Sacramento Kings: 250-1
The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat from the West, and the organization’s strongest figures are laying down powerful rhetoric to this impact all offseason.
„This year, let’s be clear, it’s about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro advised Jones:”We are not trying to be patient , we are not. We want to win more, we want to be more exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for aiming high, for trying to reward a loyal fanbase by simply changing the culture. But assigning wins using a roster that simply is not cut out to collect many of them might be a mistake. It’s harmful to shift into short-term success mode too early; it can cut out the legs from a rebuilding process in a way that is occasionally unfixable.
Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which sounds fascinating on paper.
However, when you realize that the Kings’ most frequently used five-man unit annually showcased these very same players with all the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard instead of Collison and that said unit handled a net evaluation of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it’s tough to see where the belief that this team can win comes from.
Maybe it’s the improvements of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and rookie Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it’s faith in Cousins’ continued advancement.
Who knows?
This is a long way of saying that if the powers that be in Sacramento believe this team has a shot to do anything, the cold truth of title chances at 250-1 is a far more accurate appraisal.
Not this season, Kings.
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