The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat from the West, and the organization’s most powerful figures have been laying down powerful rhetoric to that impact all offseason.
“This season, let’s be clear, it is about wins and losses,” proprietor Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro told Jones:”We are not trying to be patient , we’re not. We want to acquire more, we wish to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for trying to reward a loyal fanbase by altering the culture. But assigning wins using a roster that simply is not cut out to accumulate a lot of them might be a mistake. It is dangerous to change into short-term success manner too premature; it can cut the legs out from a rebuilding process in a means that’s sometimes unfixable.
Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which seems intriguing on paper.
However, when you understand that the Kings’ most often used five-man unit annually showcased these very same players together with the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard rather than Collison and that said unit handled a net rating of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it’s tough to see where the belief that this team can win stems from.
Maybe it’s the improvements of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and rookie Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it’s faith in Cousins’ continued improvement.
Who knows?
This is a long way of saying that even if the powers that be in Sacramento believe this group has a chance to do anything, the cold truth of title odds at 250-1 is a far more accurate appraisal.
Not this year, Kings.
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