Kings training camp 2025 open thread


All I’m gonna say is that De’Aaron and Domas weren’t ever doing this pose haha

New hug unlocked.

I remain incredibly bullish on this duo offensively. Hopefully they're getting/gotten a lot of opportunities to drill the 2 man game and work the PnR. One of the best 3 level shooter/scorers that just needs a sliver of space to get a shot off paired with the 2nd best playmaking big and best screen assist big in basketball should be a match made in heaven
 
I'm actually excited to see Keegan Murray, Devin Carter, Max, Nique, Lavine and Sabonis after a full training camp with an actual coaching staff (Doug had to coach with 2-3 assistants missing)

Ellis and Monk are two of my favorites as well. We have a lot more talent than people think and I'm looking forward to seeing them hopefully surprise everyone the way the first Beam Team did in their own way, similar to what Malik said yesterday.
 
For Doug to take over midseason and finish the rest of the way with Mike Browns staff had to be a toxic situation for everyone.
Yup. So much of last season was a mess that you just can't possibly blame any singular person for, it felt like an anomaly even for the Kings. DeMar is right about this being and feeling like a clean slate, and if he's saying that (as honest and blunt as he's been) I think that's a very good sign - even if I still don't love his fit here.
 
I feel like this team is going to be cohesive and gritty. Honestly I've liked what we've added. I feel like Schroeder is going to unlock Sabonis, and get great looks for LaVine

That's going to be a big part of this teams success. Finding that Bean team 1.0 level of "us against the world" mentality
 
Christie is talking about Murray being "in the corner." References Murray should be similar to McDermott being in the corner. References Murray being "in the corner" ready to take the shot. I hope this talk of being in the corner is not really what Christie is talking about, rather that his real point is that Murray needs to be ready to take the shot. Still, it gives me pause.
 
So he has a focus to look for an identify?😀 So last year they weren't even looking? Translation: We don't know who the heck we are but we're going to try to find it whereas last year we didn't try.

I mean, how does this not make sense?

We had a million of reports of a million different things, but I think the one conclusion we can gleam from everything is that absolutely nobody was connected in the organization last year. Fox had his own agenda, Brown had his own agenda, Luke Loucks had his own agenda, Wes Wilcox had his own agenda, Monte got neutered and became a Vivek puppet all last year. And LaVine joining a team mid-season that 1. Fired their HC, one of the best in franchise history and 2. Just traded their franchise player, one of the best in franchise history and 3. The other star player, Domas, was never healthy for the stretch run of the year.

How are you supposed to build continuity? One benefit of brining Doug back (and probably the biggest/best reason to do so) is he got to work with these guys for most of last year. He's been in the building, but now he gets to fully run the ship. There's familiarity there, just with Doug's flavor on it now, not left-overs from the Brown era.

There's going to be improvement just from the sheer fact of a top down approach of everyone being on the same page again. There's no warring factions fighting each other for team control.
 

So:

Monk
Keon
Nique
Dario?
Eubanks?

Carter
Maxime
IJ

Maxime absolutely has time and should go get some run in the G-League, but I think it's put up or shut up time for IJ. If you can't go beat old/washed Dario Saric for playing time, it's probably not going to happen for you. The rotation minutes are there for the taking, especially on a team that desperately needs length on the wing.
 
I mean, how does this not make sense?

We had a million of reports of a million different things, but I think the one conclusion we can gleam from everything is that absolutely nobody was connected in the organization last year. Fox had his own agenda, Brown had his own agenda, Luke Loucks had his own agenda, Wes Wilcox had his own agenda, Monte got neutered and became a Vivek puppet all last year. And LaVine joining a team mid-season that 1. Fired their HC, one of the best in franchise history and 2. Just traded their franchise player, one of the best in franchise history and 3. The other star player, Domas, was never healthy for the stretch run of the year.

How are you supposed to build continuity? One benefit of brining Doug back (and probably the biggest/best reason to do so) is he got to work with these guys for most of last year. He's been in the building, but now he gets to fully run the ship. There's familiarity there, just with Doug's flavor on it now, not left-overs from the Brown era.

There's going to be improvement just from the sheer fact of a top down approach of everyone being on the same page again. There's no warring factions fighting each other for team control.
It also helps that Vivek didn’t hire the runner up in the GM search to be his new GM’s second in command this time and let Scott pick his own right hand man.
 
So:

Monk
Keon
Nique
Dario?
Eubanks?

Carter
Maxime
IJ

Maxime absolutely has time and should go get some run in the G-League, but I think it's put up or shut up time for IJ. If you can't go beat old/washed Dario Saric for playing time, it's probably not going to happen for you. The rotation minutes are there for the taking, especially on a team that desperately needs length on the wing.
For what it’s worth Cardwell also had a grey jersey so I’m not sure these are particularly indicative of the depth chart at this particular moment in time and more just how guys were split up for drills.
 
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