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Post by hi224 on Apr 3, 2021 1:00:45 GMT
any chance they feasibly improve?.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Apr 3, 2021 1:26:04 GMT
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 3, 2021 1:37:11 GMT
No.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 3, 2021 3:11:13 GMT
If they move to Mexico City or Las Vegas maybe.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 3, 2021 5:55:50 GMT
Like any sporting entity in a closed system of course they can with a ton of money spent in the right places by someone or a group of someones with ambition.
What doesn't work is banking on winning the draft lottery and build your team around one guy with role players. You see teams try that and they always reach a certain level and then stop.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 3, 2021 7:20:55 GMT
Like any sporting entity in a closed system of course they can with a ton of money spent in the right places by someone or a group of someones with ambition. What doesn't work is banking on winning the draft lottery and build your team around one guy with role players. You see teams try that and they always reach a certain level and then stop. A franchise can get ownership that finally gives a damn. Or a franchise an luck into that one game changing player. From 1933 to 1971, the Pittsburgh Steelers were a laughingstock. Not only never a whiff of the playoffs but only four seasons of above .500 records. Finally a playoff in 1972 which was the start of a run of excellence. Same owner, Art Rooney, who bumbled through the years. They got the right coach, Chuck Noll, a couple outstanding drafts and suddenly became elite. Historically, the Brooklyn Dodgers really were "Bums" before 1941. Take the Chicago Bulls. Definition of a "meh" franchise until the 1984 Draft and some luck (if Portland didn't take Clyde Drexler the year before, they draft Jordan at #2, not Sam Bowie). The Patriots were nothing special until Brady. All of those franchises were viewed as losers. The Clippers, regular season successes aside, are still a bumbling franchise and always have been.
EDIT: I do think it's tougher in the NBA, a league rigged for the success of it's Super Teams. And i doubt the tiny marker Kings will ever be that
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 3, 2021 8:26:36 GMT
I really thought they had a chance a few years back with Joerger as coach
Fox
Willie Cauley Stein
Buddy Hield
Bogdan
Think Harry Giles was on that team - might have come a year later
Had some older vets like Carter/George Hill
They were fast, fun and exciting to watch and put up ridiculous numbers - turns out WCS and Giles didn't turn out to be much. Hield was an odd situation. Was complaining about not making $100 million then got a huge contract and then seemed to be in the doghouse (don't know if he's still on the bench or starting again)
Were supposed to make the next step and fired Joerger who did a decent job and brought in Luke Walton and they've been pretty much bad since. Disappointing
I thought Hield was going to get traded during the offseason and then again this deadline
Disappointing team - so I'd say no - trade Hield and fire Walton (and I don't like calling for a coaches job - but they've taken a step back when they were supposed to go forward)
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