I honestly would not be surprised if Bagley turns is around somewhere else. He was doomed from the start with the Kings. As soon as Luka started showing his stuff, Bagley was never going to work here. The attitude, the drama......he needed a fresh start and we needed one as well. Solid salvage job by Monte here.
I love that! I think Barnes at the 4 makes us so much more dangerous.
I wanted Luka but I felt it only went truly sour after the first injury in year 2. They nuked the FO, a coach, everyone to make Bagley work and then he just kept missing time. I hate to question his drive but a lot of these injuries he spent months rehabbing were the things that most players play through. Obviously nobody wants a bad situation to get worse and their health matters, but the amount of time missed for the most athletic freak in the draft just didn't add up.
Vlade was terrible at talent evaluation but at least his team could seal the deal when it came to signing players. None of them fit really well and we overpaid, but the amount of talent that the two poopoo heads let walk for nothing ON TOP of being terrible at the draft and firing the best coach we've had since Adelman just out of pettiness lands them a special spot.
To be fair Barnes is like the one good trade acquisition Vlade ever made at a bargain price so cheap he would have had to been an amoeba to refuse and Fox was complete luck that the one prospect who wanted to be in Sac in that draft class happened to be very good at basketball
I sincerely doubt Bagley will blow up anywhere. Too many holes in his game and not enough drive to succeed. He has made very little effort to improve his game or even his body. Guys with little drive like that don’t usually reach great heights.
And now he gets to mold DDV and Josh Jackson
Everyone cites this as Exhibit B in the case against Vlade and it is bad but I think you also laid a lot out here which needs to be taken under consideration. Why couldn't Vlade just trade a pick to move out of those contracts? Well, he couldn't, because the Kings had made a trade of seemingly little consequence at the start of the decade that took almost the entire 2010s to convey. THAT one, was on Petrie, btw.
How could you leave Darko off that list?
Until he doesn't I believe he's already got the tweets in his drafts folder.
Now we just gotta trade for Jayson Tatum
Well Said. Thumps up.
The true spectacular thing about this trade deadline day is that no team in the west appears to have done anything to get quantifiable better aside from the Kings and Pelicans. Depending on how the postseason goes, there could be an avalanche of change at the top of the western conference (not even counting the Suns having to figure out what they’re going to do with Ayton since they didn’t extend him) and the flippin Kings could be in position to capitalize (though I doubt Donovan would be one of the guys they’d go for).
He's a nice throw in to a deal we'd have done anyways. Kings traditionally get high mileage off those guys, but I don't have many expectations, I'd like to see him rehabbed just a smaller bit and sent off in the next deal. But who knows, he's on his last legs and has incentive to play for a change.
