[News] Scott Perry is the new GM of Sacramento Kings
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sactowndog
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Change can’t happen soon enough
iowamcnabb
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They said on Sactown that Scott’s mother just passed. He will be away from the team the next several days
Condolences to Scott and his family.
Jdbraver137
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I’m pretty sure his assistant GMs are perfectly capable.
TaxMan
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I really don't envision anything meaningful happening. There just isn't enough demand for the types of players the kings have and the new CBA has totally impacted team building strategies. Yes, maybe likely Keon is traded, but that's not earth shattering and likely to elicit a shrug when we get two second round picks for him.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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I'd consider the acquisition of assets (i.e. draft capital, cap space, cash considerations) to be "meaningful"...
iowamcnabb
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If we can’t trade anyone aside from Keon why don’t we just buy out Deebo and release Russ after the deadline? Give Derozan his full salary this year and see if he will take 7 mil next year instead of 10. He could sign with a non apron team for this years playoff run and then he could find a midlevel deal with a team for next year, securing his money back.
Start Lavine but cap his minutes at 30. Keon, Deebo and Russ account for 60-75 minutes a night. Plenty of room to play Nique, Devin and Monk.
Start Lavine but cap his minutes at 30. Keon, Deebo and Russ account for 60-75 minutes a night. Plenty of room to play Nique, Devin and Monk.
Padrino
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It's certainly possible that trades still happen; most action occurs within the week leading up to the deadline. That said, I've consistently tried to illustrate at KF.com that there is less incentive than ever to deal in-season. The CBA makes navigating most trade scenarios significantly more challenging. Couple that with a play-in format that encourages a greater level of competition across a greater share of the league, and most teams are going to prefer to assess possible roster changes in the off-season, when it's clearer where they stand in the NBA hierarchy.
It's one of the reasons this "gap year" has been approached all wrong by the front office. You can't effectively evaluate what you have in your younger talent if you can't deal away the veteran players in front of them, which makes it doubly ridiculous to have signed the likes of Dennis Schroder and Russell Westbrook last off-season. The only saving grace for this franchise has been rotten injury luck, which has conveniently opened up opportunities for a few of those younger players to get meaningful time in the rotation.
gunks
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I mean, Westbrook, Zach, Schroeder and Deebo are like The Avengers of tank commanders so it's not the end of the world if we're stuck with them. The lack of interest isn't too surprising either, as there's only one Vivek out there and unfortunately he's the owner of the Kings.
Hopefully we can move Domas for value though. Dude is looking great as he gets back into game shape. He can definitely **** up the tank, and deserves to play out his remaining prime years somewhere competitive. Our most intriguing prospects are Cs as well, which is more incentive to move him.
Hopefully we can move Domas for value though. Dude is looking great as he gets back into game shape. He can definitely **** up the tank, and deserves to play out his remaining prime years somewhere competitive. Our most intriguing prospects are Cs as well, which is more incentive to move him.
TaxMan
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Exactly my point. I'm not looking for exciting players for our "assets". I want draft capital. Unless you're getting really excited about second round picks (better than nothing.... but most are not going to be excited), but I would be extremely surprised if we see any first round picks coming our way at the deadline.
I understand the value of cap space to generate future draft capital; however, if all we get back for Domas or Monk is another bad contract that is a year shorter, I'm not thrilled about that return. Lavine for a salary ender, fine, but even that is of potentially minimal value if he just doesn't exercise his player option for next year.
I don't care about cash considerations personally.
He’s not even been mentioned on the trade market in the latest rumors… they may value is locker room personality as well as chasing records as a guy who doesn’t hurt the tank much
SLAB
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Why would anyone pick up Westbrook? He’s the exact same player no one wanted before this season.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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Yeah, I wouldn't really know why anyone would want to risk having to deal with Joshy dogging on their team for the next couple of months...
In all seriousness, though, he should go to a contending team that can use the extra body.
gunks
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He's a good tank commander, we should keep him.
Deebo, Domas and Schroeder need to go. Nobody is trading for Zach, but that's fine he's also amazing for ping pongs.
Jdbraver137
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Playing the young’s will take care of the tanking. Russ is just stunting their development. let Carter be tank commander if they hate him that much.
gunks
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I can also get behind this take. I wanted to see first option Keegan this season haha
I feel like the FO has given up on Carter, but it would be cool to see Nique run the offense too
SacTownKid
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But how many years until Thibs shows up and saves his butt? lol.
SacTownKid
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It really feels like this season is going to be what it is until the end. Vets getting minutes and nothing more. Christie is going to try and clean up his win loss record that last month for sure.
Perry has made it clear he isn’t willing to give up valuable assets just to dump veteran contracts. Around the league, teams are tightening their belts to stay in the semi-regular “big star free agency” sweepstakes.
Trades are two-way streets, something has to give.
SacTownKid
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Yeah, then Christie has to sacrifice himself and stop trying to gain favor and win with vets that are losing anyway. Having a recent lottery pick giving way to vets that aren't winning is peak Kangz. The value to build is any player on a rookie contract, nowhere else. What are the young guys gonna do? Lose? lol.
gunks
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Tankers (including myself) are gonna be so insufferable when this happens - because it absolutely will.
I'll try to keep my whining to the Race to the Bottom thread.
I guess the good news is that Christie has been trying to win this entire time, but I'll be a different beast when we're screwing with lotto position beating up on teams resting stars for the playoffs.
Right,
I get that you don’t want to just arbitrarily slash the vets’ minutes, as they need consistent run to maintain their level of play. It’s unfair to any athlete, especially the HoF-level vets we have, to yank them in and out of the rotation unless the plan is to shut them down entirely and let their contracts rot. Meanwhile, the younger guys, are still in learning mode, so you can live with a lower standard while they work through mistakes and develop.
That said, I do think the vets should be capped at around 30 minutes. From there, you let the rookies close games so they can get comfortable performing under real pressure.
I think the minute cap got autocorrected to 30, it should be saying 24 at most
SacTownKid
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The problem is he's doing it anyway. Monk, Keon, even LaVine. So many guys have been yanked in and out. It's time to choose anything that has a future. Literally in the sense that they may be actually like not be RETIRED in the next 2-4 years, lol.
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