Keon Ellis

[joemama]

Unfortunately, I fear that keon might be attached as an asset to get us a 4.

No, I'm not advocating it. However, his and our situation (unless there is some part of CBA applicable here that I don't understand) makes such a transaction fairly plausible.

Say Perry finds it tough to move DDR by himself. For what he brings, I think his salary is very reasonable. In any case, we might assume that Scott tried, but failed.

However, during the season, when a team trying to take a leap needs a player like DDR who can score in half court, and gets to add Ellis, a young player with huge upside, they might be willing to give up significant assets to acquire him. Wonder if that was part of the reason for not picking his option and signing him to a long term deal this year, which would have been financially good for us, and provided him security as well.

For us, it might give us a proper 4 we seem to covet. It will allow Keegan to move to 3, improve the team size, and clear some logjam at the guard position.

Now, it's a poor way to clear the logjam at the guard position by trading away your best guard. However, if we want a major player at 4, we will need to give up something significant. Keon and Keegan are our two best young players. Keegan is untouchable due to his size. As good as Keon has been, his minutes, and by extension his effectiveness, will be limited by our roster.

I'd rather just sign a 4.
Boucher, Precious, Bol Bol, Kai Jones, JT Thor are just some of them available to sign.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

This is how, as a society, we came to produce a legitimate movie inspired by fan fiction exploring an erotic relationship with elements of BDSM.

Apparently I need to get out more

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Unfortunately, I fear that keon might be attached as an asset to get us a 4.

No, I'm not advocating it. However, his and our situation (unless there is some part of CBA applicable here that I don't understand) makes such a transaction fairly plausible.

Say Perry finds it tough to move DDR by himself. For what he brings, I think his salary is very reasonable. In any case, we might assume that Scott tried, but failed.

However, during the season, when a team trying to take a leap needs a player like DDR who can score in half court, and gets to add Ellis, a young player with huge upside, they might be willing to give up significant assets to acquire him. Wonder if that was part of the reason for not picking his option and signing him to a long term deal this year, which would have been financially good for us, and provided him security as well.

For us, it might give us a proper 4 we seem to covet. It will allow Keegan to move to 3, improve the team size, and clear some logjam at the guard position.

Now, it's a poor way to clear the logjam at the guard position by trading away your best guard. However, if we want a major player at 4, we will need to give up something significant. Keon and Keegan are our two best young players. Keegan is untouchable due to his size. As good as Keon has been, his minutes, and by extension his effectiveness, will be limited by our roster.

For this team all options have to be on the table but I don't think this is Plan A or even Plans C through E.

The Schröder deal hard capped us at the apron. I think that's why we kept Keon at his price this year. We don't have much room under the apron as is and still have many moves to make. And moving Keon at a discount while hard capped means we'd likely be settling for less than full value even with Deebo included.

It seems all reports are Keon and the organization and Keon's agent have a stellar relationship. And for all his faults Vivek seems like a "family guy" and I have a hard time seeing him moving a hard working "kid" like Keon who came up as a homegrown product after being signed un-drafted.

Hot take territory: a winning organization might be aggressively working the dials on Keon right now. The Kings never would.

 

[The_Jamal]

I'd rather just sign a 4.
Boucher, Precious, Bol Bol, Kai Jones, JT Thor are just some of them available to sign.

I'd rather just see what IJ can do than screw around with any of those names.

Boucher is good, but Boucher isn't turning this into a 50 win team. Maybe a 42 win team to a 43-44 win team.

 

[Tetsujin]

I'd rather just see what IJ can do than screw around with any of those names.

Boucher is good, but Boucher isn't turning this into a 50 win team. Maybe a 42 win team to a 43-44 win team.

Boucher is also surprisingly old so not signing him would be another long term move.

 

[BuddyBuckets]

If I don't get to watch Keon-Nique-Keegan minutes this year I'll be sick to my stomach. That trio + Carter/Maxime are the only 5 guys I'm actually excited about on the whole damn roster.

 

[BuddyBuckets]

I'd rather just see what IJ can do than screw around with any of those names.

Boucher is good, but Boucher isn't turning this into a 50 win team. Maybe a 42 win team to a 43-44 win team.

Agree on most. The name I like out of that is Precious. He plays a physical brand of basketball and is a good insurance piece in the front court. I really don't want to see Eubanks step on the court. Precious/Maxime/Jones/Sabonis/Keegan would soak up all the 4-5 minutes, and hopefully Keegan could play some 3 in bigger lineups.

 

[Folsomkingsfan]

If I don't get to watch Keon-Nique-Keegan minutes this year I'll be sick to my stomach. That trio + Carter/Maxime are the only 5 guys I'm actually excited about on the whole damn roster.

I'm hoping after we start the year 11-17 Doug starts getting more creative with his lineups

 

[The_Jamal]

If I don't get to watch Keon-Nique-Keegan minutes this year I'll be sick to my stomach. That trio + Carter/Maxime are the only 5 guys I'm actually excited about on the whole damn roster.

Im excited about those 6 with Domas as an offensive hub. Seeing how far he could go with a bunch of defensive talent around him

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I really don't want to see Eubanks step on the court.

Eubanks is here to be a stop gap until Maxime is ready. Maybe 8mpg type of guy. He is a big with some court vision and a solid if unspectacular replacement for what Domas brings. Obviously he is not a guy you bank your franchise around but the shade he is getting as backup center is something else.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945539047398470123

 

[The_Jamal]

Eubanks is here to be a stop gap until Maxime is ready. Maybe 8mpg type of guy. He is a big with some court vision and a solid if unspectacular replacement for what Domas brings. Obviously he is not a guy you bank your franchise around but the shade he is getting as backup center is something else.

I don't know if it's really shade at Eubanks. He's just kind of "there". He's clearly an NBA talent, but he's like the eternal 10th man on a team. There's no hope for upside with him, like we want with Maxime.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I don't know if it's really shade at Eubanks. He's just kind of "there". He's clearly an NBA talent, but he's like the eternal 10th man on a team. There's no hope for upside with him, like we want with Maxime.

Yeah - the upside is that he might help you win a few games we might lose because of poor play while Domas is out, and play the same system as we do with Domas while other folks get to learn their role. I get that most folks here have already written off the season and are playing for lotto positioning.

I don't like our lineup as it stands today but I'm not entering this year counting losses as victories.