the alarm is going to sound any day. I am going to one of my 5 games on Tuesday. If the performance against the Nuggets is this dismal with three days off – I will just shrug if Stinky chimes in. I don’t think the Maloofs will handle a 30+ loss to LALakers the same way. PIck an asst. coach to take over or look for “the new coach of your Sacramento Kings – John Whisenant!”
This game made me recall the old adjectives: “woeful”, “hapless” and “lowly”. This game is a morale killer for fans and I have to believe that sentiment transcends to the home team locker room at ARCO arena.
With all that said, I am still in favor of lose and let lose. If there are no playoff hopes – and sadly, there are is not even a pilot light on to spark that fire – lose with purpose.

I didn’t realize Miller had the flu until after the game, when Katye and Fat talked about it. Had I known, I would not have muttered some of the things I muttered during the first quarter. I mean, even Grant (!) was calling Miller out for his defense.

It’s incredibly sad that Udrih had to be yanked 5-6 minutes into the first before he showed some effort.

Bobby Jackson and Mikki Moore are not happy. I don’t think those guys and Theus can co-exist all season.

Just reposting this from the other thread;

vs LA Lakers
@ LA Lakers
vs New York
vs Minnesota
@ Portland
@ Houston
@ New Orleans
@ San Antonio

I don’t think it makes any sense to fire Theus before the San Antonio game. There is a decent chance the Kings will be on a 16 game losing streak at that point. The only two winnable games are the Knicks and TWolves games. If Reggie’s going to get fired, wait until after the road trip.

and there is talent on this roster.
Personality:
Its easy to blame reggie – but there is no emotional leader of this team. I see Reggie putting out all the energy he can muster – cheering, coaching, ect. but here is no player on this roster who REFUSES to be beaten. How can the energy continue to be so low? Too many of the vets are determined to act ‘professionally’, ‘another day at the office’ for a ‘professional’ NBA player. Thats crap. How about some ’We’re gonna kick your ass!’ Individual professionalism rather than some team chemistry, energy and trust and how ‘bout a little nasty?
Talent Mix:
I’ve said it so many times now…. There are no ‘catch and shoot’ players on this team, everyone wants to ‘DO’ something with the ball after they catch it, allowing defenses to react, recover, close in. You can’t constantly expect to beat everyone at this level off the dribble. Teams and layers who do that well succeed because of the danger of kick-outs and spot shooting keep defenses from continuously collapsing. The scouting report on the Kings is that although occasionally that may happen – we’re not going to beat you on those chances. This is why assist are so low on this team. Even our best spot shooters, KM and Cisco, try to make a ‘basketbal move’ more often than not before going up with a shot.

I know its early, I know we’ve been hurt, but the mix of player talent is just off to create an effective offense that makes any sense. You can’t call or create offensive plays for a group of players who have all too similar instincts when it comes to shooting. It really only takes one player, a starter in our case, to mix up the offense enough to keep defenses off guard. That move needs to be made at SF or PG.

SOMETHING needs to be done to shake up this roster if (I do say if, I think we needs to give them a few more games now that everyone is there) to change and adjust the make-up. At this point I find myself missing seeing Artest jacking up ill-advised shots. SOMEONE PLEASE SHOOT! Someone please SCARE the defense a little.

I don’t think there is a player, more importantly a PERSONALITY on this roster who has that in them.

This isn’t a 30 win team. It’s possessed of a modicum of talent but poorly constructed at present. There are rookies playing big minutes, Second year players logging even bigger minutes.

The only reason you fire the coach is if you have a really good replacement. Someone who has shown the ability to implement a system and runs teams in a style that would suit the personnel available. Just firing Reggie fixes absolutely nothing on this team.

You end up with either a bad choice rushed job as a coach or an interim who is going to get walked all over by the players. Reggie may not be your perfect pick as coach, but I sincerely doubt he is at home twiddling his moustache wondering how he can make things worse and lose his job. The guy would be pushing every button he can, to try and get some production out of people.

I hope they don’t fire him. I don’t want to end up like the Bulls last season getting stuck with Jim Boylan from Christmas on and having to deal with someone auditioning for a job as a head coach by playing vets and sucking up to management.

Do you really think any interim coach is going to play the rookies? If Theuss gets fired for not getting enough wins, what kind of incentive is there for someone stepping into his shoes to experiment and work on developing young players?

I’m sorry but I’m voting against the general consensus here. Let Reggie see the season out. There is too much risk involved, unless its a blue chip coaching talent who is going to bring something to the franchise. If it’s top shelf and available, make the move, but if its fire Reggie and fire the next guy at the season’s end, it’s going to be a debacle.

All I can say is… for the first time as a STH, I am thinking of ditching my tickets for the game on Tuesday. I want to go and I want to watch – win or lose I enjoy watching the young guys develop their game. But I am not looking forward to the abuse I’ll take in our own building surrounded by Laker fans. If I want abuse while I watch a game, I’ll sit on my couch and listen to my wife scream at me for not having the xmas lights on the house.

As for Reggie – I cannot think of anyone who can replace him. I’d rather have Whiz over Flip or the Little General. I think Avery inherited a pretty good club from Nellie and was unable to sustain it, let alone build young talent. Whiz is a risk, but he has more basketball leadership experience than Reggie. Flip… I just don’t see him as a top notch coach. He had KG in MN and he inherited a damn good Piston team.

I think the best move is for Petrie to place a veteran coach on the bench as an assistant and Reggie has to take it or leave it. Whether it is Whiz or not, who knows. What about Pete C.? Too old? Firing Reggie outright would be satisfying short term, but long term there is not a viable answer at this moment.