ebrian wrote:I think the conclusion we can draw from stories like this is, try to avoid coaching poopoo franchises. You're going to get fired, because the fact is they're never going to draft or develop good players, nor will they be able to bring anyone in of any substance via free agency.
The Kings have changed owners, GMs, presidents, etc numerous times during their long playoff drought, so unless you think the logo and colors are cursed it doesn't make sense to blame the franchise itself. Plus I don't think anyone has any problems with their drafting etc recently. They've had some weak GMs, and both the Maloofs and Ranadive seem to make smart team-building harder, but they've also just had a fair amount of decent moves end up going badly.
BooRadleysHouse wrote:Honestly, Walton needs some blame at this point. The team has some talent with Fox, Hield, Barnes, Haliburton, Holmes, etc. If he can't figure out how to improve their record, he deserves blame.
Thing is they haven't been terrible with Walton, they win like twice as many games as the truly bad teams and usually end up just outside of the playoff picture. It's a tough place to be at but they've won about as much as you'd expect with talent like that--some good players but no clear all-stars (let alone a real all-NBA talent) and not much depth or anything. I don't mind them firing Walton just to shake things up, nothing to lose there, but they'd be overachieving if they were like a 6th seed.
