I don't think we know the peaks of this core though.
I just haven't spent much time evaluating Beal's fit, so right now this is feeling like "oh this big name is available here's our chance" and I'm not sure there won't be other chances later when we really know what we need. Wing defense was the top of my wishlist in our post mortem and that's not what Beal brings to the table. Plus the whole age/injury/contract status. OG I don't think is worth what Toronto probably thinks he is, but he's a perfect fit and on a similar timeline/age as our core.
Maybe, but we know what happened in the playoffs. Was it an anomaly? Personally, I don't think so. I brought up during the season how the shot distribution looked very unusual. Come playoff time what changed? The offense, and that exact distribution chart morphed into one that looked like most other teams. You have a few guys on top getting shots and the rest are your role guys. Not Fox and then everyone else sharing dinner like the regular season. The other thing is while not experienced per se, this team is also not exactly super young. Even their youth is like I said, nearing the same age as Peja and Bibby by the time the Kings were in the thick of it. They aren't old but they are the doorstep to when you want to actually start contending. Beal at 30 isn't old. His time out does concern me though.
If the Kings were only interested in age timelines the last go around then you don't have Vlade or DC. Webber was actually the same age as Fox is now when the Kings traded for him.
I'll lay out my reasoning behind a Beal trade being positive. You may agree, disagree, it may be proven to be the worst move in franchise history if made, who knows, haha. But IMO, it's worth a shot if the price is right.
1. Beal as a player had his most competitive seasons as a SG next to John Wall. A player for years many consider to be similar to Fox. Fox actually has a more versatile game than Wall so I think with a coach like Brown, they'll be seamless. Beal can run a team's offense as a true go to. That will take crazy pressure off of Fox and we know, Fox can't do it all by himself and shouldn't have to. He did his best in the playoffs but that injury luck ran out, again.
2. Beal has reportedly expressed interest in playing next to Domas. And that's prior to Domas being a bit of a league darling as he was last season. That shows me Beal saw something there. Maybe not though, that's conjecture obviously but why would that be a name of all names to leak as being Beals preference? Just seems strange.
3. The Kings have the last bit of cap space they'll have for this run NOW. I've heard people say wait until 2024 but that's the year you sign Domas to a max. In order to have space they'd have to do a bunch of stuff now and then to have any space. Literally if they want to keep Davion and Keegan they'd have to let Barnes walk or sign everyone they get this season to no more than a 1 year contract and probably still have to find a place to dump Huerter and Holmes, most certainly let Monk walk and that's just to land a player on Beals kind of salary level with having to trade for it, which again, might not even be probable. Then you're also left with a shell of a team.
