Youth development or Playoffs?

[BMiller52]

Here's a question that has been popping into my head recently: since when exactly did "making the playoffs" in a league where more than half the teams do become a goal in and of itself? That may have been a goal when we hadn't been there for 10 years or whatever, but what the hell? Who the bleep cares whether you "make the playoffs" as a sub-.500 ****bag of a team? You don't belong and are just there to fill up a bracket. Its like being drafted 60th as "Mr. Irrelevant".​

The playoffs are there for a purpose -- teams "play off" to determine who will be this year's champion. If you have no shot at that goal, then you are just posing.​

Agreed. Lets play the young guys and call it a season please. We're 3 games behind the 8th seed(which sucks and I don't even want) with only 11 or 12 games left. We have a real difficult schedule.

It's not like we're even rooting for future Kings to win, because a lot of the guys actually playing aren't in the plans.

 

[fnordius]

Here's a question that has been popping into my head recently: since when exactly did "making the playoffs" in a league where more than half the teams do become a goal in and of itself?​

I think it's a defensive sort of thing. Aside from a banner back in the ancient days of Rochester, this franchise mostly stunk its way through the 20th century. Later on, we came within a bounce of a title, but "almost" isn't very satisfying, then we lost another shot at it when Webber crumpled. As a result, we have nothing more exciting than a Pacific title to show for it. So we fall back on, "well, but we go to the playoffs every year," and "we sell out Arco a lot."

They don't really count for anything, but they're all we ended up with. Time to put the disappointment behind us, and move on to a new state of mind.

 

[Kingzrool]

As a result, we have nothing more exciting than a Pacific title to show for it.

Excuse me, that is back to back Pacific Titles.

 

[zo0mmike]

Here's a question that has been popping into my head recently: since when exactly did "making the playoffs" in a league where more than half the teams do become a goal in and of itself? That may have been a goal when we hadn't been there for 10 years or whatever, but what the hell? Who the bleep cares whether you "make the playoffs" as a sub-.500 ****bag of a team? You don't belong and are just there to fill up a bracket. Its like being drafted 60th as "Mr. Irrelevant".​

The playoffs are there for a purpose -- teams "play off" to determine who will be this year's champion. If you have no shot at that goal, then you are just posing.​

Nicely put, some people seem to act like they're warrior fans.

 

[VF21]

...some people seem to act like they're warrior fans.

Not necessarily. Some people don't want the season to end; they cling to the tiniest shred of hope for as long as possible. And there's nothing wrong with that...unless, as Bricklayer has pointed out and I've finally come to accept, it's the powers that be that are doing the clinging.

 

[Cal-Kings]

Here's a question that has been popping into my head recently: since when exactly did "making the playoffs" in a league where more than half the teams do become a goal in and of itself? That may have been a goal when we hadn't been there for 10 years or whatever, but what the hell? Who the bleep cares whether you "make the playoffs" as a sub-.500 ****bag of a team? You don't belong and are just there to fill up a bracket. Its like being drafted 60th as "Mr. Irrelevant".​

The playoffs are there for a purpose -- teams "play off" to determine who will be this year's champion. If you have no shot at that goal, then you are just posing.​

I don't know that the fans see it as a goal unto itself. Fans just want to win it all. For a team on the way up, making the playoffs might be a stepping stone.

But I think most of this season's PUSH for the playoffs is coming from the Maloofs. It's all about money. Once the team makes the playoffs, all the season ticket holders must buy the entire playoff package at thousands of dollars as if the Kings were to play every game and at home. It costs a mint.

And, when the team loses in the first round, the money doesn't get returned for months. So all the interest on all that money accrues to the Maloofs.

 

[Troy]

Here's a question that has been popping into my head recently: since when exactly did "making the playoffs" in a league where more than half the teams do become a goal in and of itself? That may have been a goal when we hadn't been there for 10 years or whatever, but what the hell? Who the bleep cares whether you "make the playoffs" as a sub-.500 ****bag of a team? You don't belong and are just there to fill up a bracket. Its like being drafted 60th as "Mr. Irrelevant".​

The playoffs are there for a purpose -- teams "play off" to determine who will be this year's champion. If you have no shot at that goal, then you are just posing.​

I see your point, but that's how the playoffs are set up and any/every team should try their best to make the playoffs and get as far as they can every year. These sub 500 teams making the playoffs is a paradox so I'd hope the league would cut the # of teams making it, this would no doubt cut out a round of fluff and speed up the crowning of the champion and the team that belongs to be there. I agree that it's a bit easy to make the playoffs especially in the East. If you make it in the West you are with good teams so in the King's case this is a decent achievment in and of itself, also to make it 8 years in a row like we have puts us in elite status. We didn't always go far or come in strong ready for war, but heah we made it in.

What teams have made it in 8 years in a row besides us, wasn't it Indy....who else? Indy is a Eastern team so that is easier to make it in like people know due to the swing of power in the West, especially coming out of the state of Texas!

Sure we don't get the lottery pick by making the playoffs, which we miss out on, but we need to do more with trades and free agent pickups..out front office has been way to laid back in the way of making ourselves better.

I think the message has been sent that we aren't good enough to go all the way, or at the very least don't have all the tools to be entertaining at least, not just talent wise but the player synergy isn't there which needs to be fixed. With GP trying to move Bibby and Artest, we are looking to rebuild...now it's up to the Maloofs to hopefully give GP the green light to buy what we need. Open the wallats wide Joe/Gavin!!!

 

[Smills91]

Wait until we play the CLippers tonight...if we win, I still think we could pull off the 8th seed with a strong finish...if we lose tonight, it's ALL over....we play the Warriors once and the Clippers twice...if we win those three games along with the NOOK game...and go about 5-3 the rest of the way...IMO the 8th seed is ours...that's how bad these other teams are.

 

[kennadog]

I Once the team makes the playoffs, all the season ticket holders must buy the entire playoff package at thousands of dollars as if the Kings were to play every game and at home. It costs a mint.

My guess is, if the Kings make the playoffs this year, a lot of season ticket holders will pass on playoff tickets for this very reason. They don't have to buy playoff tickets, they just get first chance to buy.