LightTheBeam wrote:OGSactownballer wrote:LightTheBeam wrote:This seems like a generous amount of cope from some Kings fans.
Trading 2nd round picks for guys like Bryant, Bey, Plumlee, Richardson has nothing to do with wanting to go from a playoff team to a contender. This was about trying to secure a top 6 seed.
Pelicans, lakers, Clippers, Suns, Dallas, Memphis, Denver, Warriors, Wolves all made trades to get better. From KD, to Josh Richardson. Not many Kings fans were banking on Siakam or KD. But we have many future incoming 2nds. To think we couldn't shore up the backup wing or or backup center is pathetic.
Maybe it means nothing, maybe we fall to the 8th seed and play GS/LA in the play-ins and fall out of the playoffs.
And no... Buy out guys will not come sign in Sac. They will head to Milwaukee, LA, Miami, Phx like they always do.
Let’s be clear about one thing.
The guys go actually have real value and can be with you beyond a 30 game run to a playoff berth actually didn’t just go for seconds. They were traded for another player and generally one that fit the precise need of that team. So likely they weren’t interested in our cast offs or a pack of second round picks.
Right now both Terrence Ross and Will Barton are being bought out. Nerlens Noel is likely to be as well.
These are ideal guys for a playoff run. And they would fit well.
Let’s wait and see what the whole plan is.
Do you think those guys would consider signing in Sac?
PHX and Denver are sitting there with worse benches than ours, and legit championship aspirations. I see anyone worth mentioning in the buyout market heading to Milwaukee, LA, Denver, PHX, Miami
They have to make a roster spot first.
I’d like to see which of those teams can do that right now.
We have several guys who are turning into cap space at seasons end that aren’t playing. They can buy them off the roster immediately and end up paying them the same money but opening a spot for a more effective guy.
But we will see. And maybe we just don’t do anything and win at exactly the same clip we are now then rest of the way and still end up in the 3-6 range because as it stands we have a pretty good head start in the guys who have to climb back in first before they can advance.