Power Rankings, Week of 1/19

[Spike]

Artist interpretation of where the Kings would be right now were Malone still coaching.

On to the rankings!

Sports Illustrated
#21 (-3)
Kings’ winning percentage under Ty Corbin when DeMarcus Cousins plays: .384. Kings’ winning percentage under Mike Malone when Cousins played: .600.

USA Today
#21 (-3)
Firing a coach of the year candidate usually is not a good move, as the Nuggets could have told them.

NBA.com
#24 (-4)
Pace: 96.8 (11) OffRtg: 103.5 (14) DefRtg:105.7 (24) NetRtg: -2.2 (19)
The Kings went 2-4 on their homestand, dealing with injuries, shooting poorly from the perimeter, blowing leads, and continuing to struggle when they go to their bench. No team has more road games remaining, and the schedule turns now, with visits to Portland and Golden State this week. One bit of optimism: Their starting guards have shot well on the road.
This week: @ POR, vs. BKN, @ GSW

CBSSports.com
#25 (-1)
We've entered "Are we going to be playing out what if scenarios about this team in three years?" mode with the Kings. Can't you see the debates in three years about "What if the Kings hadn't fired coach Mike Malone which lead to them signing Ty Corbin and DeMarcus Cousins demanding a trade and the team going into the toilet for another four years?" That seems at least plausible from here, right?

Yahoo! Sports
#20 (-3)
Twenty-two-year-old forward Quincy Miller, who signed a 10-day contract on Saturday, could be a steal for the Kings.

ESPN.COM
#22 (-1)
All-Star starters will be announced Thursday. The campaign to get DeMarcus Cousins enough votes from West coaches is surely underway already. He's such a force individually -- up to No. 6 overall in PER at 26.1 -- that he just might barge his way in. But who can say for sure with Boogie in the stacked West?

Hollinger Daily Rankings
#25
Rating: 96.375

Mean Ranking: 22.57

 

[VF21]

...sigh... Is it April yet?

 

[IfAt1st]

re: CBSSports ranking -

The national media is already starting to opine about Demarcus leaving because of the Malone firing and everything else that's gone on?
I thought that was just in the halls of Kings fandom that we were worrying about that...?

 

[SCKingsfan]

re: CBSSports raniing -

The national media is already starting to opine about Demarcus leaving because of the Malone firing and everything else that's gone on?
I thought that was just in the halls of Kings fandom that we were worrying about that...?

where do you think they get their information? Blogs and message boards, in part. and other talking heads who get their information from them. that being said, this is a textbook scenario

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Back to the NBA dumpsters yayyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[wazzups]

SI is always so spot on...the front office has to know they screwed it up...even though the GM says..."i know what im doing".......hmmmm maybe ... N O T ! ! !

 

[King Baller]

 

[wazzups]

Hmmm I wonder why the new front office can't respect the history of the game...the tradition that is the NBA.... there is a reason Championships are won by teams that play a certain type of game. NBA 3.0 does not sound like tradition it sounds like an abbreviated way to say "we are building a new building"

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Meanwhile, a computer is telling Vivek firing Malone was right and we are still going to make the playoffs.

 

[Sac.Kings]

Vivek will get whatever is coming to him. He will soon realize the NBA is a different beast and that numbers are not the end all be all definitive conclusion he seems to be making them to be. We have played a significant amount of games already with Corbin and we SUCK. A lot of the games aren't even close and are downright embarrassing.

Considering that PDA is a socially connected individual, as well as Vivek, they have to be getting somewhat nervous, especially PDA. Unless, and this is the only possible option, tanking to get a good pick WAS the goal (to use for a trade), which would be absolutely idiotic and a waste of a season.

I look forward to what happens next. Something has to give, but if I were a betting man, Mullin will be the next head coach (probably will be announced 1-2 months prior to the season in order to make it look like he wasn't Vivek's guy all along), we will trade our pick unless we get lucky and draft top 3, and we will most likely pull off a questionable trade that gets us our 3rd star.

 

[swisshh]

I don't think numbers or analytics are the problem as much as the culture that thinks being a CEO in any company is the same as being a CEO in another business.

You can fire a well-liked manager in a shoe company and it may disrupt office politics, mood and cohesion. However, it may have minimal impact on the product itself, so things will right themselves. The machines that make the shoes stay the same. The shoes stay the same. Maybe you can even get a better margin after the firing.

In Pro Sports, the employee and the product are the same thing. The Coaches and players are employees, but they also directly inhabit the space of product. When they fired the Coach, they impacted cohesion, and that cohesion directly touches the product, so the product changed. When they fired the Coach, the players being human took it as a message, but the players being product then lost sight of what sort of product they were to be.

 

[Bricklayer]

Ooh ooh, SI's is gonna get retweeted.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

Hmmm I wonder why the new front office can't respect the history of the game...the tradition that is the NBA.... there is a reason Championships are won by teams that play a certain type of game. NBA 3.0 does not sound like tradition it sounds like an abbreviated way to say "we are building a new building"

can't just rest on your laurels. build a newer better iphone yo

 

[Big Cuz 15]

Vivek will get whatever is coming to him. He will soon realize the NBA is a different beast and that numbers are not the end all be all definitive conclusion he seems to be making them to be. We have played a significant amount of games already with Corbin and we SUCK. A lot of the games aren't even close and are downright embarrassing.

Considering that PDA is a socially connected individual, as well as Vivek, they have to be getting somewhat nervous, especially PDA. Unless, and this is the only possible option, tanking to get a good pick WAS the goal (to use for a trade), which would be absolutely idiotic and a waste of a season.

I look forward to what happens next. Something has to give, but if I were a betting man, Mullin will be the next head coach (probably will be announced 1-2 months prior to the season in order to make it look like he wasn't Vivek's guy all along), we will trade our pick unless we get lucky and draft top 3, and we will most likely pull off a questionable trade that gets us our 3rd star.

what is their phrase for taking on questionable bloated contracts? undervalued assets? overvalued assets?

i was listening to 1320 yesterday and they were taking about girls basketball... full court press, not guarding the inbounds person in attempts to steal. reminded me of the owner's style of play.

 

[rainmaker]

re: CBSSports raniing -

The national media is already starting to opine about Demarcus leaving because of the Malone firing and everything else that's gone on?
I thought that was just in the halls of Kings fandom that we were worrying about that...?

Nope, it's just common sense at this point. Take a HOF talent, waste his first three years with terrible coaches, bring in new ownership and a new coach he admires, suffer through a season where the roster is overturned, then finally make headway in the 5th season and be talked about as one of the surprise teams and Boogie himself as an MVP candidate, only to see it wiped away by ownership and now his 5th season flushed away, with a more "unknowns" lurking ahead into next year, and Boogie bouncing out of here is a real threat.

Actually, if his agent isn't considering other options as we speak, he's a poor agent. Yet Fegan is a power broker with deep connections throughout the league, so it'd be naive to believe he isn't already considering an exit plan. The hope is our FO figures this crap out before that exit plan is triggered by Boogie and Fegan.

 

[Tetsujin]

Meanwhile, a computer is telling Vivek firing Malone was right and we are still going to make the playoffs.

Like this computer?