…I’m just trying to be Kenny Natt," he said. “And my way of doing it is asking you to do a certain thing, and if you don’t do it, then I’m going to be me. I’ll bring another guy in.”

Tell ‘em what you expect of them, and if they don’t do it, hold them accountable. I like it!

I also liked this:

Swingman John Salmons has championed Brown’s raw talent since training camp and said he has the potential to be among the league’s best defensive point guards.

needs more minutes. He’s defense is great, and the team need this.

I think there is a very, very good chance we will draft a top point guard. When that happens, I definitely want to be able to trade Beno and keep Brown. If, somehow we don’t draft a PG, I would have no problem at all with having BB earn the starting spot.

I was very supportive in signing Beno back last year though I did think the price tag was a little high and 5 years was a little too much. With that said I wasn’t complaining too much about him staying because we needed a point guard and I loved what he did for us last year. I still want to give him more time to see what he can do once we are finally healthy (especially Kevin) and judge then. As I’ve said many times, him (or any other player really) being with the Kings this year doesn’t really matter because we are not going anywhere but to the lottery so what’s the big deal with him running the point and seeing if we can do better or showing he truly doesn’t fit?

For a bit I thought that he could be part of the future and in a way I still think he is (unless we are able to trade him). The more I think about it is more likely that we draft a PG this year (09’ now) for the future. Beno is going to have 4 more years in his contract after this year. Let’s say we draft a point guard like Rubio, or Jennings, or really whoever. I don’t think this point guard will be ready to run the team in his first year because of either not enough experience or getting use to the NBA or the move from overseas or any other reason, so Beno acts as a serviciable PG for another year. Year 3 of Beno’s contract is when this draftee PG is almost ready to take the reigns. Even then, a second year point guard may still be unable to make right decisions all the time so instead of him starting we could just have a PG by committee with him and Beno running the show. Year 4 and 5 of Beno’s contract is when he moves to the backup role and some teams may be willing to trade for him because of only 2 more years left on the contract of a player that isn’t really grossly overpaid. Now I know that this situation has a lot of what ifs, and is not necessarily gonna play out that way. I’m just looking at it from a positive view.

One more thing I haven’t talked about though: enter Bobby Brown. The guy looks like a good backup right now and we’ll see how much he improves until the end of the year and next year (if he doesn’t opt out and go somewhere else). I like what he brings to the table with his defense and 3 point shooting but I’m still not convinced of how much he can help. Depending on what happens with this team and the PG situation he could possibly be a nice add in to a trade that could net us a good player or draft picks. I’m not advocating for him to be traded at all, I actually hope he sticks around. I’m just trying to look at how this situation would work considering Beno is harder to trade right now, but not necessarily that hard, down the road.

If only they could figure out a way to unload Baron Davis.

His career assist to turnover rate is 1.91. Last season for the Kings it was 1.91. So far this season it’s at 1.83.
His career assist average per 40 minutes is 5.56. Last season it was 5.42. So far this season it’s at 6.27.

These stats show that his passing skills are not getting worse. He is actually dishing out more assists per 40 minutes a game even though this season has been terrible. The turnovers are up a bit but that seems to be because he is not taking as many shots per game. He is shooting one shot less a game than last year. I don’t really think he is doing much worse this year than last but because we (me included) were hoping he would be improving, it seems like he is doing worse than he is.

is that he is not really improving, and the Kings signed him for what he would become, not what he had been.

Part of this is the chicken and the egg thing – is Beno lagging because of the talent around him or is the talent around him lacking because of Beno? Perhaps it’s a little of both. Regardless, the Kings cannot deal with the current level of “productivity” from their starting PG for the next five years.