The Kings Herald Show returns with Jerry Reynolds, Will Griffith, and Tony Xypteras to break down the final days of Mike Brown’s run as Head Coach of the Sacramento Kings, and where the organization goes from here. Note: this was recorded prior to Monday nights 110-100 win over the Dallas Mavericks.
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Question for Jerry (and Tony/Will): How do you perceive the influence of Vivek as it pertains to the current state of the Kings? Or Matina Kolokotronis? Monte McNair? Wes Wilvox? Rich Paul / De’Aaron Fox? Others?
I’d love to know Matina’s influence on roster decisions. I get that she is the COO and is likely in charge of the day to day financials of the franchise, arena, advertising. etc. and her law degree makes her valued in contract negotiations. I want to know if she is consulted on basketball court issues, like who should be traded or drafted. If so, I have issue with it because what is her Bball IQ? If she is simply consulted due contracts and financials, then I’m fine with it. As an example, if Monte rang her up and asked, “hey, can we afford to do this right now, especially when it comes to hiring a new coach?”
I seem to remember that her husband construction company got a fat contract to help develop the area around Golden1.
Follow the money…
It’s true that he is a major developer in Sac, but I’m not positive on how much he worked with the Kings in downtown.
It is crazy that she’s been with the Kings since they drafted Peja. That means she even pre-dates the Maloofs with the franchise.
A flawed roster, lacking length, defense, and for whatever reason recently, shooting. 2 years of mostly running that flawed roster back.
That’s the basis for this team to start the season.
Injuries start piling up. Flawed roster becomes very flawed and rotations start to become wacky.
I don’t know what Brown was supposed to do here. I really would have liked to see what he could have done with Carter in the mix just to see what he had there.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing news of other orgs making sensible moves to improve their rosters, while we watch all of our draft capital get sold for money dumps, and signing a player that no one else wanted.
I for one will miss Mike Brown. I really enjoyed his time with this team and will look back on it fondly.
Brown was a good person and fought hard to change the culture of this team. People above him did not like that.
I agree with you. His hands were tied in many ways. He deserved some time to work through the problems.
Don’t be coy (not CoY): (1) “People above him did not like that.” (2) “His hands were tied”. Please explain. Is there sometimng there or do you just want to fuel a conspiracy theory?
MB was a scapegoat. The culprits for the King’s woes are MM, Vivek, Fox and Sabonis.
Full stop.
Disagree, just Monte , Matina and Vivek in reverse order .
Fox and Ox are paid handsomely and are the two clear best players on this roster and represent this franchise as its faces, they bear some blame imo.
Thanks for this.
Interesting that Jerry was quite clear in his comments on the the Fo not consulting with Fox and Domas prior to the firing.
This team just keeps shooting itself in the foot. You have to wonder how much foot is left.
These repeated missteps are what make it hard to root for for this club.
Jerry, I knew Doug and Jae weren’t the answer either.
Interesting thoughts on Brown pushing for new contract based on concerns of teams potential , expectations and his future . Made sense .
That was a fantastic pod.
I really appreciated everyone’s candor, and it was nice to hear smart takes from Will and Tony, unaffected by the silliness of other local persons whose coverage seemed way more like engagement bait rather than any real commentary, and little actual reporting.
Obviously Jerry’s perspective is quite a bit keener than any fan could have, even the most dedicated, and his plainspokenness and common sense takes made a lot of sense, and as usual, he boiled everything down to a few simple things, rather than the extravagant web of theories that consume social media.
As much as I respect Mike, like Jerry said, he wasn’t getting the most of the talent he had, and maybe spending press conferences saying in effect, “It wasn’t my fault, I told them what to do”, wasn’t great leadership. I have said quite a few times, with three high profile firings before, Mike coached like he feared it was going to happen again, really the whole second half of last season as well. Jerry’s take on his Agent making the extension talks public seems to reaffirm that idea. The delegating comment really made sense too, I wouldn’t have thought of that.
Keep up the good work gentlemen, I thought it was so interesting I listened to it twice.
Thanks Will, Tony and the Great Jerry Reynolds for another fun episode.
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