Send Greene, Hawes and Brown to the D League

[Kingster]

Everybody knows Greene isn't going to get significant minutes in the big leagues. He got garbage minutes last night. Heck, I think the guy wants to be in the D league, not only because he can get playing time and improve his game, but that the D league team actually wins, something this team can't do. That's fun, not a downer being around these veteran losers. As for Hawes, well he's regressing to the point where he looks like a future scrub, the 10th guy on the bench. Think about this: Brad Miller is his role model. Remember that discussion at the beginning of the year? Say what you want, but there's no way in hades that it's good for Spencer's development to have Miller for his role model. And he doesn't have the temperment or maturity to sit on the bench while the veteran losers get the bulk of the minutes. The further Hawes's geographic distance from Miller and the other sulky discontents, the better. As for Brown, has anybody even seen him lately? Is he dressed for the game? If Greene gets sent down to the D league for three games, then please tell me the tortured logic that causes Brown to be sitting on the bench wasting away.

All of the above is moot if management throws out (trades) the unproductive, sulking, passive, losers on this team. Then I wouldn't send three young kids to the D league. Otherwise, they should pack their bags and reintroduce them to a feeling that they haven't felt in quite some time - WINNING.

 

[Sptsjunkie]

Alternate proposal, let's send Miller, Mikki and Udrih to the D-League and give their minutes to the young uns

 

[Kingster]

Alternate proposal, let's send Miller, Mikki and Udrih to the D-League and give their minutes to the young uns

I'm on board!

 

[bajaden]

Why don't we send Natt to the D league and let Coachie run the team for the rest of the year.

 

[OptimusRhyme]

They should send douby down there too see if he rips it up maybe we could get SOME trade value for him.

 

[syadap]

How about we send the whole team to the D league and try to compete for the championship

 

[bench_blob]

Late last year, Spencer Hawes had a great game in LA at the Forum against the Lakers. He was rumbling and rolling, dishing and swishing!!

At the start of the year, he was all net, draino-time for 3 point land. He was mobile and agile, and schooling fools.

Now is he weakling scrub with no game. I think the OP (original post) makes a fair point that the apathy and disinterest we are witnessing could be a subconscious side effect of being around malcontent whiner like Brad Miller and go-through-the motion robot John Salmons.

Make no mistake about it: playing with a teammate so passionless and boring as John Salmons takes all the fun and excitement out of the game. To Salmons, basketball is a business and the games are time to get his stats and numbers. Winning is a secondary concern.

Young guys like Spencer and Jason Thompson see this and their enthusiasm has got to wane a little bit, and the losing culture seeps deeper into their collective psyches..... GO Kings

 

[NoBonus]

What are the rules for sending players down? I think the Kings vets should just be sent down... to the end of the bench! Especially Miller, Moore, and Bjax. Please!

 

[bench_blob]

They should send douby down there too see if he rips it up maybe we could get SOME trade value for him.

Coachie has better crossover than Douby. And a more accurate jumper. He lobs the ball underhand old school style. He learned his technique as a young boy in the summer of '92, 1892, that is...SWISH!

Seriously, Quincy Douby should find out if the local Best Buy is hiring. His career as an NBA player is over.

Last night, he hoisted an airball that missed the mark by 4 feet to the left, and he had a look on his face like he wasn't the least bit surprised. In fact, I think it was closer than he anticipated.

 

[kingsnation]

Last night, he hoisted an airball that missed the mark by 4 feet to the left, and he had a look on his face like he wasn't the least bit surprised. In fact, I think it was closer than he anticipated.

Shooters feed off confidence. Right now, he has none. Not even the fans or the staff has any either. (Well maybe Natt)

..But anyways, that's why he wasn't surprised. He probably feels like he needs to be working at Best Buy as well.

He is probably counting down the days until he gets to leave Sac just like we are. And he probably holds just as much bitterness to our franchise as we do to him when he misses those shots.

I feel bad for him and I wish him nothing but the best when he leaves.

 

[kennadog]

What are the rules for sending players down? I think the Kings vets should just be sent down... to the end of the bench! Especially Miller, Moore, and Bjax. Please!

Unfotunately for the Kings, you can only send down NBA players in their first two years in the league.

Maybe they need to start a league for overpaid vets finishing out their contracts?

 

[Bricklayer]

Obviously Spencer is not going to be sent down, nor should he. He's an NBA player and I think we like him too much as an orgaization for something not to give here.

The twin colors (Greene and Brown) however are the sort of guys you could send down without it changing much. They are young, out of the rotation, and have franchise favored players ahead of them.

I suspect this whole thread is more than anything else just an expression of frustration about the glacial pace at which the front office moves around here. We'll know in about 4 weeks what's going to happen.

 

[Kingster]

Obviously Spencer is not going to be sent down, nor should he. He's an NBA player and I think we like him too much as an orgaization for something not to give here.

The twin colors (Greene and Brown) however are the sort of guys you could send down without it changing much. They are young, out of the rotation, and have franchise favored players ahead of them.

I suspect this whole thread is more than anything else just an expression of frustration about the glacial pace at which the front office moves around here. We'll know in about 4 weeks what's going to happen.

Absolutely, it reflects my frustration. But it is a very logical "solution" to a totally ridiculous problem. If the problem does change its face and Petrie unloads these losers, then as I said in my post, no need to send these guys to the D league. And I realize that the Kings won't send these guys down to the D league, which makes the situation even more ridiculous. Here they have contrived a quasi-veteran losing team to have the veterans as good role models for the kids. The result? A FREAKING FIASCO. The veterans are role models for losers. The kids can't help but be affected.

 

[gunks]

I dont know if they have the vets around to be role models. I think they have the vets around because they are untradeable. That also explains the extra time they are getting on the court. Petrie may have given the word to Natt to put Miller and Salmons on display.

That being said IF the trade deadline passes by and we havent made a move...Hawes had better get more than 15 mpg. Brown should at least be splitting the backup PG minutes with Jackson and Greene....Better keep those hilarious web shows coming (dudes a one dimensional chucker. What can I say, I wish we got Dorsey in that trade).