The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat from the West, and also the organization’s most powerful figures have been laying down strong rhetoric to that impact all offseason.
“This season, let’s be clear, it’s about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro advised Jones:”We are not trying to be patient anymore, we’re not. We want to acquire more, we want to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for aiming high, for attempting to reward a loyal fanbase by simply changing 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 dangerous to change into short-term success mode too early; it can cut the legs out from a rebuilding process in a way that is sometimes unfixable.
Sacramento will start Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which sounds intriguing on paper.
But when you realize that the Kings’ most often used five-man unit last year featured these very same players with the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard rather than Collison and that stated unit managed a net rating of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it’s tough to see where the impression that this group can win comes from.
Maybe it’s the additions of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and rookie Nik Stauskas. Maybe it’s faith in Cousins’ continued improvement.
Who knows?
This is a long method of saying that if the powers that be in Sacramento think this group has a shot to do anything, the cold reality of name odds at 250-1 is a far more accurate appraisal.
Not this season, Kings.
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