Fire Walton
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Fire Walton.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
For years, I thought Gentry was the worst defensive coach in the NBA. Luke proved me wrong.
KingsCitizen
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If not for the cry baby Papa Bagley, Dave Jeorger could already have brought this game to a playoff round. Walton is clearly can’t wait to leave this org. The body language is showing all the signs
macadocious
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To be fair, he had the same body language on day one.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Nothing about Gentry's record really suggests that the possibility would be out the window. None of that matters. Hanging onto Luke guarantees a dumpster fire in the locker room. No draft pick is worth that unless LeBron 2 is sitting there. Even then maybe not with the new lottery rules.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Bagley didn’t get Joerger Fired, Joerger got Joerger fired.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
Kings will show life I think if Gentry were promoted to head coach, but you're right, it won't move the needle much and you do this only to get a different voice in the locker room so dysfunction doesn't grow
Livinthedream
All-Star
All Bagley's fault?
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
I mean it could but yeah. There is always a little bump after a change but I'm not sure if Monte missed his window and held on a little too long. The perfect cut off point was after that first Blazers loss. You would preferably not want this many blowouts to mount up but it is what it is.
SactownShaq
G-League
I can see both sides, the bagley drama did play in. But joerger also rubbed a lot of people the wrong way not just bagley.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
Maybe if Dave Joerger didn’t flip the symbolic middle finger to the franchise by actively avoiding the symbolic 40-win plateau he wouldn’t have been fired.
Dude did it to himself. An insufferable jerk who happens to be a decent coach, but doesn’t make up for his mule-like tendencies.
Luke driving the tank does feel like a pretty fool-proof strategy. But after all these years of losing, it's hard to imagine any single draft pick making that big of a difference. I would personally rather see the team building chemistry by playing well together. I'm also pretty resigned that I don't much care what happens at this point. I'm just watching because I like basketball and I have time to watch it again.
ockingsfan
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Vlade had already decided to fire Joeger before that last game.
I think Joeger threw that last game because he found out mid-game he was going to be fired. I remember the players whispering to each other in the middle of the game. Then in the second half, Joeger threw out the whole end of the bench to finish the final 2 quarters and squash any hope of a 40 win season.
kb02
All-Star
I would say it was 51% Brandon Williams and 49% Joeger. Wiilams also gets 51% of the Bagley over Luka blame.
And I distinctly remember Joerger saying the Kings kids were soft. Those kids should’ve listened to him.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Nah, I mean Williams isn’t the one who actually tried to fight one of his players while he was literally in the middle of running a play.
kb02
All-Star
That player had his best season under Juerger, so maybe he should’ve listened to him more,
steelevt
All-Star
Yeah so the thread should be titled Thank you Walton. Right?
SLAB
Hall of Famer
We have better Alex Len, the coach just refuses to use him.
ockingsfan
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WTH happened to the defensive juggernaut team that the Kings were putting on the floor through the first 4 games? Those first few games of the season, the Kings looked really good on the defensive end.
KingsFanSince85
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Not when he’s purposely tanking late season games.
Honestly it was all just effort, which wears out after a while. You know the mixing stuff up, random full court presses etc. look sexy, but they really only help bad teams to be somewhat decent for awhile. I mean, do you ever see opposing teams/good playoffs teams doing all that? But I'll say this as well, we should expect opposing teams to score lots of points because we're pushing the pace too.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
I can’t believe that gets looked over as much as it does. In addition to the two whole seasons before ALSO UNDER JOERGER where we totally sucked as usual.
A half season of good ball before the league figured the team out does not make firing Joerger this franchise altering mistake.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I mean, I would have been fine with the blatant tanking issue had we actually had our pick that year lol
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