captain bill
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summer league and pre-season have this forum primed for an absolutely epic meltdown if the season starts slow
[Game] Preseason Kings vs. Blazers 10/9/2022 6pm Pacific 9pm Eastern
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Sac.Kings
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Wouldn’t be the first time!
Welp.
Whether they have the toppp-end talent to match the Big Boys remains to be seen. But Monte has done a VERY nice job giving Brown a team that goes at least 10-deep with legit talent. And the very early returns are promising in re hustle and pace. That combination - rotational depth (we know he wants to play 10), hustle, and pace - should pay real dividends in the regular season. And those are elements that should be there every night, in a way that the great 3-pt shooting we're seeing tonight won't be.
Whether they have the toppp-end talent to match the Big Boys remains to be seen. But Monte has done a VERY nice job giving Brown a team that goes at least 10-deep with legit talent. And the very early returns are promising in re hustle and pace. That combination - rotational depth (we know he wants to play 10), hustle, and pace - should pay real dividends in the regular season. And those are elements that should be there every night, in a way that the great 3-pt shooting we're seeing tonight won't be.
Sluggah
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This is the way.
iowamcnabb
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Hollinger essentially said KZ was hot garbage. I wonder why?
macadocious
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Metu is the last of the low IQ players. At this point I’d rather he be cut. He shouldn’t be playing for this team.
Tetsujin
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The Grizzlies immediately turned into a good team the second he stopped working in their front office so he might not be the best evaluator.
macadocious
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We can also never play Delly a meaningful minute.
We play both GS and Miami twice in our first 10 and then we get GS a third time in game #12 for some bizarre reason. So I guess what I'm saying is, if we don't completely faceplant out of the gate this year I'll be cautiously optimistic about our chances.
KainLear
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I still think Coach Brown would want him to control the tempo of the game, especially if we keep playing into the summer...
gunks
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I'm primed and ready to like every sactowndog and kb02 post on this forum if we don't win at least the first 5 games....
If we drop the first 5 games they might like some of my posts!!
It pains me to say it as a USC guy, but I tend to agree. VF21 used to say that Francisco Garcia pissed in our cornflakes with all of his mistakes and Metu seems to have inherited that mantle.
Tetsujin
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I'd also say that it's probably a good thing we're getting the GS games out of the way early post-punch with Dray probably not playing rather than later in the year once they're back in sync.
iowamcnabb
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Even if we don’t make the playoffs we have a competent and competitive squad. This could be the first team in a long time that isn’t a complete embarrassment most nights. I’ll keep my expectations low as I’m typically too optimistic but it feels good so far
captain bill
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Was there ever an expectation we would? His appearance corresponded with me waiving the white flag on this one
Good of Delly to get outside the arc on that lob so it was worth three points.
I hope it turns out that way! I haven't been following that story very closely but I was assuming when he said he was stepping away for a bit that he'd still be back to start the regular season.
KainLear
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From the tone of it, unless the team/league decide to take any actions, he sounded like he's just gonna step away "for a few days".
KainLear
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Keon and Neemi are both on 2-way contracts so they don't have to fight for a contract this season.
No Moneke sighting but quite a lot of Baze in the last quarter.
Of course, we have to make three cuts, and three guys didn't play tonight. I suppose that we'll have to see if that's a tell, or if the other three guys are going to get a shot in the next game. But I really don't think we're going to go into the season without a third-string PG, so I can't imagine both Delly and Cook getting cut.
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