Talk about saying the quiet part out loud: that would be a little too blatant.Can the Kings challenge the non-call there?
We could always leave Buddy alone...Well, Carlisle, you are tank Yoda. No way Kings are beating that kind of genius. Checkmate.
We could always leave Buddy alone...
We're going to get overtaken by Portland to land in 7th, and then drop 2 spots to pick 9th in an 8 player draft.
It's written in the stars.
I am more concerned about keeping safe distance from the Blazers because falling down to 7 makes us vulnerable to falling to 8 or 9 again and missing out on all the consolation prizes.It's OK, we can win the lottery almost as easily from 6th as from 5th.
We're going to get overtaken by Portland to land in 7th, and then drop 2 spots to pick 9th in an 8 player draft.
It's written in the stars.
We're going to get overtaken by Portland to land in 7th, and then drop 2 spots to pick 9th in an 8 player draft.
It's written in the stars.
probably should have fouled on the inbounds.Talk about saying the quiet part out loud: that would be a little too blatant.
Chet
Jabari
Paolo
Ivey
Benn
Murray
Davis
Sharpe
Duren
Griffin
Ochai
There's really not a huge drop from the top ten to the next five or ten guys.
No Shaedon?I really don't particularly care about jumping in the lottery this year, I'm worried about picking x +1 in an x player draft.
Tier 1
Chet
Jabari
Banchero
Ivey
Tier 2
Griffin
Mathurin
Murray
Davis
(I don't like Griffin really, but there's no denying he's going ~5th, so that creates a buffer for us and I'm just hoping we don't pick him.
Staying at 6 is find, dropping 3 spots is pretty unlikely, but being at 7 is too risky. I like Tari Eason and Kendall Brown but they are nowhere near as exciting.
No Shaedon?
Yeah, the only thing that hurts is the Kings lose potential trade options the farther down they go. In terms of actual picks, the Kings are in a position to get a good one if they keep it and don't blow it.
Chet
Jabari
Paolo
Ivey
Benn
Murray
Davis
Sharpe
Duren
Griffin
Ochai
TyTy
Tari Eason
Sochan
Dyson Daniels
Kendall Brown
There's really not a huge drop from the top ten to the next five or ten guys.
you know it’s coming.
But winning culture or whatever.
I doubt Sharpe's declaring, but I beg to differ.
Where I bolded is the drop off point (with Griffin very clearly projected to go higher), those guys may not be bad per se, but it's Mitchell over Giddey/Wagner/Kuminga all over again.
Yeah, I at least have faith in Monte to pick the BPA and come away with someone useful in the draft rather to do something completely out of left field like take a massive reach on Nikola Jovic or something like Vlade probably would have.
What are we supposed to do? Our 2 best players are out and 2 of our top 8 players (TD, Holmes) are out. Gentry held Barnes to 32 minutes rather than his normal 36-38+. Vets Lyles and Holiday played 22 minutes. I guess the only thing would be playing Len over Queta, but lets be real; that changes nothing.
Can't tell dudes like Damian Jones or Metu to cool down and not play hard. They're fighting for their NBA careers. And like it or not, we actually have to put 5 guys on the court. It's very annoying obviously, but this isn't like past KANGZ end of season games where we run all our fully healthy vets into the ground against bad teams.
Before the tourney I would have agreed with you but there's so much noise about him declaring at this point that I'd be surprised if he didn't.