What is the Sacramento Kings’ Plan? I Found Out. | Locked On Kings
Matt George walks you through everything he’s learned about Scott Perry’s future plan for the Sacramento Kings, including the first phase that the franchise is actively in.
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What is the Sacramento Kings’ Plan? I Found Out.
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I dont care what the excuse is. I dont care what the plan is. I dont care what the explanation is. This ownership is incompentent. 2 playoffs in 20 years is unacceptable. The attitude of everyone in this org is unacceptable. Im done.
The best part about Beam Team One was Sabonis running the offence. He was more of a point that season than Fox… I've never understood why they went away from it. Did the league figure out how to shut it down? Or did they just stop doing because they are stupid? Because they literally dropped it cold turkey… it happens like once a game now.
The plan is to be bad, trade away our best players and picks for peanuts, give Anjali a nepo baby position of extreme privilege so she can play girl boss and f*ck murderers and criminals. They not like us.
I didn't realize how wack Derozan was until he came here…he should be coming off the bench for a good team
Well Doug Christie is the coach and he is responsible 😊
The Kings players as well as the head coach know full well how much they stink!!! Garbage in, garbage out!!!
If this really is a rebuild, then I keep Keegan Murray, Nique Clifford, Keon Ellis and Russell Westbrook. After that, the other guys on the team are available.
I of course have questions.
I really want some draft picks in any trade for Domas, DeRozan, Monk and Lavine.
Even if late in the first round, getting a 1st round pick in the draft for each player, will be huge.
Now, I know with Sabonis and Lavine, probably not getting moved for awhile.
But I can see DeRozan and Monk getting moved by the deadline.
As for Vivek, I will believe it when I see it. I want to believe Scott Perry has full reign to execute whatever plan he wants to do. But, it has to be a wait and see approach.
I just hope they don't go to Memphis for any trades unless it's JJJ.
Vivek got his ultimate guys of DeRozan and Lavine. He gets to watch them every game, live and up close. But when they don’t win games, he’s “upset.” 😂😂 I’ve never seen a more stupid, “smart” billionaire.
Matt? Keon is not D Fox or Malik Monk, or Davion Mitchell!!! 🤣🤣"keon got a lot of credit, for being good vs 3rd string players!!" the Kings will need another D Fox!!! yes young Super Star! Scott Perry lack of understanding what Malik means to this team, says he is clueless! 🤣🤣 Malik is the heart beat of this organization and team! who feels that vacuum???? Scotty??? Scott Perry had time to find big players, he went n found more guards!!! 🤣🤣 An average GM would have said, Sabonis is really a 4 not a 5 in this new NBA. Did Scott study, the beam team at all??? D Fox superstar, shooter, playmaker, not a ball stopper Kevin shooter "not a ball stopper" Keegan shooter not a ball stopper, Harrison Barnes shooter not a ball stopper, Sabonis play maker, not a ball stopper!!! Mallik shooter, playmaker, not a ball stopper. Current roster, DeMar ball stopper, Zach ball stopper, Dennis S ball stopper Russ W ball stopper, Sabonis LOSS N CONFUSE!!! Scott sounds like a con artist, he is looking for Defense minded players? are these defensive guys shooters? are these defensive guys tall? are these defensive guys play makers? would Steph Curry, Jalen Brunson, Luka D, fit Scott P vision??? none of them are great on Defense!!! 🤣🤣🤣 but all of them help u win a lot of games!!! the KINGS NEED BALL PLAYERS, LIKE THEY HAD ON THE BEAM TEAM!!! Matt no one really evaluates talent in the NBA, that making over $10 million dollars a year! 🤣🤣 teams like the Bucks, Rockets, Spurs, Pistons, come in Steal a player like Malik Monk! n tell Scotty good luck finding magical players!
Looks like the plan is to lose
Malik monk still being disrespected as trade bait makes me absolutely hate being a Kings fan… our media sux our front office is trash and the decisions they’ve made make us ASS… damn
Why did Perry Sign Dennis then?
Dutch: I’ve got a plan
You ever watch that show “From”?
All these random people from random places drive into this town and get stuck in a loop where they can never leave. At night, sadistic bloodthirsty creatures come out and tear their limbs off, flay them alive, etc. And any time that the people try to find a way to escape, or show some sort of defiance or modicum of human dignity, the monsters and other hidden powers find new, creative ways to humiliate and torture them. Drive them to madness.
That’s what being a Kings fan is like.
The Kings are well situated to build a new era of sustainable, prolonged irrelevance and futility. Vivek will never stop meddling. He can’t. And I wish Mr. Perry the best, but his one real move so far of signing Schroder may very well be the worst signing in the league this past off-season. It sounds to me like the plan is a half-assed, watered-down quasi-rebuild, because his hands are tied.
The prospect of a few more years of abject humiliation—of being a laughing stock of not just the league, but of being THE exemplar of what a bad organization is for all of professional sports—with a thin hope of maybe becoming something other than that after those (however many) years—is not terribly appetizing. But what else is there?
Every now and then, bad organizations/owners stumble on some dumb luck and accidentally get a generational, transformative player in spite of their total incompetence. That’s our best hope. That and longevity. Live a long life, hope for a weird season where things go unexpectedly well. Go Kings.
I’m not surprised Scott has full decision making autonomy right now. Wasn’t that the way it was with Monte as well until Vivek lost trust in him?
Well so far Scott isn’t rlly looking like a great gm. Dennis for 40m really? Then traded Val for what
Trade Monk or Derozan for a young player? wait Fox and Hali, where’d they go? Oooh
Sac Bulls project has failed miserably.
Sabonis deserves better, hope he finds something more stable
Kings organization issues – poor player development, overpaying mediocre players, over valuing mediocre players
Before I watch, my guess for the plan is they want to get a bunch of shot jocks who don’t play defense
After first part, I was ready go back to arena to watch kings first time after Fox trade. But after second part, I don’t like it. What do you mean evaluate players? They’re mostly veterans, they’ve been evaluated for years! Then trade talk, it’s same old story; ”it doesn’t make sense now but trust us, it will later”. No, it never makes sense, we’re always getting fleeced. Please remind me when did we get really good player for really bad one? And I could’ve told you before that; overpaying schroder and trading for lavine and getting denar was horrible idea. And lastly Vivek is not involved, how about his family members?
I’m tired of kings treating fans like idiots.
I actually just have one question after listening: if the goal with Keon is to avoid bidding against yourself, why not take it to restricted free agency, which allows you to match any offer he gets, vs unrestricted? But that one question is the perfect microcosm for the whole organization: there is no plan, there are only buzzwords & piles of nonsense. This is in no way an indictment of your reporting; you asked the right people the right questions & they just gave you a quite large pile of nothing. You do not need an evaluation period to determine that you had 1 forward on the roster. You do not need an evaluation period to determine that Sabonis' arms weren't going to get longer. And despite all of this talk of evaluation, they somehow knew that Keegan Murray was worth $140 million without seeing him play a season game this season; when keeping cost down was such a focus & he too was going to enter restricted free agency? I suppose that's two questions now.
My point is that these answers combined with their actions make no sense; the goal wasn't to address fans concerns, it was merely to sound busy & hope that would be enough. I look forward to Scott Perry's next tweet the same way that Sysiphus looks forward to his boulder rolling down the mountain so that he may begin the process of pushing it up again.
Matt, do you feel somewhat confident that I can buy a Keon Ellis jersey without being hurt? Also great video, I’m probably in the few but I’m happy with the direction that we are heading towards, we’ve needed a rebuild for such a long time!
Ofc Domas is regressing heavily on his production. He was passing the ball around to Huerter, Harrison Barnes, And D-Fox (All good shooters who are not ball-dominant) to now having to share the court with DeRozan and Lavine, two of the most ball-dominant, iso-heavy players.
There's a reason Domas was having tons of triple doubles during Beam Team 1 year. He was utilized as a point Center, more like Draymond in Warriors system. And Domas is like twice or thrice the offensive player that Dray is 😂
so what happens with Coach and this plan? Is he going to continue for the next two years?
This was the biggest load of damage control Ive ever seen 😂😂😂 You mus be Enjoying Vivek’s leather boot in your mouth
Kings never tanked and never rebooted really from scratch… but after 20+ years after 2005 and before 1998… But it's time to go back to the ground level
Why sign Dennis, Perry?