissal, but Divac talked him out of it.


Vlade has reportedly hitched his wagon to Karl. Its make or break time.

Last time Woj got ANYTHING to do with the Kings correct was back when Paul Westphal was still the coach. This guy has absolutely NO sources with the Kings. None! He has been shooting blanks ever since calling Kings to Seattle a done deal.

 

[LPKingsFan]

Last time Woj got ANYTHING to do with the Kings correct was back when Paul Westphal was still the coach. This guy has absolutely NO sources with the Kings. None! He has been shooting blanks ever since calling Kings to Seattle a done deal.

Everyone loves calling out the "first and goal" tweet, but that wasn't wrong. As I've said before, Sacramento just made a helluva goal line stand.

 

[fansinceday1]

Best thing to come out of this?
Im seeing some pretty funny Gifs.

 

[DesertFox]

If the team isn't going to rebuild, and instead commit to mediocrity... might as well keep it interesting.
And you know this team is going to get back in the race just enough to break our hearts.

 

[ParniValjak]

I'm sure Vlade has spoken to him on several occasions.


In fact here is an interesting thing: I'm not entirely sure that Cousins and Rondo have not been considerably involved in keeping George Karl's corpse haunting our sidelines

I hope you are right!

 

[IfAt1st]

Increasingly, the Kings front office looks like they have no vision whatsoever.

Like, they don't even decide things - they just do whatever people are screaming loudest for them to do.

Then, when people start bashing them for doing it, they backtrack and re-think/waffle.
Now, they'll likely waffle because people will blow them up for waffling.

It seriously looks like the front office was completely unaware until recently of how bad George Karl has been at coaching this team. It took the embarrassment against the Nets (and the subsequent outcry from fans and media members) for them to even consider firing Karl. For all we know, they may have thought Karl was doing fine and was a completely capable coach until Bobby Jackson went on his tirade after the game.
Maybe they're completely isolated, and just happened to hear of it first time on that telecast?
At least, that's the way the're making themselves look...

 

[KingsFanSince85]

I'm so past tired of this day and age of Internet/Social media news reporting.

Nobody has a clue what's really going on, yet everyone (especially the media) seems intent on acting as if everything that's been reported the past several days is truth.

"The Kings are a mess and can't make up their mind, yadda, yadda, yadda"

Twitter and social media has taken the old adage "Believe nothing that you read and only half of what you see" to new lows. It seems everyone wants to believe 100% of what they read and it spirals out of control from there .......

 

[parker]

Probably, "Hey Vlade"

For better or worse, I'm pretty sure Karl has reached the IDGAF point of his life.

He's actually probably at IDG2F.

 

[annihilator_33]

Sources, sources, and more sources.....

 

[lwc]

Well, at least Vivek let Vlade make the decision.

That is the main thing that I noticed. Vlade, for now, is Vivek's guy. He will have some patience with him and, to me, that shows that Vivek is learning to be a better owner.

 

[kingjatt]

He's actually probably at IDG2F.

Jillian Adge‏@JillAdge
Karl talked to Lowe last week and said Kings beat the Thunder because Rudy Gay shut down Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant didn't play that game...

 

[Blob]

Last time Woj got ANYTHING to do with the Kings correct was back when Paul Westphal was still the coach. This guy has absolutely NO sources with the Kings. None! He has been shooting blanks ever since calling Kings to Seattle a done deal.

The original Woj article said the Kings were "strongly considering" firing Karl not that the decision had been made. His tweet said they never decided to do so. Technically he didn't say anything wrong unless I am missing something.

 

[fansinceday1]

Jillian Adge‏@JillAdge
Karl talked to Lowe last week and said Kings beat the Thunder because Rudy Gay shut down Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant didn't play that game...

Karls post game press conferences make this tweet 100% believable.

 

[VF21]

The original Woj article said the Kings were "strongly considering" firing Karl not that the decision had been made. His tweet said they never decided to do so. Technically he didn't say anything wrong unless I am missing something.

Woj, and most social media pundits, are very good at covering their posteriors. Not saying he was doing so intentionally, but they generally do leave a bit of wiggle room.

 

[chasen4r1]

Jillian Adge‏@JillAdge
Karl talked to Lowe last week and said Kings beat the Thunder because Rudy Gay shut down Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant didn't play that game...

hahahahaha

 

[Hoovtrain]

Best thing to come out of this?
Im seeing some pretty funny Gifs.

 

[spok22s]

I'm actually ok with this. A big part of this organization's problems has been the lack of stability. I feel that Vlade should give Karl at least until the end of the year. Demarcus Cousins on the other hand needs to step up and stop making excuses.

 

[ParniValjak]

Aaron Bruski ‏@aaronbruski
I’ve been told that cash was the prevailing factor and minority owners helped steer the Kings toward the decision they made today.

...

Maloofed

 

[fansinceday1]

I'm not sitting through another 10 years of futility.

Why is it so hard for this franchise to figure out the obvious issues? Cousins is a half court player. So was Tyreke. Rudy Gay is a half court player. Malone was right, there is no correlation between pace and success. It's easy enough to look at the numbers and compare for yourself. You run some sort of post offense, maybe toss in a little triangle and princeton concepts. (GS and SA both do btw) You play at least middle of the road defense, take advantage of your top 10 player, and get to the playoffs. From there, you tweak the roster to fill out holes. You become a desirable place to play. The narrative changes. All you have to do is understand the obvious and do what needs to be done. No PR politics. No blame game. Just fix the basketball side of things.

It's so obvious yet so many either don't see it or don't want to see it. I think it comes down to Cousin hatred. If they acknowledge the obvious then Cousins would be the dominating player he really is and it would discredit some people here.

 

[VF21]

MOD NOTE: Disucssion of Grant's show has been moved to the "From Grant's show..." thread.

 

[Henkel]

If you are going to come out and support the coach this is too little too late, although a meddling owner could have something to do with the timing. Also seems like Rondo may still be in Karl's corner, which if you want to resign him would give his opinion some weight. Whatever the detail may be this is not a good look and another indication of the problems at the top.