People here want a lightning rod to focus all thier anger on. Right now it is Karl. But these things start at the top. And go all the way down. It's pretty sad we have these multi millionare athetes who don't care about the fans. Who mail it in because they aren't getting what they want.
First of all, the multi-millionaire angle doesn't add up to anything worth complaining about. The reason athletes get paid as much as they do is that we all want to watch them play and TV time is worth a lot in advertising revenue. If we don't want to pay DeMarcus $15 million to play for our team, some other team will gladly pick up the tab for us. And the same goes for most of the other players on the team. You don't think they care about the fans? I think sometimes they care a little too much what other people think about them. What about multi-millionaire coaches who don't want to do their job? What about multi-millionaire owners who gut the team, sell off everybody and still charge the same price for tickets or threaten to move the team if you don't build them a brand new arena with tax money to replace the 20 year old arena they currently play in? Are you saying it's only the players who ever act immaturely?
And actually, George Karl makes for a pretty poor scapegoat for all the reasons he was hired here in the first place. He's respected by everyone in basketball for what he's accomplished in his career. I'm convinced that George Karl needs to be fired to the extant that I am only because of what I've seen and heard this year since he's been the coach of the Kings. If I really thought the only problem with this team is that the players aren't playing hard I would have no problem trading all of them. But what if you bring in 15 new players and nothing changes because the coach was the bigger problem and he's the one guy you kept? What makes it any more likely to you that the players are the problem instead of the coach?
Nobody here knows 100% what's wrong with this team and how to fix it. We're just speculating based on what we see and read about and hear in interviews. Some of us think firing George Karl could have a positive effect on the team. Not because the players have quit out of spite but because his methods are just not effective. It would take a lot to convince me that guys like DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo aren't doing everything they can to win basketball games. If what they're doing is wrong in some way (and
something is going on here which is making our defense the worst in the league) than the coach needs to be able to identify what's wrong and offer solutions. I don't think anyone can objectively look at our roster and say that we have the
worst combination of defensive talent in the league. If after several months we're making zero progress on that end and instead getting worse, maybe it's reasonable to conclude that he doesn't have it, he's not going to acquire it somehow 53 games into his 27th year as an NBA head coach, and we're only going to get better as a team by replacing him with someone else who has different ideas about playing defense.
