Maloof: Tyreke Evans Will Start From Day 1

But I wonder if this will help his trade value? Backup point guards that play decently are regularly looked at by contenders who lose their primary PG to injury.

Of course, Beno is still going to have to play a lot better to even get into that conversation. Maybe taking the pressure of starting off his shoulders and adding a coach with a clue will help.

This doesn’t upset me too much. After three games of summer league, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say Tyreke Evans should be getting minutes in front of Beno Udrih and Sergio Rodriguez. I mean, we aren’t talking about him playing in front of Rajon Rondo or Chris Paul.

If we are going youth movement, let’s go youth movement.

so you’d rather start Beno? Tyreke’s the best option to start at the point, period. End of story.

we have our pg,sg,pf,center, & now we have our new kenny thomas (beno) woo-hoo! all we need is our sf & we are complete! i’m sorry but i dont care if its only summer league this is the right choice beno is garbage not based on skill but lack of desire we all know beno can play but the man has no heart he should be here in sac busting his ass letting it be known that he plans on keeping his job, dam at least he can send a freakin twitter or something

but I’m also pretty confident that Beno could average 20+ in summer league and probably turn the ball over a lot less.

IMO, it makes a lot more sense to make that decision after training camp when Tyreke has competed for the job with Beno.

I also do not find it at all surprising that a Maloof might be talking before thinking.

is that Tyreke is far and away the better player. There’s very little you can do to argue with that. There are plenty of people here who don’t feel that Evans is true PG and might be better playing the 2. However, no one can really argue that a backcourt of Evans and Martin is way better than Beno and Martin or Beno and Evans

I wasn’t sure about Beno, but I supported the idea of him. He let us down.

I wasn’t a big supporter of drafting Evans. But now I’m supporting the idea of him. As much I as like to think I know about basketball, I also like to believe that our experienced head coach knows more.

And as for your stock example, you don’t stop buying stocks just because one went down. We haven’t “sold” Beno yet. We just “bought” another PG stock. We hope that the new stock offsets the losses from the first purchase. But we still have Beno. And if he suddenly performs well, then we’ve got two good options and can “sell” high on one (probably Beno).

for maybe 3 YEARS 12 mil, maybe not 5 years 35 mil i think alot of people thought we should sign beno & they were right to think that i’m sure k9 is his day was worth a decent deal too but not the crazy cash they were handed

One of his stated goals is to win the RoY Award. You don’t make that comment unless you’re (1) an idiot or (2) prepared to put in some serious work. I think he’s prepared to put in some serious work.

Hopefully this announcement will light a fire under Beno, though.

I’m sure no one is disappointed with the decision itself; it’s just stupid to announce it this early.

We all know money talks and a starting Evans will sell more tickets than Tyreke coming off the bench. Whether or not its good for the Kings as a team won’t be decided until mid-season.

Start regardless? Really? How many coaches you think buy that philosophy?

Lot of “special” cool-aid being consumed on this thread.

with you about the level of interest on the medias part. I’ve noticed the lack of coverage in regard to Evans.

I like it though. I would prefer to keep him as far under the radar as we can, for as long as we can. Like Kevin Martin was. I think it helped Martin to have teams not focus on him in the beginning while he was still learning.

Don’t get me wrong though, this isn’t the same situation. Evans was the #4 pick and teams DO know what he can do. But I still think it helps a little…

0-4 Summer league record might have something to do with it also.

I read about him more than Harden – but that’s because he’s putting up better numbers. I think the sports media is giving him the attention he deserves.

I just hope Hawes and/or Thompson worked on their back-to-the-basket games this summer. We’re tall but I don’t see any balanced scoring at all. The bulk of our scoring will be coming from the back court, which worries me.

Turnover City.