Sacramento Free Agency <crickets chirping>

[Glenn]

There better be a trade to unload a few people from this team. With all the chatter of what people we want, we will be signing 18 players to this team (exaggeration). I hope we don't let TWill go. He has a BBIQ that seems high and he could also salvage Jimmer as a player. All this focus on non SF players seems to be ignoring our greatest need. Now, if Petrie thinks we have solved our SF problem with TRob, I will gulp loudly and go with it. It seems awfully risky. Certainly at some point a quality SF will be amnestied. I think Charlotte gets first choice on these amnestied players so they may not even drop to us.

I'd rather trade and get a real SF. If Scola or Brand helps us trade for a SF with some prearranged deal with a draft partner, let's go for it. Otherwise we are taking our eye off the ball.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

i cant believe you people are still talking about Robinson being the future SF of this team. the team needs a SF that can shoot the long ball. T Rob is a PF!

 

[DesertFox]

There is really no need at all to add Scola, but in the end the team is better for having him, and at anything less than 5 mil he's a good deal.

If Petrie can then turn a combination of Salmons/Garcia/Hayes/Outlaw/Thornton into a quality defesnive SF, then great. It's not the most perfect or balanced big man rotation, but it will win games and you can worry about fixing the specifics as the team goes forward.

But I'm not optimistic as I once was, and more likely the roster just becomes a fustercluck of players playing out of position, with alternating undersized lineups and oversized underskilled lineups.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Scola is a solid player and id like to see him on the team, and hopefully it means Hayes would be gone

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

I can't believe we didn't get involved in the Korver conversation.

maybe we did who knows... still, for a second round pick.... come on.

Totally! Makes more sense to add a SF better than all the SF's you currently have clogging up spaces on the bench/rotation, than to add a player who would clog/take up minutes from the maturation of Robinson.

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

I'd love to pick up Scola.

JT could be the sub at the 5 and ThRob could be the sub at the 4 until he is ready.

And to those saying that ThRob is a SF.... you need to have your heads examined. Talk about an overreaction to his game last night.

Indeed...Robinson is not a SF, just as much as Evans isn't either...that's just wrong.

 

[SacTownKid]

Thomas Robinson is as far from a SF as you are going to get if you want to defend the position and be able to shoot from it.

 

[Section 101]

Scola is a solid player and id like to see him on the team, and hopefully it means Hayes would be gone

Hayes would be the one left out. I don't think you pass on Scola at $3 mil/year and under. I'm surprised we didn't put a claim on Brand. Mavs got him for $2.1.

Whiteside still is not close to being ready.

 

[VF21]

Hayes would be the one left out. I don't think you pass on Scola at $3 mil/year and under. I'm surprised we didn't put a claim on Brand. Mavs got him for $2.1.

Whiteside still is not close to being ready.

Isn't it becoming more obvious every day that Petrie doesn't have anything even remotely resembling a line of credit from the Maloofs? Look for some trades that are little more than player shuffling at this point. We aren't going to get any surprise acquisitions through free agency or the waiver wire IMHO.

 

[Bricklayer]

Cats picked up Haywood.

Nobody picked up Darko.

Yay go Kings! Wheeling and dealing that's us. That's the thing about winning 22 games last season though, improvements aren't necessary, and you don't want to mess up a good thing.

 

[steelevt]

Cats picked up Haywood.

Nobody picked up Darko.

Yay go Kings! Wheeling and dealing that's us. That's the thing about winning 22 games last season though, improvements aren't necessary, and you don't want to mess up a good thing.

sacramento kings...where amaz...err...lateral movement happens?

 

[bajaden]

Thomas Robinson is as far from a SF as you are going to get if you want to defend the position and be able to shoot from it.

Just one game, and a summer league game at that, but he defended the perimeter last night pretty well. Where he had problems was defending the post. He has very good lateral quickness and his end to end speed will match up with just about anyone in the NBA not named John Wall. For the sake of argument, lets say we play him there. He would have a strength advantage over most of the SF's in the NBA. There are exceptions of course, like Melo. So I'm not sure why you think he couldn't play the position. He has a nice jumpshot already, and with work, it should become more consistent.

I'm not saying that the Kings will, or should play him there, but I don't see why he couldn't be converted to that position if thats what they have in mind.
If that were their plan, once he's up to speed, you'd have a good size team except for IT. Cousins, Thompson, Robinson, Tyreke, and IT.

 

[SacTownKid]

Just one game, and a summer league game at that, but he defended the perimeter last night pretty well. Where he had problems was defending the post. He has very good lateral quickness and his end to end speed will match up with just about anyone in the NBA not named John Wall. For the sake of argument, lets say we play him there. He would have a strength advantage over most of the SF's in the NBA. There are exceptions of course, like Melo. So I'm not sure why you think he couldn't play the position. He has a nice jumpshot already, and with work, it should become more consistent.

I'm not saying that the Kings will, or should play him there, but I don't see why he couldn't be converted to that position if thats what they have in mind.
If that were their plan, once he's up to speed, you'd have a good size team except for IT. Cousins, Thompson, Robinson, Tyreke, and IT.

I think I'll go with what I saw in college, and I saw a lot, I watched quite a few of his games at Kansas. This team is too fugly looking roster wise to start some experiment of putting a player seen as a top PF prospect into a position where he's pretty much only going to be a mismatch if you hammer it to him and watch him drive the ball time and time again. Tyreke says hi and what about me.

 

[DesertFox]

Thomas Robinson might be closer to Antawn Jamison than I thought. As long as he stays committed on defense, that may not be a bad thing. Jamison eventually developed 3 point range to compliment his faceup/post game, and so it's certainly possible for Trob.
Robinson has a little better size than him, so if he's a 4 who slides over to the 3 on certain matchups, that's actually good for this team.

 

[MassachusettsKingsFan]

I would like the Scola move if we decide to try Robinson at SF.

Scola and Hayes would be an interesting dynamic off the bench together. Also Twill .. some Houston chemistry. It would give our bench a pretty solid identity.

 

[swisshh]

What is the news on TWill?

 

[HereWeBoogie]

dont get too excited about Scola. the Maloofs are too broke and cheap. crickets will continue to chirp

 

[ParniValjak]

dont get too excited about Scola. the Maloofs are too broke and cheap. crickets will continue to chirp

This is one scenario where I am glad they are not able to spend money because the last thing this team need is to add Scola. He just flat out does NOT fit and the last thing we need is to stock pile players just for the sake of it.

Building a team is an art in itself and its not a matter of just signing any cheap player that comes your way.

 

[Entity]

Honestly guys. The Robinson at SF stuff needs to stop. Do you realize how awful we would be with a SF you don't have to guard outside of 15 feet? How clogged the lane would be?

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Honestly guys. The Robinson at SF stuff needs to stop. Do you realize how awful we would be with a SF you don't have to guard outside of 15 feet? How clogged the lane would be?

thats what im sayin! hes NOT a SF and never will be. he will be coming off the bench behind JT and if he proves himself he may eventually take the starting roll from JT

 

[Bricklayer]

Honestly guys. The Robinson at SF stuff needs to stop. Do you realize how awful we would be with a SF you don't have to guard outside of 15 feet? How clogged the lane would be?

Whihc is why I am worried we might have drafted a project SF. Seriously, have you watched these games? Call him a SF and he's looked a lot closer to being ready/having the skillset than he has if you call him a PF.

Case in point, last night there was a play. I forgot who drove and kicked, but anyway, the kick was to...Thomas Robinson, spotted up in the corner. Guy runs at him, so TRob pulls the ball down, starts the hard drive along the baseline, when the defense rotates, in mid-dribble off the bounce he fires a pass along the baseline to the opposite corner where Lee or Mithcell or soembody was spotted up for their own three. Now that ENTIRE sequence from beginning to end screamed SF. Who spots up for corner threes? SFs. Who pulls down the ball when they are run at, drives baseline, and then full speed on the run guns a pass to the opposite corner? Again, SFs or guards.

The whole TRob as SF thing alarms me as well. There is no guarantee he is better there than any number of guys who have been doing it their whole lives. But that said, in two games now he has barely shown any PF skills or instincts at all, while he has continued to show a LOT of SF skills. Not all. But a lot. On the other hand he is getting woirked in the post on defense, has gotten blocked again and again inside the other way, has only taken 2 or 3 post shots and missed them all, seems to play interior defense with his hands down posing no impediment at all. He did grab 12 rebounds this second game, but they weren't a terribly impressive 12 rebs. One or two tough ones, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed him in there. Still, its the best, and maybe only PFy thing he's done in these first two games.

Remember our old friend Scot Pollard, who does announcing for KU, saying he did not think TRob's game would translate well to the NBA? its 2 games, you can't know if Scot was right yet. But the SF angle might represent a way to save the situation if he was. TRob is only half an inch taller than LeBron, and a good 10lbs lighter. Guys his size can and do play SF. If the skills are there its far from impossible. But unfortuantely its a project rather than the "most NBA ready" of the top picks in the draft.

 

[cuad]

Thomas Robinson might be closer to Antawn Jamison than I thought. As long as he stays committed on defense, that may not be a bad thing. Jamison eventually developed 3 point range to compliment his faceup/post game, and so it's certainly possible for Trob.
Robinson has a little better size than him, so if he's a 4 who slides over to the 3 on certain matchups, that's actually good for this team.

Paul Millsap

 

[kupman]

Whihc is why I am worried we might have drafted a project SF. Seriously, have you watched these games? Call him a SF and he's looked a lot closer to being ready/having the skillset than he has if you call him a PF.

Case in point, last night there was a play. I forgot who drove and kicked, but anyway, the kick was to...Thomas Robinson, spotted up in the corner. Guy runs at him, so TRob pulls the ball down, starts the hard drive along the baseline, when the defense rotates, in mid-dribble off the bounce he fires a pass along the baseline to the opposite corner where Lee or Mithcell or soembody was spotted up for their own three. Now that ENTIRE sequence from beginning to end screamed SF. Who spots up for corner threes? SFs. Who pulls down the ball when they are run at, drives baseline, and then full speed on the run guns a pass to the opposite corner? Again, SFs or guards.

The whole TRob as SF thing alarms me as well. There is no guarantee he is better there than any number of guys who have been doing it their whole lives. But that said, in two games now he has barely shown any PF skills or instincts at all, while he has continued to show a LOT of SF skills. Not all. But a lot. On the other hand he is getting woirked in the post on defense, has gotten blocked again and again inside the other way, has only taken 2 or 3 post shots and missed them all, seems to play interior defense with his hands down posing no impediment at all. He did grab 12 rebounds this second game, but they weren't a terribly impressive 12 rebs. One or two tough ones, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed him in there. Still, its the best, and maybe only PFy thing he's done in these first two games.

Remember our old friend Scot Pollard, who does announcing for KU, saying he did not think TRob's game would translate well to the NBA? its 2 games, you can't know if Scot was right yet. But the SF angle might represent a way to save the situation if he was. TRob is only half an inch taller than LeBron, and a good 10lbs lighter. Guys his size can and do play SF. If the skills are there its far from impossible. But unfortuantely its a project rather than the "most NBA ready" of the top picks in the draft.

It is my fantasy that these are the early changes of TRob morphing into the next Karl Malone.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

report that the kings WILL NOT bid for Scola. hahhahhaha. Maloofs your a joke. thanks for all the offseason work again. cant wait for another bottom of the barrel season.

and i know Scola would not be a huge improvement, but its just becoming more and more clear that the maloofs will not spend any money on making this team better

 

[Glenn]

Stockpiling players who will not be much of an improvement makes no sense. In fact, it simply fills up our roster so we have no room for a player who might be a big improvement. I have no love for the Maloofs but let's at least make sense.

 

[rekehavoc73186]

we dont need scola anyway...webster cleared waivers. I know he had a bad season last year but he's a career .374% 3pt shooter. Not sure about his defense though. Any1 know anything about him?

 

[UK_King]

https://twitter.com/mr_jasonjones/status/224613812219822080

Petrie said team hopes to make a move in the next couple of days.

I'm calling Metta.

 

[rekehavoc73186]

https://twitter.com/mr_jasonjones/status/224613812219822080



I'm calling Metta.

u cant be serious. hes washed up and a headcase. Imagine what he do to cousins.

 

[UK_King]

I'm not saying it'd be a good thing, I'm just saying thats my guess.

Josh Childress just got amnestied so there's another name.

 

[twslam07]

report that the kings WILL NOT bid for Scola. hahhahhaha. Maloofs your a joke. thanks for all the offseason work again. cant wait for another bottom of the barrel season.

and i know Scola would not be a huge improvement, but its just becoming more and more clear that the maloofs will not spend any money on making this team better

It looks like the only players left that would be a remotely good fit are Aaron Brooks and Brandon Rush. I'm not even sure about Brooks either. Would he be that much of an upgrade? I'm not so sure. Rush on the other hand is a good defender who is an excellent 3 point shooter who can play SF. The only problem is we would add another 6'6" and under player to our roster.