Who should start at PG for rest of preseason?

[Fresno King]

Musselman said Salmons is starting against the Hornets at PG Tuesday night, but I would prefer to see Price get the nod. He needs more experience against other teams' starting 5's than Salmons does. RP did look good in the 2nd half with our starters when Bibby left. He needs more experience with them also IMHO.

 

[Fear the Putin]

salmons starts
price backs-up

garcia backs-up kev

taylor starts at center
justin backs him up

man....the indian burial curse has struck again

 

[VF21]

Musselman said Salmons is starting against the Hornets at PG Tuesday night, but I would prefer to see Price get the nod. He needs more experience against other teams' starting 5's than Salmons does. RP did look good in the 2nd half with our starters when Bibby left. He needs more experience with them also IMHO.

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I think you're pushing Ronnie Price to marathon races when he's just started to crawl. I think we're all very happy with the improvement we've seen in him and I hope it continues, but I think starting him at this point in time would just be silly.

I think Muss knows what he's doing. Price will still get his minutes; he's worked hard and he's earned them but he's not ready to have the starting nod IMHO.

 

[fiction916]

I agree, Ronnie could use some experience against starting defenses. It's preseason - let's see what this kid can do.

 

[AriesMar27]

salmons should start...

 

[kennadog]

Salmons should start. If we are going to be without Bibby for 3 weeks, Salmons has got very little time to get used to being the PG with the starters. He needs what time is left, to get reasonably comfortable. Ronnie will likely still get plenty of minutes.

 

[fiction916]

Salmons has got very little time to get used to being the PG with the starters.

Yeah, he doesn't have much experience at the position.

What about Francisco?
He's slated as a 3, Mus will probably play him at the 2, but he can really take the ball up the court. So can Artest for that matter.

 

[bibbinator]

Salmons should start. If we are going to be without Bibby for 3 weeks, Salmons has got very little time to get used to being the PG with the starters. He needs what time is left, to get reasonably comfortable. Ronnie will likely still get plenty of minutes.

Indeed. Salmons is a mature player with real skills. Price has a ways to go.

 

[gunks]

I dig the Garcia idea.

He was doin good as back up PG for a month or so up until he got injured last season.

 

[Kingzrool]

Salmons looked pretty good last night. He was quick and full of hustle. Ronnie will be better off the bench. MO Taylor??? I still don't understand that one .

 

[VF21]

People seem to be forgetting the main reason Petrie has always given for getting Salmons in the first place. He has always been mentioned as backup PG; now I'm pretty sure he's going to get the nod. Why wouldn't he?

If Mike is going to be out the next few weeks, whoever is going to start the season as PG needs to get used to working with the rest of the starters. As I said before, I believe Price will get some minutes. He's earned them. But let's not mistake earning minutes for earning a starting slot.

 

[Bricklayer]

I might be tempted to start Price the rest of preseason just to get him some more experience, but when the season rolled around, and maybe for the last preseason game, you go with Salmons for his experience. Starting an undrafted effectively rookie PG is not a really good way to being a season where the playoffs are the goal.

 

[BMiller52]

Salmons. Bibby's out for the first 2 weeks so we'll have to get him a lot of experience at PG if we hope to start out well, IMO. Price deserves a lot of playing time though.

 

[slugking50]

I like the Idea of starting Cisco. Henry Turner mentioned it on Kings Talk last night.

THe kid deserves to be given the shot.

 

[Quincy8Douby]

Well it's not like the preseason games really make a difference anyways. I would start Price and just see how he does... if he doesnt look like he can handle it, then play Salmons more. There really isnt much to lose right now since it doesnt effect our record...

 

[LA King Fan II]

I think we have to be defensive in replacing Bibby. My feeling is whoever starts is NOT going to provide more than 10 points a game in scoring. This will either lead us to increased scoring elsewhere or to losing a lot of games by 6-10 points.

I have not seen great ballhandling from Salmons thus far, or the speed to stay with a Chris Paul type (nobody stays with CP anyway). I'm not a Hart fan but he can play defense, and to keep us around five hundred for a few weeks I believe defense will be our best chance. I say play Hart.

With Miller gone too, our defense will be that much better. I liked the way Mo Taylor looked the other night (especially attitude and effort). We'll struggle on offense perhaps, but our defense will be tighten and I'll bet we stay .500 for the first few weeks.

 

[CruzDude]

As much as I have been an RP fan since last years summer league, I agree it should be Salmons as well. Petrie got Salmons for his skills at the 1, 2 and 3 (according to his press conference when he got Salmons). In particular the PG position. Even tho they aren't true PG's we do have to play some 6-7 ball handlers, Kobe & McGrady for example and the Kings want to create matchup problems for others using a big guy like Salmons.

Price will get good minutes now every game and you could see him in with Salmons on some rotations.

 

[Denio]

Price will get his minutes tonight.. I hope Douby will play some good minutes also...

With Miller probably taking it easy we will see Williams getting some good minutes also.. Hope Amundson plays too...

 

[nbrans]

There's no sense in Price starting just to get him minutes -- he's going to get minutes anyway. Salmons could use the time just as much as Price to gel with the starters, especially if that's what's going to happen in the regular season if Bibby goes down (or is traded). It's going to be interesting to see how he and Martin work in the backcourt, particularly on defense.

 

[Fresno King]

I think Salmons should be the starter during the regular season until Bibby comes back. I just thought giving Price the nod for the rest of the preseason would give him more time and experience with the main guys, since he's only in his 2nd year and may be called upon in a tight situation if Salmons gets into foul trouble. Maybe we'll see Salmons start the first half and Price the second.

 

[bibbinator]

Salmons ~ $5,000,000/yr = $61,000/game (reg. season)
Price ~ $500,000/yr = $6100/game

You don't pay Salmons that kind of money to watch Price play from the bench. Salmons will see a lot of the backup minutes for the 1-3. He will likely start if any of the regulars get injured. He may even take Kevin's regular starting job if he isn't cutting it.

 

[moradi420]

salmons, it makes most sense to get him acclamated with the starting spot, since hell proably start the regular season games that bibby misses.

 

[Troy]

salmons, it makes most sense to get him acclamated with the starting spot, since hell proably start the regular season games that bibby misses.

Exactly, Salmons hasn't been a King for that long, and neither has RP, but Salmons needs to gel because can play 3 positions and the more time he plays in a meaninful game(s) with his starting teamates the better. Ronnie will get playing as will Williams and hopefully also Amundson now that Mike and Brad are out the game tonight.

 

[hammystyle]

^^ Good point about the fact that he plays three positions. Not only is it beneficial to get him time working with the starters at the point, but its highly likely that hes the primary backup for Martin and even maybe Artest if they get hurt. No matter how much you like Ronnie Price, Salmons is going to be playing more key minutes this year.

 

[VF21]

I like the Idea of starting Cisco...THe kid deserves to be given the shot.

Based upon what? Cisco has potential but he also has a lot of Jason Williams in him. He's too unpredictable and looks like a runaway train a lot of the time. He needs to learn to notch it down just a bit before I'd give him a starting nod.

 

[Entity]

I agree with Brick. Price should start the rest of preseason just get the experience and Salmons should stick with coming off the bench since that is what he will be doing we don't want to throw off his feel of coming off the bench. Price with starting could develope into a backup role down the road. Start these last 3 or 4 games and then get some time during the season off teh bench at the end of quarters or something and re address the backup pg role next season and see how much he has inmproved then.

 

[VF21]

That's not what Brick said, actually. He said he might be tempted to start Price... not that he'd actually do it.



And, no offense meant whatsoever, Entity, but your logic is flawed. We don't want to throw off Salmon's feel for coming off the bench?

SAY WHAT?????????????????????????????????

 

[KP]

Musselman will show that he is no different than Adelman or any other coach in the NBA for that matter, even if it is pre-season, he will start the seasoned vet... however because it is pre-season Price will get a lot more minutes overall, but if this was the regular season you wouldn't see him nearly as much as you will. Should be a good opportunity for Price, he's been playing very well.

 

[fnordius]

Not sure how to answer this one, because I'm not sure what Musselman has in mind for the year.

The preseason is like 384 minutes of garbage time, so you might as well play the couple of guys that are going to be Bibby's #1 and #2 backups for the year, whoever that may be. It's not as if any of them didn't need the practice. Salmons appears to be #1, but I wouldn't want to give many minutes to Douby, or even Price, if he plans on keeping (and playing) Hart as next on the list.

I guess we'll know in a few more days.

 

[moradi420]

I agree with Brick. Price should start the rest of preseason just get the experience and Salmons should stick with coming off the bench since that is what he will be doing we don't want to throw off his feel of coming off the bench. Price with starting could develope into a backup role down the road. Start these last 3 or 4 games and then get some time during the season off teh bench at the end of quarters or something and re address the backup pg role next season and see how much he has inmproved then.

I think it makes a wee bit more sense to start salmons, most likely ronnie is coming into most games after salmons, therefore u move slamons up from backup to starting, and ronnie from double backup, to single backup, rather than having ronnie leapfrog slamons, when during the regular season salmons will most lilely play more and be one of the first guys off the bench to play...i dont think slamons will get thrownoff, if anything he just gets a wee bit more experience playing aganst starters, which imho will benefit him while he plays aganst backups