Kings flirting with Precious Achiuwa

Precious Achiuwa is still somehow just a year older than Isaac Jones despite having been in the league since the first Trump Administration.

Thought he was fairly good in that playoff series two seasons ago where half the Knicks were injured so he randomly was playing 25 minutes a game.
 
LPKingsFan said:
Or McDermott. Not a good datapoint for the Perry regime if that’s how it goes down.
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McDermott is probably worth more to the Kings than Saric since he’s an absolutely nuclear shooter at times and not a total traffic cone on defense on the perimeter. He’s also making less than Saric is lol
 
Tetsujin said:
Not sure why we’re waiving IJ instead of Dario Saric, who has been an unmitigated disaster every single time he’s seen the court (aside from the fact IJ’s deal is unguaranteed and Saric’s is big enough you can package it in a larger deal)
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Not entirely sure what that 1 minute in OKC did, but IJ's been banished since.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Was IJ ever going to set the NBA on fire? Probably not. But if we let him go he certainly will.
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It's frustrating we just absolutely refuse to let the guys we develop here actually stay and give them an opportunity to be a NBA rotation guy. We just did this with Queta, who's turned himself into a quality NBA rotation big after we spent all the time developing him here with our G-League roster.

Maybe IJ doesn't make it, but we've spent 2 off-seasons developing this guy and now we're cutting him loose before seeing if he can make it with the big league club? Like ****ing why? He's certainly showed more than enough flashes that he's someone I absolutely did want to see in a consistent back-up rotation role.
 
The_Jamal said:
It's frustrating we just absolutely refuse to let the guys we develop here actually stay and give them an opportunity to be a NBA rotation guy. We just did this with Queta, who's turned himself into a quality NBA rotation big after we spent all the time developing him here with our G-League roster.

Maybe IJ doesn't make it, but we've spent 2 off-seasons developing this guy and now we're cutting him loose before seeing if he can make it with the big league club? Like ****ing why? He's certainly showed more than enough flashes that he's someone I absolutely did want to see in a consistent back-up rotation role.
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I will caveat that maybe the news reporting is off, but if Perry does decide to sacrifice IJ what a stupid move. Saric and McDermott are not only both past their prime, but McDermott in particular is not getting minutes this year given the current construction of this team. You add Precious for McDermott, then it at least feels like the basic roster issues are partly shifting in the right direction. Precious for IJ and you are left with the same thing as before, just with a player that has a little more experience.

What did IJ do to pee off Doug and the front office from the time he was clearly one of the best players in summer league to the start of the NBA season?
 
TaxMan said:
I will caveat that maybe the news reporting is off, but if Perry does decide to sacrifice IJ what a stupid move. Saric and McDermott are not only both past their prime, but McDermott in particular is not getting minutes this year given the current construction of this team. You add Precious for McDermott, then it at least feels like the basic roster issues are partly shifting in the right direction. Precious for IJ and you are left with the same thing as before, just with a player that has a little more experience.

What did IJ do to pee off Doug and the front office from the time he was clearly one of the best players in summer league to the start of the NBA season?
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Yeah, it's not like anyone is saying IJ is the savior of the franchise or anything. But with everything we've seen, he's verging on a developmental success story that's too good for the G-League, he was one of the best players in summer league, so the next logical step is to see what he can do with a real NBA role. He's proven he's at least earned that opportunity, especially on a team that's currently 2-4 and currently lacking size/athleticism.
 
The_Jamal said:
It's frustrating we just absolutely refuse to let the guys we develop here actually stay and give them an opportunity to be a NBA rotation guy. We just did this with Queta, who's turned himself into a quality NBA rotation big after we spent all the time developing him here with our G-League roster.

Maybe IJ doesn't make it, but we've spent 2 off-seasons developing this guy and now we're cutting him loose before seeing if he can make it with the big league club? Like ****ing why? He's certainly showed more than enough flashes that he's someone I absolutely did want to see in a consistent back-up rotation role.
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I would have preferred we kept Queta than McGee but until this year in Boston he was strictly a depth piece not a rotation piece and this year they are basically trying to get out from underneath cap hell and reset while Tatum recovers. I don't think we missed out exactly, but it was probably a waste not to keep him and sell him rather than let him go altogether.

In this case though we have a guy who is not playing and getting a roster spot and another who is playing but a net negative and neither are going to develop or improve so why shed one guy who still might?

It does seem like Cardwell may have leapt over him so I don't know, but if we let him go can we not get a conditional second for him rather than just waiving?
 
The_Jamal said:
Yeah, it's not like anyone is saying IJ is the savior of the franchise or anything. But with everything we've seen, he's verging on a developmental success story that's too good for the G-League, he was one of the best players in summer league, so the next logical step is to see what he can do with a real NBA role. He's proven he's at least earned that opportunity, especially on a team that's currently 2-4 and currently lacking size/athleticism.
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Pretty frustrating if they give up on IJ. He is developing and looks like he could grow into a nice role player. And he has size.

I’m glad we are trying to add more size but I don’t want to give up on another young guy with size to get it.

I think it’s a sad possibility that we may not have Carter, Keon, and IJ on this roster by next season.

And for what?
 
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.
 
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.
 
Caccia said:
They should have done this before the season started, if they were going to do it at all. The hole became obvious as soon as Keegan was injured.
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It seems pretty obvious Russ was a higher priority. Maybe they hoped IJ could hold it down, then decided nope. I didn't see what Christie saw in that last 1-minute stint for IJ, but he must not have focusing on what Doug asked him to do, because that hook was quick and it was unreversed.
 
Just some not expensive insurance. I don't care.
Saric is completely useless. Time for him to go back to Europe. Euroleague now has 20 teams. Game is different. The best talent of the world is in the NBA, but Euroleagues teams are built mostly for one season. Coach is a boss. For NBA veterans it is a good place to play again, earn decent $$$.
 
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