Look at OKC which imo is the closest team that resembles what we are trying to build. Durant is a pure scorer superstar . Westbrook is the attack minded gaurd/scorer, Harden is the more overall player that can score and dish. The rest of their players are role players. Ibaka, Perkins, Sefolosha, Collison, Fisher are all role players. Either defenders/enforcers, hustle players, or shooters. Thats 3 offensive players and the rest of the roster is roleplayers.
Now look at the Kings roster
1. Cousins- Inside scorer, hustle player
2. Tyreke- Score first gaurd
3. Thornton- Pure scorer
4. Isaiah- score first pg, with some playmaking ability
5. JT- Hustle player
6. T Will- all around player, can score or distribute pretty well
7. Jimmer- pure scorer/shooter
8. Donte- scorer
This is a point I would agree with. Tyreke and Thornton are both ball-dominant scorers and they don't play off each other well so one of them should come off the bench. Thornton would be ideally suited to an instant-offense off the bench role because of his aggressive mindset. Other guys with that mindset like Ben Gordon, Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry, and Bobby Jackson have excelled in that role.
Isaiah's future in the league is probably as a backup PG on a good team. I don't say that as an insult, I think he'd be one of the best backup PGs in the league. But his size limits him to the PG position and my default category for anyone who isn't a perennial top 15 PG is "backup on a good team".
Williams plays a good complimentary role and doesn't care about scoring so he would fit well in the starting lineup like Sefolosha does for OKC. He's a strong defender at the SG position and good at setting up his teammates.
I don't think Greene is only a scorer, but regardless he's a specialist who's going to have to carve out the rest of his career by doing something really well off the bench, probably spot-up shooting and defensive assignments. He may or may not be doing that on our team next year.
One of Jimmer/Thornton/Thomas gets squeezed out of the rotation because of redundancy and should probably be traded. I'd like to see an attempt made to play Thornton as the sixth man, but I would include any of them in a trade for a player that compliments our lineup better.
Either JT or Whiteside could be the third big off the bench because they can play the PF or C position. Keeping both of them gives us depth, but that depends on how much JT is going to cost.
If Williams is part of the future then I still like Tyreke at the PG position because it gives us the best opportunity to field a strong defensive team. It's not an orthodox lineup, and a Williams/Evans backcourt probably means you
need a shooter at SF, but you have a chance for a balanced mix of scoring and playmaking with that combination. If we add in a good defender at SF who can hit open shots and a good defender at PF who can catch and finish when Tyreke or Cousins get double-teamed, that would be a pretty balanced lineup which can both defend and score efficiently.