This was one of my own photos from Halloween, actually.

Beno is simply a better PG for this team than Bibby.  Mike doesn't make his teammates better.  He doesn't have Beno's vision nor driving/finishing ability. Beno's a better defender. Actually, I didn't think that I'd be willing to say this so early in the season, but, let's face it, Beno is a better all-around player.

Sitting Beno down when Bibby comes back will make this team worse.

See if Geoff's wife will share him? I think I'll leave the three ways to others. Honestly I think you are reading a lot into what I am saying, though. Where did I say that our primary goal should be an 8th playoff seed? What I said was that a trade for the sake of a trade is not necessarily a move in the right direction. If tearing the team apart means a quicker trip to respectability I am all for it. But at the moment I don't even hear rumors of anything that makes sense for the Kings future. You don't want to watch a young team rebuild itself, but do you really think there is a team out there right now that is going to offer a significant piece of our future for an injured Mike Bibby? Or resurgent Brad Miller? Who? What? Here's what I see. Martin and Salmons are solid. Beno is at least a solid back up and might even prove to be a pg of the future. Artest is one of the best small forwards in the league with the personality and maturity of my seven-year-old son. And if he stays with the Kings next year, I'll buy you dinner here in Salt Lake or in old town Sac. next time I'm in town. That's all we have as far as a solid future nucleus at the moment. Garcia has moments of brillance. Hawes has potential. Douby has--well I don't know what Douby has. Mikki is a place holder. Miller and Bibby are solid vets with bloated salaries and limited future. K-9 and Shareef are dead weight. I don't see anyone offering anything more than expiring contracts for Bibby. I don't see anyone offering even expiring contracts for any of our non-performing power forwards. So what does blowing up the team really mean? Tanking to get a good draft pick? Cutting players whose salaries we are going to be stuck with anyway? Yeah, that sounds like something to get excited about. You might as well just sit everyone. The way to create value for your players is to win games. The way for Theus to build the trust of the Maloofs is to win games. The way to put butts in seats (which is what will keep the Maloofs happy and get a new stadium, by the way) is to win games. The way to turn young talent into solid pieces of a championship team is to win games. Am I rooting for the Kings to make the playoffs? Hell yes! The day I root for my team to lose games is the day I quit watching basketball. But not at the expense of our future. I want trades that will make us a better team by the end of the decade, which is when we have a realistic chance of being a contender again. But if it ain't there, it ain't there. Last point. Just because I haven't been posting here much before does not make me a new or fairweather fan. I've been a Kings fan in Sac when they first moved there, in Chicago when MJ and Rodman played for the Bulls and tickets to see the Kings when they came to town were through the roof, and now in Utah where I pay a crazy fee to watch them on DirectTV. My wife knows more about the Kings than most so-called knowledagble fans and all of my kids can tell you Jersey numbers for years and years backward.