only 2 games out!

[thedofd]

Unfortunately Geoff Petrie went to Princeton and there is a clause in my Penn grant stipulating that Princetonites cannot be credited with intelligence under any circumstances.

So sorry, no, Geoff is an idiot too.

So that would make us lowly Stanford alum, um, pond scum?

 

[LPKingsFan]

So that would make us lowly Stanford alum, um, pond scum?

Lake Lagunita, perhaps?

 

[Bricklayer]

So that would make us lowly Stanford alum, um, pond scum?

No no, Stanford isn't bad at all for a West Coast daycare center.

But Penn and Princeton...the schools are about 30 miles apart. Except that we get Philly and they get Trenton. Its like North Carolina/Duke, or USC/UCLA. Except at elast as much academic as sports related. You learn early that Princeton = tweedy little inbreds.

 

[Warhawk]

No, we are not talented enough to win it all; ultimately, only one team is. But we may be talented enough to make the playoffs, and I'd be surprised if the Kings didn't try to do that. The coaching job may be at stake. Roster decisions are at stake. Postseason cash for the players is at stake. Moving up to get a top-five pick may make sense from a fan's perspective, but from the players, coaches and management may have a different perspective, for different reasons.

Again, it has to come from management, not Muss. Petrie/Maloofs have to give their OK to it and know that our record might suffer a bit. Muss is already on the hot seat, whatever our record at the end of season, I think.

Postseason cash? Most players earn multiple millions, what is the $$$ / PO game, $100,000? $50,000 after taxes? A lot for "us", chump change for most of "them"....

Look, I root for them to win every game. Every one.

I also realize that the wins really won't do us much good barring key injuries to other teams, barring a miraculous turnaround. If they keep winning at a 75% clip (including the good teams on the road), I'll get excited about the PO and consider *maybe* possibly thinking an upset. Until then, it's a fool's quest to make the PO and hope to advance....

And I just don't see that consistency in this team. Few games here and there, yes. More than a handful at a time? Not this entire season.

 

[Miles and Miles]

Postseason cash? Most players earn multiple millions, what is the $$$ / PO game, $100,000? $50,000 after taxes? A lot for "us", chump change for most of "them"....

The average salary of the starting 5 is $7.6 Mil so $100,000 is just over 1% of their yearly salary. I did the math on my own salary and I would love to get paid that kind of a bonus for just doing my job (winning games).

 

[Beezy]

I'm gonna be optimistic. It doesn't cost any more and it certainly makes watching the games a lot more enjoyable for me.[/quote]

Wholeheartedly agree on this one. I watched the Lakers/Kings game and we played fantastic. If we can continue to play like that the rest of the season at least we'll be looking forward to how the team will perform instead of dreading how the team is going to suck it up.

 

[Ms.Williams]

while alot of you are talking about blowing the season tryin to get a good pick for next year....if you look at the standings we are only 2 games out of eigth, with the nuggets not gaining too much chemistry yet and the hornets always up and down...if we could get a few wins between losses we will be right there in the run for the 8th or even 7th seed....whos with me???

GO KINGS!!!

IM With U All The Way

 

[SacBlaze]

We are now in the 9th spot, 1 game away.

 

[The Hammer]

I now predict that we will make the playoffs, led mostly by the continuted emergence of Kevin and the re-emergence of Mike Bibby.

Slightly off topic: I also predict that locker room tensions will gradually decrease and re-harmonize the more distance gets between Ron and the team. I also predict that Ron will not play for the rest of the season, that Kings Nation will realize that it's ok to feel that huge sigh of relief, that he will move on somehow in the offseason, and that this event will precipitate a decent "rebuild on the fly".