I agree. We would have looked like a totally crazy franchise. We have to at least try to look like we know what we are doing and aren't outrageously impulsive.If we had fired Karl after the All-Star Break, our coaching search might be a lot more complicated right now.
It's very popular.to blame Karl. But it was Vlade, who decided not to fire him. And it's clear as day, that this roster isn't even close to resemble a competetive playoff team. It's only one year into Vlade's reign and therefore it's too early to draw any final conclusions.
But there were quite a few opportunities to improve this team outside of the big names like Wes Matthews. Curry was a good under the radar signing, but the Kings need more signings like that to get over the hump.
We missed on too many draft picks and won't be considered by most FA's. So Vlade better finds guys like Harkless or Bullock soon.
We wasted.one season. We can't afford to waste another.
How often do you use a gun to kill a fly? There must be a lot of holes in the walls in your house.![]()
This idea that Karl wasn't on the same page is mythology! He was on the same page - Vivek's page! Of course he was on the same page - speed up the game, get your 3 point shots up (more Cousins shooting 3 pointers), run, run, run. ANALYTICS! Was defense even a word on the "page"? No, it wasn't! Was Karl on Cousins' page? No, he wasn't. That's the key. Number 1 Rule: Keep Cousins happy. Number 2 rule: Keep Cousins happy. Vivek apparently didn't know the Number 1 or Number 2 rules when he hired Karl. Key question for Vivek: How does your vision of analytics reconcile with Cousins?
Vlade hasn't coached a day in his life. Enough with the crap about Vlade being the guru of basketball. It's fantasy. He was a good player for the Kings. He was a leader in the locker room. So what? How many players have been good players in the NBA and been leaders in the locker room? At this point Divac is a crap shoot - nothing more, nothing less. He should approach this coaching search with humility and the knowledge that he doesn't know everything and that he should learn from those who know more than he does about coaching a team. Maybe he can learn something from talking to some good intelligent coaches. Instead of imposing his vision, he should be molding his vision with the help of people who know more than he does!
Vlade Divac is and was just as qualified as most GMs who enter the league. People like to talk a lot of rot, but NBA GMs are barely professionals. They are hired from all walks of life, half the time their big qualification is "coached a few years" or "once was a player". Sometimes you get "was a lawyer" or "was an agent". I suppose these mythical "qualified GMs" are the occasional middle management peon who gets bumped up like a PDA, but nobody knows who's going to be good at it. Thibs just got himself appointed god-emperor in Minnesota. Does he know what he's doing? Who knows. Sam Hinkie was running experiments in Philly. Did he know what he was doing? Joe Dumars was hired straight off the playing floor. Doc Rivers was a coach who has now used his GM spot to hire his son. Bryan Colangelo failed miserably in Toronto, and now got nepotismed back into a job in Philly by his dad. That Billy King sure was an "experienced GM".
Vlade's qualifications were just fine, and he's done a solid job to this point. We're in better shape then when he took over.
It's very popular.to blame Karl. But it was Vlade, who decided not to fire him. And it's clear as day, that this roster isn't even close to resemble a competetive playoff team. It's only one year into Vlade's reign and therefore it's too early to draw any final conclusions.
But there were quite a few opportunities to improve this team outside of the big names like Wes Matthews. Curry was a good under the radar signing, but the Kings need more signings like that to get over the hump.
We missed on too many draft picks and won't be considered by most FA's. So Vlade better finds guys like Harkless or Bullock soon.
We wasted.one season. We can't afford to waste another.
Again, I may be off on this, but from what I understand, Michael Malone was the defensive coach that turned around the Warriors' defense.The only two names that should even be considered (among the most probably) are Jackson and Del Negro. Everyone else is complete garbage, notably Shaw and Mitchell.
At this point, Jackson is clearly the coach who has the highest chance to turn this team around. Turned an abysmal defense into 14th in DRTG then 4th in DRTG and during their championship season, they were first. He is an elite defensive coach which is exactly what we need.
As far as personality goes, it reminds me of Hue Jackson with the Raiders 5 years ago. Offensive genius who improved the team tremendously but had an enormous ego and threw players under the bus. Like Mark Jackson, first stint as a head coach. It's a learning experience.
And at this point the reward FAR, FAR outweighs the risk. I'm 100% on the Jackson train unless someone like Blatt for some unknown reason comes around. Jackson's defensive mind is better than anything we'll get out of Del Negro.
No, it wasn't Vlade's decision. It's been widely discussed here and elsewhere that it was a group of minority owners who balked at firing Karl in the middle of the season.
Vlade scurried as best he could to add 10 new players to mesh in a reasonable fashion to a decent team. If he had hired Matthews, we would have no worries about Vlade. Vlade DID go after Wes. I don't know who else was available. That's all he could do as the team itself was toxic. I think the team is quite close to being a playoff team.
I'm not sure what Vlade's not firing Karl with 30 or so games left has to do with blaming Karl? If you blamed him for the first 50 games, the only thing Vlade did was give you an opportunity to blame him for the next 30. Vlade doesn't equal blaming Karl. I can blame Vlade for making me sit through 30 more games of Karl though.
On this board Karl is the main reason for our lack of success. There seems to be a strong believe, that this roster should be a lot better than what we managed to achieve. I personally am not entirely convinced that's true.
This roster has some serious weaknesses. And even though Karl certainly wasn't a great coach, Vlade decided to count on him. Why should Vlade as Karls superior be excluded from the responsibility?
I'm not advocating for Vlade's dismission, but I can understand those among us whose trust in Vlade isn't unlimited anymore.
I'm inclined to give Vlade a season or two with a coach he hired and his own roster. If this team is not in the playoffs in two seasons, I'll say Vlade has inherited a mess that even he couldn't fix. In his first season, this is the most talented roster that I can remember since the last playoff team. He has made the team better that fast.
Just think, we know this team tanked a few games, had some injuries, and had a 2-3 game player revolt. Yet, they won 33 games and finished 8 games out of the playoffs. That tells me this is a playoff roster. Take away the revolt and the tanking alone and they would have at least been competing with the Jazz and Rockets for 8th. Have the team fully healthy and even with Karl they make the playoffs.
In previous seasons under previous regimes, players would leave here and be out of the league. I'm sure that at least 9 of our players would be on virtually every roster (DMC, Gay, Rondo, Collison, Marco, Koufos, Acy, Willie, Curry) [I am unsure about Ben and Caron. Someone may give Ben a shot because they think a change of scenery may help. Someone may give Caron a chance because of his experience and the fact that he played well in his very limited minutes here]
In summation, Vlade has a built-in excuse for me because of the mess he was handed but also he will have to take responsibility in two seasons: good or bad.
It's very popular.to blame Karl. But it was Vlade, who decided not to fire him. And it's clear as day, that this roster isn't even close to resemble a competetive playoff team. It's only one year into Vlade's reign and therefore it's too early to draw any final conclusions.
But there were quite a few opportunities to improve this team outside of the big names like Wes Matthews. Curry was a good under the radar signing, but the Kings need more signings like that to get over the hump.
We missed on too many draft picks and won't be considered by most FA's. So Vlade better finds guys like Harkless or Bullock soon.
We wasted.one season. We can't afford to waste another.
I'm still skeptical of Vlade, but I'll give him this season to prove what he can do. He already did his "roster turnover". All of the guys on the roster are his guys now. He got rid of JT, Stauskas, and Landry. He brought in Belinelli, Kofus, Rondo, WCS, and Curry.
If he fails, there are no excuses. These are HIS guys now with HIS coach.
I honestly don't know how anyone could argue about Vlade's lack of qualifications. He's never been a part of any NBA FO. The most he's ever done, is MAYBE scout for the Lakers overseas. The guy is unproven, why can't we just all admit that?
Even with this being said, I'm a bit excited to see what he will do. Hopefully he picks out a good coaching candidate from this ugly list. Del Negro, Jackson, Mitchell....really? These are coaches the Kings shouldn't even consider at this point. Due diligence is really bs, and the Kings would be wasting their time.
I'm still skeptical of Vlade, but I'll give him this season to prove what he can do. He already did his "roster turnover". All of the guys on the roster are his guys now. He got rid of JT, Stauskas, and Landry. He brought in Belinelli, Kofus, Rondo, WCS, and Curry.
If he fails, there are no excuses. These are HIS guys now with HIS coach.
I honestly don't know how anyone could argue about Vlade's lack of qualifications. He's never been a part of any NBA FO. The most he's ever done, is MAYBE scout for the Lakers overseas. The guy is unproven, why can't we just all admit that?
Even with this being said, I'm a bit excited to see what he will do. Hopefully he picks out a good coaching candidate from this ugly list. Del Negro, Jackson, Mitchell....really? These are coaches the Kings shouldn't even consider at this point. Due diligence is really bs, and the Kings would be wasting their time.
I honestly don't know how anyone could argue about Vlade's lack of qualifications. He's never been a part of any NBA FO. The most he's ever done, is MAYBE scout for the Lakers overseas. The guy is unproven, why can't we just all admit that?
A couple are. In reality, he may not have had NBA front office experience prior to last year but he had lots of sports related (including basketball) managing experience overseas. I suspect he is more battle tested than many of us realize.Now we are questioning Vlade... I wonder sometimes.
It's pretty easy to determine who was available in the hindsight. And while Koufos, Rondo and even Bellinelli were reasonable signings, Vlade passed on quite a few opportunities to improve the team.
I honestly don't know how anyone could argue about Vlade's lack of qualifications. He's never been a part of any NBA FO. The most he's ever done, is MAYBE scout for the Lakers overseas. The guy is unproven, why can't we just all admit that?
Word is, he didn't even go for Monta, that was just dude's agent trying to start a bidding war.
So bonus points to Vlade.
Watching PDA work was like watching a Jr. High School dance, just a bunch of random moves, and noThat's what I was going to say. Vlade confirmed that he never offered a deal to Ellis.
Vlade went after the best 3&D SG on the market (even though he didn't get him), drafted an athletic, defensive 7 footer, signed a true floor general, signed a shooter from a the best organization in basketball and a big bodied defensive center.
Whether the moves worked out or not, I saw the logic in them.
Contrast that with D'Alessandro letting Tyreke walk, going after Iguodala (whose fit was questionable), signing Landry, trading for Derrick Williams and then for Rudy, drafting back to back SGs, letting IT walk, signing Collison, signing Royce White etc. Some of PDA's moves worked out and some didn't but I never really got any sense of what kind of team he was trying to put together. And I think in hindsight that he wasn't trying to build a team as much as he was trying to accumulate assets, especially buying low on guys and hoping they panned out/returned to form.
I'm cautiously optimistic that Divac will have a good offseason because from what I've seen so far I really think he gets it.
Watching PDA work was like watching a Jr. High School dance, just a bunch of random moves, and plan what so ever.
On this board Karl is the main reason for our lack of success. There seems to be a strong believe, that this roster should be a lot better than what we managed to achieve. I personally am not entirely convinced that's true.
This roster has some serious weaknesses. And even though Karl certainly wasn't a great coach, Vlade decided to count on him. Why should Vlade as Karls superior be excluded from the responsibility?
I'm not advocating for Vlade's dismission, but I can understand those among us whose trust in Vlade isn't unlimited anymore.