What did you expect?

I’m just rec’ing, smiling, and walking.

(I’m not alone!! I’m not alone!!!)

The issue is whether you expect change in the weather by patiently waiting for the inevitable arrival of Spring, or if you insist on spending money you don’t have to hop on a plane to someplace warm.

South Beach, maybe

Summed up exactly what I’ve been thinking lately. The Kings biggest problem was that I think too many of us(me included) got caught up thinking that Cousins was gonna be rookie Shaq circa 1992, Tyreke was gonna keep developing and be a Wade/Lebron hybrid and the team was going to win around 40 games and compete for an 8th seed.

I’d say what the Kings need now is TIME, a better offensive game plan that can create space for Tyreke and DMC. And flipping the pieces that really don’t fit into assets that can get us a shooter or a strong veteran leader.

You hit the nail on the head about Westphal and GP, both have done well considering the hand they were dealt this year. It’s hard to win in poker when you have the low hand on the table. Jerry West as the GM and Phil Jackson as the coach couldn’t have done much better with this team in this 2010-2011 season.

Mr. Andy Sims I really thought my brother and I were the only Kings/Bengals/Reds fans in the world. I was born and raised in Sacramento by a father from Cincinnati. How did you you suffer this same misfortune Lol? Just curious because outside of my family never met another NoCal/Cincinnati Sports Fan

Being from Ohio or related to Ohioans is the only way you can be infected with The Cincinnati Bengals virus. So that makes sense.

Oh and I actually expected Dalembert to be a Hatian Dikembe Mutumbo for us puling down 14 boards and swatting 5 shots a night. All the while singlehandedly rebuilding Earthquake ravaged Haiti on his days off

I’ve shared scraps of similar thoughts in various threads, but I’m really glad that you laid things out thoroughly and eloquently for those of us who reel from the sting of each loss, but maintain the patience to see our current suffering as an investment.

As to why we are sucking worse than probably any of us honestly expected, you really don’t have to go beyond the ‘Reke discussion, do you? Last year’s “20-5-5” became this year’s “16-5-5 with 38% shooting”. I think even the most conservative among us must have predicted ‘Reke to at least maintain last years numbers, and many expected modest gains in scoring and assists. I don’t think those expectations were at all unreasonable. But here we are with our best player taking a lot of shots and missing most of them, and our team losing many close games. How much of that has to do with the foot, and how much with Paul Westphal being the dumbest person in the history of dumb, we can’t say for sure. But if ‘Reke can even just get back to last year’s form, the rest of our games will be quite a bit different.

I wasn’t necessarily expecting solid basketball every night, but I expected it be be fun to watch.

Now, though, I’ve tempered my expectations and just have hope left. I hope we get at least ten more wins before the end of the season, and I hope the team can get it together and bring back the fun games. Ideally, I hope we can match last season’s record, or possibly surpass it, but realistically, I hope we learn how to play good basketball, and the winning can come next year.

I do expect a win tomorrow against the Clips, though. That one is a must-win if there ever was one.

I expected to see improvement and NOT regression. More wins and not fewer. I expected to see a team start to gel and it not take until December to see some kind of chemistry, there are glimpses. I expected to see more than just a few players developing. I expected to see the team coming together as a team and be fun to watch. I expected the Kings to be entertaining.

I expected more and it wasn’t unrealistic expectations. I didn’t buy into the hype or talk from Tyreke and Cousins about the playoffs, but I guess I had hoped that we could get close at least. I definitely didn’t expect what is happening now. There are definitely expectations that are not being met.

What I didn’t expect:
Changes in the rotation with huge experiments in the starting line up.
To be less than 25% ever
Losses that demonstrate a growing lack of heart.
More DUIs and especially not from a coach, ever, again.
To see another player get jerked around like Spencer did.
To ever hear fired and Petrie in the same sentence.

I guess I didn’t expect to have to lower my expectations so far that I would be happy to find crumbs along the way. But I am finding myself happy to find see the development of Cousins, JT actually able to finish at the rim, and all those little things. Because that is how this team is going to get better. Those little things are what needs to be done. Each and every player has to improve. That is how we will win games and be better.

that had all the talent on his team but couldn’t bring home the bacon?

I think like a lot of other folks, I expected a slight improvement on last season into the neighborhood of 30-35 wins.

I noted in a fanpost that teams who had experienced a similar record as our team last season had improved an average of 11 1/2 games. I took a look at what the best of those teams had done, and apparently we didn’t do as much in the offseason to merit our expectations.

In any case, our players have generally played worse and this is a sobering period.

I thought this team could sneak into the playoffs. Yeah I know it’s stupid that I thought this way at the beginning of the season, but I really thought they could possibly make it as an 8th seed.

I thought Reke, Omri, and Donte would continue to improve, DMC would come in and help right away, and Sammy would control the post and the Kings would win around 45 games. Boy do I feel stupid now.

Perhaps 30 wins. I was foolish for thinking this, but I bought into the HERE WE RISE hype. Oh well. I certainly didn’t expect nearly every player on the team to hit rock bottom at the same time. At this point I guess I’m looking forward to a top 4 pick in a draft with no clearcut #1 and cap money that may or may not be spent on a season that may or may not happen next year.

The team lacks talent in that it doesn’t have what anyone actually thinks is NBA-starting caliber players, and the couple we do have are either very young, injured, or both. It lacks a leader, and/or a veteran presence, neither of which were signed by Petrie in the last off-season, or a previous one.

Petrie’s not blameless. He can’t be; this is his team. My point now, as ever, is that the things that are most responsible for the pathetic state of the team at this moment, just aren’t his fault.

We don’t have NBA-caliber starting players (I don’t necessarily agree with this premise, completely, at least), a leader, or a veteran presence. This is Petrie’s team, but these things aren’t his fault? Whose fault are they?

I expected improvement. I guess I’m a sucker.

Where does Kings management sit currently regarding advanced statistical analysis? I got the impression some time back that we were behind the curve in that regard.

TZ? jjham? cowboyron? Anybody know?

three losses to the Clippers. At least the most recent one was entertaining.

My Nba2k11 team, except for the year 2014. (I won the championship that year and was epic in all ways, sweeping the Heat in the finals.)

Is that really too much to expect? Come on Petrie, where is the trade for Josh Smith? Where is Kyrie Irving? Where are those other rookies I drafted who I had no idea who they were??

Down with Petrie, hire cowboyron