To Ailene, he must be the bizarro Peja.

Incorriglble is more like it. :P

Like his teammates trust him either. During warm ups on Friday nobody talked to him, he had to go out of his way to high five players, they never went to him. And I remember a few times where Donte in-bounded the ball looked Udrih in the eyes, no defender in proximity, and threw the ball to Cisco. If there’s a person in that locker room who seems whiny, willing to deflect any critical barbs to a player out of rotation, and unable to mesh with the others—-right now that’s gotta be Beno.

I hope that changes/gets better, but more than likely we’ve just purchased our own five year Kenny Thomas. We signed a player in the off season for a hefty contract without an other team competing against us for the player. His only attribute is that he’s a point guard and every team always needs more point guards.

Beno is not a distributor. His best offensive skill is getting into the lane and making shots, but it hurts the Kings hugely because his head-down approach doesn’t lead to easy buckets for other players.
That’s a problem, since Shawes and JT don’t have the ballhandling ability to create good shots for themselves and KMart is so much more effective when he isn’t forced to play one on one (which – along with his injury – is why he’s relied so heavily on drawing perimiter fouls this year).

Off the bench, however, he could be the ballhandler with a scoring spark that so many teams covet (Leandro Barbosa, Booby Gibson, Bobby J in his prime, etc.). He will continue to be overpaid, but that’s just something we’re going to have to live with (for a long, long time). And if we can nab a quality PG at rookie-scale cost, we could have 48 minutes of good to great PG play without wasting a disproportionate amount of cap space.

Let alone something to justify your mind reading?

Just curious, that may sound harsh, but I sure haven’t seen anything, not a word.

The team would have been millions and millions over the luxury tax this year.

but he’s right about our young Bigs (or anyone) not getting in the deep post for easy shots/easy assists.

Maybe they’ll learn.

the guy’s not perfect. The hope was the Beno couldn’t handle Pop’s heavy handed style, but would thrive in Sac. Clearly, that’s not the case.

Does anyone know what Natt’s offense consists of?

but I’m also willing to defend a player when he isn’t used properly. Beno has always been a pick & roll PG.

who’s fault is it when we don’t use his strong suits?

I concur

The PG runs the offense, you have to design PLAYS that maximize his skills and actually run them from time to time.

Plays . . . . . that would be nice!

The team is worse this year, and a lot of the broken plays get blamed on the guy who’s supposed to be running the offense.

But take a look at who the floor general’s soldiers have been this year.

Brad Miller, suspended for the first 5.
Kevin Martin, injured for a good stretch.
John Salmons, can’t create without the ball (no assists for Beno here!)
Spencer Hawes, Jason Thompson, Donté Greene, talented but raw.
Quincy Douby, um….yeah, enough said.
Francisco Garcia, Bobby Jackson, Bobby Brown, usually the primary ball handlers when in the game.
Mikki Moore, Mr. Butterclaws.
Andres Nocioni, Will Solomon, Calvin Booth, Ike Diogu, all new to the team.

I’m probably missing someone, but you get the idea. Who’s Beno supposed to pass to in order to rack up obscene assist totals? When he passes to JT who starts to move before he has the ball, resulting in a turnover, it’s charged to Beno. And if you’re looking at his point totals, the biggest criticism when he first came over was that he’s a shoot-first point guard, and nobody wanted that.

There’s been no consistency in the lineups, there’s no offensive system in place, and there’s been absolutely, positively no coaching stability since Adelman’s second-to-last year.

But Beno’s an easy scapegoat. I’ll admit it makes me crazy when he drives the lane without a clue what he’s going to do when he gets in there, but there’s only a couple of those a game. He’s not a bad point guard. And his play is not the “fix this and we’re a contender again” problem.

But the coaching situation might be.