Why is he bothering to play then? This team could lose it’s next 25 games without him anyway. And lose by 40 half the time.

Amundson showed last night that the best type of 6’8"/6’9" reserve big to have is one that can jump and run the floor and is athletic. Williams is none of those things which hurts his defensive capabilities and his offensive skills. He is strong enough but too short to guard centers and tall enough but too unathletic and slow to guard power forwards. Amundson, like Scot Pollard was, can run the floor, block shots, rebound and knows how to set good picks and then roll with speed. Players like Leon Powe, Carl Landry, Craig Smith and Paul Millsap have proven that they are the wave of the future as far as undersized reserve big men go. Williams does not fit the profile at all which is why he is gone after this year.

When I can stop being depressed. LOL

He was in Reno during a stretch of many games in few nights, and he came back to take advantage of the practice time that came after.

I still think practicing/ meeting with the top club is better for Donté than playing garbage games in Reno.

I’d love to see more of him, I just don’t think it’s a good idea to hand a 19 year old who doesn’t play defense the keys to the car.

Doesn’t much matter who has the keys when the car’s already in a ditch. The Kings car is in a ditch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. On fire. And covered with water. At the same time.

Especially have spent the afternoon arguing it at 3QC. But I am convinced trading Martin is on the level of stupid that Portland displayed when they traded Jermaine O’Neal for Dale Davis.

Bonzi brought a level of physical toughness that I don’t see in this group. Artest was similar in that respect. (And that is just one of the reasons why his departure was so underestimated on this site. His on-court leadership was obviously another positive that was not noticed until it was gone.) You are right, though, throwing elbows doesn’t make you a tough guy. I should have put emphasis on his physical toughness generally.

I’m not certain that any mix of this roster is going to make much of a difference. Our best player is a 2nd or 3rd option on a good team. We are going to have to be patient because this current group is both too unskilled and/or too young to make much of an impact. Oh well…patience is a virtue, right? ;-)

If the Kings REALLY liked Hasheem Thabeet this draft, they could ask whoever the team was that was going to draft him that if they do, would they then trade Hasheem for Spencer Hawes and the player that the Kings draft (as directed by that team) with the Houston pick.

This just an example to illustrate what is possible. Not that it would happen exactly like this or for Thabeet. It could be Udrih, Brown and the pick for Teague and a scrub or Salmons and the pick for Al-Farouq Aminu. Again, all just random examples.

of course.

Or, if KP thought Jordan was going after Roy, had the Bulls take Roy with #2—though in that scenario, Charlotte taking LaMarcus at #3 is a no-brainer.

THAT move would have shown some balls. (I can’t say “balls” at BEdge, unless talking about the orange round things that go in the hoop, but I think I can say it here…)

Certainly, being a good GM does involve some luck—and some stupidity of the guy in front of you if you don’t have a hand full of aces.

Cuz he coached the Nuggets to a 17-65 season his first season coaching (02-03). But, he was a 500 coach after that. He coaches at Colorado now after a successful stint at Air Force.

The thing I like about Bzdelik is that he’s a Pat Riley disciple, and has coached bad teams before. (Which I don’t think will necessarily make him want to leave Colorado. He likes living there apparently.)

The biggest argument that I have for Silas is that he can help this team onto the right track. He doesn’t have to be the guy who gets this team to a championship, but he has to put this team back in the right direction. With Kenny Natt, I don’t see it. But, as long as this team currently has all the players it does have at the moment, then I fail to see how Paul Silas would make a difference either. Shades of purple I suppose….

Or I don’t think he did. I wasn’t responding to what you said either.

But having said that, Theus was not all at fault, nor does he deserved to be absolved completely of blame either. The honest Venn Diagram of Reggie’s time as Head Coach here will show that he did make real fundamentally unsound mistakes.

You might want to see who we were replying to. :)

It wasn’t all Reggie’s fault. Hell, it might not even be Natt’s. It might just be that our players are not very good and that they over-achieved mightily as a group last year.

I think they would take Griffin.