[News] Scott Perry is the new GM of Sacramento Kings

[pdxKingsFan]

Yeah, I obviously have been a big Monte bull is whole tenure, but ultimately, he's had 5 years running the ship and 2 straight years of regression after taking the defending champs to 7 games. I'm fairly confident Vivek has had a lot of influence over roster moves, especially this last season, but at some point you sort of just have to point at the "guy in charge" who can actually get fired and find someone new to lead the direction.

My opinion viewing him as a numbers guy is that he didn't value draft picks correctly. If you look at it "from the numbers" there are more busts than guys that make it every year. He also clearly went for guys he thought would be sure things rather than really reaching. His biggest fumble of Davion has shown he can play elsewhere when given time to do so, and we had to trade him as a negative asset.

It's too easy to blame Vivek here - I'll assign some blame that Vivek may have wanted to make a splash in the 2024 offseason which lead to Deebo. And I won't let him off the hook on Zach, however Peja's comments are headscratching and I can at least entertain the thought that 2/3rds of NBA GMs are going to want a player with some star power back when they ship the face of the franchise off. Fox's value was killed by Fox and his agent. That agent also represented Zach and apparently steered Zach to the Kings in this deal too. And beyond that, we did get two picks back and there's no guarantee the Spurs pick in 2027 won't be in the teens and the Minny pick could very well be a lotto pick. So there's a shot both of those picks wind up being better than the ones in the Bane trade, although they all have to convey before we know.

I'm inclined to believe that Perry is going to put his signature on this team, I just don't know what it is. And I do believe it is going to hurt short term. Maybe we ship Carter or something - I hope not, but a lot of that hope is the result of Carter basically being a big reason last year's offseason played out how it did. Keeping the pick, not going for a big wing/PF type that would have made Fox happy, etc. is a big part of why we wound up with DDR and ultimately firing Brown, trading Fox, and Monte going away. Perry is going to value guys differently and we have no idea what that means both for him and what him/Vivek have agreed upon. I just hope that future trades come with draft capital back our way and not draft capital moving out. Because that way we can try to have our cake and eat it too.

 

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I'm inclined to believe that Perry is going to put his signature on this team, I just don't know what it is. And I do believe it is going to hurt short term.

But, if you believe that it will help us long term, would that make you feel much better about it when it happens? Or do you think you'd rather wait and see what the results are before making that declaration?

 

[pdxKingsFan]

But, if you believe that it will help us long term, would that make you feel much better about it when it happens? Or do you think you'd rather wait and see what the results are before making that declaration?

I'm saying hurt emotionally less so than hurt on the court. I have a feeling the guys the hardcore online fans like are the only ones that might fetch positive value right now beyond a potential DDR to Miami deal.

I honestly have no idea what long term has, our best chances of being competitive for more than a season or two at a time would seemingly be NBA realignment. The Dubs and LA teams have so many built in advantages under the current NBA landscape that we'll be fighting with Phoenix for fourth in the Pacific for most of the next decade no matter what happens. I just want to root for the team to win games and let the chips fall where they may, so many people have toxic prescriptions for this franchise barring a superstar falling into our laps and us not blowing it, I'll just be happy to be a middling 4-7 seed on the regular that wins more than they lose.