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Two beloved members of Kings lore and Marvin Bagley III
Who? Provide examples.
The rational people understand the context that Fox put us in and how much Vivek had his hands in acquiring LaVine.
No I wouldn't have traded for LaVine. That doesn't make LaVine a bad player, by any stretch. Which some of you think he's essentially Quincy Douby
Also the fact that the dude is in the 100% percentile on essentially all the three point shooting stats except for shot quality is insane. Dude makes an insane amount of threes despite taking absolutely crapty ones.
Fox was there too.Two beloved members of Kings lore and Marvin Bagley III
Two beloved members of Kings lore and Marvin Bagley III
Thanks, I know what not to listen to during that time. I never liked his schtick (generally rude New Yorker and all-around know-it-all). Yeah, no thanks.Finally…Grant Napear HAS COME BACK..to Sac-ra-MENTO!
Grant Napear has returned to the Sacramento radio airwaves. He’ll be doing his Kings talk show on Fox Sports 890AM/104.7FM. 3-6 starting in September.
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I'm not high on Zach but the big knock on him has been injury history, hasn't it?
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From 2016 - 2022 he never played in 70 games. And in 23-24 after a healthy 22-23 he only played in 25.
That's why he was viewed as such a bad contract as far as I'm aware. You can't pay 30% of your cap if a guy is missing a quarter of the season.
Many of these are valid but if he does shoot over 40% many teams would welcome him if he was playing 72+ games. Many of the top stars are allergic to defense as long as they aren’t a big nobody seems to care.My knocks on him are that he's an offensive black hole who loves to shoot, doesn't play defense very well, doesn't handle the ball very well for a guard, has mediocre passing vision, and appears to be allergic to hustle plays. Also he's played 12 seasons in the NBA and has shot better than 39% from three in just two of them so he's probably not going to keep scorching the net the way he did last season.
Many of these are valid but if he does shoot over 40% many teams would welcome him if he was playing 72+ games. Many of the top stars are allergic to defense as long as they aren’t a big nobody seems to care.
I did find it interesting that KOC smashed the Spurs extending Fox at the max level. I thought SAS was immune from that, but it's very real for us. Every asset we have is trash by association. Meanwhile the Lakers trash is talked about like its the Hope diamond.Yeah, but then we have the Sacramento problem. If the Lakers are trading him mid-season, they would get something worthwhile because they always do. There's a whole industry of media people out there to hype up their trade assets, as suspect as those assets may be. It never works that way for this team. If Sacramento calls other teams ask for Keon Ellis and Keegan Murray or an unprotected first round pick then go back to forgetting that we even exist.
I'm not high on Zach but the big knock on him has been injury history, hasn't it?
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From 2016 - 2022 he never played in 70 games. And in 23-24 after a healthy 22-23 he only played in 25.
That's why he was viewed as such a bad contract as far as I'm aware. You can't pay 30% of your cap if a guy is missing a quarter of the season.
That was what I had heard about him, and that was my memory for earlier in his career. But to be honest, I did't see it last season, There were times last season when I was hoping he would be more aggressive. I remember games where he only took 8 or 9 shots.. Sometimes we see things that aren't there because we expect it.My knocks on him are that he's an offensive black hole who loves to shoot, doesn't play defense very well, doesn't handle the ball very well for a guard, has mediocre passing vision, and appears to be allergic to hustle plays. Also he's played 12 seasons in the NBA and has shot better than 39% from three in just two of them so he's probably not going to keep scorching the net the way he did last season.