Say something nice about Reggie
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even though we got destroyed tonight...
IT WAS THE BEST USAGE OF PLAYERS I'VE SEEN ALL YEAR!
cant blame Reggie for the loss... Martins obviously not all there yet Garcia's not there yet, blah, blah, blah... The point is its too early to fire Reggie...
He totally nailed the usage of the players mins tonight. losing sucks but he played the right guys. it just so happens that those guys as it is now wont win alot.
IT WAS THE BEST USAGE OF PLAYERS I'VE SEEN ALL YEAR!
cant blame Reggie for the loss... Martins obviously not all there yet Garcia's not there yet, blah, blah, blah... The point is its too early to fire Reggie...
He totally nailed the usage of the players mins tonight. losing sucks but he played the right guys. it just so happens that those guys as it is now wont win alot.
Can't blame reggie for the roster. We have some young talent(spencer, jt, donte, brown,), but it is petrie and I am assuming the maloofs who are responsible for Mikki(pathetic waste of money), Kenny( just f****ng buy him out), and Bobby(I like bobby,but if bobby isn't playing, play donte). I am willing to give theus another month to get the rotation together but it isn't his fault that we have these crappy vets who can't do a damn thing on our roster. He did play mikki just 3 MIN. AWESOME!
I've talked about this before, but will add some more. I met Reggie Theus in 1985 when the Kings first came to Sacramento. He was 28, 6'7" and I was 32, 6'5". We both had reputations as "ladies men" - and I'll leave it at that. He was (and is) definitely not more than half-inch taller than me which goes to prove that such NBA heights are fudged and not measured in bare feet. We hung out in that period (1985-88), at places like Confetti nightclub, Baxter's nightclub, Peppermill Restaurant, his condo in East Ranch and he came to a private party I co-hosted annually not far from where he lived at the time. One of the first things I noticed about Reg was a lot of Sac people had all sorts of opinions, but none had ever met the guy or really knew him if they did shake his hand once. I did know him fairly well and when I mentioned some of the crazy nonsense floating around, how I thought it was mostly jealous types, he said with a grin, "life isn't fair." In fact, no matter what the negative vibe I often heard him go with that little rather disarming expression. But what impressed me the most about Reggie Theus was a certain discipline and professionalism - mostly only the best NBA players have it. He absolutely never went out on the town the night before a game. He never drank alcohol after a game or ever that I witnessed (OJ on the rocks his standard) and he was certainly not into drugs. One night I saw him a few hours after Derek Smith was traded to the Kings from the Clippers (both top scoring gunners) and he was not real happy about it - but he seemed to shrug it off quickly. I often saw him looking at VHS tapes of NBA games to prepare or review various personnel match-ups while just relaxing around his condo after maybe shooting pool out on town or doing the same at home. Again, not the constant party boy or pretty boy out out every night stereotype that apparently started long before in Chicago when he got the Rush Street Reggie name. As months went by I saw his raw toughness as well, with the famous smashing up his face in a bloody blob against an Arco basket support, resulting in broken nose and loose teeth - yet continuing to play after whipping himself clean on a towel thrown his way. Much later, I saw him in 2000 when his Hang Time TV show gig was over and he had not much going on. He was doing some AAU basketball stuff, but seemed almost in mid-life crisis. To his credit he was as active as ever in his charity work and that was the reason he was back in Sacramento on a particular chilly winter day. Yep, life wasn't always fair, but he hoped something was going to break his way eventually as far as coaching basketball - a new passion he was exploring. It finally did break in Louisville, Las Cruces and back home in Sacramento, and that's a passion that I'm sure will now keep him busy for a long time into the future - regardless what that future holds.
Reggie gave a majority of the minutes to the kids last night( something I heard people on this board say was all they wanted-it didn't matter if we lost). Being a coach for a rebuilding team is not easy, and I feel Reggie Theus is getting a bad rep for things that are out of his control. I feel he is doing a fine job, and as our youth develops we are going to see that this team will be fun to watch!
Yes Jespher, but the positive comment should have been "He's Oily". 
Anyway...let's see...
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he's got a smaller ego than....oh damn...
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Aha!
With the addition of Shareef to the staff, he no longer has the lowest career winning percentage as a player of any active NBA coach!
Anyway...let's see...
hmm....
hmmm....
er......
hmm....
he's got a smaller ego than....oh damn...
hmmm.....
Aha!
With the addition of Shareef to the staff, he no longer has the lowest career winning percentage as a player of any active NBA coach!
