Stuff like this makes me more upset watching the kings games when they go through their dry spells. You have fox who was top in the league at getting to the rim, holmes (yes he’s been out) who is deadly with his push shot, and ty is deadly at the pnr and a very good 3 pt shooter. Yet most of our plays seem to end up with a metu or bagley 3 at the end of the shot clock. People say changing the coach won’t do anything but even a normal fan like me can see what works yet they go away from it all the time.
the main difference is Gentry is still running Luke Walton's system which seems to me (from eye test) encourages the extra pass from a good shot to a better shot. To a fault! There is a definitive distinction between an open 3 from Metu and a contested midrange from Fox that the players on the floor seems to either forget or ignore.
Walton was doing exactly that in the Lakers, which makes Vlade's decision to outright hire him the 2nd decision he ever made that I vehemently disagree.
All that proves is Bleacher Report not doing that great of a job researching. Or short-sighted like a lot of us here are guilty of.
People still reading BR these days? They are more of a joke than Trae's hair.
I guess Buddy's? It's still pretty marginal but one can make a case... haha
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Well the kings don’t have a lot of big contracts. I mean TT and bagley aren’t worth their contracts but there’s only 1 year left. Your only real options are fox, buddy and Barnes. Even if fox is mildly better than the other 2, he’s paid about $10 mil more. So if you have to choose, it has to be fox. But that’s more of a testament of catanella and how the kings don’t have that many bad contracts.
Some of us predicted this, it's not hard to see he's not a max player although it's a tough race with Barnes/Buddy.
I guess Buddy's? It's still pretty marginal but one can make a case... haha
(Can I pick Luke Walton's?
To me, Luke's the only one who's a net negative taking our team from the brink of this high-level run-you-out-of-the-gym attack-above-all young squad (maybe not the happiest locker room but winning solves everything they say) to the current YMCA selects.
What scares me about him is what he’ll be able to do if/when we trade Fox and defenses begin to focus on him. It’ll be interesting to see how he handles that cuz I’m still not in love with his shooting technique and the way he passes up shots as a result. Say we get Ben Simmons - who on earth will actually shoot the ball on this squad? I guess we’d have to figure it out later, but, i fear we’ll have a few more headaches going forward. It certainly won’t be a boring trade deadline and dreaded off-season, that’s for sure!
Truth. As a result, people are acting like we have zero talent on this team and that’s simply not true. They’re not a great or even good team right now, but, they’re certainly not this awful. Any team would be crap running whatever “system” this is. It’s a joke
In my defense, I did say “seem”
In my defense, I did say “seem”
