Larry David
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I have located the disconnect between you and PDA.
Kings sign Carl Landry
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I have located the disconnect between you and PDA.
theclash4u5
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Heuge
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Maybe we can trade him for another stubby combo guard chucker.
HereWeBoogie
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I am a Landry fan. But I have no way to justify paying him this much yet we wont pay Evans 44m to stay. Especially when we already have ppat and JT who are both better.
For now im gonna assume they have a trade for one of those guys in the works. If not im gonna start to get worried.
For now im gonna assume they have a trade for one of those guys in the works. If not im gonna start to get worried.
jalfa
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so yeah, trade somebody. good idea. anybody seriously think another team wants what we're selling, though? I see lots of sub-average players on middling salaries that don't at all fit the mold of what works in the NBA. with that we're supposed to acquire an impact player? if PDA could swing that, I'll be hella impressed and all the anxiety about what has happened so far would be gone. seeing however, that so far, every move has been a disappointment, it seems unlikely.
Yep, a reminder why I usually just read and not post. Every move meant with "the sky is falling" attitude. I like Landry at that salary. Keep increasing the talent base so that we can make further moves. This is not a 1 week or 1 month project thanks to the previous organization. I've been ok with the moves...yeah, I'd like to see who our SF is going to be but at least we are getting assets. Setting up a trade at some point.
I agree and with this Landry addition Il'm inclined to think its more likely at least two big trades. And, if so, there'll be a lot more fodder for our drama queens who have been so entertainingly providing unrelenting drama in the posts above and elsewhere these past few days.
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theclash4u5
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JT probably has just been told that he's been traded to the Pacers for Granger...right? RIGHT?!?!
Everyone defending these moves sure is certain its easy to trade away our garbage for good pieces.
Can you please refrain from throwing personal insults at those of us whose opinion it is that the front office has not been making good player personnel decisions so far this offseason? I have not used, and I promise to continue to avoid using any personal insults against those of us here who think the moves so far are just fine, or are optimistic that when the next shoe drops it will all make sense. Thanks.
JT probably did the same math I did. Tyreke wanted to come back to Sacramento so bad he was practically crying in his interview with news 10 and Pete told him we can't afford you at $44 million... but we can afford Landry at $26 million. R u kidding me is right.
HereWeBoogie
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Oh no. I just heard we might try to sign Sam Young. Please god no.
jalfa
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considering how much his game had to suffer the last time Landry was around that seems to be a perfectly reasonable response.
Because he's the SF Sacramento deserves...
Kings Faithful
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Yes. and for those asking me how i came to the conclusion that we got better....... Yes we lost Evans, but his contribution to our team as a whole was marginal. He was a good defender, but we were still a god awful defensive team. He could score but our team was full of scorers who could more than make up for his absence. He wasn't a great play maker and didn't make the players around him better. In my mind the biggest loss was Evans defense, but as i said earlier one good defender does not a good defensive team make. Either this team is going to learn to play defense under Malone or it isn't and Evans wouldn't have made a difference in that regard.
Kings Faithful
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Lol
Anthony1
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One other thing that JT and PP have in common, is that they are more trade-able than Landry. So, gotta imagine that PDA has either one, or both of those guys departing in a future trade.
Also, I hope the 4th year of the contract is a team option (in regards to Landry)
bajaden
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Sorry, I'm confused! How did you get from signing Landry, to Cuz being gone? Am I missing something? First off, Landry is a good player, and maybe they expect him to come off the bench, and not necessarily be starting next to Cuz. I have no idea, but I'm willing to wait and find out. Its also obvious to me that there's another move coming. They didn't go out and sign Landry so they could have a glut in the front line. It appears to me that their patching a hole in advance of creating one. As for Landry and Cousins not being able to play together, well, maybe if they had a coach the first time around that could design plays that worked well with the two of them together there might have been a different outcome.
On the other hand, its july 6th, and everything is going to hell in a handbasket, so personally I'm going to go and kill myself. I mean there's no hope. It probably would have been better if the team had moved to Seattle. That way we'd all feel better!
Kingfanpaul
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Indiana Pacers free agent Sam Young is drawing significant interest from the Sacramento Kings on a possible one-year contract, league sources told RealGM.
Young, 28, averaged 2.8 points and 2.2 rebounds last season, playing part in the Pacers’ rotation as an established wing defender.
Young spent his first two seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies, and he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in 2012 before signing a free agent deal with the Pacers last offseason.
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/228700/Kings-Pursuing-Sam-Young
Kingsfan23
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JT like IT is one of my favorite Kings. Just a solid, young big who is a good guy on and off the floor. No reason for the constant trade talk surrounding him when we have a roster largely comprised of less inspiring players
Player option. And since we aren't trading Landry, It will be JT or Patterson, both of whom fit better next to cuz and are better defenders. So either way, we likely downgraded what we need out of our pf spot.
kingsfan101
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Exactly the kind of move we don't need.
We should be either rebuilding, or contending. Had it been a one/two year deal, it might have still made a little sense. Tying up huge amount of our space in a piece that we don't need at all is plain silly.
Nothing against Landry. He's a good player who played well everywhere he's gone (except us, maybe. But that was a different coach). But where will he see minutes, unless he steals them from PPat/JT? Plus, don't we already have an overpaid, veteran, locker room presence big guy, ex Rocket on our team? Why did we need to add another?
Given that we are unlikely to sign a good FA, we need to use our cap space to collect assets, like Utah did. Signing middling FAs will keep us in perpetual mediocrity.
We should be either rebuilding, or contending. Had it been a one/two year deal, it might have still made a little sense. Tying up huge amount of our space in a piece that we don't need at all is plain silly.
Nothing against Landry. He's a good player who played well everywhere he's gone (except us, maybe. But that was a different coach). But where will he see minutes, unless he steals them from PPat/JT? Plus, don't we already have an overpaid, veteran, locker room presence big guy, ex Rocket on our team? Why did we need to add another?
Given that we are unlikely to sign a good FA, we need to use our cap space to collect assets, like Utah did. Signing middling FAs will keep us in perpetual mediocrity.
Larry David
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I don't. I think we'll give our garbage away to anybody that wants to take it for something. And because most of those players have 2 years or less on their contracts, we won't give up anything to dump garbage. Instead, a lot of garbage will just walk away.
I think we'll slowly add pieces in FA, the draft, and a salary dump that makes sense for the long term. This board represents 99%
of the world that values most of our roster. Our GM doesn't and he has ownerships backing The plan is clear at this point. Folks here just don't like it.
Kings Faithful
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Prepare your bodies NBA....
roasthawg
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This! And LOL at ANYONE negatively assigning blame on this signing to PDA. This is Malone's guy thru and thru... Carl buys into Malone 100% and frickin loves the man. Great team guy, great post scorer off the bench. If we build our offense around scoring in the post we gotta have a plan B if Demarcus is in foul trouble or something. Everyone has been freaking out about scoring now that Evans is gone... here's some more offense. Good signing... WELCOME BACK CARL!!!
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