Walton has taken a lot of flack during the stretch where the team completely bottomed out, and rightfully so in some cases, but he needs to get credit for making the decision to start Bogie and bring Buddy off the bench as the 6th man. It’s easy to say but harder to do, with big contracts and egos being so fragile.
But he did it. Buddy has seeming bought in and it’s working well in small sample size. Also implementing Bazemore and working Barnes in the post a bit more has also contributed. Of course the 3 point shooting has been out of this world lately.
Huge upcoming challenge is figuring out how to work Richaun Holmes, Marvin Bagley and Jabari Parker into the mix. The last time the KINGS were playing this well, they quickly lost momentum with the return of Swipa and MB3. Chemistry is often so fragile that even good players can screw it up. Remember what happened when CWebb returned from injury during the Brad Miller era? And that was a top level team.