The View From Section 214, 10/23 - Fact Or Fiction?

Other than that nice review!

A couple of points…

Without hating on cisco, who I love as a player, his injury could end up being a good thing for us in the short term, because it means we get to see more Omri.

Seems like JT is ready to rumble this year. let’s hope he keeps putting up the numbers!

Sergio will get plenty of backup minutes at the 1 when Beno gets a hangnail.

Bring on the Thunder! can’t wait to see how the season pans out!

14 pts, 409 shooting, 3-7 from three, 3 rebs, 1 assist

Fiction: Ziller is a prisoner in Section’s basement, so Section could get more front page time.

Hurry up and get here Thursday(Wednesday for you homers).

Totally unheard of.

But we all need to take a deep breadth and realize this dude should be a college senior. If he were to be drafted as a rookie next year, with 4 years of college seasoning, we would all be WOWed by his amazing game. Makes sense for JT to be utterly destroying him at this point.

was how much we missed having someone who can shoot and score, like K-Mart and Cisco. Our team as a whole is behaving a whole lot tougher on the defensive end, but our offense is suffering greatly from not having our two leading scorers from last year. I think we would have won this game with K-Mart, and I think a large part of our success this year will revolve around his health.

I remember another super athletic forward that a coach tried to put at the 2 and it ended up failing miserably. I also remember how that got Scotty Brooks his job. And I even remember how that player is about 100 times better than Donte Greene.

Anybody else think this is a terrible idea?

via Sam Amick. The Kings have at least had a conversation with the agent for Jake Voskuhl, and Hawes is coming off thebench not because he has been demoted, but because there is no big man on the roster after Hawes and JT.

I have not been a fan of signing an oversized piece of meat and filling the 15th and final roster spot, but if it gets Spencer and JT playing together again (and this is when Hawes has played his best ball), then I am for it.

Just to add some thoughts from the game…

*We really needed someone who could score. That second quarter was nearly unbearable. With 3 minutes remaining in the quarter, I turned to my friend and said “I’ll be happy if they score 15 points.” Never thought I’d say that.

*Desmond Mason: That was painful to watch on the offensive end. This might not be an apt analogy, but he reminded me of Donte Greene. You know, lots of athleticism, not a lot of shot. The good part is, Mason knows his shot stinks.

*Sean May: His box score looks good. His game tonight, did not. He got some points on 2 putbacks in the second half, which were nice, but he took about 4-5 shots out on the perimeter that were ghastly to watch. I am not looking forward to an entire season of me cussing every time he takes that long range two.

*Spencer Hawes: Ouch. He couldn’t buy a point.

*Omri Casspi: This guy should be our 6th man if he isn’t a starter. He played hard, and has a great shot.

*Tyreke Evans: He had some great moves last night. Seriously, like a ballerina on the court. A BALLERina? Anyway, this guy is for real, he was doubled every time he drove the lane.

*Beno Udrih: He was a black hole last night, driving into traffic, taking bad shots, running around getting in the way. He has the same damn haircut as Nocioni, so from my nosebleed seats, I had to pause to figure out who it was before cursing.

They both have ‘No’ in their name, which does not bode well for them…

The hustle in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th quarters was heartening. The King’s didn’t allow anything easy, and had no qualms about hard fouls rather than giving up shots. Casspi, Thompson, and Brockman were the leaders of this movement, and it was nice to see.

I haven’t been able to watch any of the preseason games so I haven’t seen Hawes’ body language on the court, but if I were him I wouldn’t be thrilled about the organization’s planning. We signed May to be the backup PF and now he is starting at C? Why did we sign Desmond Mason instead of a real backup center? If I’m Hawes, I’m thinking “wait, so you are telling me that after being a focal point of the offense down the stretch last year, I’m coming off the bench because the backup big you signed is too short to guard centers?”. That’s just poor decision-making, as is the decision to start Mason. We won 17 games last year, folks. We have nowhere to go but up, and bringing our promising young big off the bench behind an undersized FA castoff (who has played well, admittedly) isn’t the way forward.

Last year, GP laid an egg. This year, that shell is being broken and starting to emerge is this year’s young chick (is a baby rooster a roost? or do you call a baby cock a =insert fellow blog poster whom you wish to demean here=?). I digress , which is to say I am following Section’s posting style – it is to add something irreverant and funny, and only one of us is successful in doing so – not me).

This emerging form – I see a mostly defensive oriented team, they have thus far outrebounded and outfouled opponents. They are scrappy and need some time and experience to find their chops. It is a different look that we fans need to adjust to.

About last night’s game: Kevin Martin is a 25 ppg that was not on the floor last night. Add Cisco’s 12.7 to the deficit column and the offense has a good deal of making up to do, Keep it in mind.

Lastly,

These are not your grandfather’s Kings.

Maybe it will motivate him.

If that happens then that means Shock is the starting 5 and May is the 4.

I swear I have had this argument before about Spence coming off the bench and JT starting at center. Thompson is playing more like a center than Spencer. For now. Spencer needs to have the challenge to motiviate him.

Also, I guess if Voshkul is in shape that’s not a bad move. Where has he been playing the last couple years?

Also, I would like to see a lineup of Evans, Casspi at the off guard, Noc, Brock, and JT play a lot more together.

if he signed to fill in only for injuries or foul trouble by both JT and Hawes then I’m guess I’m ok with him.. Could we trade him for Fesenko?

whatever happened to 3-wil? Is he filming adult movies for a living? We could pay him next to nothing to rebound the basketball a few minutes a game

for instance, Garret Siler is a big big man, 7 foot almost 300 pounds, can score, and has an ability to rebound with good coaching. He played for Minny in the summer league and averaged 8 and 7, but they thought they were good on size up front and he is definitely a raw player. Atlanta used him during the preseason but he didn’t get much burn since they have Horford, Zaza, and some other back up big already.

I think a player with good hands and great size like Siler, someone who can score inside and give us a few fouls in 5 or 6 minutes against big teams while he gets a chance to prove himself in practice is something we really need. There are not a lot of players that size with potential to score.

There isn’t a lot written about him, but I found this blurb on CBSsprorts: “Garret Siler 7 ft 291 lbs. Averaged 15 points and 12 rebounds at Portsmouth Invitation. Great Hands and long arms. Had 76 blocks his senior year. Shot 79 at Division II Augusta State his Senior Year. year.”

I think that means he shot 79%, which is what this team needs from a situational big man.

so Imma go ahead and spit one out there to have it on record

Plain and simple: Spencer Hawes will be just fine. I’ll worry when he averages 5pts 3 boards by the All Star break

We are almost guaranteed that Hawes or JT will miss some games this year for one reason or another. That not counting games where one or both may get into foul trouble.
Its just not enough.