Revisiting an Old (Failed) Idea

I’m all for it. Will give us a tall line up too, maybe creating some mismatches for us on both ends.

The only thing is we need Miller out of the starting lineup too. I would be very happy if Natt decided to start Spence and have Miller come off the bench until we trade him. Get Spence used to the idea of starting. Tonight would be especially good experience playing against Shaq.

when there was some debate about his extension that I thought Cisco had showed a huge upswing in his ball handling in the last 15-20games last year, many fewer mistakes/bonehead ‘bad Cisco’ plays, and I agree that he’s improved even more now that we see him healthy.
He’s still an offensive minded player who’s going to force some things, its his nature to be aggressive – but on an even marginally winning team the bad Cisco moments would be quickly forgiven/forgotten.
Backing up a quality PG, with perhaps a third coming in to deliver pure speed, that sounds like a recipe that could work to me. He still needs to work on passing the ball ahead out of the backcourt (the whole team does), when they do that they become very dangerous offensively.
Anyway, like a lot of Kings fans, Cisco is a favorite for me.

Garcia was destroyed by Westbrook. Absolutely murdered and destroyed. The only thing that Garcia did that worked defensively was fouling out.

And you did it with a stathead analysis few of us could ever contemplate.

but only if the Kings can trade Udrih. Otherwise we’re just killing Beno’s value without gaining a long-term solution or getting rid of his heavy contract. The Bobby’s aren’t a problem, since one plays for peanuts and the other has only a few months left as an NBA player. Obviously the best solution would be to draft an immediately great PG, so that we don’t care that Beno’s languishing on the bench, but we can’t exactly assume that wish will come true.

Say we can’t get rid of Beno before the deadline, but we want to get Frank 15 minutes per game at PG (and 10 at SG, 5 at SF). Regardless of who starts, Beno will have to give up a significant portion of his PG minutes to achieve this. Now Beno is playing 20-22 minutes per game, and his production has dropped proportionately (or worse, considering the ding to his confidence/morale). Suddenly the guy that we worked so hard to bring back last offseason has become a $32M backup (or third-stringer if we draft the PG of The Future in June) on one of the worst teams in the league. Now he’s become virtually impossible to trade until he becomes an expiring contract in 2012 and the Kings are suffer another four years in Salary Cap Hell.

From a basketball standpoint, I like pretty much any move that keeps Beno off the court, but I’m also very wary of diminishing his trade value for the above reasons.

With this season, why not try it?

But would anybody else be interested to see Beno play off the ball ala Bobby J when Martin is out? You could even pair him with Cisco as the PG on offense, then switch them on defense.

Maybe?

Once I saw Thompson playing well and Beno and Miller sputtering, the Kings starting lineup should be:
PG-Garcia
SG-Martin
SF-Salmons
PF-Thompson
C-Hawes

This is the future of the Kings and why not start it up right now? I like it. Thanks for putting into perspective TZ.

I said this (Garcia at PG)before he came back & was Laughed at! One person said if I changed Green for Salmons MAYBE! INCREDIBLE & no I won`t look it up,all u know it alls do it!
This really reminds me of all the trade ideas you(really me!) come up with.
Look that up too LIKE Salmons to Portland! I 1st suggested that & was Laughed at,but all of a sudden let`s talk about Portland trade`s & NY & CHI & MIA.
TOO FUNNY!

Depending on which of the recent trade rumors actual happen, this could be the worst option. Certainly if any ot the Portland trades for Salmons where we get a guard in return happens then trading Beno isn’t a problem anyways. If the Miller to Miami for Marion happens but Salmons doesn’t get moved, we’ll have too many SF and then this is a great option. If no one else gets moved, moving Beno doesn’t matter much.

Who’s coming off the bench at SF & SG will be the biggest question? I know you said we’d probably lose about as many games but without bench scoring it could be alot worse. Depending on who’s left, a reserve rotation of Greene & Douby or BJax at SF & SG repectively, isn’t going to produce much.

If Salmons became PG, he would be a better hall handler and passer than Garcia. Garcia can just move to SF in the starting line up.