Kings Pitch the Nuggets Out of ARCO, Win 106-101

Ignorant much?

But I’ll have some rant-dumb thoughts later if the photo does not arrive today.

Meanwhile, let me be the first to post (unless someone already said it in the game threads)…Trade Tyreke!!!

now 7-3 when Brockman plays at least 12 minutes, 7-13 when he doesn’t.

Back home from Sactown, had a great night last night, very nice to meet a lot of you. My son also had a great time.

even if he is slightly overpriced. But I’m not OK dealing Martin for him, who is slightly underpriced. That said, this deal is closer to being fair for both sides than 95% of the deals that we see posted around here. I would not like this deal, but I would eventually come to accept it.

Donte and Casspi need to be on the floor, but Martin doesn’t? Don’t get caught up in the all the euphoria just yet. Donte can play the two or the three. He can guard the two or the three. But he is not Kevin Martin. And I don’t believe he or Casspi ever will be. For every great play Donte makes on defense, he makes a boneheaded play on offense. A backcourt of ‘Reke and Greene is great defensively, but Donte doesn’t stretch the D at all. Plus if we do trade Noc, and Greene is now a 2, who is your backup three?

Yes, we need a good defensive center. But the truth is that we will have a young, exciting team, minutes, and $15 mil give or take next year. We can get our final piece without losing our most effective scorer. Remember, K-Mart was avareaging 30 points a game without hogging the ball. Are Casspi or Greene ever going to give you that on a regular basis? I think not.

As Section points out you get an underpriced player and we get an overpaid player. Furthermore, we need KMart to be on the floor to be competitive. His scoring would have won us those games. Teams with one all-star or even star player don’t win championships. You have to have a couple of those types. Evans and KMart qualify as that level of talent and we need both to win a championship. Maybe not this year, but it is coming.

New Orleans will literally give him away if someone else will pay him, why would we trade Kevin for him.

I’m all for getting Okefor, but there is no urgency to get him now. New Orleans will want to geth rid of him for expirings for the foreseeable future.

Also, the assertion that the most likely scenario is Kevin will only play 60 games a year is absurd.

You should probably start having someone taste your food for you, and get a remote starter for your car.

Martin could play in every single game the rest of his career, and Donté could blow out his knee tomorrow. Casspi could get hit by a bus.

You’re trying to predict the future by looking at random events from the past, and it doesn’t work that way. If it did, given the Cavs and Laker games, you’d have to say that you don’t want Evans having the ball in his hands down the stretch.

Right now we’re relying on role players to get us past teams, or even keep us in games. It will make all the difference in the world to this team to be able to have Martin’s ever-so-reliable 20-30+ ppg night in and night out. Then when Donté, Casspi or Noce has a bad game (and name me a game other than last night when all three played well) we don’t have to count on them for the win.

This is a terrible idea that is proposed every single time the Kings win, which, being fairly regular around here, you should know.

The Kings have no intention of trading Martin right now. They’ve said it publicly. So speculation of this kind is at best premature, and at worst, incredibly stupid.

we should have beaten the Cavs and Lakers if we were playing 5 on 5 basketball instead of 1 on 5. Paul Westphal was on with Grant and Mike and he explained his position on that. He said that most teams will do that at the end of the game if the score is tied. The idea is that if you get into motion and passing, that gives the defense a better chance of stealing the ball resulting in a broken play. An isolation play gives the team on offense the last chance to score. That player would and should be Tyreke because he is the best 1 on 1 player we have. Who is defending him doesn’t matter, it gives him experience for the future.

If Tyreke gets his shot off and it banks off the rim against the Lakers I don’t think we are having this discussion. Westphal said that Tyreke just got into motion a little late and fumbled the ball. I can’t argue with his logic.

I have been really impressed by several of Donte’s drives to the basket, that seems like it can be an effective tool for him.

Most awkard moment of watching last night’s game while visiting my parents in East Sacramento? My 64 year old mom telling me why Donte is her favorite, only to have the broadcast show Donte sitting in front of his locker, texting while shirtless, and my mom utter under her breath, “Oh my, he is so handsome”.

he shot 48% from the floor, 37% from the 3pt line and 84% from the line while starting 41 games; his PER was 14.8 just shy of NBA average, all of this when he was 22 years old.

I’m not taking anything away from Omri and Donte, but the revisionist history with regard to Martin is ridiculous. It also leaves out his 3rd and 4th year, when he made the huge leap to a PER of over 20 both years.

Hell, half the rookies in the first round of the draft “might” be as good as K-Mart one day. But might doesn’t win games. Considering that only a handful of players are able to score as many points as K-Mart with as few shots, it is very, very unlikely Casspi or Donte will ever score as much or as effectively as K-Mart. That doesn’t make K-Mart better, it makes his unique—in a positive way. And speaking of premature, it is WAY too premature to say that Donte and Casspi are guaranteed starters on a playoff quality team. They are what they are, young up and comings with a great looking future. K-Mart has achieved that future.

Don’t know how many times I have to say this—K-Mart and Evans could be the best backcourt in the league. The best bar none. Think about that before you start trying to trade a guy who has only played five games with our all-star point guard. Trading K-Mart right now would be worse than stupid. It would be criminal.

Also, you don’t need to tab-indent your paragraphs.

I think Casspi has a lot of potential, and I see his ceiling as a slightly smaller Dirk Nowitzki. I’d be happy if Donté could be a 15 point, 5 board guy on a consistent basis. I think he needs to work on his rebounding. One reason he doesn’t grab many is that he plays on the perimeter on both sides of the ball.

There’s a lot here, the majority I think that were not sorry to see him go. He’s evolved into the ‘remember our crazy uncle?’ status. He did almost singlehandedly get us to the playoffs once.

although now that he’s not a King I love the guy. I think ignorant name calling is dumb. That whole situation was handled poorly by the media. When it happened the media went crazy about it. But when it was later revealed that the people he hired to take care of his dogs weren’t doing their jobs well and the main dog that was taken away for being malnourished actually had some sort of disease that caused him to lose weight. But all that was largely ignored.

That crazy bastard played full-bore every single minute he was in the game, times when we were down 20 with :30 left on the clock, and times where we were out of the playoff chase by a mile. The brawl was ancient history by the time he got here. I won’t root for him to get a ring with the Lakers, but I’ll root for him to do well.

Love it! Crazy Uncle Ron is like a Ritz cracker. It just makes everything a little better.

You are correct they did..I think it was a bit of an insult to garcia..

is similar to Joel Pryzbilla and Jermaine O’Neal at a similar age, and he’s the best post defender on the team, except maybe for K9, who is too short and tons more experienced.

Just for your username. Mark DeRosa…are you freaking kidding me?

I bet Tim Lincecum is just counting down the days until he can jump to a team that can put together even a league average offense.

As to the content of your post, I couldn’t agree more. It’s painful to see Spencer getting his shot blocked over and over. Whatever mojo Coach Westphal has brought to the squad this season, it hasn’t rubbed off on Spencer to this point.

and brings up a great question. Who is the young season’s MVP thus far? Tyreke (if he isn’t traded) is the obvious choice, but JT gets consideration, I have heard some applaud Beno.