Gauging the Paranoia of the Average Kings Fan

glad to see it

now that we have omri…he wants him to win

there are a couple of talent breaks at this point in time, but that could certainly change in the next several weeks.

1-2: Wall and Turner are the two surest fire NBA products, and both are likely ready to make an immediate contribution.

3-4: Favors is a project, and I wouldn’t even look for Casspi-like contributions in his rookie season (I’d still pick him here, though). Cousins is closer to NBA ready in body but probably not in mind.

5-6: Johnson and Aminu are bonafide prospects, but they are less thrilling to us because they are wing players.

I’d take 3rd. I would love to have Turner but Wall? Eh.

The top 2 are way ahead of the rest. Let’s take a chance.

But not have our draft position worsen.

That’s weird.

I was thinking that the Kings had better than 50% chance of getting 1, 2, or 3. But, that is not the case. I want to rescind my vote and take the guaranteed 3 spot.

If you were offered a 0% chance of picks one and two in a two player draft . . .

Because I think the difference between 1/2 and 3/4 is at least as big as the diffrence between 3/4 and 5/6. So what I am doing is taking a chance on dropping for the chance of moving up.

But I still voted to let the balls roll since I can’t imagine GP not coming up with something good regardless.

John Wall – or let’s say LeBron or Shaquille O’Neal – are the consensus number one pick. How bad would the tanking be? There isn’t much tanking now – which is difficult to prove – because of the lottery. Even with the lottery in place tanking is a concern just to increase the chance of a better pick (ping pong balls).

If a team is so bad that they are in the bottom half of the lottery then maybe you shouldn’t just “give” that team the #1 pick just to see that talent go to waste (see the Clippers).. The better teams are finding ways to improve or stay comptetive. Don’t make the draft the only way. The lottery in it’s current form is a wonderful thing.

or however that saying goes.

If you’re talking about the Kool-Aid remark, you need to do some research around here – it has been a long-standing phrase.

I defy you to find anyone that has supported Petrie to the lengths that I have. Go find one negative comment from me in any of the past draft threads,wheither we were drafting Hawes (whom few wanted), Thompson (who few knew of), Evans (Rubuioooo!!!), Brockman, Singletary, Patrick Ewing, Jr….I have supported Petrie every step of the way.

I can probably be easily knocked for just about anything around here, but not lack of support for Petrie.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

have the flexability to keep Wall or not. I guarantee you that if you have Wall, you have options. And even if you keep Wall, you have an amazing pair of guards in your backcourt. I don’t buy the whole, if we move Reke to 2 he loses his mismatch, because all season long teams have been guarding him with the two anyway. Put Wall and Evans in your backcourt and you will have plenty of mismtaches.

you don’t know that for sure.

Want some tin foil?

but I am not a guy who thinks Evans & Turner would not be great. Because him & Evans are similar I think he might be better at small forward for us. I honestly don’t know why all I know is Chauncy Billups & Carmelo works, Nelson & Hedo worked(Hedo being a point forward), Westbrook & Durant works, Rondo & Pierce worked.

Accept the worst possible outcome and then be happy if it works out better.

The draft seems to be Wall & Turner-(slight dropoff) then Cousins and Favors and then a big dropoff.

We need to hang onto Stern’s man-chandeliers and swing.