Jake Fischer, Bleacher Report – What Could Be In the Sacramento Kings Plans?
i got this let’s bring Jake Fischer in go ahead Jake jake I’m I’mma clear the floor we’re going to welcome in Jake Fischer because my man has got something to say
hey Jake what’s up man kc at King KC you know what I mean so last night let me just say let me just say
got a little emotional i got a little impatient last night and we have this conversation a lot with with guys like yourself with guys like Sam Amy and you guys are certified verified like you guys know people in the league you talk people you don’t make stuff up you report what you hear so when you mentioned the whole thing and you said it for weeks like the Kings were trying to get back or were dedicated to getting back in the first round it was never Jake Fischer is lying it’s who’s telling Jake Fischer this is it an agent trying to make a having an angle or is it the Kings trying to get that like who’s telling it so last night when it was like I told the guys before I drafted the tweet at like pick 12 cuz I was just I was antsy i was antsy but I said I’m not going to do that i’mma wait and then when Miami drafted and that Pelicans Hawks trade happened that’s when I got impatient and I said who was the one telling him this who and then like 45 seconds later Shams comes on there and says “The Kings are about to draft at 24 jake hits you with the eye.” And Jake Jay got me and I got a salute he got me i earned that one i I learned that
you know it’s such a stupid thing like breaking this stuff because it’s just going to come out right like that but I think part of what we try to do and what I’ve always tried to do previously but now with Stein at the Substack is to try to give fans Kings fans in this example a general idea of what to expect because it’s more fun to kind of like go to a restaurant and know the cuisine than just like we’re going into the draft and we’re going to have some type of meal to take away you know what I mean and especially if you’re a team that doesn’t have a first round pick I think it’s probably exciting to know that your club is looking to get into the action of course what you’re talking about the frustration of well you know if you’re going to do this do it already and if you don’t do it I think then it’s even more frustrating that hope that was dangled in front of her face is taken away but yeah I have some some people who know some things about Sack and I know uh I know that you’re a low-key Knicks fan too you know I love Jake Fisher
i’m a Nick supporter Jake i’m a Kings fan i’m a Nick supporter shout out to the Nick
welcome on this show anytime
there you go trist shout out Trist Crick shout out Tristick always always uh Jake there our guy Matt George who will be with us later locked on Kings he noted I’m curious what you know about this that that the Kings actually had the reason my partner was so impatient is Scott was actually looking they were hoping for specific players and they had you know a few guys on their list and from from what we’ve learned out here Jake curious what what you’ve heard they actually had I don’t want to say multiple deals lined up but they had multiple places they were they were confident they could jump in the draft if they needed to
yeah that was the sense I had as well going into it i don’t want to like run rough shot with speculation as to where they were going to go but the two teams that teams in that or the two players that teams in that range for example were were like Orlando took Jayce Richardson they wanted Jayce Richardson obviously when there was kind of some thought around the league that OKC at 24 was a good spot for Sack to get in there i know the Magic were a bit not concerned but it was on their radar like oh is it going to be Jace of course it did not be but I think generally for this draft compared to other drafts there was just such a a variance in the rankings of these guys i mean we had kind of a quote unquote top eight which that got disrupted with Kamal watch falling down two spots but still I think that was relatively chalk like the first seven names that went not necessarily in that exact order but those were the seven names people were looking for but then after that it was a total crapshoot and so because of that a lot of teams like Portland obviously showed uh like Washington did an A team you know I think even Memphis if there wasn’t really a tradeup opportunity for them like like if Cedric Coward goes 10 for example maybe Memphis is actually even trading down so I think the board was so fluid and a lot of teams were saying I’d never heard this number of teams and I I don’t have a number off top of mind for anyone being like how many but a lot who were saying yeah depending on how the board breaks we could trade up or trade down like that was like kind of rife throughout the second half so the fact that sack was looming I I’m sure they had several spots lined up of like okay this team if our guy’s not here we know we have a deal with Sacramento on the table so I’m sure they had uh a lot of business that that was kind of being set up and that that to kind of put uh peel everyone back behind the curtain a bit is also how you start to find out some things about what teams are doing too right if they’re calling four or five teams with the same initiative and even just two of them tell me hey Sach’s trying to do this and then you know you can check it with some people who would really know about you know who they’re going for or who’s in the building then that’s kind of when you start to get your story together
yes sir man Jake Fischer man who uh who got your boy last night and deserve I deserved it even though I didn’t add Jake i didn’t add him but I deserved it i was
someone sent it to me to be to be fair you know my friend my I had this group chat uh high school friends who just are so ready to pile on me when I deserve it and then are also ready to defend me whenever they think someone needs to be defended or whatever the verb would be and I got sent that because it’s it’s draft night and the spotlight’s on and you know honestly after what happened while we’re in this this open vulnerable spot here after how I you know flubbed some things last year a lot of people were texting me yesterday hey good luck tonight to the point where I was suspicious i was like come on this now I feel like a charity kiss so uh it’s good that it all kind of worked out to
be clear Jake we don’t break stuff we don’t report stuff we have broken stuff we have reported stuff and Jake I can tell you first we don’t like it
we do not like it at all it is not fun it is not enjoyable and it is uh Yeah it makes your heart beat a little bit different when when tweets go out when those words are said over the air so we we we completely understand man yeah i mean honestly you guys do do such a great job the the De’aran interview you did in the middle i forget if when exactly it was in the timeline of that whole saga but like that’s the peak of of local journalism to me like you guys just crushed that stuff so I’m I’m an admirer from afar myself
i appreciate appreciate you man
thank you um so with the Kings and we talk about that draft night and how it seemed like from everything that that I heard it seemed like they had specific players they were looking at and if they were there they’d move in there to go to to go get them if not they’ll kind of play back and maybe even not even go into the first round do you think that’s how the Kings off season is going to be like they’re going to be cautiously aggressive right where if they’re targeting specific players and specific needs for that team and if it’s there they’re going to be aggressive to go get it but they’re not going to just make change for the sake of making change they’re willing to bring as many people back as they need to if it’s not the right time is that kind of what you’re hearing
yeah I think you know Scott Perry and Joe Dumour has kind of got grouped in together as this old guard coming back in when they both got hired and Scott Perry has so far clearly shown much more restraint than what his counterpart is doing with the Pelicans and I think also both situations to go back to that parallel are interesting being that these are I mean the Kings just to zero it in here it’s obviously a roster that still does have a lot of talent across the board like forget about the equivalent of the equivalence of the talent with the contract in the case of a Zack Lavine let’s say but I think generally speaking like just who is a good NBA player that have unique skill sets or elite skill sets or plus skill sets that’s up and down this roster so I think because of that and the record also wasn’t exactly what you’d want it to be and the fit of these pieces have been suboptimal you’re going to be able to have a lot of conversations like when you have a lot of B minus to B+ players for example those are the types of players that aren’t going for a Desmond Bane price or even the price thresholds similar to that that Boston setting for Derek White for example so I think naturally just maybe this sounds like a couch to answer but you’re going to have a lot of interest if you’re putting these players on the board and for a new front office that has been out of the game for a bit you know as well at the top it it it makes logical sense it’s a business that’s unfortunate but to just put out your players names and see what they’re worth if you don’t know because you haven’t been calling about those guys so I think all those conversations to make this to a close outside of Domas and Keegan Murray I think will happen and I think that doesn’t mean there’s going to be a fire sale but I think that they will be looking to be opportunistic if plus value deals end up uh presenting themselves and so that’s where you come into this next part monday’s the start of free agency and Casey and I and and I think a lot of Kings fans and reporters have started to kind of put the pieces of the puzzle together and it starting to wonder if Malik Monk is around next year he is a massive crowd favorite for sure uh but when Scott Perry laid out what he thinks the principles of this basketball team is going to be not really sure that Malik fits that uh he’s also an asset he’s a good ball player and a lot of people have their eyes on Toronto and Emanuel Quickwick guys that have a history with Scott Bar Scott excuse me you heard anything about that you you you are we losing Malik can’t give a definitive answer right now uh but definitely that Emanuel Quickley idea is certainly out there in the ether and I think to your point Malik Monk will have a market because his contract what’s he at 18 top of that is that yeah above the mid level and that’s kind of the ballpark right now this whole offseason right every free agent pretty much outside of one or two lucky guys depending on how the how the sign and trade market breaks you’re looking at how much of the mid level you can yet and so teams are looking at player contracts in relation to that so I don’t agree with this but like there’s a consensus around the league that Terrence man who just got kind of salary dumped quote unquote in that Atlanta deal for Porzingis he makes 15 millionish across the next three years so people around the league are automatically like oh above the mid-level bad contract so you will have some teams by that logic who look at Malik Monk C18 and say “Ah it’s north of the mid level we’re not so interested.” But the teams that will be more focused on adding for talent and for specific needs especially in the East right now it’s obviously so wide open anyone thinks that they can make one or two moves and really factor into being a homec court team in the playoffs I I think Malik Monk is going to have interest for sure and I think the fact that the guard market right now like if Nquil Alexander Walker goes back to Minnesota there really isn’t so much in their prime age talent like the best guys on the board are uh D’Angelo Russell and Chris Paul and Malcolm Brogden and Russell Westbrook like there isn’t that 26 to 30 year old guy who could definitely fill it up for you guy really on the market so I I think there will be a market for him to pinpoint exactly where right now i h I mean I’m still trying to get ready for a draft show tonight for the second round but yeah it it should kind of crystallize I think over the weekend
well we like you said you got another round of the draft that you got to get ready for man so we appreciate you taking out the time before you go I mean I gotta ask what’s going on back there man what’s going on behind you man i I’m I’m a sneaker guy myself man what’s going on what you got going on back there yeah we got we got two Jay’s two Jordan ones and uh my Blazer i’m trying to get the camera
we can go wide view there we go
there we go there we go yeah
those are the Turbo Greens are my uh Eagles game day kicks and uh
I don’t know i I I I don’t get
I don’t like the Eagles thing but I can’t say nothing because y’all the Super Bowl champions so I can’t say nothing
but some respect Jaylen it’s the truth barkley
yeah I went to that I went to that game i’ve been to the Eagles have not lost a Super Bowl that I have attended so there you go
there you go well done well done
well no we So I went with my brother when we won in Minnesota freeze my ass off there then we didn’t go when we played Kansas City the first time around because we wanted to be in Philadelphia to run rough shot in the streets and that didn’t work out so my brother kind of forced us to go to New Orleans not that I need to have any reason to go at any you know too i love New Orleans and my hot take is that the Super Bowl should always be in New Orleans the fact that the stadium is walkable is incredible and New Orleans is incredible in its own right so love that city and Super Bowl 59 forever good stuff man hey good luck tonight Jake uh and I mean that in a in a good way not in a hey don’t do anything crazy way
thanks man thanks for tapped in we really appreciate you man thanks for Appreciate you guys
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