Bibby and Miller are the two Kings starters who work best with each other. Bibby is a true pick and roll PG. What we've seen abundant evidence of is that he really is NOT an elite PG UNLESS he's running the pick and roll or pick and pop with a good big man. But put him in the two man game, and he's one of the best. The key to the recent "steak" (knocking off questionable teams over 4 games) has been basically clearing out their compeition and just having them play their two man game. Benefits both of them. Would not/does not benefit or work with other major scorers, but surround Bibby and Miller with young guys, hustle guys, subsidiary players just filling in around the edges and what you've basically done is go ahead and create the same two great player + bunch of role player dynamic that most teams use, only with less than great players in the lead. Feels very natural, both guys are freed to dominate the ball and play their own games + everyone else picks up the thread and fills in around the edges. Even Peja in this last game was really a tertiary figure.
Now thing is, this is like parts of last year -- Bibby and Miller playing loose and natural = better than the listless passionless mess we've had all year, but its still basically all offense, all jumper, run up and down try to beat bad teams 115-110 sort of stuff. MIGHT be able to be a .500 team that way. Maybe. And so you get yourself in an odd spot -- Bibby is playing better, Miller is playing better, the team is playing harder, and knows who/what it is for the first time all year. But there is a very hard and very sharp ceiling. The good teams will dismiss us, the bad teams score right along with us. On the road without the home crowd we'll sometimes lack energy. And we just kind of become a sometimes entertaining but potentialless team.
Its better than what we've had, but basically its just going back to where we were at the end of last season -- same type of .500 team that got dismissed by the Sonics in 5. The very thing all the moves over the summer were designed to escape. So now what do you do? Do you go with the non-serious team from last year that at least plays loose and "fun"? Do you go back to the sluggish fighting for the ball searching for an identity mess you had before? Or do you (ding ding ding) take advantage of this break from misery to redefine the core + try to revisit the summer and make some more moves to change things up?
We can play .500 this way (maybe). .400 the other way. Neither is where you want to be. Get good, get bad. Don't settle for medicore.