Possible guards to sign
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Dreadnought
Bench
Jeremy Lin is getting a ton of attention right now, and like CWebb said, would be a fan favorite. I hope Sacramento is at least inquiring.
Fear the Putin
Starter
Patrick Mills is def. the best shooter out of those 4. As for defending, I haven't seen much of Lin to judge, but I would go with Rafer.
I agree. And this is one reason why I wanted Hawes and Nocioni out of this team. Luckily and thanks to Petrie he kicked out Hawes and Nocioni out of this team before Cousins and Whiteside got drafted. Those kind of mentality are sometimes contagious you know.I dont want castaways that need an attitude adjustment on our roster this season...if we only win 35 games with stability and promise for next season, so be it...I'd rather have that in the locker room than Olden Polynice-type negative Nancy's that think they're God's gift to basketball, and whining about their playing time and why they arent starting or scoring 20 points a game. No thanks on both McCants and Clipper castaway Dooling...thank you, that is all.
One rotten apple infecting some of the frachise-saving apples we have ( Evans, Cousins, and Greene ) and we'll be back to square one.
Mills is the best shooter?
Mills: College: .415/.331 NBA: .417/2-4
McCants: College: .486/.415 NBA: .431/.368
Alston: College: .401/.337 NBA: .383/.354
Lin: College: .471/.325
McCants is the best shooter of the group, and it's not particularly close. Lin is probably better than Mills at 2P%, but about the same from behind the arc.
LPKingsFan
All-Star
Most interested in Watson, myself.
'89 Kings Fan
Bench
I think this thread is proving there are no good options for signing another guard. So I had a wild idea, what about bringing back Bibby as a backup PG?
Atlanta -> Bibby + 2011 1st Round Draft Pick + $3 Million Cash
Sacramento -> Conditional 2018 2nd rounder + TPE
The going rate of first rounders seems to be about 3 Million so that would be a cost of 3 Million a year for Bibby. His contract ends next year, but I don't think that will be a problem since we will only have 28 Million in Salaries for our 8 rotation guys and there will be even fewer FA next offseason. (If there is an offseason.)
Atlanta -> Bibby + 2011 1st Round Draft Pick + $3 Million Cash
Sacramento -> Conditional 2018 2nd rounder + TPE
The going rate of first rounders seems to be about 3 Million so that would be a cost of 3 Million a year for Bibby. His contract ends next year, but I don't think that will be a problem since we will only have 28 Million in Salaries for our 8 rotation guys and there will be even fewer FA next offseason. (If there is an offseason.)
=LarryLegend=
Starter
Kings should go after Jeremy Lin.
Jkbiker
Starter
the Kings looked for a guard or two to stand out.
"I think that nobody stood out as kicking down the door of opportunity," Kings head coach Paul Westphal said. "Let's put it that way."
The group of guards included Donald Sloan, who signed a non-guaranteed, one-year contract before summer league.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/19/2898968/kings-notes-no-guards-stand-out.html#ixzz0uA0v7L1C
Thank god Sloan's contract is not guarenteed he really sucked in the SL
Glad our options are still open for SG and third PG
Not sure any of the SL team guards can make the team
Time to go to work GP
go get us some talent at a bargain price
unless its a starting SG better than cisco then its ok
to maybe spend some bucks
"I think that nobody stood out as kicking down the door of opportunity," Kings head coach Paul Westphal said. "Let's put it that way."
The group of guards included Donald Sloan, who signed a non-guaranteed, one-year contract before summer league.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/19/2898968/kings-notes-no-guards-stand-out.html#ixzz0uA0v7L1C
Thank god Sloan's contract is not guarenteed he really sucked in the SL
Glad our options are still open for SG and third PG
Not sure any of the SL team guards can make the team
Time to go to work GP
go get us some talent at a bargain price
unless its a starting SG better than cisco then its ok
to maybe spend some bucks
This would be good. From the Bay Area, so practically a hometown boy.
He went to high school across town from me. I remember one day the basketball team had a game later that night against Palo Alto and I asked one of the players, "You excited?" and he said, "No! Coach says they might drop a hundred on us."
I had no idea at the time, but now I know he was talking about Jeremy Lin. It's pretty awesome.
I had no idea at the time, but now I know he was talking about Jeremy Lin. It's pretty awesome.
SacKings7
Starter
And Atlanta would do that why? They wanna win now; trading away their starting PG for cap relief would probably be followed by a mob with torches and pitchforks
Dr. Spaceman
Bench
Yeah, no one really jumped out during Summer League, and Sloan is definitely not a keeper. With that said, Christmas, Thompson and Landesberg incited the most intrigue for me. Christmas actually impressed me most with his effort on defense, which was supposedly a knock on him. He's definitely got the size to guard 2s (at the very least reserve 2s), and if he comes to camp and shows that much discussed 3 point stroke consistently, he's a very viable option for the Kings.
Landesberg would be interesting just because we could insert him into the offense for Tyreke at times and maintain a similar mentality on offense of creating looks off of penetration. Only thing with him is that the shot isn't there and the defense was a bit suspect. Thompson is just a solid, solid player who would be able to fit in with many of our different lineups. A side benefit: the possibility that he'll be able to use his brains to get through to Jason when he has his foul meltdowns during the season. If he can impart his basketball IQ, whether through talking him down, through example on the floor, through some secret sibling connection, or through osmosis, then that's worth the signing alone.
Lin is also a really intriguing signing. He's shown himself to be a pretty decent athlete, able to keep up on defense with his marks (even able to hold his own against the lightning bolt John Wall) and showing off a crafty dribble drive and a little bit of a midrange game. And I don't think it can be understated that the Harvard kid will likely be intelligent enough to know that he'd be working off the ball with the likes of Tyreke and will work on improving his 3-point stroke to keep defenses honest. He grew up in the Bay Area with a terrible Warriors franchise and a championship contending Kings team, so maybe he'll give us a look in spite of how popular he is these days.
annihilator_33
Starter
we can cross cj watson off the list, golden state did a sign and trade with him to chicago for a 2nd round pick
annihilator_33
Starter
another reason for me to hate the lakers..........http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_a...ested_in_signing_undrafted_rookie_jeremy_lin/
Fear the Putin
Starter
Done.
Anyways, any signing we make should be in the guard department. We have only 3 guards under contract in Reke, Beno, and Garcia.
Entity
Hall of Famer
Garcia was originally and been playing mostly SF until last season. So That leaves Reke and Beno and both are point guards. If we could get a guard with the shooting of Kevin Martin and the defense of Ron Artest we would be ok. Of course that guy would be an all star lol. I don't know who we end up getting but the best are gone so whoever it is won't be a huge impact.
Anthony1
Bench
I think the best two options for us are....
1. Find a retired guard that can come back and play a season. I have no idea who has recently retired with plenty of gas still in the tank. Any suggestions?
2. Find a team that needs to unload a crappy contract, and get a guard we really want, along with a mildly crappy contract that we don't really want, but are able to deal with, with all our cap space. As long as it doesn't ruin our chances of snagging something nice next year.
1. Find a retired guard that can come back and play a season. I have no idea who has recently retired with plenty of gas still in the tank. Any suggestions?
2. Find a team that needs to unload a crappy contract, and get a guard we really want, along with a mildly crappy contract that we don't really want, but are able to deal with, with all our cap space. As long as it doesn't ruin our chances of snagging something nice next year.
'89 Kings Fan
Bench
Atlanta has Crawford and Teague at the PG spot. According to most Atlanta message boards they can't wait to get rid of Bibby. Also a fan base would have to sellout playoff games before they could form a mob.
Big Cuz 15
All-Star
i like the kid too. watched the gamees played in n S league. he was impressive.
ElRey
Starter
Brown would be a good player to sign, but we might have to give him some good money though.
rainmaker
Hall of Famer
He was just offered a contract to play in Israel, so if we're going to go after him, better do it quickly.
Kingster
Hall of Famer
This kid should be signed by the Kings, if for no other reason the Laker want him!
Seems to me the Kings have a heck of a good selling point with this guy - he could potentially get a lot of PT with the Kings and grow with the team.
Anthony1
Bench
Can anybody think of any point guards or shooting guards that have recently retired, that we might be able to get to play for one more year? Think of Jason Williams last year, coming back to play for Orlando. Anybody like that? (I'm not interested in J-Will specifically, because we need a consistent 3 point shooter, not a streaky guy) Maybe we could get Stephon Marbury from the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons in China. I wouldn't mind giving him a one year deal for the NBA minimum.
^Allen Iverson. lol
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5396732
http://twitter.com/STEIN_LINE_HQ/status/19037702534
It looks like he's going to sign with the Warriors- his hometown team. They did get rid of CJ Watson so... Imagine Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry, Reggie Williams and Jeremy Lin.
A good mix of pure scoring and BBIQ. Hopefully Monta doesn't come out and say, " I can't play with Jeremy Lin. "
This kid should be signed by the Kings, if for no other reason the Laker want him!
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5396732
http://twitter.com/STEIN_LINE_HQ/status/19037702534
It looks like he's going to sign with the Warriors- his hometown team. They did get rid of CJ Watson so... Imagine Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry, Reggie Williams and Jeremy Lin.
A good mix of pure scoring and BBIQ. Hopefully Monta doesn't come out and say, " I can't play with Jeremy Lin. "
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SacKings7
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I forgot about Teague to be honest (which is embarrassing since I'm a Wake Forest fan
) but Crawford is not a PG. I guess Johnson could play some point but I still don't see it happening
