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Standby for everyone to call Landry the worst signing ever.

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City of Trees wrote:Standby for everyone to call Landry the worst signing ever.

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Dude can't catch a break. Probably a good thing for the rest of this season because it relieves some of the major crunch in the front court. And with the way Evans is playing somebody would have had to hit the bench more anyway, probably would have been Landry.

I feel kind of bad talking negatively about a player with an injury, but regardless of the injury, judging by the Kings fans forums I read and have read, a lot of Kings fans were not on board with the signing and now it could stand as a significant impediment for making moves in the future (like re-upping IT). I'm starting to have a lot of confidence in PDA and personally see this signing as a Malone/Vivek (GSW connection) signing.
As for the season ending injury, he probably wasn't going to get much run anyway but if he wasn't immovable before he probably is now

Kenny Thomas, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Mikkie Moore, Beno Udrih, John Salmons.


It's about time, as Sacramento fan's, our roster simply isn't complete unless we have 1-2 absolute useless anchors on the roster that we have to wait for them to one day expire.

Never understood this signing.

Soca wrote:Never understood this signing.

reminds me of the Jason Kidd trade by Mark Cuban. Vivek let his fan side of basektball interfere.

Landry is a good player and will help us eventually. Just not this current roster.

I kinda understand the signing because we lack firepower outside of Cuz, IT & Rudy. I think the Kings hoped that Landry becomes that "efficient 16-18 PPG scorer" this year. It's unfortunate that he's battling with injuries and is out for the season. Landry would have been an excellent reserve and perhaps, replace JT in the starting lineup.

That said, I still think the signing was a bust from the start. They should have waited or signed someone else imo. Landry is approaching 31 and his game relies a good part of athleticism, which includes quickness from face up play and his explosiveness around the basket. Those things will deteriorate with age. After those things are gone, what is left? A jumpshooting big role player ala Brandon Bass? That's too much money for a guy like that. Especially, not really a fit next to Cousins.

New ownership, wanted to show they were committed, wanted to make a splash, took a splash too early and belly flopped this signing, but everything else they've done has been very solid in my view even with the Gay trade where I was very skeptical.

I think it's way too soon to call this a flop for any more reasons than it appeared to be a flop day 1 after the signing. You don't sign someone to that kind of contract unless you have plans for them beyond the first year of their deal. At least I hope you don't. I think the major mistake here was the belief in their ability to move other pieces on this team to make it work. They got a cold hard dose of reality this last deadline about that.