Sometime in the near future...
by AnotherStupidSN on May 22, 2009 10:24 AM PDT
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PrintJoe Maloof walks into Geoff Petrie's office:
Joe: Hey Geoff, how are the workouts coming along?
GP: They're going well, Joe, there's really
Joe: That's great. Draft Rubio.
GP: I'm sorry?
Joe: Geoff, you know I won't tell you who to pick. You're the best in the business at what you do, and I trust you to do your job. But pick Rubio.
GP: <sigh> Well, Ricky looked good, but I'm eager to
Joe: We need him, Geoff. We're bleeding.
GP: Talent will fill the seats.
Joe: Talent will fill the seats? Don't be a child, Geoff. I don't want talent, I want a spanish sensation!
GP: Okay, settle down, let's just
Joe: I've got a fever and the only prescription is Ricky Rubio!
GP: <rubbing his temples> Alright Joe, if he drops to us at #4, we'll pick Rubio.
Joe: Don't talk to me about dropping, just go get him. I don't care, trade the skinny kid with the bad haircut, whatever.
GP: I'll have to take a good look at our options, there may be... are you sobbing?
Joe: <pulls out a handkerchief and takes a seat> Have you ever been to a Jonas Brothers concert, Geoff?
GP: What?
Joe: Of course you haven't. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't get a ticket. It's sold-out before you can get your wallet out. That's a sensation.
GP: What are you saying?
Joe: I'm saying Rubio. I'm saying merchandise. Do you know how many damn T-shirts we're going to sell? Yo deseo Rubio! That's one of my T-shirt ideas. Pass that along to the apparel team for me. <wipes his eyes and stands up> I gotta run. Good talk, Geoff.
GP: As always, Joe.
(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)
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Would you do it?
Thompson and the number 4 draft pick for Rubio?
"You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bulls ass, but wouldn't you rather take a butchers word for it?"
hell no
So imitate the action of the tiger!.
Lend the eye a terrible aspect
- and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on May 22, 2009 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions
No
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
They can pry my Jason Thompson from my cold dead hands
…so, no.
by AnotherStupidSN on May 22, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
What if
we picked up David Lee in the offseason- Still no?
"You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bulls ass, but wouldn't you rather take a butchers word for it?"
As bad as I want Rubio
I don’t think he’s a whole “Jason Thompson” better than whoever else we could get at #4.
by AnotherStupidSN on May 22, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Still no
The acquisition of Lee has nothing to do with the fact that you are giving away way too much to move up two slots to draft what is no more of a known NBA quantity than what you might grab at #4. You could probably get Amare (for example) for the #4 and JT. Is Rubio greater today than Amare?
Note – I’m not saying make the Amare deal, either.
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
There's one quantity that is known
If Rubio comes to Sacramento it’d be Ricky-freakin-Mania in this town during basketball season.
That’s nothing to sneeze at for a franchise on the ropes, and the difference in that regard between him and say Brandon Jennings is wiiiiide as the Atlantic Ocean.
Plus, he can do stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9YlC3KtDO0&feature=related
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqAoUHUNKrA&feature=related
"When the going gets Weird, the Weird turn professional."
(Hunter Thompson)
Nice, That 1st one was sweet.
but can he pass it with his elbow?
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on May 22, 2009 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Would it really surprise anybody if he could
i’d love to see him bust that out in the rookie/sophomore game
www.mancancook.net
Yes.
I don’t think it would take that much to move up two slots, and I’d rather deal Hawes than Thompson, but like I said before, Rubio is worth a lot more to a franchise like the Kings than simply his court skills. Sure, it would sting to lose one of our young bigs, but this franchise needs shock therapy more than it needs Shock and Hawes.
Those kids are talented but their ceiling will likely be somewhere around “Good-to-very-good player” not NBA All-Stars. And just as importantly, neither guy can’t keep this franchise afloat, make the turnstiles spin and rev up the fans until a new Arco gets built. Rubio could.
If we can come up with a 2nd tier Free Agent like Varajao, Paul Millsap, David Lee or Haslem we’d suffer little or no drop off up front. Diogu might be a lot better than people think as well.
We’re in very rough waters and we have a player two slots above us who’s agent says he’d like to play here and who would be the hottest thing to hit Sacramento since C-Webb. I say we should roll the dice.
"When the going gets Weird, the Weird turn professional."
(Hunter Thompson)
by Mucho Moss on May 22, 2009 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Except Joe is right on this one
Even the worst of track records gets at least one idea for right. (see Jerry Glanville for example).
Durrrr . . . . Are you serious?
You don’t think this conversation hasn’t already been had and is going to be had again?
Hey, Geoff . . . if you hadn’t noticed the team lost around $15-$20 million dollars last year and we had to lay a few people off because no one came to our games?
I believe you when you say a few of these kids might be really good players in 3 years. Just a little FYI, Gavin and don’t have $40 million sitting in the bank to lose. Maybe we ought to bite the bullet and get the guy who will put fans butts back in the seats? I dunno, we may have sell one of these other kids before they develop just to stay afloat.
My version was much more fun
I bet you give socks as Christmas presents.
(I’m just teasing you, not trying to start a fight)
by AnotherStupidSN on May 22, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm long-since married and moved away from home.
And yet I have never had to purchase socks. My mother gives them to me at every possible occasion. Christmas? Socks. Birthday? Socks. Various life achievements? Socks. Family get-together? Socks. I fully expect a matching pair of socks and booties whenever we have our firstborn.
This has nothing to do with this topic. I just thought I’d share.
A lonely Kings fan in a sea of gold and purple...
That sox
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on May 22, 2009 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Man
Santa lost his belly and got a gray beard. Wait a minute! Santa’s really a rabbi? I always knew Christmas was rigged! Damn Jews….
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
That's not Santa
It’s Dumbledore. He loves thick woolen socks!
The draft lottery has reinforced my belief that there are not enough bad words in the English language.
by LeaguePassAddict on May 24, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
LOL @ that reference
Thank god for Wikipedia.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Great stuff.
IF this was a real conversation, I think I and GP happen to agree.
Incidentally, I would part with Shock if I KNEW that I could have El Rey and David Lee.
Lower their expectations and rise to met them
No not yet
Honestly, I don’t know how good JT is going to be. I don’t know if our JT love is objectively based on his talent and potential or because he was really based on homer love because he was really the only bright spot for the Kings last season. I like everything about JT but if you could get Lee and Rubio I think it would improve the team a lot and in the end I’d do it.
"We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good." - Charles Barkley
JT was a revelation
because of the pitiul group we’ve had a PF the last few years.
I’m guessing he’s Varejoa (however spelled) a guy you’d want – but a star?
So imitate the action of the tiger!.
Lend the eye a terrible aspect
- and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on May 29, 2009 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
He has much more offensive ability than Varejao
That’s a really terrible comparison.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
But he probably doesn't have the level of defensive ability either
So, whatever.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Starting over
Its true that Rubio would provide a marketing sizzle that the Kings don’t have. But if he doesn’t turn into a flashy NBA all-star very quickly, that sizzle wil fade very quickly. We lost the lottery in a very, very thin draft. Unlike other drafts, the number 4 pick is not much better than the number 10, 12 or 16. There are three top tier players and then there are a bunch of players who would normally go between 12 to all the way into the 2nd round. The 4th pick is like having the 12th pick. We got screwed by the lottery.
Now to try to fight that fate we want to trade up to get a shot at Rubio. Understandable. And if it doesn’t take much to do that, I’m all for it. The 23rd pick, Donte, swap a bad KT contract for a slightly worse one, whatever. Also, the 4th pick would let OKC get Hardin if that is what they want. Hardin may well go early in this draft. (Shows you how thin it is when Hardin is projected at number 4 or 5)
The problem is other teams have more of a surplus of quality players to trade than we do. But if we trade one of the young bigs we are starting over at the PF or center position. Getting another journeyman in here is not what we need. All we have had since CWebb is a bunch of journeyman at that PF position. Do we really want to start that again?
if we can't get Rubio
The get HOLIDAY!!!
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