Welcome Zach LaVine!
- Thread starter whitechocolate
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Vinny Basketballerino
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This might have been posted in the thread already but I absolutely love this guy's attitude. And the fact that he already has a connection with both Doug and DeMar... I have a good feeling about this.
I wonder if whatever it takes to win includes coming off the bench?
captain bill
All-Star
didn’t see this posted anywhere but lmao
gunks
Hall of Famer
You know Malik is everyone's buddy by the sheer amount of **** talking he does. You can only get away with this if you're well liked haha
ockingsfan
Starter
LaVine has got the Kings virus, like most other players that come to the Kings..... Career good 3 point shooter all of the sudden forgets how to shoot. Unbelievable that LaVine was 45% on 3 pointers and now all of the sudden can't remember to do the one thing the Kings brought him into town to do. Got to find a way to snap out of his rut and start hitting the long ball!
krylia sovetov
Bench
i'm afraid that he's slowly turning into an anchor contract
so another 2-3 years of setbacks
so another 2-3 years of setbacks
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
he just had 30 and 10 a game ago. Has had an all star level year prior to the trade. He’ll be fine
Yep, Lavine is a bucket. Weird how his shooting numbers have gone down though.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
they need to get him cleaner looks. Seems like 3/4 of his shots are heavily contested.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
People are going overboard, this dude only has a few seasons left. An anchor contract that only lasts for that long doesn't kill a cap. It's the years not the $$$ that make anchor contracts along with the player falling out of your rotation.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Ya Lavine will be fine especially when he’s shooting 40% from three again the problem is having three other bad defenders playing along with him
Before he was a King, when we had all the 'Lavine to Sacramento' rumours I thought his contract and impact on winning were so poor Chicago would have to pay to get rid of him. In the end, they didn't 'pay' in that they got their own pick back, but they did have to take on a couple of bad contracts.
LaVine will have games where he puts up numbers but who cares!! We went from fighting for a top 10 defence to being pretty comfortably in the bottom 10 on that side of the ball in a flash.
It's literally the same deal we had with Fox. Teams best lineups are with Keon+Keegan+3 offensive hub players. When we try to force 4 to play together, things get fairly messy, on both ends, tbh
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Lavine and Deebo were part of a top 5 defense a few years ago and they weren’t known as defenders then. The glory years kings had good defenses even though Vlade and Bibby were not good defenders. It’s a team thing, just like Doug said. This team is capable of being a top 15 defense and they need to figure out how to get back to that
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Lavine is now up to 37 percent from 3 as a King.
Joshyjosh31
Starter
We play freely untill the fourth than its iso post up time hopefully this changes that
Vinny Basketballerino
Starter
I wouldn't trade back Levine for Fox straight up at this point.
captain bill
All-Star
God Zach makes us unbeatable. Let’s hope we get him consistently down the stretch and not Smol Zach we’ve been seeing since his arrival
captain bill
All-Star
Clicking with the bigs has also been huge. Surprised to see he finished with only 2 dimes, but the find to Val rolling to the basket and his drive and dish to Domas underneath was impressive. Also had some nice hockey assists. But if he’s a flamethrower like last night that aspect won’t be as critical
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Impressive that he didn’t need an opposing player to pee him off to go off
Joshyjosh31
Starter
Same.
I know it’s early, but liking what I see from Markelle. Really hope his health holds up and continues to get a significant opportunity here. Also enjoy his and LaVine’s personality a lot more than Fox.
Same. Fox against the Pels tonight is 0-6 from 3pt while playing 29 minutes so far.
