…and somehow overpaying for worse players happens.

JT is the Kings current best big. He’s better than Hayes, he’s more talented than Hickson and he’s more consistent than Cousins.

By no means do I mean he has the most potential. However, when it comes to consistency and pure hustle. He’s the best Big the Kings currently have and have had in recent years. (yeah people would point at Sammy, but personally I never cared for his play and thought people overrated him because of his decent interior D.)

It’s easy for people to lay in on JT a lot of the time, I’ve noticed he tends to be the scapegoat for some fans. It’s funny how in the last 3 years his numbers have decreased, but so has his play time. Still, he provides the kind of spark that bigs should provide when he comes in. He plays hard, has a good work ethic and through all the BS he has endured has never been in ANY kind of trouble.

Petrie and company have failed time and time again to truly develop young bigs in Sacramento. Young potential tends to be wasted on this team and even the young talent that excels at first (Tyreke) tends to just stay around the same level because the team built around them is selfish and/or coaching staff is unable to truly develop them.

You sign coaches on the cheap, you get underdeveloped players. Even then, JT has managed to stay consistent and coming into this year the subtle changes in his game are nice to see and a pleasant surprise.

He whines less, he goes harder to the rim (and actually finishes, see posters dunks this season already), he attempts more backdown moves, his jumpers looks smoother, his D looks more solid and still hustles his ass off even when they’re getting blown out.

But no, let’s not sign JT because that would be over paying him. Lets let him test the market, because no team would want to sign a young Big who hustles and rebounds. (See Warriors, See Cleveland, See Orlando) Even if JT gets a low affordable contract, Kings won’t go after him, because the Front Office is cheap, because they don’t make sensible decisions anymore, and because Hayes and Hickson are priorities over JT for no reason, because I can’t for the life of me think anyone would actually think Hayes is better than JT. Hayes seems like a good locker room guy, but his talent on the court leaves a lot to be desired.

No no, Kings making any effort to build a team that makes any sense whatsoever is ludicrous…

Lets instead trade away Beno and get back a player no one wanted anymore and continue to overpay him.

Lets sign Outlaw, for the lulz.

Lets overload our backourt with shoot first players

Let’s not get any type of true PG

Lets not start the right guys

Let’s fire the coach in the first two weeks because the blow outs and bad play were his fault. (not entirely against the firing, but it’s also obvious the way the team was built by Petrie is the true problem)

Lets act as if the Maloofs and Petrie are competent

Let’s not sign JT because he might get over paid and we’ve had so much success getting decent bigs the last 6 years.

It was fun JT, hope you go to a team that will appreciate your skill set a bit more with competent coaching, and that you never have to sit in the bench enduring players like Crab Hands Moore and Hickson in front of you in the rotation.