#FireVlade / #FireWalton
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It's amazing how quickly this all went to crap.
The best move of the offseason, the floor spacing rim defender, has already lost his spot. Joseph and Ariza have yet to show how they fit in.
If your replace Barnes with Shump, Brewer, or JJ, you lose nothing except another 75+ million guaranteed dollars.
If the ownership is smart, they figure out within the next few weeks if this is going to work, or blow it up and start being smart about draft position. The last thing this franchise needs is Barnes,Cojo, etc leading this team to an extra 5 wins and another 10 spots down in the draft.
The best move of the offseason, the floor spacing rim defender, has already lost his spot. Joseph and Ariza have yet to show how they fit in.
If your replace Barnes with Shump, Brewer, or JJ, you lose nothing except another 75+ million guaranteed dollars.
If the ownership is smart, they figure out within the next few weeks if this is going to work, or blow it up and start being smart about draft position. The last thing this franchise needs is Barnes,Cojo, etc leading this team to an extra 5 wins and another 10 spots down in the draft.
Entire FO needs to resign. Put a real competent person in charge. This team is going nowhere under this leadership. I can't believe the amounts of people who thought things changed because we won 39 games last year while pretending to act like our assistant GM didn't plot to fire our headcoach the entire time. Can't believe we fired the coach who led us to our most wins in over a decade!
Oh, I'm not going to bring up Luka Doncic either. Vlade is ****ing horrible. Luke needs to go. He didn't do crap in LA, and I can't understand why he even got hire here.
Oh, I'm not going to bring up Luka Doncic either. Vlade is ****ing horrible. Luke needs to go. He didn't do crap in LA, and I can't understand why he even got hire here.
Yeah, at this point, I think the silver lining to the season would be Vlade stepping down and Vivek (hopefully learning from mistake #3012) hiring a competent GM.
Hell, maybe the Vivster will sell his stake in the team! I know he's gotten better as an owner, but I'm a firm believer in the disfunction starting at the top. Teams with crap owners suck forever.
Hell, maybe the Vivster will sell his stake in the team! I know he's gotten better as an owner, but I'm a firm believer in the disfunction starting at the top. Teams with crap owners suck forever.
I have my suspicions, but last I heard he wanted us to draft Luka (draft day tweets from multiple sauces, IIRC), but did the right/wrong thing by leaving the decision to Vlade.
I hated Vivek's meddling, but really wanted us to draft Luka. Mr. Ranadive NOT meddling for once during last year's draft has caused me much cognitive dissonance, believe you me!
I hated Vivek's meddling, but really wanted us to draft Luka. Mr. Ranadive NOT meddling for once during last year's draft has caused me much cognitive dissonance, believe you me!
I don't even think it would take a long rebuild.
Fox alone isn't getting us wins, I think he peaks as an excellent 2nd option.
Bagley isn't getting us wins even if healthy. 20/10 bigs with bad defense are fools gold (see: Okafor or Kanter, journeymen bench bigs despite their offense and rebounding prowess. Love, KAT, young Cousins.... tremendous numbers on awful teams. But I digress). But he can be a core piece too.
Buddy isn't getting us wins, but contenders would love to have him (probably off the bench).
We add an impact top 3 pick (doable at this rate - pending the prospects), good coach, and competent bench to this core and we're back in it. That could all happen in a summer. But the chances of it happening with the current FO/owner are slim to nil (see: last summer), which is what makes it all so frigging frustrating.
Fox alone isn't getting us wins, I think he peaks as an excellent 2nd option.
Bagley isn't getting us wins even if healthy. 20/10 bigs with bad defense are fools gold (see: Okafor or Kanter, journeymen bench bigs despite their offense and rebounding prowess. Love, KAT, young Cousins.... tremendous numbers on awful teams. But I digress). But he can be a core piece too.
Buddy isn't getting us wins, but contenders would love to have him (probably off the bench).
We add an impact top 3 pick (doable at this rate - pending the prospects), good coach, and competent bench to this core and we're back in it. That could all happen in a summer. But the chances of it happening with the current FO/owner are slim to nil (see: last summer), which is what makes it all so frigging frustrating.
Does Bol Bol have no legs? I'm not sure what the deal is with him but I do know that Harry has a history of major knee injuries including the most major one you can possibly have in his left knee. I'm still a bit peeved about letting Bol Bol go. Straight up from what I've seen out of Bol Bol prior to the NBA I would have taken him over Harry and what he showed any day.
Over a five-game span? Up until...checks calendar...literally 206 hours ago, literally every single Kings fan in the universe thought we were in that "better position" that Vlade promised. So no, I seriously doubt he's going to look at a five-game span, adjusting to a new coach and four of those five missing a potential future All-Star and say, "Yeah, guess I didn't move the franchise forward at all" and resign.
I agree, that would be silly to resign after 5 games. I think the benchmark will be the playoffs, if we don't make it this year I think he will resign.
As I said before, I think the biggest issue is our bench. Arizona and Joseph are terrible. Same with Dedmon. And I think Vlade was hoping Boggi would be the spark off the bench but he cannot hit a shot.
As I said before, I think the biggest issue is our bench. Arizona and Joseph are terrible. Same with Dedmon. And I think Vlade was hoping Boggi would be the spark off the bench but he cannot hit a shot.
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