The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat from the West, and also the organization’s strongest figures have been laying down strong rhetoric to that impact all offseason.
“This season, let’s be clear, it’s about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro told Jones:”We’re not trying to be patient anymore, we are not. We want to win more, we want to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for attempting to reward a loyal fanbase by simply changing the culture. But assigning wins using a roster which simply is not cut out to collect a lot of them may be a error. It’s harmful to change into short-term success manner too early; it can cut the legs out from a rebuilding process in a way that’s occasionally unfixable.
Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which sounds intriguing on paper.
But 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 managed a net rating of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it is hard to see where the impression that this team can win comes from.
Maybe it’s the additions of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and newcomer Nik Stauskas. Maybe it’s faith in Cousins’ continuing improvement.
Who knows?
This is all a long method of saying that 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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