Seems like there's quite a few ruffled feathers over this. Even ziggy lord of the swaggercopter had to break character and retire to the fainting couch, it's simply improper.
Nothing. We should try it with Hopkins and Posey next week. Only way to know if it will work is to try it out in game. And if it doesn't work, who cares. What have the Texans got to lose?
4 on 5 can't work in the NBA. But damn, do I ever want to see them try. I wish way more teams adopted ridiculous gimmicks when they found themselves unable to win traditionally. What's the worst that can happen? You can't double-miss the playoffs.
I'm not entirely convinced it's legal, I know defensively it's illegal to climb up on another guy to block FG's. It's also very difficult to execute. Finally I don't believe it has a track record of success - full court pressure has lots of examples of success at various levels.
I mean, if the Lakers signed Jack Nicholson to a 10 day just to see what's the worst that could happen I would watch with popcorn. Kobe: I want the ball! JN: You can't handle the ball!
Smarter at what? Making money? Sure. Running a company? Probably so. Knowing what doesn't work in the NBA? Not really. He's even admitted publicly that he didn't pick up the sport of basketball until later in his life and it was only through his daughter's basketball team. Trying to run a full court press in the NBA is akin to running the Wildcat in the NFL--it'll work for a spell but it's not sustainable. 4 on 5? Please. Gimmick stuff like that is what elite coaches like Pop and Carlisle eats for breakfast. No one is doubting the owner is a smart guy but a basketball genius he is not.
I heard that Kings were thinking of signing this guy to be the cherry picker... Considering the legality of stilts for all players.
I don't understand going 4-on-5. Why not just play normal defense and then as soon as a shot goes up, 1 player instinctively just runs to the other end. They give up rebounding bodies but still play normal defense.
You get no advantage that way - the player who your sprinter was guarding will just go with him, meaning you need a perfect pass to get it past the now-defender. If your guy is already down the court, you just launch it down there without needing to be precise. That lets the pass be faster and more likely result in an open layup. Practically speaking, the idea would be to let the other team shoot 65% and you try to shoot 80%. The problem is that if it does work, the other team would just leave their crappiest offensive player down at the other end too. So on offense, the Kings would be playing traditional 5-on-5. On defense, it would be 4-on-4 without the other team's worst player. That likely creates more spacing for the offense and gives the Kings a disadvantage there.
http://www.thescore.com/nba/news/659399 Spoiler The commotion over the next long-term head coach of the Sacramento Kings can probably start to quiet down now. In the wake of Mike Malone's removal from the position early Monday, a handful of names had been quickly linked to the opening. For now, assistant coach Tyrone Corbin has been promoted to interim head coach, and while there are names being attached to the position, it's Corbin's for the rest of the season. Short of Corbin completely failing in the role, the Kings won't make a change behind the bench until the offseason, according to a report from Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports. That may be because the organization's preferred successor doesn't want to take on the job in the middle of the season. Earlier reports suggested that Chris Mullin could be a candidate for the job. He serves as an advisor to the organization presently and owner Vivek Ranadive is said to like the idea of adding a name with so much cache to the bench. Mullin also has the confidence of general manager Pete D'Alessandro. While Mullin has no coaching experience - he was a general manager in Golden State before landing in the Queen City - the rest of the season could be an opportunity for him to learn and grow comfortable in his eventual role. According to Amick, Mullin will begin to get more involved with the team in practices and with planning, specifically on the offensive end, though he has no current plans to coach the team. That echoes earlier reports from ESPN that Mullin was unlikely to take his first coaching job mid-season, and if he were to take it, he'd do so to start 2015-16. So the job is Corbin's for the time being, it seems, a nice second chance for him after a somewhat disappointing four-year stretch with the Utah Jazz. It would seem he should be keen to employ some of the more extreme ideas ownership has in mind, so the next few months should be fun. Kings are throwing away this season. Thank God for Les and Morey.
Point and laugh <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The Kings have contacted Vinny Del Negro about its head coaching vacancy, per league sources. Del Negro led Bulls, Clippers to the playoffs.</p>— Chris Mannix (@ChrisMannixSI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMannixSI/status/545003895282757633">December 16, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
We fired Adelman and hired Mchale. It was a lot worse since he was the only coach to give us success post Hakeem (when using the universally accepted metric for success---post season play). Not sure why so many people on here are quick to laugh at the kings.
Les and Morey have been throwing seasons away for flexibility and cap reasons for a very very long time. The sad part about it is...we actually have 2 players that are supposed to be the best at their respective positions.
To be clear, your implying there were moves DM and Les could have made in past seasons that would have had them at a minimum in the WCF - though ideally winning a championship? Because if not, ABSOLUTELY, they "threw seasons away"... if you're not going to get there this year, try and get there next year. The idea that anyone that has been as much a regular of this board as you could possibly believe the DM and Les have been frugal, conservative, penny-pinching, whatever to the long-term detriment of the team is laughable. They've made choices that didn't pan out. Lin over Dragic. Not going hard after Lowry first and foremost. Perhaps amnestying Parsons (though the Fegan ****storm had they not done that made it necessary).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kings?src=hash">#Kings</a> Ranadive Says he expects Kings to reach playoffs with more wins under Corbin then they would have had under Malone.</p>— stevelarge_cbs13 (@largesteven) <a href="https://twitter.com/largesteven/status/545052898216792066">December 17, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Vivek is supposed to be a business and computer genius, so maybe he has a super secret algorithm that makes it possible to conclude that Ty Corbin would lead the Kings into the playoffs and Mike Malone would not.
