Kings flirting with Precious Achiuwa

dude12 said:
Can one of our astute media people actually ask Doug Christie WTF? When it cam to yanking IJ out of that game. Since then he’s had no chance to sniff the floor. This is a crapty environment for a young guy like IJ. At least with Brown he did last Keon get some run and he’s turning into a real rotation guys, probably deserves more minutes. IJ is developing into a rim running big. Could be a useful guy as he gains experience but looks like we punt on him and keep Saric? Fuuuuuuuuuggggggg.
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This would signal that yes, the Kings are all in on going for it and thinking eyelashes on a corpse will bring it back to life. Precious is a decent pickup but the intent is the issue. It would probably take them being on a 10 win pace for them to even reconsider their course. This season has been potentially the most short-sighted one we've seen in the Vivek era, and that's saying a lot. Play in on the backs of little long term building it is, smh.
 
Rain man said:
Should sign Precious and start him at the 4, even when Keegan comes back. Despite the lack of shooting, he is the perfect compliment of size, toughness, and rim protection to pair with Domas. Plus, with Keegan, Lavine, and Schroeder, you have enough shooting.
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If that was the plan, it would be a lot more palatable than the inevitable Keegan back at the 4 carrying all the defensive load so that some combo of two from Monk/LaVine/Deebo gets to start.
 
Rain man said:
Should sign Precious and start him at the 4, even when Keegan comes back. Despite the lack of shooting, he is the perfect compliment of size, toughness, and rim protection to pair with Domas. Plus, with Keegan, Lavine, and Schroeder, you have enough shooting.
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Yea I’m all for DeMar coming off the bench and completely annihilating teams and their 2nd units
 
Capt. Factorial said:
If it's IJ, then it's IJ. Achiuwa is less than a year older, has a lot more NBA experience, and has been better at basically everything we want out of a PF/C. Jones has actually been a better scorer, but that's because he basically only dunks. If you want rebounding, defense, and toughness out of a PF/C then Achiuwa is the better bet.

I'm not sure whether Jones' contract is 100% guaranteed or not, but in any case it's the smallest one we can waive, and with an Achiuwa pickup we'd be teetering on the edge of the luxury tax. Since tax payouts appear to be in the $15M range, we're talking the difference between signing Achiuwa for $2M and signing Achiuwa for $17M, so, yeah, financials are important here. Saric might be the *preferable* dump from a roster standpoint, but turning him into dead money is no bueno when we can hope to offload him in a deal around the deadline. Just the way it is, I'm afraid.
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If we cut IJ to sign Precious, can we resign
IJ to play in Stockton?

Would he be eligible for a 2-way still?
 
ockingsfan said:
If we cut IJ to sign Precious, can we resign
IJ to play in Stockton?

Would he be eligible for a 2-way still?
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We're already full on two-ways, so unless we cut one of those guys, it wouldn't happen that way.

I'm actually not sure if there's any rule preventing us from bringing him back to Stockton if we cut his NBA contract.
 
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