If These Were Your Kings...Team 3

[Bricklayer]

I am hereby bending some board rules, but have an excuse.

Earlier this summer we held an All Time Kings Draft, where 12 players drafted up complete rosters made up of nothing but Kings from the Sacramento era. Given the overall success of the franchise over its time in Sacramento, not surprisingly the rosters had to be a bit...inventive. When the draft was complete, for various reasons the expected playoffs etc. involving the teams did not happen. That's on me. Now I get to make up for it.

As we get warmed up for a new Kings season, I thought for amusement purposes, to maybe give people a little history of the Kings (and also serving the purposes of restarting the All Time Kings Draft) I would post each of the teams that were put together here in the main Kings forum (my excuse: these are teams composed of Sacramento Kings players after all, not cars, or comic book heroes or hot babes) and pose this question: if we were about to head into training camp and THESE were your Kings this season, how many games do you think they would be able to win?

Starters
F/C Brian Skinner ('04-05) -- 25gms 27.8min 7.4pts (.550 .000 .377) 8.7reb 1.5ast 1.0stl 1.7blk 1.1 TO
F Carl Landry ('09-10) -- 28gms 37.6min 18.0pts (.520 .333 .741) 6.5reb 0.9ast 1.0stl 0.6blk 1.8TO
G/F Francisco Garcia ('07-08) -- 79gms 26.5min 12.3pts (.463 .391 .779) 3.3reb 1.6ast 1.2stl 0.6blk 1.6TO
G Tyreke Evans ('09-10) -- 72gms 37.2min 20.1pts (.458 .255 .748) 5.3reb 5.8ast 1.5stl 0.4blk 3.0TO
G Bobby Jackson ('02-03) -- 59gms 28.4min 15.2pts (.464 .379 .846) 3.7eb 3.1ast 1.2stl 0.1blk 1.8TO

Bench
PG Sergio Rodriguez ('09-10) -- 39gms 13.3min 6.0pts (.491 .357 .694) 1.3reb 3.1ast 0.7stl 0.1blk 1.5TO
F/C Justin Williams ('06-07) -- 26gms 12.8min 5.0pts (.614 .365 .000) 4.4reb 0.1ast 0.6blk 0.6TO
G/F Matt Barnes ('04-05) -- 43gms 16.6min 3.8pts (.411 .227 .603) 3.1reb 1.3ast .07stl 0.2blk 1.05TO
PF Ike Diogu ('08-09) -- 10gms 14.4mpg 9.2ppg (.600 .500 .758) 3.9reb 0.3ast 0.2stl 0.1blk 0.6TO
G Quincy Douby ('07-08) -- 74gms 11.8min 4.8pts (.394 .344 .923) 1.1reb 0.7ast 0.4stl 0.2blk 0.8TO
G/F Dominic McGuire ('09-10) -- 10gms 0.8ppg (.333 .000 .000) 1.8reb 0.3ast 0.1stl 0.1blk 0.7 TO
F/C Vitaly Potapenko ('05-06) -- 9gms 3.6mpg 1.1pts (.715 .000 .000) 0.2reb 0.0ast 0.0stl 0.0blk 0.2TO

Coach: Eric Musselman -- Regular: 33-49 .402; Playoff: 0-0 .000

 

[The Hammer]

Skinner comes through big time defensively down the stretch, Landry and Reke get a sweet two man game going on offense, Bobby is Bobby. This team has heart, enough talent, grit and guts, and surprises people by sneaking into the playoffs.... as long as Mussleman keeps his laptop in the locker room-- check that, office only. (New rule laid down from on high, very high, Mama Maloof.)

Williams is used effectively in spot minutes for interior defense and rebounding. Barnes is a great spark off the bench. But this team really comes together with an abundance of leardership and toughness, getting into the playoffs, galvanazing the fan base, and inspiring an arena deal behind a cinderalla season in which Tyreke enters the conversation for MVP.

 

[bajaden]

Very undersized team with little offensive talent in the frontcourt once you get past Landry. The bench is made up of fringe NBA players, some of which would be a nice fit on a contending team, but beyond that, its a very weak bench. The team the Kings put on the floor last year is superior to this team, and all they won was 25 games. So I'm giving this team 25 to 29 wins based solely on most of the players having more experience than last years team. Tyreke excluded. At least Potapenko would probably get into a game on this team.

 

[MassachusettsKingsFan]

Very undersized team with little offensive talent in the frontcourt once you get past Landry. The bench is made up of fringe NBA players, some of which would be a nice fit on a contending team, but beyond that, its a very weak bench. The team the Kings put on the floor last year is superior to this team, and all they won was 25 games. So I'm giving this team 25 to 29 wins based solely on most of the players having more experience than last years team. Tyreke excluded. At least Potapenko would probably get into a game on this team.

No love for Ike's froncourt scoring off the bench ?

 

[uolj]

I'm going to start with this one because it's the closest to last year's squad so I will at least have a reference point from which to work. Bobby is a nice addition to the starting lineup, but I'm not sure he works with Tyreke all that well. I also don't have a lot of confidence in Musselman or that bench, so I would say they'd win a little less than last year's team actually did.

But then I'm going to bump up all these teams a little so I have room to differentiate. I don't want my vote for each team landing in the 20-24 range even if I think that's where they'd all be. So 25-29 it is.

 

[dbfish]

Bench is horrible, exeptfor Barnes. Not enough height in the front court. If anybody gets into foul trouble this team would be in real trouble. 20-24

 

[Telemachus]

I love the back court of BJax and Tyreke, and feel that the front court is solid if a little thin. Very thin bench would keep them from going very far IMO. I chose 30-34 wins (probably a bit high) simply because I would love to see that back court play together.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Musselman is the coach? In that case, take whatever estimate you may have for this team, and subtract five wins from that.

 

[Bricklayer]

Alright, glad these were found amusing. Been 24 hours so am closing up these polls and putting up the next trio of , er, candidates.