Z-Boing (F)
Z-Boing has scored 24 points this season on 32 shots.... 24 million dollars down the tubes!!!!
What an egregious signing and squandering of valuable cap space resources.....terrible!!!
Our offense rating when he is on the floor is 80. The team does not function when he was on the floor. Period.
As I stated prophetically in my season preview, Z-Boing was a "problem waiting to happen".
Houston, Sacramento, WE have a problem!
How long will it take for Joerger to admit his endorsement of this guy and probably main reason he is in a Kings uniform was a monumental blunder????
He has NO trade value NO mobility NO interior defense NO hope NO competitive fire and NO conscious to prevent launching the ball every time he touches it!
But he has his backpack feel-good supply and payday every two weeks so life is A-OK for Z-Boing! Keep cashing them checks Z-Boing!
Boggy (B)
Now onto Boggy....I liked (loved) what I saw. Good to great defender. Good to great knack for setting up teammates.
He has stop-on-a-dime ability. His running gait is slightly rigid and awkward which belies his athleticism which is pretty good.
Just like De'Aaron, Boggy missed some chippies that he needs to make but I am not concerned with shots going in in first NBA game of career.
I am concerned about the quality of shots he got. He got good to great quality shots.
And he set up his teammates unlike Malachi or Jackson is capable of....which makes Boggy the logical new starter at the small forward in probably 5-10 games if not sooner.
My concern before Boggy came here was adopting to the speed of the game and increased size and athleticism....This is still an open question but first game was encouraging albeit against garbage defense. What I am NOT sure about after Game 1 if his 5-15 FGs was because he was sped up and forced to play at a pace too fast for his skill set, or if it was just a matter of rust and newness and first game jitters. I tend to lean towards the latter and expect that as he gains more comfort and rhythm with new teammates over the next month the same shots he missed last night he is going to start making 50% or more....In other words last night game will be 8-15 FGs or 10-15 FGs once he gets his legs and bearings under him.
Lord knows we could use another potential star on this roster to add to Buddy, Skal, Fox and Giles.
Buddy (B)
Buddy is not performing to my standards or expectations on the offensive side of the ball, only 6-15 FGs last night, and making only 36% FGs and 12 PPG.....UGH!
But he did have his BEST 17 minutes as a Sacramento King defensively with 5 steals including 3 steals in the span of a couple of minutes......and what does this coach do to reward him???
Pretty much benches him in the 4th quarter. For a coach to preach defense then sit the guy who provided that defensive spark, I don't know how I feel about that.
Our offense is a mess right now so I think that should be the focus of the coach to get the offense mix right with rotations and play sets, but I think Joerger could have found more than 17 minutes for Buddy.
If this game is any indication, Joerger has a fondness for Boggy. He has said in an interview he thinks "he can be a stud". My hope is the minutes Boggy gets come at the expense of Jackson not Buddy.