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My Grade ... "P"

  I can envision the title of Jerry Reynold's next book chronicling this mini era of Kings hoops, "From Musselwoman to Theus," cautionary tales of charlatans at the helm. 

  My grade for Theus, aka "The Theusocracy," is a well-earned "P," for 'phony.' 

  Until the inevitable conclusion of a season sans playoffs, Reggie consistently and arbitrarily chose expediency over development, wins now that mortgaged a potentially more viable future.

  Granted, Reg navigated, er, manipulated a course that meandered through injuries, a seven-game league-induced suspension, and a big trade to deliver 38 victories .... but at what cost I ask. 

  This team won because of talent, not as a result of some magical "kavorka" infused by the Theusocracy.  Dangerously, he chose age over beauty, NBA tenure over tenacity.

  His goal was simply to surpass Musselwoman's tally last year, a gameplan void of prescient foresight and any semblace of an understanding of the future.

  Cases in point:  the guy shat on Douby's confidence all season and when the kid finally garnered 30+ minutes, he notched 32 points vs. an LA team needing a win to earn home court advantage.

 We beat New Orleans on the 14th, but at what price?  Hawes was blossoming to end the season, yet sat the final 11 1/2 minutes of that contest. Why not leave the kid out there and gain invaluable experience in a tight game? 

 The laundry list of such offenses can't be cited in one blog. And I just ate lunch, and choose not to rent my food so I'll end here.

 The guy artificially raised expectations for next season, a season where we'll need a skipper that has the skills to adroitly nurture young talent (we have three draft picks), not a hedonist that continually mocks the notion of delayed gratification.

 

 

    

(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)

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First off it's an excellent diary and I agree with almost all of it

The exception is the Bibby trade. That was a welcome for almost everyone on the site, especially me, as I had been stumping for such a thing almost a year to the day by the time Bibby got traded.

I do think though, that much of the blame equally lies on Geoff Petrie for not dealing Artest to the Nuggets doesn’t it? I mean some of what you say is a symptom of the organization not giving clear signals to pretty much anyone on what the direction is. Maybe Geoff Petrie has a plan, and maybe he doesn’t, but what plan that is is certainly an in-house secret at this point.

I don’t heavily dis-agree with anything but the Bibby trade being anything but welcome, but that being said some of this is the symptom’s of the whole organization. Does Reggie deserve blame? Absolutely, he does. It would be hard to deny that at this point. The question is what percentage and what percentage is reasonable.

We could build ping-pong ball shrines and make sacrifices at them, like broken ping-pong paddles, or burning Peaches in effigy--LPA

by pookeyguru on Apr 22, 2008 1:47 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

The non-trading of Artest

So in the almost final analysis Petrie determined that a player like Brandon Rush or Chris Douglas-Roberts (or maybe even Robin Lopez) was not fair value for Artest, as that appears to be what Denver’s #20 pick might fetch. Since I am currently a believer in addition by subtraction, I would have favored such a deal.

So the question is will Ron become the type of player/teammate/employee that everyone knows that he can/can’t become, or can the KIngs get more than Denver’s #20 pick come draft day or through a sign and trade?

One thing is for sure – I never envisioned a scenario where he might actually still be with the team next year. Of course, I also laughed when Reggie Theus’ name was initally mentioned as a head coach candidate, I scoffed at the notion of C-Webb signing with the Warriors, and I was positive that the Gasol deal was a hoax. In the immortal words of Sgt. Schultz, “I know nothing!”

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by section214 on Apr 22, 2008 8:11 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Ummm Addition by Subtraction not-withstanding

How does 2 expiring contracts PLUS a draft pick hurt the Kings at this point? Garcia is 26. Martin is 25. Udrih is 25. Salmons is 28. Miller is too old to count. Thomas isn’t worth counting. Moore is 31 and is worth maybe more than when he was 21. Maybe. You get my point? I blame Petrie for this entire debacle, and mostly because of his don quixote butthead statement saying this:

Petrie on the fact that he didn’t do any deals: “There wasn’t anything to consider doing. (The fans) don’t want to see anybody do something that doesn’t make any sense. Right?

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Apr 22, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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