Clippers 100, Kings 82: PFFFFFFT

Seriously, I have no idea how to make this team better.

However, I do believe that PW’s constant tinkering has not helped this team. I’m not for losing, but hey, if we chose a line-up, let’s stick to it for 5 games, 10 games, let’s see what happens. A consistent rotation where the starters and bench players know their roles night in night out, with consistent minutes, situations permitting.

If the standard of team play after those 5 games, 10 games hasn’t improved, then at least there’s a better idea of what’s working and what’s not. Adjustments can be made, but at least there will be a general idea of who performs best when in certain game situations.

This season I feel that PW has been (over) reactionary. Maybe he has been that way for a long time. A player makes 1 mistake, he yanks him from the floor. That may work for some people, but I don’t think it works for many.

Maybe if these young guys had time and opportunity to play every game, regardless of the mistakes, just trying to keep a consistent line-up out there on court, maybe, maybe, the players can concentrate on finding a little consistency themselves. And that’s all we are looking for.

not a rotational one.

As I see it there are three scenarios:

1. Westphal somehow changes the way he coaches, earns the players’ trust and the team gets better (I have no idea how that happens).
2. Westphal is fired. Consequences: A) We get a better coach and the team improves or B) the season is wasted with one more interim coach.
3. Westphal stays, nothing changes, we compete for the last position.

Scenario 1 is great but I think it’s the most improbable.
Scenario 2A is also good, but where do you find a good coach in the middle of the season?
Scenarios 2B and 3 are the ideal because we earn a 3rd consecutive top 5 pick and complete the Thunder model, which basically means that we are a contender next season.

that this isn’t correctable.

There is NO WAY this team can get back to anything close to .500 this year.

1-4 offensive set with Tyreke at the top. Teams have picked apart Tyreke’s game, his ankles/feet aren’t healthy and we’re SHOOTING the ball atrociously. THose 3 things are a recipe of disaster for us. We need to get a difference maker at the PG position that will allow us to change up the offensive sets and spread the floor with some 3 pt. range. That’s my analysis and I’m sticking to it.

I can honestly say I have reached the low point of my tenure with this organization.

When were talking lottery picks 14 games into the season and already looking to next year, its a good indication that major changes need to take place. The lottery simply is not going to save this team.

As a long time supporter of Petrie, I think its time for a change. We simply do not have the right complementary pieces in place to ever even consider being a contender.

My biggest fear is that the teams continued lackluster performance spells almost certain doom for the teams longevity in Sacramento.

Patience is simply not an option!

There isn’t going to be any team chemistry when your best players pounds the play clock down to about 8 – 10 seconds and then goes 1 of 5 either missing the laying or turning the ball over. Evans was TERRIBLE last night. His decision making is atrocious, and he doesn’t make anybody on his team better. The other four players end up standing around watching. They cannot possibly like playing ball with him. I don’t care if he averaging 19 a game. (And he ought to as much as he has the ball.)

Sports are supposed to be fun. These guys are not having fun because they are not playing together and trusting each other. This is not a group that appears to like playing with one another.

Beno and Omri both need to be re-inserted in the starting line-up. Our offense is terrible, and it’s leading to too many easy buckets for the other team. With Head, you get another guard who pounds the basketball and can’t help make plays for other people. He might hit a lucky three or get to the basket once in a while but he is a terribly ineffective PG.

We need help on both sides of the ball, but the offense has to pick up. And this starting line-up and Evans playground mentality is going to make that very, very difficult. Look for changes soon.

wounded my inner child.

Cousins sucks on defense but the man is a beast in the low post, as usually he is either getting a good shot, getting fouled or setting up other teammates. Why are we setting him up in the high post so much? Cousins low post game needs to be a staple part of the offense once he comes into the game since he’s so foul prone. Look at the Clippers (yikes! I’m comparing ourselves to the Clippers for good strategy!), they feed Griffin in the post all night long and it simplified the offense. Cousins isn’t on Griffin’s level, but in the post he can do the same things.

I dont envy Wesphal either. He needs to try radical stuff … It cant get any worse.

How about: Beno, Head (or Garcia), move Reke to 3, and Landry and Bert (Or Thompson)?

We’re not getting crap at the 3 anyway. Might as well try something new. At least then we have 3 decent defenders and a shooter in Beno on the floor to start games.

All last year, people cried about Reke being a solid point, but I hope they see now just how that isnt true. He pounds the ball too much, is still in love with a jumper that still sucks, and makes the other players stand around too much with his domination of the ball. While he may have the skills, he is def. NaPG now … all those people last year were wrong, plain and simple. He’s like Salmons without a jumper but with better handles.

If his jumper had come along more in the offseason … who knows. But he still has a tendency to fall away on his shot. And that’s just a crap form habit from high school.

If they are ever going to succeed, its going to come from togetherness and team effort. which means, lots and lots ov ball movement. This team dont even know the ABC of ball movement. They are CLUELESS when it comes to team play, they love to play 1on1 and throw up some bad, ugly, hard to describe shots.
  IF westPHAL cant get this unit to play as a team, HE SHOULD BE FIRED>