Big Cuz 15
All-Star
they're not spending ALL of the capspace like they claimed LOL
interview w/ maloof on khtk
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LWP777
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Shocker!!!
Big Cuz 15
All-Star
i'm with ya on that. i think they thought they were going to be in anaheim thats why they said that. gavin is so fake.
JJ22L
Starter
I was unable to listen in. What exactly was said?
Glenn
Hall of Famer
Of course not but it's more fun to make up stuff if it suits your views.
xyrin
Bench
What the hell are you talking about? Gavin stated they were going to use all the cap space they could, and he said, and I quote "We will start at the top of the list of who is the best free agent and work our way down" when trying to sign them.
Fear the Putin
Starter
We need to save space to re-sign Evans and Cousins who may end up getting the maximum in whatever the new CBA will allow
xyrin
Bench
Topic creator obviously had an agenda when he made this topic.
Maloof basically stated that the Kings made a great trade today, we're going to have an extremely exciting team next year, he told the season ticket holders that they would improve the team and spend money in free agency, and he plans to do exactly that. He kept re-iterating how they will continue to spend and make the team better. His main focus is to re-sign Thornton, and then 2A) to get Dally or 2B) get another big in free agency to replace Dally if he doesn't re-sign with us.
What I liked is what he stated: "We will start at the best free agents and make our way down through them to try to sign them".
Maloof basically stated that the Kings made a great trade today, we're going to have an extremely exciting team next year, he told the season ticket holders that they would improve the team and spend money in free agency, and he plans to do exactly that. He kept re-iterating how they will continue to spend and make the team better. His main focus is to re-sign Thornton, and then 2A) to get Dally or 2B) get another big in free agency to replace Dally if he doesn't re-sign with us.
What I liked is what he stated: "We will start at the best free agents and make our way down through them to try to sign them".
Hoovtrain
All-Star
Yeah, that's what I heard as well. As someone who has been a little skeptical about their proclamation that they were going to go hard after FA's, I felt pretty optimistic after his interview. Doesn't sound like Daley will be back though.
Hoovtrain
All-Star
Apparently we have a team with no holes and are going to be unstoppable. I expect nothing less than a championship ;-) Seriously though, i loved his enthusiasm and feel the same.
Why would they spend the whole cap even if they could? This team is very much a work in progress no matter who we add and we will want to remain flexible to add the finishing pieces when we get there. Last I checked we were still a lotto team though which means we have a ways to go yet.
ParniValjak
All-Star
For those interested to hear the interview:
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/?pod...link=true&config_file=config.xml&dcid=CBS.SAC
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/?pod...link=true&config_file=config.xml&dcid=CBS.SAC
RookieOfTheDay
Starter
They said it. I remember it clear as a bell.
RookieOfTheDay
Starter
I don't really care if they spend all of it this year. Just at least spend some of it, which they seem to be doing. As long a the team is getting better, that's the most important part. It would actually be wise to leave enough cap space to make a run for CP3, Williams, or Howard next year.
Double-K
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bajaden
Hall of Famer
The interview will probably be posted on KHTK's website in a day or two. So you can listen and see just how creditable their report was.
bajaden
Hall of Famer
Just listened to the broadcast. I heard nothing that even came close to what was implied by the Big Cuz. I do think that Gavin might be just a wee bit too optimistic about how good the team will be. But I do agree with him that the team is much better. At least on paper. As far as spending money, he basicly said they would spend whatever was needed to be spent. Not in those exact words. No where in the interview did he say, we're not going to spend all the money available under the cap.
As was previously stated. He said we're going to start at the top of the freeagent list and work our way down it, trying to sign the best players on that list.
As was previously stated. He said we're going to start at the top of the freeagent list and work our way down it, trying to sign the best players on that list.
Big Cuz 15
All-Star
pfft, they said that crap during the season not during the interview
Big Cuz 15
All-Star
it's funny to hear them talk about free agency after they thought they were moving to sunny socal. yes, we are spending every penny of it! and now? you listened to the interview. i personally don't care if they spend it all or not. the kings imo already have the guys they need to pay in the near future.
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kennadog
Dog On It!
I remember the Maloofs saying they had cap room and would be willing to spend money. I don't remember them ever saying they would spend 100% of the cap room. That would be a stupid thing to say anyway, if you were going to be trying to negotiate salaries with FAs.
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Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Plus that would also hamstring us in negotiations with Cuz and Reke in a few years. Pretty sure we'll have to pay those guys more than the MLE (if that still exists) to keep them around.
RookieOfTheDay
Starter
I remember it. The quote was something like "we have cap space and we're going to spend all of it". then not long after that it changed to something like "I don't know if we'll spend all of it but we'll spend a good portion".
Kingster
Hall of Famer
And because that is exactly the way I think management should approach FA, I am somewhat encouraged...
Glenn
Hall of Famer
I haven't thought a lot about this but I would think the cap might be relatively hard to keep parity and the Bird exemption would stay in place and perhaps enhanced to benefit the team to keep player continuity for the fans. I miss that. So, spend what you need to to keep your own player but otherwise all the other exemptioons can be done away with, especially the MLE. Perhaps eliminate the luxury tax if the only way of going over the cap is the Bird exemption.
Player continuity in a city is very important to me. It is meaningful to draft a player and have him retire without a team switch. It was very much like that in the past and the fan gets attached to the players far more than now. Although the fans that post here know everything about everybody on our team, the casual fan will be drawn more to the team if he/she isn't witnessing the musical chairs approach that is in play now.
I'll let other people battle this out.
