Kings Crumble Again, Fall 84-79 to Shorthanded Bucks

This is coming from an outside perspective as I’m not a Kings fan really, so I realize my opinion may ring a little hollow here, but I have been reading y’all all season and when I get a chance I try to catch your games and y’all do seem to be in a real mess and it’s sad. And, I don’t think Tom was the least bit whiny with the last sentence there, I thought it was spot on and came from a fan who just wants better for the NBA team that he loves and follows.

Even though I’m not a Kings franchise fan it’s sad for me because I wanted Cousins to succeed after he left us (I’m a UK fan) and for whatever reason that is not the case at present. He is certainly not thriving in your environment and that’s a shame. I didn’t really expect y’all to challenge for a championship this year, but I can honestly say that at this point I didn’t expect you all to be 5-22. Oye. It’s got to be frustrating for a kid who has never lost like that in his life and I’m quite certain it’s frustrating for all you good fans of Sacramento, as well. Hell, it’s frustrating for me, and y’all aren’t even my NBA team.

Change would be good. I find it almost impossible to think that it could hurt and it’s probably a lot more feasible to make a coaching change than try to trade players at this point, right? So, again, I know you weren’t really talking to me, a non-Kings fan, with your question about…

does anyone here really believe that Westphal is able to right the ship? ….

But, to that, if I may, I will just say “no”. From an outsiders perspective I don’t think so.

Best of luck to y’all for the remainder of the season and I do hope more for DeMarcus’s sake than anything else, but also partly for you fans that something good can come out of this season. I’m planning on attending a Kings game in April and it would be really swell if some of these issues that seem so silly could be resolved by then.

Thanks for letting me say my 2 cents, and Merry Christmas.

Spot on, actually. I think NEK was mocking those on the board who think we should stay the course and not have a coaching change, because it is an unknown as to who would be the replacement.

I feel differently. Our execution is getting worse and worse. We lost to an average team that was missing four of their top eight players. Our players looks confused, the rotations from starter to dnp are well documented, we have had some epic collapses, and I think if there is no change it is going to get worse, with a lot of discord and flare ups both between players and PW, and the players themselves. The argument of “who else is out there” holds no water any longer, our guys don’t look motivated, they dont play well as a team, and the youngsters only lessons are on how to lose multiple ways. Any new Coach should come in, firm up the rotations, put Reke and DMC on shorter leashes to actually have some teaching moments, and work on execution, wins and losses be damned.

I get what you are saying about “no untouchables” but … it’s not necessarily “everybody panic!” but … I dunno I suck at explaining it.

There is no such thing as an untouchable player on a 5-22 team. However, there is selling low, which is what I believe we would be doing with at least Evans and Cousins. I would certainly listen to any/all offers, but I wouldn’t fire sale these guys – at the end of the day, they are relatively inexpensive players with a ton of potential. If someone wants to come along and buy that, I’d listen. If someone wants to come along and just take them off our hands, I’d pass.

but like Holmdel, I think the Maloof’s are gamblers, and as our situation worsens, I worry that they are going to roll the dice on something crazy.

but our team looks foolish out there right now, inventing new ways to lose, we have discipline issues, we have team work issues, we have poor offensive cohesion and poor defensive team work, and that is with this coaching staff having 107 games with Tyreke, Donte, Omri, Beno, JT, sixty plus games with Landry, Cisco and Dalambert being fairly seasoned pro’s. We are playing our worst now, with multiple personality issues and power struggles in the last year. While improvement is not linear, I also think comparing other teams coaching changes has almost zero to do with our situation.