Now they have Tyreke and Beno attacking the other team’s worst defenders, they’ve loaded up the floor with shooters

Isn’t Kevin Martin one of the most efficient shooters in this whole league? A career 39% shooter from 3 is not a good shooter to add to that ‘new strategy’ the Kings are using?

And then this

Sometimes in the past they worked so hard to find [Martin] that three other guys ended up sitting and watching

In the past? You mean last year when we had a horrible team where the only real offensive threat was Kevin who only played a third of the season. Kevin doesn’t demand or need that many touches, he HAD to because we had no one else.

Am I missing something here? Maybe I’m just really dumb and just don’t get it so could someone who’s smarter than me help me out with this?

And once again I wondered what kind of trade package the Kings would target if they felt the need to move Speed. I went to the ESPN trade machine and I really couldn’t find something that made a lot of sense.

Really, what positions would the Kings target? Center makes the most sense, but that would assume they want to keep Evans splitting time (or fully starting) at the 2. And which of the top centers would be available? I’m not saying that Martin won’t be traded, but I need some help visualizing a trade that would make sense.

“We hope that someone high up in the Sacramento organization, or one of the Maloofs, gets it into their head that the success the team has seen against a schedule of the league’s weaker teams means that the team is better without an all-star caliber shooting guard than they will be when he’s healthy again. So, we’d like to offer [lame overpaid player contract] for Martin, who is clearly a team cancer. And oh, boy! I sure love the trade machine HYUCK!”

Because the fact that Paul Westphal has managed to get productive efforts out of his current roster also means that he can’t get Martin to play above his head, too.

Some days you wake up, and quickly become convinced that everyone is stupid.

Kevin Martin will continue to have value regardless of how good the fit Tyreke & Speed is.

We have a solid starter and back up at the PG. We have plenty of guys who can play the three. We have a great PF and some okay back ups. We have a player who could be a top center for years to come, but is still learning. But if K-Mart is gone, we do not have another 2 who can shoot the lights out, drive to the hoop, and draw fouls like crazy. Evans’ jumpshot is getting better, but he will never be a guy you have to guard every second at the three like Speed is. Westphal has shone a great deal of success with mixing and matching line-ups. K-Mart and Evans may be the best backcourt in the NBA by the end of the year. Evans, Beno, K-Mart, Casspi, and JT could wreak havoc on the scoreboard. I think teams are hoping we will trade Martin, but I just don’t see other teams valuing him as high as we do. It’s crazy, but with a healthy Martin, this team could reach the playoffs. Now if we are talking about packaging some combination of Garcia, Noc, and K-9 for some front court help, I am all over that. But Speed, not unless the offer is amazing—which I don’t think it will be.

How does this scout not understand that with how well Kevin plays without the ball in his hands that a free flowing offense will be great for him? Last year they constantly looked for him because he was all they had. We didn’t have Tyreke and Beno was sucking it up. You can’t say that Kevin Martin won’t fit with two guys he hasn’t played with based on previous seasons when one of those two guys wasn’t here and the other wasn’t playing to his contract.

but if the reason is that we have too much talent to let rot on the bench

Its all good.

because he’s taking it as a given Beno needs lots of time. Apparently Beno is so good now, Martin is going to have to work to take time from him?

I just don’t see it. Beno is not better than Martin at anything except ballhandling. I just don’t see us playing the three of them together a lot. When Kevin and Cisco come back, if Tyreke is still having issues getting us in our offense, I could see starting Tyreke/Kevin/Cisco for the extra ballhandler, and that group wouldn’t be bad defensively.