The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat in the West, and also the organization’s most powerful figures have been laying down powerful rhetoric to that effect all offseason.
“This year, let’s be clear, it is about wins and losses,” owner Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee.
General Manager Pete D’Alessandro told Jones:”We are not trying to be patient anymore, we are not. We want to win more, we wish to be exciting.”
Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for trying to benefit a loyal fanbase by altering the culture. But assigning wins using a roster that simply isn’t cut out to collect a lot of them may be a error. It’s dangerous to shift into short-term success mode too early; it can cut out the legs from a rebuilding process in a means that is occasionally unfixable.
Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which seems intriguing on paper.
But when you realize that the Kings’ most often used five-man unit annually showcased these very same players with 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 is tough to see where the impression that this group can win stems from.
Maybe it’s the improvements of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and newcomer Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it’s religion in Cousins’ continued advancement.
Who knows?
This is a long method of saying that if the powers that be in Sacramento believe this team has a chance to do anything, the cold reality of title odds at 250-1 is a far more accurate appraisal.
Not this season, Kings.

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