SacBee: Artest: Kings can't win without Moore

[Revrag]

SEATTLE – When Ron Artest talks about the future, he speaks as if there is no doubt that he will be wearing a Kings jersey next season.

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[ZZE916]

I may be in the minority, but I hope he does re-sign. Can you magine this team's defensive focus without him? Ugh!

 

[Bricklayer]

I may be in the minority, but I hope he does re-sign. Can you magine this team's defensive focus without him? Ugh!

We are already so bad there that it is quite clear that he is having no discernible impact for whatever reason. He takes care of his own man normally, but you cannot suck as badly as we do defensively if you have a defensive leader that anybody is following.

 

[HighFlyingMonkey]

According to Artest, Kings can't win without Mikki because:

1. He can Dunk
2. He takes charges

Please don't try to be a GM, Ron.

 

[DocHolliday]

According to Artest, Kings can't win without Mikki because:

1. He can Dunk
2. He takes charges

Please don't try to be a GM, Ron.

Don't forget that Mikki can shoot just as well as Brad, but other teams don't know it.

 

[bloom]

“He talks about his acceptance of the team’s youth movement in this season’s final stretch, how vital it will be as a building block for the future.”

I like Ron as a person, nothing against the dude, but if he really believed that the youth was the future – and I know he wants to win badly – he would allow Sheldon to get some minutes in without asking to be subbed in at the 4. The kid hasn’t gotten a minute in and he’s already headed back to the bench.

"He can shoot very well. He can probably can shoot almost (as well), if not better, than (Kings center) Brad (Miller), but nobody (opponents) knows that. (But) we know that.”

I don’t know about anybody else, but it scares me whenever Mikki wants to shoot it outside the circle.

I hope Kevin doesn’t put too much weight on him. I don’t want him that much bigger than he already is.

 

[VF21]

Defensive focus? Sorry, but that's been sadly missing in Ron Artest lately as he's assumed the mantle as "#1 scoring option."

 

[piksi]

I make a motion that any journalist that make an interview with Artest gets fired for incompetence