The Kings Herald Show returns after 12 games of the Domantas Sabonis era in Sacramento. Jerry Reynolds, Will Griffith, and Tony Xypteras break down how the 2x All-Star is playing thus far, De’Aaron Fox’s incredible hot streak, what pieces the Kings are still missing, and even a little bit of 2022 NBA Draft Talk.
I also have to note here because my recording cut out (windy day in Massachusetts) that Jerry mentioned talking to someone with the Pacers who relayed to him that Domas has all intentions of re-signing and really likes the franchise, so there’s that. Apologies for the tech issues, but wanted to share something I’m sure the listeners would like to know.
Also also, in case you missed it, here is the incredible Jerry Reynolds picture we had him give a live reaction to on the podcast. If you want to skip right to that section, you can find it about 46 minutes in.
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“Win next 2 years trade.” Great description Tony.
Did Jerry just imply that people in Indiana think they know more about basketball than I think that I do?
Jeesh.
Ah yeah, a Kings Herald Show podcast. The perfect thing to wake me up from waking up too late because of daylight savings.
On top of Fox and Sabonis, a good coaching hire may help draw free agents to Sac.
Enjoyed Jerry’s thoughts on Keegan Murray and his idea regarding possible FA gets !
Bless his heart but Gerry is advocating the same mistakes of the past. Here we go again overpaying for second tier free agents. I’m happy to say I opposed the George Hill deal right after drafting Fox, the Zzzbo deal (why), Cojo (why), and perhaps the biggest debacle Dedmon who remarkably was being promoted on this site (sactown royalty). Now he’s proposing over paying for the likes of Bobby Portis and perhaps Malik Monk. I don’t think Monk is any better than TD and what the hell are we going to do with Portis but waste all our cap space. Now if they want to package next years pick along with Mitchell and Holmes for a possible impact player, I’m all ears but let’s not AGAIN over pay for a second tier free agents. You only do that if your just a smidgen away from being a contender and we are more than a smidgen away. I applaud McNair for so far not making any stupid free agent over payments.
Portis was a player that was key to a NBA title with his best years ahead ! He makes less than 5 million now ! You don’t see the perfect fit with Sabonis -ok ! Bucks will do all they can to keep him ! It’s getting the wrong fits and overpaying !
No I watch a lot of basketball and like Jerry says nobody knows for sure but I can tell you there’s a lot of posters recommending something solely on physical attributes on a roster sheet and have never really watched the player. There’s a good reason Portis has been in the league for seven seasons and is paid less than $5 million.
I would try to do this if I was the GM. Don’t go down the second tier free agent route. We will end up overpaying for garbage like we’ve done so many times.
One – tank the rest of the season and make sure we don’t fall below 6 but I’d make sure I lose our upcoming game with Indiana and hopefully get the fifth pick with a little luck.
Two – Agree to draft Keegan Murray from Iowa
Three – watch the draft board carefully and hopefully Koloko slips to the second round and then give up multiple seconds and get him.
Four – Sign Timme as a UFA or make a move to get him late in the second round. He’ll will be a long term NBA role player and he’s being overlooked.
Five – Dump the salaries of Holmes, Holiday, Len, and Harkless and keep Lyles if we can get him for 2.4 million.
Six – Probably a long shot but empty the bank for Zach Lavine.
Seven – Try to get one more year from Damien Jones for like $2 million.
Eight – Hire Randy Bennett from St, Mary’s as the head coach. Nobody in college has gotten more out of his rosters than him.
Nine – Find a decent journeyman veteran on a veterans minimum to supplement the bench
Shoot for this roster – It’s young, balanced and talented and will likely continue to get better. That’s a long term viable plan admitting LaVine is a long shot.
Fox
Lavine
Barnes
Sabonis
Murray, Jones, Queta, Koloko
bench – Mitchell, Lyles, TD, Timme
Defense is still shit.
Lavine is Chicago ‘s FA and can pay him 30 million than any other team ! Waste of energy and time ! Now that team looks like another 30 win team at best ! Monte would not survive 3 years of getting worse ! Yes, the Defense is still shit !
In order to get LaVine, the Kings would have to dump at least, and I stress this is the bare bottom minimum amount, 25 million off their cap number in the off-season to sign LaVine to a 4 year max deal. As Rockbottom points out, the Bulls can offer a lot more money and the extra year AND 8% raises. Sac can only offer 5% raises.
Year 1: 32,742,000
Year 2: 35,361,360
Year 3: 37,980,720
Year 4: 40,600,080
Year 5: 43,219,440
Total: 189.903,600
Vs what Sac could hypothetically offer:
Year 1: 32,742,000
Year 2: 34,379,100
Year 3: 36,016,200
Year 4: 37,653,300
Total: 140,790,600
I see no way in double H E hockey sticks that LaVine even considers Sac unless Chicago isn’t offering him the 5 year max.
I can’t think of a single reason why Lavine would leave what he’s got in Chicago to sign in Sacramento for far less money.
The Bulls have already won more games this year than the Kings have in any season since 2006. You sign in Sacramento for the weather, basically, and that’s probably not a real big motivator for NBA players. It is another beautiful sunny day in California though!
It may not be up to him. The Bulls have 100 million of payroll committed without LaVine next year although Vucevic only has one year left. Let’s see if they want to pay Zach 35 mil a year.
That has the potential to be the worst defense the NBA has seen in a LONG time.
Watch Koloko play. LaVine isn’t a horrible defender either. That was a basic plan with a lot of ideas in it. I said LaVine is a very long shot and that’s all anybody comments on. The defense is better than we have now.
There’s a big difference between a long shot and damn near impossible. Getting LaVine is damn near impossible.
people may have different opinions about who to sign but signing one or two free agents is probably necessary.
You’re not going to win a lot of games when your best or second best player is a horrible defender. Fox is terrible at defense, Sabonis looks better than advertised on defense but definitely isn’t a stopper. The Kings certainly need better role players but their “stars” need to be better as well. Trade Fox this offseason for Randle, Jaylen Brown? Trade Barnes, Holmes and draft assets for another star caliber player, sign or trade for defensive minded players. Don’t play anyone who doesn’t give 150% on defense. The whole reason the Kings switch so much on defense is because they don’t give enough effort on that end individually and switching becomes a necessity. The sad part is switching doesn’t work. Defense is about effort and admittedly some talent but mostly effort.
That’s a good post. True we can forget about the other side of the ball. Take a look at Koloko on Arizona. He’s a work in process on offense but he’s a beast defender and I like that he even defends decently on the perimeter.
I think Holiday, Mitchell and Harkless gave their effort in defense…but how come our defense still sucks ?
Are we going to win games if we put all of the above in the starting lineup ?
The answer is no……….
Talent win games……Fox got more talent than Randle….
This roster needs more talent, and a better coach to utilize the players
Anyone notice the inflation on Reynolds wrap? At least we can still get the Jerry Reynolds wrap.
That picture:
Excellent show once again, gang, I wish we could get one of these each week.
Ideally, I’d have Jerry on the microphone every few days… not even to talk about the Kings necessarily just as a reality-show level entertain pod. He could tell me about going to the grocery store and getting his car’s oil changed and I guarantee I’d learn something fascinating and laugh my ass off in the process.
That’s just cruel and unusual punishment. You should have more respect for your elders than to ask that of them.
Oh wait… 🙂
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