Oh you mean drama free unified winning fronts like, let's say the Cavaliers, cruising toward their second straight Finals appearance?
Besides we aren't figuring out anything of the sort. We're figuring out Sacto has a couple of divisive media rats, but given our record and the coaching issue/drama that lockerroom actually held together really well without splintering into agendas.
indeed. i generally dispute the notion that the kings' locker room was a drama-filled vortex of dysfunction this season. hack media members like ailene voison and grant napear have made a cozy home within their perpetually alarmist perspectives, and as a result, there's a fair amount of melodramatic hand-wringing that occurs online, in the papers, and across the radio dial--and fans just
love to eat up that kind of sh*t. but there was never much evidence provided to support all of that hand-wringing...
in the aftermath of this season, consummate pro's like caron butler and kosta koufos have each said that it was a tough year in which things just didn't gel the way everybody had hoped, but neither pointed to specific problems. neither called out demarcus cousins. neither claimed that there was irreconcilable splintering throughout the locker room. honestly, i have a hard time believing that there was
any overarching locker room issue at all. certainly there were
isolated incidents of boiled-over frustration and tension, but even after demarcus' now-infamous tirade against george karl, the locker room appeared to hold together just fine. we heard no reports of factions forming. nobody used the media to snipe at others on the team or within the organization. hell, even karl, ever the divider, mostly kept his media sessions diplomatic. ultimately,
it just didn't work, and now the kings are moving on. not much else to see hear, if you ask me...
of course, none of this is to say that the kings' locker room was the healthiest of environments this last season; friction between a head coach and his roster, as well as the simple frustrations that result from losing, are going to negatively impact any locker room. it was probably a bummer of a place to be, but it hardly seems to me as if there was some kind of massive, melodramatic crack running through the locker room...
