But Adelman doesn't develop young players...and since the Kings are rebuilding...
Miller's shot has just disappeared. He's playing just as well as he was last season except he's shooting 49% instead of 58%. If he kept pace with the last two years, they would've been in the playoffs.
Justin Williams is someone to definately look at, if he could ever hit a free throw.
The frontcourt sucked this year and the backcourt only does one thing: score.
I don't see how they can rebuild through trades, nobody would want any of their contracts. (Though I assume someone will take a chance on Artest. Though I can't figure out who that would be.)
Plus it would free up 20+ million for the kings to spend on free agents.
Miller: $10.5m
Artest: $7.8m
Bibby: $13.5m
Garcia: $1.2m
Total: $33.0m
Paul: $3.6m
Chandler: $10.1m
Jackson: $5.7m
Total: $19.4m
(19.4*1.15) + .15 = 22.46
22.46 != 33.0
You can't make that trade. (And even if you could, it would only save you $13.6 million, which you would lose half of when you gave Paul a maximum contract.)
but look at the 95 and 96 rockets... They weren't especially talented. But they still won back to back championships.
No, the 1994 and 1995 Rockets weren't especially talented. But they were better than the teams they faced in the Finals, their gameplan was unstoppable, and they got lucky three times in the West in '95. An active big man surrounded by three point bombers, and in '95 with an all-star calibur wing man.
Look at the late 80s Pistons... Who did they have... Isiah Thomas and.....? Rodman and Lambier, good role players, thats it.
They knocked off great celtics (Bird, McHale, Parrish) and lakers (Magic, Kareem, etc) teams just because they had better chemistry.
Actually, they knocked off the Celtics because they were crumbling and the Pistons were the better team by then. (Bird barely plays in '89)
The Pistons were a deeeep team. They went nine deep, and so they were able to overcome top heavy clubs. The 2004 Pistons were the same way. Not because of some "team chemistry" thing. The 2004 Pistons won because they were the better team, not because of chemistry.
Before they won the championship, there wasn't too much hype about Ben Wallace, Prince, Billups, or Rip Hamilton.
Well, Wallace had a couple DPOY trophies. And "hype" from the mainstream media doesn't mean "reality" or anything. Just because nobody in the MSM was paying attention to Billups developing into a superstar, doesn't mean he wasn't.
Trade Miller, tell Bibby he is next if he doesn't start producing, and tell Artest he will be leaving too if he doesn't stop jacking up terrible shots.
All threats that won't mean anything because:
A.) Nobody wants them unless it's for nothing.
B.) They get paid no matter where they play.
C.) If the team sucks, and is telling them to do something, they'd probably rather play somewhere else anyway.
Maybe even run a triangle offense through Martin... That would be quite interesting.
Well, yeah it would. Because I love terrible ideas. I'd love it if the Kings brought their offense to a standstill as they ran it through someone who doesn't pass and isn't amazing at creating his own shot. Miller is the only guy you can even fathom running a "triange offense" through on this team, and if shoots like he did this year he's lost almost half his value. (Remember, in 03-04 when the Kings for a stretch had the best offense in league history running things through Miller and Divac?)
Back when the Kings actually had a good offense, they have five-six guys who could pass the ball. And Webber. And the other two guys were Jackson and Pedja, who shot well and never turned it over. (And Jackson had previously been at Webber's passing ratio.) Now they have three guys. And Ronnie Price. And Artest who shoots well and rarely turns it over. And three of those guys are way overpaid cap anchors who can't be traded and two of those guys are playing worse each year.
Jordan pulled them up with tough love.
Just ask Kwame Brown and the rest of the Wizards!
