Rubio's Agent trying to get him to Sacramento
Looks like Rubio's agent is trying to get him to Sacramento. One can only hope and pray that he can get it done. If Rubio get's drafted by the KINGS we need to rename Arco .. Casa de Rubio
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Interesting...
…reading the comments in Spanish, it seems even the Spanish fans over there wouldn’t mind seeing Ricky here as well.
"It's as Ann as the nose on plain's face."
My favorite was...
The city of Tennessee is almost seen as a people and the template as a nest of suckers.
I got the gist of it from Google Translate. But this translated line made me laugh
Sacramento and Sacramento City team are now a lot while waiting for Ricky.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
Now I see!
The deepr meanin is clarified in the translation.
Seriously, this is the underappreciated value of Geoff Petrie. He is hugely respected in ways that most others are not.
Lower their expectations and rise to met them
Thanks to Divac, Peja and Hedo Kings have international appeal.
Thanks to these former Kings the rest of Europe knows about Sacramento. Rubio grew-up watching Kings games and he is more familiar with the Kings then Memphis or Oaklahoma. In Rubio’s eyes Sacramento has more appeal to him and his country men, then Memphis or Oaklahoma. In other words Sacramento has more international appeal…. This is great news!
Agreed there.
This would bring a new wave of international appeal.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
Rubio would be THE GUY in Sacramento too
OKC already has Durantula and Memphis is Memphis
by Brian5517209 on May 23, 2009 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
The GUY in Memphis has been dead for 31 years
everyone else is nobody.
Did you catch the item about Chris Wallace and Lionel Hollins saying they were going to head to Europe and see Ricky Rubio? They hadn’t seen him at all prior to this. They stated they think they can convince RR that he would be happy in Graceland. Amazing!
by betweentheeyes on May 23, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The article talks a lot about the downside of Sacramento being a tiny market. The commentators seem to care more about Rubio’s playing time and him getting the chance to be one of the first options on the team, which I agree is more important for his career than the population of whatever city he plays in. He’ll have a tougher time doing that in LA or Memphis than in Sacramento.
Obviously thats the main reason
The Kings need a better point guard and the Kings need a potential star player. Ricky Rubio makes too much sense. Also the fact Petrie has actually went out to Spain twice to see Rubio helps because they know Petrie is serious about Rubio and believe in him.
Get Rubio in Sactown. I want to see a lot of lob passes to Kevin, Spencer, Jason and Donte next year.
BOOK IT!
you think an 18 year old
could step in and play right away?
by Brian5517209 on May 23, 2009 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes
the Arco janitors could fill in for Beno
www.mancancook.net
by vfettke on May 23, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think Beno could actually be a good contributor off the bench,
either backing up Martin and playing alongside Rubio or being an offensive burst off the bench ala vintage Bob-J.
There now I've met the 75 word count. -pookeyguru
Yes the Arco janitors could fill in for Beno
Right!
I think Beno could actually be a good contributor off the bench
Wrong!
I agree at the moment
But I will be interested in seeing what a change in coaching may bring. Lionel Hollins made a world of change in/for Mike Conley. Mind you, I’m not holding my breath.
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
if he was to start from day one how productive do you think he would be?
by Brian5517209 on May 23, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
If I had to guess
his stat line would at least look like this:
11ppg, 4.7apg, 3rpg, 1.1spg
www.mancancook.net
If he's playing on the break
I’d say he’d top 6 assists a game easy. The most unbelievable part of that stat line is the 11 ppg. He’s not really a scorer which is a weakness of his game.
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.....
7 ppg, 6.5 apg, 3.3 rpg, 1.4 spg and 2.3 to's a game is my guess.
He’ll only be 19 and acclimating.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
I think
the TO’s would be higher … around 4.
Booyah!
by what_the_crap on May 23, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
That would make him worst in the league
League leader was Stephen Jackson with 3.9 to/g in 39.6 minutes, number 2 was Dwyane Wade with 3.4 to/g in 38.6 minutes. I wouldn’t expect a 19 year old rookie to average 38+ minutes a night and see no way he’d end up with that many TOs. Maybe around 3.
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 23, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Homework?
I would assume it’s Beno’s, and you were saying even at 19, Rubio should be able to at least match what we have now.
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 23, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
That's my joke
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.....
The stats only tell 1/2 the story
because there is no stat that tells you how often Beno got beaten off the dribble.
by jstnblke41 on May 23, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
lOL @ that
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.....
Good call vf
I totally missed it. My bad homey. I’ll flog myself with a wet noodle 100 times now.
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.....
LOL
Yeah, I’ll be sitting around waiting for that guy’s call bte. LOL
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.....
with kevin and spencer we dont really need another scorer
I’d be happy with him just setting up those guys.
by Travis Mays Hayes on May 25, 2009 1:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Preposterous
Sacramento is the 16th largest market in the U.S. Compared to OKC at 36th and Memphis at 48th, that’s considerably bigger. People that say Sacramento is a ‘small market’ are either ignorant or deceiving themselves and others.
Didn't read the whole thing but
why did they have to quote that douche that coaches [redacted] with his ill informed comments on our city.
I’m not getting any hopes up till they call RR’s name at the draft. We’ve alreday been burned once this summer.
With the fourth pick of the draft the kings select...
Could this get it done?
What if we did a three-way with OKC and Memphis. We give OKC our 31st pick this year to move down to fourth, we give Memphis the right to exchange second rounders next year to move down to third, and we pick second.
Memphis does it because the get the player they wanted anyway (Thabeet) at a lower salary— they save nearly half a million a year. As long as they can get him, it might not take much to convince them to trade.
OKC doesn’t need more first round picks (do they really want five rookies with guaranteed contracts?), but the 31st pick is a great way to pick someone with potential and stack them in Europe. If they are looking seriously at Harden, they might be willing to take this. If they really want Rubio (again, assuming Memphis is currently planning on taking Thabeet), it might be harder to convince them.
Sacramento does this to get Rubio at a relatively low cost (just the 31st pick plus a potentially lower 2nd rounder next year).
It looks to me like our chances at snagging Rubio in just about any scenario depend on how OKC values Rubio vs everyone else available. I’m not sure I see Memphis making a trade that costs them a shot at both Thabeet and Rubio, but as long as they come away with Thabeet, they’ll be happy.
Casa de Rubio serves great fish tacos.
There now I've met the 75 word count. -pookeyguru
Ha
Mexican vs Spanish.
"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?"
Casa de Rubio..... has a nice ring to it.
Seriously somebody needs to call his agent and let him know that if Rubio comes to Sac were renaming Arco Arena, Casa de Rubio .
Yes, let's name the arena we don't want anymore after Rubio
or we could petition Rubio’s, the “Mexican” fast food place, to pay for the naming rights of the new arena.
www.mancancook.net
Now we're naming the building after him?
Why don’t you all start a Rubio based religion while we’re at it?
I like Rubiontology
Which has the benefit of sounding both like a religion and a frightening surgical procedure.
Rubism
That would make the followers Rubists, or Rube’s for short.
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
I wanna be a "Rube"
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.....
Let's consult the holy book of basketball
When thou fastesth breaketh, thou shalt endeaver to lobist thy ball toward the rim, where JT, who is in thy good graces, shall stuffith it.
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 23, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Pookey you cannot be a "Rube"
not Goldberg enough (though I believe you occassionally exemplify the concept)
by betweentheeyes on May 25, 2009 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm almost convinced this story is true.
I knew once I saw this story came from Marca.
I follow English soccer quite a bit and especially Manchester United and every so often Marca comes out with a story about how United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has already agreed to sign for Spanish team Real Madrid and would be transferred at the next transfer period. They’ve been doing that since the beginning of summer 2008. Two transfer periods ago. Yet the stories are still coming out.
It seems this newspaper doesn’t have a problem spewing out lies and doesn’t have a problem being used as a vehicle for the process known as “tapping up”, the process of name dropping a player and saying that Real Madrid is interested in them for the purposes of piquing the player’s interest and trying to get him to force a move to Madrid through holdouts and threats.
In this case instead of Madrid doing the tapping up, it’s the Rubio camp. And instead of tapping up a player they’re tapping up a team, the Kings. Simple really. They release a story like this, the Kings say “OOH I like the idea of Rubio playing for us” and Memphis and OKC become resigned to losing him so they give up and don’t bother taking him in the draft.
You’ve all figured that part out already. The presence of this particular Spanish newspaper only solidifies that point even further.
Other newpapers have printed similiar stories.
Draftexpress printed a story that Rubio and his agent prefer LA or Sacramento over Memphis and Oaklahoma. I would tend to agree that the best fit for Rubio would be LA or Sacramento. He’ll sell way more shoes in LA or Sac. Lets face it California has a huge Mexican population that would jump on the Rubio bandwagon.
I don't know if the Mexican population would necessarily jump on the Rubio bandwagon
but a large Spanish-speaking population would certainly make Rubio feel a lot more comfortable.
I recognize that other sources like DraftExpress have printed similar stories, but coming from other sources it still leaves debate on whether or not this is true or just speculation. From what I’ve seen with Marca in the past, their presence is an absolute verification (to me at least, everyone else seems to have been convinced by the prior stories) that the Rubio camp is actively trying to engineer a move to Sacramento and is now using an all out media assault in order to do this.
Kinda new for us but this type of activity is common practice over in Europe. Marca is almost always involved when Spanish athletes are involved.
:)
Bé foréwarnéd: I am a mémbér of StR Groupthink méntality.
by CAB on May 23, 2009 3:37 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
CAB
That’s a total groupthink picture I’ll have you know. :)
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.....
I was totally thinking that while I was grabbing it
Perfect.
Bé foréwarnéd: I am a mémbér of StR Groupthink méntality.
Now you are your signature
Congrats Cab.
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.....
It's a good day
I’m really hoping this Rubio religion thing takes off. I am already a devout member. Now I just need more people to jump on to, you know, validate my opinion. If everybody is doing it then it can’t be wrong.
Bé foréwarnéd: I am a mémbér of StR Groupthink méntality.
LOL @ that
Keep telling yourself that CAB. I’m rooting for ya.
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.....
All this RR talk is crazy
Jennings is everything RR is and a whole lot more . Superior athlete ,good mechanics ,great court vision ,excellent passer ,nasty crossover ,loves to dish the ball….ah nevermind…you guys go ahead and keep talking about giving up our assets for the long lost Jonas brother
The only pro you listed that Jennings is currently better than Rubio is the Superior Athlete.
I like Rubio more. But if Petrie decided Jennings will be better, or anyone for that matter, I’ll trust him.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
I think not Aykis16
The only slight advantage Rubio has is court vision . Rubio has terrible shooting mechanics and Jennings crossover will be superior to most proven NBA PG’s . Not only is Jennings a pass first ,true PG ,he is also a scoring threat
then there is that whole thing about ACTUAL in game production
Jennings doesn’t have much of that, Rubio, boatloads.
by Travis Mays Hayes on May 25, 2009 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Jennings better than Rubio or Pat Mills for that Matter?
Do you even know what a basketball is? Jennings will be a scrub. A poor man’s Mike Conley.
The way I see it is the Kings don’t need Rubio to be a scoring threat per se. They need him to be like J-Will without all the stupid shots and off court troubles. Scoring can come later when the Kings have him quaterbacking the ball to Martin, Hawes, or Thompson. IMO
by KingsAs49erSharks on May 25, 2009 12:31 AM PDT reply actions
Agreed
Scoring is not what we need. We also have Beno off the bench and he’s a decent scorer. If anything, having Rubio running the show will up everyone else’s scoring, especially since he’s good at getting to the rim and penetrating defenses, hopefully leading to a lot of kickout 3’s for Speed and Cisco.
Father of the "Natt this!" movement.
J-Will without the stupid shots and off court troubles
would be Steve Nash
by betweentheeyes on May 25, 2009 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions
It sounds quite good to me to have
a 19 years old Steve Nash!
"Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." — Michael Jordan
Go Kings!
From what I’ve seen he reminds me of Manu Ginobili the way he plays. Sometimes anyway.
by KingsAs49erSharks on May 29, 2009 9:14 AM PDT reply actions
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