[Grades] Grades/post-game discussion v. Raptors - 12/17
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This goes back a long ways, and if there's somebody out there that remembers clearly please feel free to correct or add to my recollection, but I remember Pop having a very short lease with Tony Parker and him getting into his grill repeatedly during his first couple of years in the league. I was wondering if Parker was going to crumble mentally because Pop berated him so much. Parker obviously went through the fire, and all to his benefit, but he certainly had to pay an early price from what I can recall.
The Race to the Bottom is pretty intense, with the exception of the Bulls current 5-game win streak. 
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
The Race to the Bottom is pretty intense, with the exception of the Bulls current 5-game win streak.
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
What are you basing this projection on? There's absolutely NO objective data to project the Kings will NOT be a Bottom 5 team.
The Kings point differential is the worst in the NBA. This means the Kings are effectively the least competitive team in the NBA.
We would need to see an emergence of Fox or Skal or perhaps Giles becoming a rotational guy and becoming a consistent impact player.
Since the Blazers win we have seen competitiveness improve, with Frank added to the mix, and other tinkering, but this is also coincides with Z-Bo explosion.
Is Z-Bo going to continue to light it up at 60% TS (while giving up as many or more points on the other end) to keep us relatively competitive? Highly doubtful.
There's some good things happening but the overall picture is consistent with a team that looks Bottom 5.
The Kings point differential is the worst in the NBA. This means the Kings are effectively the least competitive team in the NBA.
We would need to see an emergence of Fox or Skal or perhaps Giles becoming a rotational guy and becoming a consistent impact player.
Since the Blazers win we have seen competitiveness improve, with Frank added to the mix, and other tinkering, but this is also coincides with Z-Bo explosion.
Is Z-Bo going to continue to light it up at 60% TS (while giving up as many or more points on the other end) to keep us relatively competitive? Highly doubtful.
There's some good things happening but the overall picture is consistent with a team that looks Bottom 5.
The Race to the Bottom is pretty intense, with the exception of the Bulls current 5-game win streak.
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
After the Hawks stuck at the bottom with 6 wins, there are 10 teams between 8-11 wins with the Kings stuck in the middle with 9 whopping wins.
If the Kings were to hypothetically going to go on a win streak they could jump all the way 11th worst in the league and still be on the outside of the playoffs.
The team has work to do to get worse if they want to get one of those Top 5 picks in 2018. Achin' for Ayton!
Ultimately, I would not worry about the losses pilling up.
The Kings have the worst point differential in the league and this is a good indication of where a team is headed W/L.
