Kings Players Want Isaiah Thomas to Start?

[DesertFox]

Another basketball article coming from what I suspect as a stupid midget fan of midget players.

I could certainly understand that we all want to see midgets thriving very well in the NBA. It's like watching the circus (or sometimes seeing ourselves on the performer). We all want to see the freaks do mind-boggling things that they aren't supposed to be doing. Also, we want to see underdogs winning in games and in this case it is IT trying to prove a 5' 9" PG can be an awesome starter in NBA.

But will it really translate to being a winning team, or playoff team, and ultimately a championship team?

Come on now. We all know we are trying to build a winning team and when I say a winning team, not just a team that will win a few games and then fade comes playoff time. If we want to win it all, we should have a full-sized line-up that can match other elite team's full-sized line-up. It would be a waste of time trying to develop a 5' 9" player as our starter. He will just be eaten alive by the much bigger PGs of the elite teams comes playoff time.

This is basketball and not a ping-pong game.

Common sense.

His height is a disadvantage but it doesn't preclude him from anything. If he can become more disruptive on D and a better distributor on offense he would easily be a playoff caliber PG.
I love the idea of having a size advantage but that is way down the list of things this team needs to fix. While a big strong and quick PG is ideal, I'll take one with great quickness but lacking size over one lacking quickness but with great size.

 

[Prince_XY]

His height is a disadvantage but it doesn't preclude him from anything. If he can become more disruptive on D and a better distributor on offense he would easily be a playoff caliber PG.

Now you said it yourself - the multiple problems with IT being a starter PG. And these problems seriously preclude him to be our main/starter PG.

I think you get it, but you are such a fan of IT that you refused to see the obvious.

Brooks is better than IT. Let us just admit that. Statistics given in multiple threads had shown it. He had shown before that he is a starter material at PG. In fact, he won Most Improved Player of the year award before.

Have you ever come to think how hard to it is to win that award?

Also, Brooks is taller, quicker, more experienced, and most importantly he is currently playing the role player that he needs to be with Cousins and Evans for this team to win more games.

IT might be here before Brooks, but Brooks is a Kings now. Let us not forget that and stop this stupid IT favoritism.

 

[Kingster]

I'm with the Kings players. I'll take IT any day over Brooks.

 

[blackice]

At this point I really just want to see the same starting line up through out the season, no more changing it around. We win and lose with this starting unit. Just have a consistent bench rotation, that would be nice.

 

[Glenn]

At this point I really just want to see the same starting line up through out the season, no more changing it around. We win and lose with this starting unit. Just have a consistent bench rotation, that would be nice.

I think we are getting there. The problem is also because we play 11 players a game.

 

[blackice]

I think we are getting there. The problem is also because we play 11 players a game.

11 or 12 players on any given night. I'm fine with a 10 man rotation, we have lots of depth and players that need to play.

 

[Bricklayer]

At this point I really just want to see the same starting line up through out the season, no more changing it around. We win and lose with this starting unit. Just have a consistent bench rotation, that would be nice.

If reke hadn;t got hurt at jsut the wrong time, and Marcus hadn't had that thing wiht his mom, I think we would already be well on the way to the steady, Smart or not.

 

[Section 101]

If reke hadn;t got hurt at jsut the wrong time, and Marcus hadn't had that thing wiht his mom, I think we would already be well on the way to the steady, Smart or not.

And if we drafted Lillard instead of TRob .....

 

[jpsls]

If reke hadn;t got hurt at jsut the wrong time, and Marcus hadn't had that thing wiht his mom, I think we would already be well on the way to the steady, Smart or not.

That's the thing though. Reke is always hurt.

 

[Bricklayer]

And if we drafted Lillard instead of TRob .....

Injuries are different. And especially the timing of them. We didn't do anything wrong to suddenly have our #2 and #3 guys disappear on us right at the moment we couldn't have them disappear on us. Without wishing it on the guys, why couldn't Cisco have tweaked his knee and Travis Outlaw had a family thing (sorry Travis). But no, it had to be our main guys right when we were starting/needed to get some conistency and pull it together. Just perfectly timed to kill any real chances of rising from the ashes in time to matter.

The organizational level blunders are a whole other, very extensive, topic.

 

[Bricklayer]

That's the thing though. Reke is always hurt.

People say that, but I think the guy missed like 2 games last year.

 

[Prince_XY]

And if we drafted Lillard instead of TRob .....

OR

And if we drafted Drummond instead of TRob .....

But then again, it's the fault of the Magoofs, they don't know who to draft.

 

[Gary]

OR

And if we drafted Drummond instead of TRob .....

But then again, it's the fault of the Magoofs, they don't know who to draft.

Ewww Drummond. I still don't like the guy.. I would have rather had Barnes. He's going to be vicious in a couple years.

 

[kennadog]

People say that, but I think the guy missed like 2 games last year.

Quite posting facts that obscure good "theories."

 

[Bricklayer]

Ewww Drummond. I still don't like the guy.. I would have rather had Barnes. He's going to be vicious in a couple years.

You do take your predraft prejudices seriously.

Drummond is tearing it up. Tonight its 11pts 14rebs 5blks in 21minutes. We ****ed up in a major way.

 

[mac]

You do take your predraft prejudices seruiously.

Drummond is tearing it up. tonight it 11pts 14rebs 5blks in 21minutes. We ****ed up in a major way.

Dude, TRob 4pts 1reb 1blk in 18 minutes. TRob>>Drummond

 

[panda]

drummond also has monroe there to help him along, different circumstances. just like lillard has batum & aldridge showing him the ropes and barnes has curry & lee.

 

[Siranthony]

Reading this article it seems clear to me the team does not want success. Don't play you're rookie phenom from last season. Run a hap hazard offence that makes no sense. They know what they are doing.

 

[bajaden]

His height is a disadvantage but it doesn't preclude him from anything. If he can become more disruptive on D and a better distributor on offense he would easily be a playoff caliber PG.
I love the idea of having a size advantage but that is way down the list of things this team needs to fix. While a big strong and quick PG is ideal, I'll take one with great quickness but lacking size over one lacking quickness but with great size.

If thats the case, whats wrong with Brooks? He's taller than IT, and appears to be just as quick, if not quicker.

 

[LWP777]

If thats the case, whats wrong with Brooks? He's taller than IT, and appears to be just as quick, if not quicker.

He's not as effective as a one on one defender and he has no clue how to run an offense.

 

[Gilles]

drummond also has monroe there to help him along, different circumstances. just like lillard has batum & aldridge showing him the ropes and barnes has curry & lee.

Monroe has nothing to do with his perfomance - Drummond is doing exactly what his play in college coupled with different environment suggested he would do, including missing FTs.

 

[Gilles]

Ewww Drummond. I still don't like the guy.. I would have rather had Barnes. He's going to be vicious in a couple years.

What viciousness do you see in him? That he can run for monster straight line dunks? He shoots .410 from the field and .310 from beyond the arc, gets 1FTA every 11 minutes. He's solid defender, but nobody argued that. He doesn't have the ball in his hands a lot anymore so he's committing only 1.1TOs, I agree, something that James Johnson should really learn about. Again, nothing special - guys like Wilson Chandler or Corey Brewer come to mind.