With Garrett Temple set to work with wings Justin Jackson and Malachi Richardson, the Kings needed one more piece to challenge a fleet of young shooting guards.īogdanovic and second-year guard Buddy Hield will have the honor of working with an NBA legend.
Zach Randolph, a 16-year veteran, was brought to help Kosta Koufos develop young bigs Skal Labissiere, Harry Giles, Georgios Papagiannis and Willie Cauley-Stein. Point guard George Hill was signed to mentor rookies De’Aaron Fox and Frank Mason. Then they enticed European sharpshooter Bogdan Bogdanovic to join the team on a three-year deal.Īfter building the young core, the focus shifted this week to shoring up the infrastructure of the team with quality NBA veterans. First they went for broke in the NBA Draft, selecting three first-round picks and an early second rounder. Let's have a King on the basketball court as much as possible.The Sacramento Kings continue their summer rebuilding project. Let's have roughly 1/7 of Team USA be Kings.
I doubt if I said anything different than Uncia03 but let's look at the big picture.
We know Vivek is a great man and now a few of the best players in the NBA will learn the same. This very well can be the year "Sacramento as craphole" ceases to be a big issue except for those who simply like bigger cities. It would be nice if they could recruit a specific person but at the least there will be an aura of positiveness about the Kings floating about the USA Team. They can tell those wishing to listen that going to Sacramento isn't the end of the world. These are two likable guys who like each other and can act as emissaries for the Kings. Now if Cuz and Rudy make the team, another piece of the puzzle has been found and this is a rather large piece. As no one on the Kings made the 1st or 2nd team, it points a finger directly at Corbin and Jent. This is not a big deal but it is a piece of the reputation puzzle. The Kings difficulty going forward is much like Boogie's. If both Rudy and Cousins end up contributing to a gold for Team USA, that combined with the rookies winning Summer League, would basically bring all the players into training camp on a mission to continue the winning that took place in the off-season, and that is what I'm hoping to see coming out of training camp to start the regular season.Ĭlick to expand.I've been taking care of other issues in the last few weeks so don't know what has been addressed. There is always the injury concern, but that will always exist to any player working out in the off-season.
In fact, having Rudy on the roster instead of Durant should increase Cousins' chances of making the roster (if there was any doubt in the first place) just due to the chemistry that they would have together.Īnd if we actually went into the World Cup with two participants from the Kings that would be fantastic. With all the talk that has been out there regarding the ridiculous notion of taking Plumlee over Cousins, I don't see how Colangelo invites Cousins' teammate as a late addition then shafts Cousins in the process. So he obviously has a good relationship with Team USA from his days playing there previously. In fact, I almost mentioned this, but in the training camp that they televised (Last Tuesday or Wednesday) I saw Rudy there talking with Cousins, Coach K, and the other Team USA teammates. I just don't see this addition of Rudy to Team USA as a threat to Cousins.