Well sure. Some teams will regress, but if that team regressing is the Clippers then the Kings still stent going to beat them. I don't see many teams being underdogs to the Kings this year. All of the teams that were around Sacramento's level improved a lot (OKC, Utah, Phoenix, Minnesota, etc.). If I was going to tier the teams in the West, I would put Sacramento in the last tier of 3 or 4 wins.
It's just a weirdly constructed roster as rumored. Cousins hated Isiah because he was a chucker and so you surround him with two notorious chuckers in Monta and Gay. Rondo doesn't help you space the floor at all, so I'm not sure I understand the point of bringing him together with Monta (who needs the ball in his hand) and Cousins who is a ball dominant big. I love Wes, but who knows how he comes back from his injury.
It is just a weird gamble to take and the payoff is best case scenario of 40 wins.
Monta to Indy.
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getting high picks has worked a lot of times.
i don't think anyone has done it to the extent the sixers have. but you're fooling yourself if you don't think they have a lot of solid assets plus more to come in coming drafts, plus they will have money to sign people when they want to.
they were in on butler before he called off meetings with other teams.