The Official sign Eric Moreland Thread!

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I think the best you can do is a lateral move. If you do that you still have the rest of the PF on the team. What's the point in that? Now you get larry sanders, taj Gibson, josh smith, or any name we have been talking about and you keep JT and say Reggie Evans. Then you have a front court rotation. But you trade JT for those guys and you drop off after #2. And you are looking for a backup center as well. Basically if you trade JT you need two players to replace him if you go for a PF. You keep JT you just need 1 guy.
 
gunks said:
For real. I never understood the JT hate. He is a pretty good role player, forced into a role too big for his shoes. If we had a legit starting PF, and JT was our 3rd big, people would love him.
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Exactly. I think any team would love to have a guy like JT as a 3rd big who could play PF and C. Go around the league and look at a lot of teams 3rd big and tell me they're better than JT. There aren't that many.
 
HereWeVivek said:
I think our front office has been trying to trade him for years and can't find any takers...
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I see his name attached to a lot of rumors but I am not sure if we're actively shopping him or not. If we were then I assume that it's only because we feel that he's a high value piece that we feel a lot of teams would like to have and perhaps the other teams were undervaluing him which is why he's still here? Not sure.
 
kingsboi said:
Thing is...your not paying your overpaid PF's to sit on the bench. You want to play them to make an attempt to boost their value and then you can hopefully try to trade them. How is it going to look if Moreland is playing over those guys? doesn't help that he is a rookie.
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Its not about here and now but about getting an asset that could pay off down the road. Moreland is a classic guy you wan to sign on the cheap to sit at the end of your bench and play majority of the year at Reno. Acy, Williams and Evans are all expiring deals and unlikely to be back after that. By that time you have a kid that can come in and hopefully be a contributor. By signing him on, you beat the rest of the teams to him. Nothing to lose here and a bit to gain. He could be a bust but he could also be a bargain. Either way its certainly a shot worth taking. We have absolutely nothing yo lose.
 
Gary said:
I see his name attached to a lot of rumors but I am not sure if we're actively shopping him or not. If we were then I assume that it's only because we feel that he's a high value piece that we feel a lot of teams would like to have and perhaps the other teams were undervaluing him which is why he's still here? Not sure.
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Or this front office is hell bent of removing anyone recruited under previous front office that is not named Cousins!

Ideally, when you get that shot blocker next to Cousins, you have JT as the 3rd big energy guy off the bench who can play both positions and give you 25 quality minutes a game. I would love to recreate the equivalent of the Cousins-Dalembert-JT trio going back a few years. That was the type of front court that we should be aiming for.
 
Čarolija said:
Its not about here and now but about getting an asset that could pay off down the road. Moreland is a classic guy you wan to sign on the cheap to sit at the end of your bench and play majority of the year at Reno. Acy, Williams and Evans are all expiring deals and unlikely to be back after that. By that time you have a kid that can come in and hopefully be a contributor. By signing him on, you beat the rest of the teams to him. Nothing to lose here and a bit to gain. He could be a bust but he could also be a bargain. Either way its certainly a shot worth taking. We have absolutely nothing yo lose.
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Sure, send him to Reno. It won't cost them anything and he won't be playing anytime soon anyway
Čarolija said:
Its not about here and now but about getting an asset that could pay off down the road. Moreland is a classic guy you wan to sign on the cheap to sit at the end of your bench and play majority of the year at Reno. Acy, Williams and Evans are all expiring deals and unlikely to be back after that. By that time you have a kid that can come in and hopefully be a contributor. By signing him on, you beat the rest of the teams to him. Nothing to lose here and a bit to gain. He could be a bust but he could also be a bargain. Either way its certainly a shot worth taking. We have absolutely nothing yo lose.
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We need to start winning in the now with Gay in his prime and Cousins starting to peak and worry less about a prospect paying off for you down the road. I definitely think stashing him in Reno wouldn't be a bad idea but other than that, this thread is here just to have something to talk about and not actually believing that this guy could be a contributor for our team when the time comes.
 
Entity said:
Or maybe we shouldn't be so eager to trade the 2nd best big man on the team. Should he be 2nd? No. Should be 3. But why trade 2 to get a 2. Especially when you got 4,5,6,7 still on the team. That's where the focus should be
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I totally and completely agree.
 
JT is a solid player who psychologically was in shambles last season(if you've seen his recent interview). He will either have a bounce back year or he will be traded(he was saying nothing short of asking for a trade in the interview). We have seen nothing from JT this summer(even Landry is/was in Vegas working out with the summerleague team). That could mean nothing or it could mean they are trying to trade him.
 
Thompson has had the roughest road of any of the current Kings. He started a ton of games his rookie season when we were the worst team in the league (17-65), then lost his starting job a year later when we brought in both Dalembert and Cousins in the same off-season, and he's been fighting for minutes ever since with Carl Landry, Chuck Hayes, JJ Hickson, Thomas Robinson, Patrick Patterson, Derrick Williams, and Reggie Evans. He's played for 5 different head coaches in 6 seasons with 4 different starting PGs and 4 different starting Cs. For some perspective on how long he's been putting up with this franchise's dysfunction -- his rookie season he shared a front court with Brad Miller for half the year. Brad Miller! He was our first lottery pick in 9 years so he's had to endure a losing team and relocation rumors almost as long as we have, and on the front-lines not just on the sideline. The front office which drafted him and signed him to a 5 year extension is now long gone. He's played his entire career in an aging facility and it's looking unlikely he makes it to the last year of his deal with this current group in charge, so he might not even be in uniform for the opening of the new downtown arena.

Say what you will about his contract or his role in the rotation, there's a special place of honor reserved for Jason Thompson in this franchise's history as far as I'm concerned. He was never the caliber of talent we needed to drag us out of this long rebuilding phase, but the fact that he's basically the last man standing is a credit to his steady contributions as an NBA caliber big-man on a team that more often than not was trading in D-league level castoffs and reclamation projects. I think he's carried himself rather well for all that he's been asked to put up with, and that includes the infamous Cowbell Kingdom interview.
 
Gary said:
Exactly. I think any team would love to have a guy like JT as a 3rd big who could play PF and C. Go around the league and look at a lot of teams 3rd big and tell me they're better than JT. There aren't that many.
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Makes me wonder then why he hasn't been traded yet. He's been letting it be known for at least a year now that he wants out.
 
Čarolija said:
Or this front office is hell bent of removing anyone recruited under previous front office that is not named Cousins!

Ideally, when you get that shot blocker next to Cousins, you have JT as the 3rd big energy guy off the bench who can play both positions and give you 25 quality minutes a game. I would love to recreate the equivalent of the Cousins-Dalembert-JT trio going back a few years. That was the type of front court that we should be aiming for.
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I said that at least a year ago - that it wouldn't surprise me if every last one (excluding Cousins) was gone. There's no doubt they have some reasons for letting guys go, but the backdrop to it all is that it's a new regime and they want all of their peeps on the team. That's why it has some of a change-for-change-sake feel to it.
 
hrdboild said:
Thompson has had the roughest road of any of the current Kings. He started a ton of games his rookie season when we were the worst team in the league (17-65), then lost his starting job a year later when we brought in both Dalembert and Cousins in the same off-season, and he's been fighting for minutes ever since with Carl Landry, Chuck Hayes, JJ Hickson, Thomas Robinson, Patrick Patterson, Derrick Williams, and Reggie Evans. He's played for 5 different head coaches in 6 seasons with 4 different starting PGs and 4 different starting Cs. For some perspective on how long he's been putting up with this franchise's dysfunction -- his rookie season he shared a front court with Brad Miller for half the year. Brad Miller! He was our first lottery pick in 9 years so he's had to endure a losing team and relocation rumors almost as long as we have, and on the front-lines not just on the sideline. The front office which drafted him and signed him to a 5 year extension is now long gone. He's played his entire career in an aging facility and it's looking unlikely he makes it to the last year of his deal with this current group in charge, so he might not even be in uniform for the opening of the new downtown arena.

Say what you will about his contract or his role in the rotation, there's a special place of honor reserved for Jason Thompson in this franchise's history as far as I'm concerned. He was never the caliber of talent we needed to drag us out of this long rebuilding phase, but the fact that he's basically the last man standing is a credit to his steady contributions as an NBA caliber big-man on a team that more often than not was trading in D-league level castoffs and reclamation projects. I think he's carried himself rather well for all that he's been asked to put up with, and that includes the infamous Cowbell Kingdom interview.
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Nope. That honor goes to Soggy Waffles himself, Mister Spencer Hawes.
 
Idk he got paid pretty well for it. Don't think he should complain about the time he was here. Should he want to go elsewhere more power to him.
 
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