Stockton Kings 2024-2025 Open Thread

Let the guy develop more to his game. He needs to come a long way to be able to play adequate defense at the NBA level and he's probably going to need a lot more to his game than post up moves to be successful as well.

Shout out to Crawford as well. Shooting over 50% from 3.
 
ESP47 said:
Let the guy develop more to his game. He needs to come a long way to be able to play adequate defense at the NBA level and he's probably going to need a lot more to his game than post up moves to be successful as well.

Shout out to Crawford as well. Shooting over 50% from 3.
Click to expand...

Crawford has some ball skills too. I think he has a legit shot to earn regular NBA playing time at some point
 
Tetsujin said:

dude is legitimately dominating G-Leaguers right now
Click to expand...

He had to have been watching some Bird highlights with that fake pass around the defenders back, lol.
 
ESP47 said:
Let the guy develop more to his game. He needs to come a long way to be able to play adequate defense at the NBA level and he's probably going to need a lot more to his game than post up moves to be successful as well.

Shout out to Crawford as well. Shooting over 50% from 3.
Click to expand...

This summer league is hopefully the same kind the Kings have had in the past couple of years. Like with Keon's ascension to legit rotation player and Keegan getting his feet wet. Carter, Isaac, and Crawford could have a great opportunity. Big strides in summer have helped the Kings development without question.
 
Section 101 said:
We need more second rounders
Click to expand...

Monte has had 8 second-round picks on draft night so far, and he has traded 4 of them away in draft-day trades. And of the 4 seconds Monte did draft, none have stuck so far, and only Queta/Colby have a shot of carving out a career.

Of a possible 7 future seconds, he has already shipped off 4, so we've got a whole 3 left in the till for the next 7 years. Yet we've got Keon Ellis in our rotation and maybe a guy like Isaac Jones or Isaiah Crawford makes some noise in the future. We may be better off relying more heavily on UDFAs than second-rounders in the Monte era.
 
Section 101 said:
We need more second rounders
Click to expand...
Capt. Factorial said:
Monte has had 8 second-round picks on draft night so far, and he has traded 4 of them away in draft-day trades. And of the 4 seconds Monte did draft, none have stuck so far, and only Queta/Colby have a shot of carving out a career.

Of a possible 7 future seconds, he has already shipped off 4, so we've got a whole 3 left in the till for the next 7 years. Yet we've got Keon Ellis in our rotation and maybe a guy like Isaac Jones or Isaiah Crawford makes some noise in the future. We may be better off relying more heavily on UDFAs than second-rounders in the Monte era.
Click to expand...
Honestly, I'd much rather see Monte turn our second rounders into mid to late first rounders, and rely on UDFAs, as Capt. suggested above, to pick up who would've otherwise been our second round picks.
 
It does seem just as likely you’ll find a good player in the undrafted class than the second round after 31-40.

I don’t mind that the Kings don’t pick often in the second round as much as I mind that they have burned up their entire second round draft stock for no real benefit to the roster.

Teams deplete 5 years worth of second rounders acquiring role players to fill out the roster. Kings burned about half of it just dumping Mitchell, Sasha, and later the player they got in that dump just to stay below the luxury tax.
 
Kingz19 said:
I don’t mind that the Kings don’t pick often in the second round as much as I mind that they have burned up their entire second round draft stock for no real benefit to the roster.
.
Click to expand...

That’s likely the way it is for small market teams unless we get to contending status. Can’t blame Vivek given it’s 19 million dollars on the line.


Some of those second rounders were needed to get Deebo and give us enough wiggle room to make a trade this deadline. Plus we will have 4 second rounders to trade this offseason (unless we end up in the top 12 of the draft)
 
Kingz19 said:
It does seem just as likely you’ll find a good player in the undrafted class than the second round after 31-40.

I don’t mind that the Kings don’t pick often in the second round as much as I mind that they have burned up their entire second round draft stock for no real benefit to the roster.

Teams deplete 5 years worth of second rounders acquiring role players to fill out the roster. Kings burned about half of it just dumping Mitchell, Sasha, and later the player they got in that dump just to stay below the luxury tax.
Click to expand...

That dump was required to acquire DDR. It wasn't just for the luxury tax.
 

I was hoping IJ would have moved to Brooklyn to join the rest of the team but he was there (another double double based on other highlights).
 
11-2 Stockton losing to a 6-7 team by 23 at half. I’ve watched a few of their games and this has been by far the worse. They have generally been a fun watch.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

K
Stockton Kings are NBA G League champs
Replies
0
Views
141
KTXL
K
QWERTYLICIOUS
  • Locked
  • Poll Poll
[Game] 68/82: Kings vs. Cavaliers 19 MAR 2025, 7pm PT/10pm ET
11 12 13
Replies
361
Views
9K
ESP47
E
QWERTYLICIOUS
NFL 2024-2025 Thread
41 42 43
Replies
1K
Views
43K
Mr. S£im Citrus
Mr. S£im Citrus
Warhawk
2024-25 Uniform info - Classic Edition
Replies
11
Views
902
NewArena
NewArena
N
Kings unveil new City Edition uniforms, mascot for 2024-25 NBA season
Replies
0
Views
186
NBC Sports BayArea
N
Back
Top