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Acid rain is pouring down in Sacramento and all the Kings front office is doing is staring up at the sky with their mouths open.
Okay, so the Kings are 1-10. Okay, so their star center wants to get the heck out of dodge. Okay, so the one bright spot out of the entire tire-fire – rookie Darius Acuff Jr. – is so depressed that he’s pleading with the public, hoping no one will see him as a “loser.”
Okay, so it’s more than bad – it’s a bloodcurdling nightmare, and has been for a long while.
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While there are those who are begging the front office to burn it all to the ground and start building from scratch around Acuff Jr., there appears to be an odd roadblock in the way, as New York Times reporter and beat writer for the Kings, Sam Amick, says.
“The messaging is, I mean, I still think it, you know, preferably for them (the Kings) would be no move all season long, They’ve put themselves in a tough spot here when it comes to the hesitancy to make a move now and it’s a pretty strong hesitancy,” Amick said on Thursday to Sactown Sports 1140. “The other night there was enough chatter that, you know, cause we talked offline, I looked into it to see if they might’ve been making a move the other night and the messaging is, I think, preferably for them would be no move all season long. You know, and then we’ll just see how ugly it gets and whether or not they can kind of withstand that pain.
“The issue though, and the spot they put themselves in is, it does not seem like there’s much appetite to just move Mike Woodson over as, you know, the top assistant being the head coach. They are sensitive to the idea that Darius Acuff potentially would have three different head coaches in his first season. They don’t want that.”
After hearing the words the rookie uttered following Tuesday’s loss to the Orlando Magic, it’s hard to believe that nobody at the top has asked whether switching coaches would be worse, or better, than being subjected to loss after loss after freaking loss.
So consistency is key, but now it’s time whether consistency means keep losing night after night, or switching up coaches and building up a brand new consistency that involves the win column.
Acuff Jr. is averaging 26.2 points and 7.3 assists per game this season. Currently, he has 288 points, which is the most by any rookie through the first 11 games of the season since Michael Jordan tacked on 289 for the Chicago Bulls in 1984, ESPN reported.
Things are so bad in the River City that even former Kings’ point guard De’Aaron Fox spoke about the rookie and gave him some advice following Sacramento’s loss to Fox’s new team, the San Antonio Spurs.
“I mean, just be patient,” Fox said to Sactown Sports 1140. “I think that was the big thing, and we turn around for a bit. Obviously, it wasn’t a long process, but try to find that consistency. And obviously, when you have coaching changing and things like that, it’s hard to find that, but at some point you want to have that type of stability.”
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