[Game] Kings @ Jazz - Saturday, Oct. 26 - 6 PT
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I didn't have a good first impression of Dedmon. My conclusion - this early season looks like a Kings-tragedy in the making. Too much "fixing" of things that may not have been all the way broken in the off-season. Yes they ended the season fizzling out last season, but I'd take that over fizzling out to start the season. Too many unknowns introduced. From a fan standpoint, too high of expectations. They may have gambled too much with coaching and team chemistry.......grab players with defensive slants to adjust defense, however, the offense has now suffered evidently as well. It could be back to square-1. Or maybe they pull together, but who knows.
They were too confident that they could score. Well now guess what our offense is crap. Everyone's playing bad so I don't want to sound like I'm singling anybody out, but Fox has been getting the ball past half court with 16-17s left and our "offense" is getting initiated with 11-12 seconds. A vast difference from last year.
Pretty sure Vlade steps down this season. He gave himself a timeline and it isn't looking good. Vivek isn't gonna talk him out of it either, he wanted Luka*.
Doom and gloom aside, this is game 3 and I'm still pulling for us to turn it around, but holy ****, this start has been straight up abysmal.
*according to multiple draft day tweets, so I reckon we can take it with a grain of salt, but it's an interesting narrative.
Doom and gloom aside, this is game 3 and I'm still pulling for us to turn it around, but holy ****, this start has been straight up abysmal.
*according to multiple draft day tweets, so I reckon we can take it with a grain of salt, but it's an interesting narrative.
Agreed. Pre-LeBron Lakers under Walton played hard for him. Once LeBron was signed, Walton was toast.
Something is wrong though. These guys are playing with no passion, just going through the motions.
The players need to call a players only meeting and get to the root of this malaise. This is just getting embarrassing.
Something is wrong though. These guys are playing with no passion, just going through the motions.
The players need to call a players only meeting and get to the root of this malaise. This is just getting embarrassing.
That pre-season scrimmage with Ariza acting like the war veteran that Kings players should look up to still gives me scary thoughts.
I think the should trade remains of Ariza, who could no longer guard anybody nor shoot reliably. Then sign Shump back. Shump brought something special to this team that seemed to pull out the best of the young guns.
Or I don't know, maybe just get Harry Giles back and let Ariza stay 40 mins in the bench.
I think the should trade remains of Ariza, who could no longer guard anybody nor shoot reliably. Then sign Shump back. Shump brought something special to this team that seemed to pull out the best of the young guns.
Or I don't know, maybe just get Harry Giles back and let Ariza stay 40 mins in the bench.
Weirdly, I think this is correct. Shump obviously was the vocal leader in the locker room and all the young guys banded around being "the scores". They had an identity, no one took this team seriously and we shoved it down everyone's throats on a nightly basis who didn't want to run with us.
I still have no clue wtf the FO was thinking trading him like that. They couldn't see he was the clear emotional leader of the team? And considering how much the team sulked after he was gone, we can't like it didn't have an impact.
I still have no clue wtf the FO was thinking trading him like that. They couldn't see he was the clear emotional leader of the team? And considering how much the team sulked after he was gone, we can't like it didn't have an impact.
I can't attribute 3 straight losses that feature 2 blowouts to the coach. This is a player effort problem. We have a group of cream of the crop basketball players that are among the very top players from their respective draft classes turning the ball over, not making shots, and not defending. You don't get blown out in one game and not come back the next game fighting as hard as possible.
Same old problem of low IQ, other than Bjelica/maybe Harry (Bogi had it briefly) everyone at best has average (Fox/Barnes/Cojo) and mostly below average IQ (Bagley/Dedmon/Holmes/Gaberial/Buddy/Ariza). The defense as well is horrendous atm we only have rotation players no cornerstones. The Kings might just need to tank this season and hope for #1 pick it's still early so there is some hope but wow this is shocking.
You can't blame the coach for player not being able to make a pass or move the ball that's basic stuff this is a poorly constructed roster by Vlade and near every single guy he signed was a massive overpay at the time.
You can't blame the coach for player not being able to make a pass or move the ball that's basic stuff this is a poorly constructed roster by Vlade and near every single guy he signed was a massive overpay at the time.
