Looking at the new roster

[Packt]

From the latest Bee chat with Geoff, it sounds like he's keeping an open mind WRT to re-signing one of the old Hawks PGs for next year, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

He kind of has to as there's no guarantee Beno will be here next year.

 

[kings20993]

call me crazy but im actuelly exitted about lue

 

[fnordius]

call me crazy but im actuelly exitted about lue

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[Arby's Roast Beef]

call me crazy but im actuelly exitted about lue

I guess apart from what you would call his championship "experience" with the Lakers, Lue definitely can inject energy off the bench as a pesky, quick, create-your-own-shot-off-the-dribble sort of guard. Capable of going for scoring outbursts, although he's definitely much more unselfish than your average gunner "point guard." Plays under control most of the time. I do like the combination of Beno and Lue, as both play like hard vets who generally can organize a team by simply playing under control, but both do lack in the expertise of pure point passing and overall talent, but that should suffice for now. I do hope, however, that Lue gets more playing time over Anthony Johnson, who's a bigger point guard and can handle slower PGs well defensively, but sorely lacks in the shooting department.

 

[Arby's Roast Beef]

By the way, I wanted to talk about Lorenzen Wright. I know he's an expiring contract, and he's probably going to be gone this offseason, but I'm noticing what I consider to be a disturbing trend in that Geoff's accumulating has-been, undersized, offensive-oriented big men who are on the downside of their careers. Kenny Thomas, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Mikki Moore to a slight extent and now Lorenzen Wright sort of illustrate that; while I appreciate Lorenzen's hard work, hustle, and ability to score from mid-range and off garbage points, that sounds completely same old, same old to me. Whether or not Wright gets playing time, I just find this trend interesting...makes me appreciate Justin Williams knack for blocking shots and rebounding even more.

 

[GregR31]

call me crazy but im actuelly exitted about lue

Me too. Hes a great backup. Hes a score first PG, but that fine, thats why we have Beno. Ive liked this guy the past couple years actually.

 

[Gary]

Lues a solid backup

Lue is a ballhog.. Ever see this guy play? He holds the ball for 22 of the 24 seconds if he doesn't get a shot of his own..

Johnson, Wright, or Lue wont be here after this year.. Guarantee it.

 

[Semi]

Johnson, Wright, or Lue wont be here after this year.. Guarantee it.

Careful, you're pretty far out there on that limb!

 

[Lurknomo]

Johnson, Wright, or Lue wont be here after this year.. Guarantee it.[/quote]

From what the Sac. Bee says Lue might not even be here all week. I don't think Petrie is done yet, if the deal is right.

 

[Dime Dropper]

Johnson, Wright, or Lue wont be here after this year.. Guarantee it.

From what the Sac. Bee says Lue might not even be here all week. I don't think Petrie is done yet, if the deal is right.[/quote]

Can you elaborate?

 

[jcassio]

Can you elaborate?[/B].

From Amick's article in the Sunday Bee:
Yet Lue might not be long for Sacramento, as he has been pursued by Phoenix and Boston and could be used in any subsequent deals before Thursday's trade deadline. On that front, sources close to Denver said talks between the Kings and Nuggets about Ron Artest have recently restarted. The elements of a potential deal appear to be the same, with the Kings holding out for third-year small forward Linas Kleiza and likely requiring forward Eduardo Najera and his expiring contract.

 

[Dime Dropper]

From Amick's article in the Sunday Bee:
Yet Lue might not be long for Sacramento, as he has been pursued by Phoenix and Boston and could be used in any subsequent deals before Thursday's trade deadline. On that front, sources close to Denver said talks between the Kings and Nuggets about Ron Artest have recently restarted. The elements of a potential deal appear to be the same, with the Kings holding out for third-year small forward Linas Kleiza and likely requiring forward Eduardo Najera and his expiring contract.

Thanks for that. I genuinely hope Ron is moved, most likely to Denver. I didn't think GP would attempt another trade, but it seems he's still trying to move Ron. Getting Kleiza back would be nice, and there would be minutes for him at SF with Ron gone. But, to be perectly honest, I'd rather a draft pick. A trade involving a pick would be alor more difficult since you would have to include someone other than just Najera to make salaries work. How about Artest and Lue for Najera, JR Smith and either a 1st or 2nd rounder?

If we don't want to keep Smith after this season he is an expiring. Also, are we able to trade Lue since we just got him? Trade checker says you can't.
Anyway, don't want to turn this into a trade thread so I'll stop with the proposals.

 

[Bricklayer]

From Amick's article in the Sunday Bee:
Yet Lue might not be long for Sacramento, as he has been pursued by Phoenix and Boston and could be used in any subsequent deals before Thursday's trade deadline. On that front, sources close to Denver said talks between the Kings and Nuggets about Ron Artest have recently restarted. The elements of a potential deal appear to be the same, with the Kings holding out for third-year small forward Linas Kleiza and likely requiring forward Eduardo Najera and his expiring contract.

The thing about that little blurb about Boston and Phoenix is that I don't see how they could get it done. Lue makes $3.5 mil this year, so to match you would have to be within 25% of that, which means at least 3.5mil x .75 = 2.62mil in salary coming back. But other than their key rotation guys, neither of those teams has an expendable ending contract greater than about $1.2mil (the vets min) for Piatowksi or Pollard. So basically they would eihter have to trade us a whole stack of scrubs for our one Lue, a guy out of their rotation (which wouldn't get them anywhere), or in Boston's case somehow convince us to take on Brain Scalabrine's 3 more years at $3+mil per year deal. Just don't see how it can work for both sides.

Edit: P.S. the Suns apparently do have a trade exemption still to be used, so depedning on its size, maybe that's the answer.

 

[HndsmCelt]

With due respect to Amick (read that line any way you like) I don't see ANY team that is a Tyrone Lue away from a championship. Could some type of 3 way trade benifit one of the contenders? Maybe, but lets get serious, the Kings have needed to clear the books for at least 2 years and the name of the back up PG is the least of their worries right now. I would like to see some more movement before the dead line and every player expect Kevin Martin would be up for grabs if I were in the drivers seat. So I guess what I am saying is that these line ups ought to bee seen as game time decisions.