Sasha Vezenkov on his role with Kings & reflects on season
Kings forward Sasha Vezenkov talks about his first year in the NBA, adjusting to his role with the Kings and if he regrets coming to the NBA.
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He sounds like he was very frustrated with his role this year. Don't blame him.
What did you think of Sasha's season for the Kings?
Very curious how he’s gonna play into the plans this summer
Euroleague MVP warms benches here. Couldn't be happy.
The way that Mike Brown treated Sasha this year was embarrassing
It's tough. Sasha had some nice stretches sprinkled in games throughout the season, notably against golden state… i believe the play-in game? It was earlier in the season. And also, most recently, i really liked his minutes against the pels. It's super unfortunate that he was injured, when his availability is so crucial to help grow his game for the nba, but hopefully this fuels him to go into the summer with a good mindset, maybe get some certified nba training with our awesome staff, some playtime with fox and keegs maybe. I'm optimistic about his future, alot of doomer kings fans want to package him in a trade for a star, but that's such a huge waste of talent and potential, especially for his contract price and what role and shooting/length he offers our team.
Brown the clown 🤡 too dumb to use him . Only player that gave a spark vs pelicans then baby Keenan came back after fixing his panties in locker room
The guy deserved to at least have a few starts over Barnes… If Kings let him go, they might regret it big time.
Sasha should stay and tough it out. Prove that he can play. It’s so easy to blame the coach but Sasha didn’t look comfortable. He should’ve went to summer league to atleast get some run. Just because he’s the mvp in a different doesn’t mean he has a longer leash. He missed lots of shots.. lots. Next year will be his break out year.
It's so easy to lose your confidence when you have no correct treatment. People saying he missed a lot of shots and what do you expect when you get 5-6 mins of play? It's all about the mental condition with this attempts. Sasha got video here on youtube shooting 98 out 103 3-pointers at practice. Put him in play just enough to warm up and than back on the bench… wondering how he dare to miss 3 shots out of 5 when he is MVP. At the same time some starters got 25% from the 3 line out of billion attempts and other got 1 Rebound + 2 TO for 20 mins of play. This is the sure recipe for lowering efficacy on a player….. lack of trust from the coaches. Of course you would say it's NBA everyone is good and deserves to play, than i will ask you to check starting 5 of Kings and tell me does it look right to say that's the potential of the club? Mike Brown is a very good coach and i like him… but there is a huge gap next to Fox, Doma and rest of the team to be filled. And than you have someone who can score but let him warm the bench, give him consistent unsecurity and than you looking for miracles to happening in 5/10 mins of play. Give the man 2-3 matches for confidence, than you would know can you count on him in rainy days or not. Underestimation sometimes fuels up the player, but very often could tie his hands and he can't show his potential, because he see with his own eyes that he can do better than someone else who got regular trust. Sasha is not a college rookie, he already knows what he is capable of and buying him at that point have to cover some minutes play expectation. That's the coach's team job and none of us is game wise enough to know better than them, but coaches are also humans…. probably forgot the answers sometimes lies in front of you.
I am impressed that he did not spank Brown after that time the coach put everyone in and only put Sasha in 1-2 mins later. He was treated really poorly, from what we could see and still kept his cool and stayed positive. I hope he stays for another year with more time, but I am expecting he will go to a place where he can show his value and actually enjoy it, which is most important.
He needs at least 20 minutes of playing time. I would have liked to see him on the court more time playing alongside Sabonis. The injury took a lot out of his season. If Mike Brown doesn't think about using him to the fullest, he better move to another team where he can play more. It will be good if he goes to Chicago, where the fans will love him very much.