Well I do like his 7'5' wing and 9'4" reach, but his stats sure don't jump off the sheets. How has he looked? If possible I would really like to find someone who they can pair with Mason. I like the chemistry he has developed with CJ, Dame, and ET. Not sure Henson has enough offense to be that piece. Maybe we go all in with Vonleh and see how he does. If we keep losing then maybe that PF we need is in the draft or international......
Henson has always been a good shot blocker, but he's a bit of a one trick pony. He's an average, at best, rebounder and has no range to his offensive game. Like Plumlee, he can't really score more than 3 feet from the basket. Which I think would make him a horrible match next to Mason. He's not really starter quality. He does fine off the bench, but when forced into the starting line up, his production suffers. He's a back up that performs his best against other back ups. Given our lack or quality big men, he'd be an OK bench player getting 15 MPG off the bench but I wouldn't really give up anything of value to get him. He's definitely not the kind of needle mover this team needs. BNM
Noel playing well right due to he his getting the minutes last two game. But before that he was averaging 13 minutes a game. Alot playing sure makes a differents.
I think the thought process in Philly is that he's playing well because he's not playing next to Embiid (he hasn't in the last 2 games).
I HOPE that is the thought process there (as then there would still be a chance he is traded). I don't think that is the case anymore though. He has played with Embiid and has shown they can co-exist. They did it much better than Okafor and Embiid did. Plus he is Joel's best friend on the team (not that it should matter but it might).
Great insight into Cuz. Sac is such a mess: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...emarcus-cousins-sacramento-kings-real-problem Arnovitz is nearing Lowe levels on bball writing for me. He'll be on with Zach on his podcast later today
Yep, PHI immediately started winning when they benched Okafor and started playing Noel and Embiid. It's not like Noel was playing bad before. He just wasn't playing. He has a PER = 21.6, a TS% of .629 and ORtg of 119 and a DRtg of 101. That's for the season, not just the last two games. BNM
With the way Embiid is playing it only makes sense to move Okafor....not Noel. Once they get Ben Simmons back I imagine they will want to run more. Okofor does not seem to fit that style.
Or maybe they'll learn an important life lesson about self control, being a bigger person, etc. If you try fighting someone over some bullshit like that, you're an immature child, or an idiot, or both. If a kid can't have any self control, or discipline to not fight in a gym, around his coaches and the refs, wtf is he/she gonna do in a different situation?
DMC helps build what they want to do, but he also destroys what they want to do. So, they don't know what to do. The Kings organization is not respected, their GM has no experience, and their meddling owner is an idiot. The good news: they have a new high-tech arena, and for now, the fans are sticking with the team.
Cousins is an asshole. A talented, possibly misunderstood asshole, but an asshole none-the-less. He will only play his best for a coach he trusts. He undermines the authority of his coaches and kills the morale of his teammates. He is supremely talented, but takes off 6 - 7 percent of his teams' possessions, often at critical times, either by pouting, arguing with the refs or otherwise acting out. By being absent on these critical plays, he kills his team's chances of winning and also looses the support of his teammates. None of his teammates, not now, not ever, will stand up to him and hold him accountable. His teammates consider him a bully. His feuding with the refs isn't limited to on the court. The specific anecdotes of him shouting down multiple coaches in team meetings and film sessions and shouting down Bennett Salvatore during the annual preseason points of emphasis meeting were most troubling. He has a complete lack of respect for authority and no accountability for his actions. "Nobody calls him out," the former teammate says. "It's an ongoing thing. Nobody holds him accountable, and nobody ever has. Sometimes we looked around when he was going at it, and everyone was thinking, Who's going to stop this?" Vivek Ranadive, in spite of owning only 20% of the team has authoritarian control over all basketball related decisions. He knows less than nothing about basketball. About the Vlade Divac hire as General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations, "Nobody in that position has ever been less qualified, less capable or a nicer person," says one league insider. Very true, nice guy and loved from his days as a player in Sacramento, but completely incompetent as an NBA GM. "the team has turned eight years of top-eight draft picks into Tyreke Evans, DeMarcus Cousins, Bismack Biyombo (traded in a deal that eventually netted Jimmer Fredette), Thomas Robinson, Ben McLemore, Nik Stauskas, Willie Cauley-Stein and Marquese Chriss (traded for picks that ultimately netted Georgios Papagiannis, Skal Labissiere and Bogdan Bogdanovic)." The trade market for a player as talented as Cousins is practically non-existent: "One general manager says he wakes up every day hoping one of his rivals trades for Cousins. Another says "No f---ing way" when asked whether he'd ever consider dealing for him." They will most likely resign Cousins to a deal in the $200 million range and nothing in SAC will change. Incompetent management on the basketball side plus a petulant man child who can't get along with anyone has been a recipe for failure for the last seven years, why should the next five or six years be any different? BNM
Yep, in spite of the shit show on the court, the team is profitable and has 11,000 season ticket holders. In that way, they seem to be the new Clippers: years and years of incompetent management, high lottery picks and losing. But hey, they are making money, so it's all good. BNM
Pop probably took himself out of the game to give his assistants some development time....Pop..pissed off, DNP coaches decision
