I’m feeling a touch of anxiety about integrating a key player back into the system after missing so many games. But I would be more concerned if we were talking about Bagley. Holmes will integrate better and faster than most. But the way Giles and Len are getting it done, I really don’t want to see either of them demoted to a 12th man.
I checked the score, lakers up 7...cool. I just checked again, they’re down 2. I really hate the lakers.
I can see similarities in Holmes and Lens games. Setting good screens, playing hard D, and put backs/close to the bucket shots. We don’t need to call plays for him. Hopefully the integrating will be seem less.
In Ham's latest podcast with Doug Christie, they talked about Parker being out of shape (only played 1 game since December). Christie mentioned how Holmes had been injured but you see him running & doing other things to stay in shape. They same can't be said for Parker.
D. Rose was playing well before his injury. The Kings caught a break there.
Parker had ample opportunities elsewhere, and he ended up on the Kings in a bad contract dump trade.
I went to the game too. When the score was 18-1, I was wondering why the hell did I choose this game to attend. But I kept thinking it’s still early and the kings have come back from much worse. Glad they pulled it off.
And the crazy thing about the Lenaissance is that, like with Holmes, nothing about what he is doing is unsustainable. It’s not like he’s magically developed a 3 point shot or learned how to shammgod, he’s just playing good fundamental basketball without trying to do too much.
Well..... Last season he did average 36% from 3 on 2.6 attempts per game.
Dedmon also was close to that from three last year as a Hawk and we saw how well that turned out
Marvin hasn't played with Bazemore. Ariza was getting 33 min a game and buddy was starting and Bogdan was injured most of the games as well as Fox. Dedmon was getting backup min instead of Harry. Alot has changed. for instance nobody here would fault Holmes for anything but were losing while he was starting as well. the Bazemore trade made a huge difference and Harry and Len vs Dedmon is an upgrade. apparently buddy from the bench is working well also.
