Kevin Martin out at least a month?
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NewArena
All-Star
Yup, grant said if he would have to guess that is what he would say so your right about it being an estimate but this sucks either way because we know for sure he will miss significant time.
PurpleHaze
All-Star
Devastating... Decimated with your starting back court out for months! I need a double shot... make that a triple shot... of whatever you got bartender... OUCH!!!
piksi
Hall of Famer
he already had a break out season
Mozart
G-League
$$%##^!
Ugh.
Well, it can be a good thing in a way, as the team has the potential to be too reliant on Kevin's good game, as Artest pointed out in an interview some time ago that "Kevin bails us out", thus allowing the others to shoot shots and miss, yet not suffer too much from that.
Well now Mr. Bail-out is out, so the team's gonna HAVE to step it up and intensify the team-aspect of the game, rather than the over-reliance on the one-on-one game--i.e. Garcia, Artest, Salmons--and really step up the assists in the game, big-time.
Looks like John "Sexy" Salmons is going to start in K-Mart's place.
And KT's game tonight. Ugh. Get the guy out of there. Trade him. Send him to the moon. Contract a Sopranos hit on him.
Ugh.
Well, it can be a good thing in a way, as the team has the potential to be too reliant on Kevin's good game, as Artest pointed out in an interview some time ago that "Kevin bails us out", thus allowing the others to shoot shots and miss, yet not suffer too much from that.
Well now Mr. Bail-out is out, so the team's gonna HAVE to step it up and intensify the team-aspect of the game, rather than the over-reliance on the one-on-one game--i.e. Garcia, Artest, Salmons--and really step up the assists in the game, big-time.
Looks like John "Sexy" Salmons is going to start in K-Mart's place.
And KT's game tonight. Ugh. Get the guy out of there. Trade him. Send him to the moon. Contract a Sopranos hit on him.
piksi
Hall of Famer
starting back court is hurt - where did we see that before ?
It's the curse of the Jazz. Back before Webb crumpled in a heap on the court in Dallas, it was against Utah that the Kings seemed to always get hurt in some fashion or another. In fact, I'd have to check but I believe Webb's other major injury came at the hands of Karl Malone.
piksi
Hall of Famer
just because we have polluted his beautiful planet that we live one -it doesn't give us right to bring down the value of moon
creAtivetfh
Starter
sweet. this is normal news for Kings fans
piksi
Hall of Famer
Jerry Sloan and his team are what they are. Harpering vs Pedja, Malone vs Webber, Tag vs Vlade etc... We owned them and they couldn't do a thing about it but hurt us literary. Not much have changed
This was v2.0 though IMO. He made another pretty big leap and showed flashes of #1 option potential. Now this setback... ugh.
piksi
Hall of Famer
the only difference between this season and last season is the absence of Bibby and Artest (8 games) which means that there are 15-20 shots more available to be taken. He still plays no defense whatsoever.
Jechtsphere
Starter
Poor KM, he was off to a great start...he'll be back...Salmons gets another chance to start so we'll see what happens.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
I've changed the thread title to reflect that we don't really know anything yet...
Didn't Bonzi Wells have a pulled groin that first moved Kevin into a starting slot?
...sigh...
Yeah Bonzi had a torn groin I think. If Kevin's out a month it has to be torn to some degree I would think. Bonzi was out about a month, came back too soon and was out more right? This sucks.
creAtivetfh
Starter
did you delete my post?
Yep. I was in the process of sending you a PM, but I'll answer here. The link was already posted. In addition, if you'll check our Tips for Posting, you'll notice that we're asking people to NOT copy and paste entire segments from the Bee.
Since you did that, AND since the link was posted about four posts ago, I deleted it.
kingsfan101
Starter
Seems like I am one of the few ones who doesn't see it as a complete disaster.
Let me start off with a disclaimer. It is always sad to see a player go down with an injury. Kevin was one of the few excitements of the season, and his loss is going to hurt.
The major concern of course is, if this injury lingers. Hope Kevin recovers fully from it, before stepping back on the court.
That said, given our current state, it is not going to make a difference in our playoff aspirations. Taking a cynical view, it might help us by getting a better draft pick. In fact, if we continue to be as bad on the forthcoming road trip, as we have been on the road so far this season, management might take its head out of the sand, and try to hasten the rebuild process.
On the plus side, this might open things up for Salmons, Cisco and QD. Just like Kevin stepped up when Bonzi went down, hopefully one of these guys shall take this opportunity and run.
As Brick pointed out in the grade thread, Artest has been playing great. If at the end of the year, he opts out, and we do sign him up, we shall have too many wing players. A good run by any of our guys shall increase their trade value, which can help get some future front court help.
KingsFan93
G-League
Does it mean Salmons would start at the 2?
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
I would think so. Its his natural position anyway. He should be able to thrive, assuming he doesn't adopt a pouty stance ala his Iverson days about having to share the ball with Ron.
