What's up with Beno?

[_SRV_]

I hated the signing because of the long term commitment of not all that great player after a short stint, we just didn't really need to take that risk, Beno is not as bad as he's playing and bad rosters magnify mediocre players' shortcomings, but that doesn't make make the signing more explicable for me.

[Cruel_Ruin]

Beno is who he is. A high turnover PG who likes to control the offense. He was last year, he is again this year. In the beginning of the year, Theus let him control a ton of the offense, and he put up identical numbers as he did last year. Unfortunately for Beno, expectations are higher this year, and with no Artest we are losing a lot more, meaning much more scrutiny on everyone else. Natt got tired of Beno's lack of focus and let the offense run elsewhere, hence Beno's role now is a spot up shooter who brings the ball up the court.

I don't think Kenny Natt has a creative bone in his body. His utilization of Beno is awful, to be honest. And he's trying to play the tough disciplinarian with Beno which didn't even work under Popovich. We need Beno to probe the defense (using Theus' words). The ball should primarily run through Beno and Brad, both of whom have to keep their eyes open for Martin either cutting or spotting up. It's going to be a high turnover offense, that's inevitable. But this offensive muzzle that Natt has put on Beno has got to go. </Armchair Coach>

Hopefully, Yoda will come in and set Beno free. He's one of our more talented players, and we can't have him getting obliterated nightly by the opposing PG.

Gotta love it when I'm right. Anyone catch last night's game?

Free Beno!

[chrbal]

Beno was still young and had put together a pretty solid season. But more importantly, once you eliminated Jose Calderon ( who I think it was obvious was staying in Toronto), there was no great PG option on the free agent market.

There was Beno who had already been a part of the Kings organization and did fairly well VS. Chris Duhon who had pretty much fallen out of favor with the Bulls (and more importantly, no one could've seen this season coming from Duhon).

They signed Beno for too long, but they did need to sign him.