Sacramento Kings: 250-1
The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat in the West, and the organization’s most powerful figures have been laying down powerful rhetoric to that impact all offseason.
“This season, let us be clear, it is about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive informed Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro told Jones:”We’re not trying to be patient , we’re not. We would like to acquire more, we want to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for attempting to benefit a loyal fanbase by changing the culture. But assigning wins using a roster that simply isn’t cut out to collect a lot of them might be a error. It’s dangerous to shift into short-term achievement manner too early; it can cut out the legs from a rebuilding process in a means that’s sometimes unfixable.
Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which seems fascinating on paper.
However, when you realize that the Kings’ most frequently used five-man unit annually featured these very same players together with the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard rather than Collison and that said unit handled a net evaluation of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it’s tough to see where the belief that this team can win comes from.
Maybe it’s the additions of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and rookie Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it’s faith in Cousins’ continued improvement.
Who knows?
This is all a long way of saying that even if the powers that be in Sacramento believe this team has a chance to do anything, the cold reality of name chances at 250-1 is a far more accurate appraisal.
Not this year, Kings.
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