The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat in the West, and also the organization’s most powerful figures have been laying down powerful rhetoric to this effect all offseason.
“This year, let us be clear, it is about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive informed 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 win more, we want to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for trying to reward a loyal fanbase by simply altering the culture. But prioritizing wins with a roster which simply is not cut out to accumulate many of them may be a error. It’s harmful to shift into short-term success manner too premature; it may cut the legs out from a rebuilding process in a way that’s sometimes unfixable.
Sacramento will start Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which seems intriguing on paper.
However, when you realize that the Kings’ most frequently used five-man unit annually showcased these same players together with all the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard rather than Collison and that stated unit handled a net rating of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it’s hard to see where the impression that this team can win stems from.
Maybe it’s the improvements of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and newcomer Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it’s religion in Cousins’ continuing advancement.
Who knows?
This is a long way of saying that if the powers that be in Sacramento think this team has a chance to do anything, the cold truth of name odds at 250-1 is a far more accurate assessment.
Not this season, Kings.
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