I voted no, of course. He’s doing a fine job. I’m discouraged by the lack of coherent design in the offense and defense — I agree with Joe Maloof that the team lacks an identity, a “system.” But Theus is a great motivator and a fairly smart in-game choice. Hey, he almost got the Kings to .500 without Martin and Garcia.

And yes, this poll was created to prove a point: you can criticize a coach without thinking they should be gone.

but think he needs a vrey good “x&o” assistant coach added to the staff and time for the young players to mature, I am still not sold on Beno as the strting PG I do think he would be a great back-up pg

is a genius. I like him a lot. I think he is a great coach so firing him would be dumb. Why is this firing even mentioned. i ca’t see anything on firing theus anywhere online. or am i wrong?

I’m surprised to see such a soap opera over Theus this early in the season. Even more surprising, is it’s not of Theus’ making.

I agree with the poster above regarding an X’s and O’s coach. We talked about this when Theus was hired – that he would benefit from a strong, experienced bench coach. Maybe that is what’s needed here, rather than pushing Theus out.

My point is that Theus is not the cause, nor is he the cure. As I have mentioned on numerous occasions, only a handful of coaches could have extracted more than 38 wins from last year’s injury plagued team. But like Brad Miller, Mikki Moore and perhaps John Salmons, do you really see Reggie Theus as the head coach of the next great Kings team?

Leave him be and let the man coach out the year. If he is the same coach and the team is the same team at the end of the year, it’s time for all parties to move on.

Give him a few more weeks or so.

Theus must stay as the head coach for the entire season. Coaching changes are rough affairs, mid-season ones even more so. To fire Theus now puts the entire Kings management in a precarious situation when it comes to hiring a new guy – to cut off a guy who had eight playoff seasons, then the Musselman ridiculousness, then the firing of Theus – it would be hard to coerce a big name into that situation.

to go with this one:

“Right now, Do you think Reggie be retained as coach beyond this season?”

I voted no to firing him now, but I would also vote no to keeping him around long term.

Life has been busy and I have not contributed much lately on Sactownroyalty. I appreciate the continuing dialogue that keeps me posted on a day to day basis. The Maloofs are obviously as impatient as any NBA owner. They say they want Reggie to give the young guys playing time but then give the impression that if the team would have lost the home opener then he would have been fired. Kind of like the cake and eat it too scenario. I personally dont think Gavin and Joe know what they want and if they do it changes on a game by game / day to day basis. Their comments about Rick Adleman were a great example…if they liked his system so much then why didnt they retain him? There were other issues they had with him that led to the dismissal. Winning changes everything and until the Kings are considered a top tier team this type of propaganda will surface from time to time. I am putting my money on GP to sort this out by 2010.

Of course Theus shouldn’t be fired at this point in the season. I think that he should be given the whole season. The team isn’t going anywhere in the next two years anyway.

The Maloofs are the most PC owners in all sports. Their #1 goal is public opinion. That’s why openly chastizing Theus is so out of character. I can only imagine that the out look financially is so bleek that Joe let his emotions take over.

They are despairate to sell seats. So, they need Theus to do something to get the fans excited. Win game, get exciting play out of the rookies, or implement a system. IMHO the real tell was the two comments about Chuck and the comment on 3pt defense. I don’t think the Maloof’s like Theus’s choice of Person as the defensive coordinator.

With or without a offensive system the Kings are 11th in offense, but they are 28th in defense and 3rd in worst 3pt defense. So, whether it was right to say in public or not, at least Theus knows what he needs to do. Get Greene off the bench and defend the 3.

We had one powerpoint genius before Theus and I doubt we want another one.