SacKings4Life21
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I just heard it on ESPN News... sad I really wanted him
Joel back to Portland
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SacKings4Life21
Bench
he is a younsgter to lol hes liek 25
SoupIsGood
Bench
I kno how ya feel, everyone is gettin snatched up.... who is left around the league that would make for good MLE signings?
Yet still early days, it's just FA's, not really any quality big FAs left, but there are back-up-types or border-line starters left for bigs. Mike James and Marcus Banks are left for PGs.
Then you always got the trades... Petrie does most of his work there anyways, just go look at his GM history. Hope some things come up in the coming couple weeks.
Jechtsphere
Starter
Hmm well Petrie better be doing something in form of a trade because we didn't really go after anyone.
None of us have any idea what Geoff Petrie has or hasn't done. The man makes the sphinx look talkative.
He pulled the last GREAT Kings team together over a period of time and he brought players most of us who were Kings fans at the time really didn't understand.
Doug Christie? Bobby Jackson?
We have a franchise player now to build our team around. That's what Petrie has wanted/needed since the day Webber left for Philly. I have regained my faith that he (Petrie) has a plan in mind, a vision we mere mortals can only begin to imagine.
He pulled the last GREAT Kings team together over a period of time and he brought players most of us who were Kings fans at the time really didn't understand.
Doug Christie? Bobby Jackson?
We have a franchise player now to build our team around. That's what Petrie has wanted/needed since the day Webber left for Philly. I have regained my faith that he (Petrie) has a plan in mind, a vision we mere mortals can only begin to imagine.
You mean one season because of SAR. Unless you mean overall...
I certainly don't expect 2/4 of our current main 4 FC guys to be back.
RaY Z
Starter
sucks for the spurs... they traded nesterovic away... just lost mohammed to the pistons and now have lost the race to get joel...
who are they gonna start at center??? hehehehe....
most likely tim duncan??? along side matt bonner or robert horry???
hehehe im not complaning...
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atxrocker
Starter
I completely agree. Not sure what is going on behind the scenes but with all these major deals happening right before our eyes, its frustrating to know our only off-season move so far is attaining Douby. I agree with with other posters that Petrie usually does his work in trades, but I would hope this happens sooner rather than later. For now, I gotta believe Geoff is making something happen.. I sure am praying so.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Sucks but oh well. Trades it is.
The only way we're really going to improve is to get rid of some of the stuff we just don't need. As it is right now, we have Corliss sitting there, as well as Hart and Kenny Thomas. Combining them somehow with a quality player is the only way to get quality back.
I'm not going to give up on Petrie quite yet. He went after two people last season - Bonzi and SAR - and got them both. I have to believe he has a plan for this TDOS.
I'm not going to give up on Petrie quite yet. He went after two people last season - Bonzi and SAR - and got them both. I have to believe he has a plan for this TDOS.
Well, what he and Muss said was to get interior defense (the summer league guys must be a gathering and step to that) and a back-up PG for Mike. Whether that means Douby? Or someone else (FA or an attainable player). That's up in the air... until training camp at the latest.
And of course Bonzi.
Hart/Thomas/Potapenko/Corliss - 3 expiring contracts, one iffy contract, but a player that can help a few teams. After that, excluding Artest, I'd say one or two guys might be traded.
And of course Bonzi.
Hart/Thomas/Potapenko/Corliss - 3 expiring contracts, one iffy contract, but a player that can help a few teams. After that, excluding Artest, I'd say one or two guys might be traded.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
But a guy like Joel would have been an obvious. Then we could've dumped some of the stuff we don't need. Now they have to find a way to move those guys for the players we need. Could be a lot more difficult.
Then again Geoff Petrie is the master of the 3 team trade.
Most of the signings so far have been for over the MLE, I don't know why everyone thinks we could have done anything at this point. Whatever Petrie does its going to be through a trade. We still have our first priority in dealing with Bonzi which may be some kind of s&t deal itself. Just because a small number of teams made a big splash over the first few days by dramatically overpaying for a few free agents doesn't mean we're going into the season with the same lineup we had in the playoffs + Douby.
pdx said:
What I've been saying all off-season. Just look at Petrie's GMing history of the last 4-5 years, the majority of it is trades.
pdx said:
Agreed, and what I've been saying since 3-4 of the first things have happened (Peja/Bobby/Ben/Claxton)
I think it's absolutely ridiculous and ignorant to think we're going into next season JUST with adding Douby, and re-signing Wells.
It's still early days, 4 days into the off-season, yet there is 3 months left in it to get what we need. Which isn't much at all - interior defense (a couple guys, be three when one of the SL guys makes it), and maybe a back-up PG, maybe not. That's kinda up in the air, and whether it'd be a main back-up or a third-man-type. Then, just dealing with Bonzi, which we likely regain him anyways. If not, just have to pick up a solid veteran wing-player for the bench to replace Bonzi's expereince.
Really, excluding the PG thing for now (that'll take care of itself), three moves total.
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We have a franchise player now to build our team around. That's what Petrie has wanted/needed since the day Webber left for Philly. I have regained my faith that he (Petrie) has a plan in mind, a vision we mere mortals can only begin to imagine.
Wow, you're REALLY high on QD, aren't you?
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
This is going to be an interesting offseason for Geoff. Maloof mandate vs. his own instinct. He's now got the Maloof's franchise player and the Maloof's coach, and he's being asked to provide players to fit the Maloof's profile, not his own. Geoff knows shooters and Geoff knows offense, but can he be as effective working off somebody else's template trying to acquire defensive players he might never have looked at before at the behest of others?
And as an aside, he also has this probelm -- is Ron Artest really a franchise player for a championship team? Interesting question. And if he's not, then Geoff is also caught once more in the eternal search for another Great player to pair with him.
Throw all that together, and add in Geoff's decided tendency to be a minimalist and when in doubt to sit on his hands and...its going to be an interesting offseason that may not necessarily go the way all of us are hoping. Let us not forget that it was the very same GM who put together that team to start last season and liked it. How quick and decisive is he necessarily going to be in tearing things down and changing them up?
And as an aside, he also has this probelm -- is Ron Artest really a franchise player for a championship team? Interesting question. And if he's not, then Geoff is also caught once more in the eternal search for another Great player to pair with him.
Throw all that together, and add in Geoff's decided tendency to be a minimalist and when in doubt to sit on his hands and...its going to be an interesting offseason that may not necessarily go the way all of us are hoping. Let us not forget that it was the very same GM who put together that team to start last season and liked it. How quick and decisive is he necessarily going to be in tearing things down and changing them up?
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SacKings4Life21
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I have said it all along that Ron needs to have added star power. Mike is a good player, BOnzi showed to be better than just good but none are really great. Ron is a legit all star but he is not the offensive threat he thinks he is. I think we need a low post presence, offense and defense. To bad its the hardest position to aquire
