SacTownKid
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Beal’s ability to create would be something we could use for sure.
And he’s had a career of fantastic stats
But the exaggeration train in this thread is nuts.
Acquiring Beal doesn’t necessarily equal conference finals and or championship.
I don’t think anyone on here is saying he’s not a good player but you can’t separated player from the contract. That contract is Superbad.
I’m betting many on here believe that the Kings may be better off going the Nuggets model of keeping the team together and making improvements with high level role players. We have the Jokic and Murray and Porter roles filled with our 3. Aaron Gordon > HB is where we need to improve. And then we have more offensive oriented guys in Huerter, Monk where as Denver has the Brown and KCP defensive oriented guys.
Acquiring Beal seems more of a “chase a star to play with other stars move” which has been sketchy. Sheesh, this team already is a scoring machine. Playoffs are what’s important now you say? Yeah, agreed, I guarantee that playoff teams will sag the paint like the Warriors did and take away Domas, Fox and Beal and for whomever our 3 point shooters are to beat them. Beal won’t change that.
I for one am not going base my whole off-season on 1 playoff series against the Warriors and then say we need to make this move or that when GS was the one team that could score with us.
I think the Kings are close to making that deep playoff run and possibly winning the western conference. I think getting high level role players such as Gordon, KCP and a Bruce Brown will push this team over the top. And I do think Gordon is playing a role on the Nuggets after being a top option in Orlando. His defense from his position is something that would make us a real contender. Beal doesn’t do that.
Is Beal good? He is. But I have some serious doubts that he’s the answer and we will be hamstrung trying to get those high level role players.
Nothing does, but what something like this does do, and it doesn't have to be Beal per se but someone has to step up or come aboard, is that Fox has some pressure to carry taken off of him. In the playoffs he was a one man show and then Monk filled in here and there. That's not enough. We saw that. Maybe Huerter just had a bad run, maybe Keegan can put more than one game of production together next year, maybe Barnes will stay aggressive, maybe Sabonis just couldn't dominate because shots weren't going in from his teammates. Even in the season though, you can't have that kind of blob of shared shot distribution under Fox. The playoffs showed that. You need 2-3 guys that carry the load and the others are there when they deem them the option. That's almost every single contender from now to the beginning of modern times.