This George Hill stuff is just witch hunt level at this point. Do you even hear yourselves? You know there's only one reason George Hill is even on this team this year... our front office offered him a bigger contract than anyone else did. If you're that mad he's here maybe you should be directing your anger there. It's not like he's LeBron James coming in here and dogging it. The only thing he was ever known for in the league up to this point is being another Popovich "who now?" draft pick who turned into a capable NBA player. I even remember during the live draft broadcast the panelists laughed at the pick because no one had him projected anywhere near the first round and then they joked something to the effect of "it's the Spurs so he'll probably end up being an All Star" and chuckled some more. If he'd been given a reasonable $6-8 million per year deal are you all over him for being awful or do you just accept that he's another in a long line of "this is the best guy we could get " not so marquee free agent signings for the Kings?
More to the point, would you turn down all that money if someone was dumb enough to offer it to you? I think not! And then once you got to your new job and realized you hated it and there were cameras everywhere filming your candid facial expressions so everyone could see how much you hated it and they all started pointing fingers behind your back and talking about how much the company was paying you... no, who am I kidding. This is sports right? Burn his jersey! Chase him out of town!
I guess most, including me, believe George Hill is a lot better than he has played for the Kings. Even if we’re not using his Utah season as the bar, which we are and should. Even if Indiana and San Antonio Hill is more the expectation. He hasn’t even been that good.
The big problem and gripe with Hill is that it’s so often that he doesn’t even show up to play. You’re forgetting that and just taking the angle of “you pay 20 million for Ramon Sessions and got Ramon Sessions boo freakin hoo” when objectively speaking George Hill is a lot better than that and significantly better than he has given the Kings...and it has to do with his effort.
We overpaid George Hill but didn’t even get George Hill. His unheralded status as a prospect years ago is meaningless.
It can all be traced back to his effort and what is allegedly his insistence that he wasn’t chasing the money but actually had competitive expectations.
Kings messed up by giving him the contract of course and when people complain about Hill, it rarely has anything to do with the contract he signed but the fact that he’s visibly dogging it and reportedly complaining.
I’ve stuck up for Z-Bo here. He’s making too much money as well and really has no purpose on the team at this point..but he doesn’t dog it.