Poll: Coach Brown's firing

[pdxKingsFan]

Everyone assumes the roster is fine quote is coming from within our house and yet it is absolutely not phrased that way.

I admit I am on the "not fine" side and think we need a 4 and not a 3, and we need to ship out multiple 2s.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Everyone assumes the roster is fine quote is coming from within our house and yet it is absolutely not phrased that way.

I admit I am on the "not fine" side and think we need a 4 and not a 3, and we need to ship out multiple 2s.

The actual quote is "plenty of talent" and "not a roster issue"

 

[captain bill]

I'm more of the mind that it was necessary rather than good so I will abstain from the poll.

I agree with this take but voted “yes” in the poll. He was a good hire and the season going off the rails isn’t entirely on him. Can imagine a counterfactual where the roster is improved with size and length, we win more games, and he sticks around. But after 5 losses culminating in the Pistons game I think a change had to be made. Maybe this roster still gets blown up between now and next year, but something had to be done.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

The actual quote is "plenty of talent" and "not a roster issue"

Regardless my point stands on whether this quote was from someone within the organization itself because I do believe if it were the phrasing would say as much and not "sources familiar" which could be an agent or really any league exec that has been in recent trade talks.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

This poll needs a third option: "To Be Determined".

 

[SacTownKid]

Regardless my point stands on whether this quote was from someone within the organization itself because I do believe if it were the phrasing would say as much and not "sources familiar" which could be an agent or really any league exec that has been in recent trade talks.

That's the thing though, it's not like the Kings are without anything specific necessarily. They have bigs, they have Keegan, they have a few defenders. The talent would have this team at least in the .500 spot if it were not something else major. Having a backup SF isn't something major enough to swing you 20-30 games or so. If it did that means whoever you have in those slots already is doing very, very badly and Keegan/DeMar haven't played that poorly.

 

[Tetsujin]

I’m all for blaming roster flaws but the Kings lost ELEVEN clutch games in their first 31 games in the season, which is enough of a sample size that you have to at least think that something weird is going on with the coaches. Sure you had a couple of fluky losses like DeMar fumbling a game winning dunk but a bunch of the losses involved giving up big leads and then the team deciding to just sorta toss the ball around for twenty seconds every possession.