Considering the major, game missing early season injuries, the new PG/Beno without benefit of training camp, a new coach and a new game plan, the Kings did far better than the ranting/raving/whiners indicate. They showed they could, and did, beat the elite teams, every one of the division leaders, which they did not do the year before. And they really only had the new team together for 1/2 season with all the other new stuff.
Cool it guys!! Rebuilding doesn't ever get solved by trading your best player, whether its RonRon or Kevin (look at what happened to the Grizzlies when they did that!!! har har har!). The Kings won 50 games in 04-05, and 44 in 05-06. You don't rebuild with those records. In 06-07 it was the Musselman Mess and start of rebuilding whether anyone admitted it or not. It was also time for Adelman to move on for his own good. The emotional slide from the 02 and 03 years finally caught up.
And then this past year, new coach, new game plan, new PG for 1/2 a year, etc. So factually rebuilding started but was derailed by Musselman in 06-07. Then along comes Reggie the Ego Master and previous Shooting Master (never met a shot he couldn't/wouldn' take!) who wants to win games and therefore doesn't develop the younger guys. I love Reggie on the one hand but am suspicious of his methodology and question his "rebuild attitude". So how does last year fit in to the rebuilding they wanted Muss to do before he alienated the vets and the rebuilding they hoped Reggie would do before he wanted to win games first and foremost????
Hmmmmmmm............. patience my boys, patience. Trust in GP and the Maloofs. There is an expression I've learned to love. Two bulls, the old master and a young eager bull, were standing on a hill looking down at a herd of gorgeous heifers below. The young, eager bull blurted out, "Hey, lets run down and get us one!" to which the old bull replied, "Well son, let's walk down and get them all!!". Reggie the young bull and GP the old bull, eh?