That will just make him play worse.

JT started at the small forward last game and he has played minutes there all but one game this week. I have a hard time seeing Casspi out of the rotation but I am sensing a tight 8-9 man rotation for a week or so to try and get this team to gel. I know that Cousins, Garcia and Udrih will get minutes but after that, it’s a crap shoot.

what did Donte do to get banished to the end of the bench? Are you really going to give Westphal the benefit of the doubt at this point?

Donte has played 55 total minutes in 10 games, with 6 DNP-CDs, and scored 18 total points. And now he is our starting SF for the foreseeable future? Awesome, when do call up D-Leaguer and make him our new 6th man once he hops off the bus from Reno?

Is it maybe not more sensical to see if Donte can follow up last games effort with another strong performance before thrusting him into starting role? OK fine upon retrospect I will go along with the idea that when you lose 6 games in a row in pathetic manner more dramatic maneuvering should be considered.

But what kind of message does it send to players, particularly Omri and Cisco, that a guy can do next to nothing in preseason and 10 games in, and is proclaimed as starter for foreseeable future?

What I can envision happening here is a loss of respect for head coach if these random and impulsive decisions persist. Losing respect for the head coach is first step to imploding as a team, playing selfish basketball, becoming fractured and divisive, and for this moment the Kings look headed in that direction.

This isn’t really a response to ASN, but I agree JT deserves to be benched, before PW names him our new starting SG.

Also liked the fact the Donte became more humble and hungry as a result of the benching. Let’s hope things will work well moving forward.

and according to himself on the radio, lazy watching tape, wasn’t watching other NBA games on his off time -
But I’m sure all that was transformed by a few weeks on the bench.
(sigh)

because I (and I think plenty of others) did not criticize PW for throwing Greene to the end of the bench, but for the manner in which he did it and how he seemed to send conflicting messages. And the fact that at least partly because of the fact that Greene was not getting minutes, we got to witness JT at the 3.

But at least now Greene knows his place

Chest Bump???