By Charles Jay
So the rumors turned out to be true. As Vietbet patrons know, they were hanging over the Sacramento Kings for quite some time. George Karl, who seemingly has been around pro basketball forever, will be taking over the Sacramento Kings, having made what is reportedly a four-year deal, and his pledge is to deliver the kind of pace that Kings’ management is looking for.
Mike Malone started off the season by winning nine of his first 14 games, and is supposedly popular with some players, but he did not get along with management or ownership. He was relieved on December 14 after compiling an 11-13 record. It was no secret that Kings’ owner Vivek Ranadive wants his team to play at a frenetic pace. He has talked about it in interviews. Karl is a coach with a history of playing at that tempo. Certainly he is more suited to the task than Tyrone Corbin, who won only seven of his 28 games in an intern position.
Vietbet customers know that Sacramento has been a center for dysfunction for quite some time. One only needs to look at the team “leader” to find some of that. DeMarcus Cousins spoke up about the uncertain coaching situation during the All-Star break, mentioning that he was not “consulted” on the hiring of either Corbin or Karl. Why should he be? Just because he made the All-Star game for the first time? Cousins has admittedly matured a bit, but he has killed a couple of coaches already, figuratively speaking, and he recently celebrated five years without being arrested for anything, if that puts things a little bit of perspective for you.
He did say one thing that made sense; that the rumors flying around about Karl while Corbin was still coaching the team were “unfair.” They most certainly were. Of course, because he is as dysfunctional as the rest of them, Cousins had to add the comment that “I’m with a franchise,” when asked why anyone would expect that management would talk to him before making the coaching change.
Karl is 63 years old and has compiled 1131 wins as an NBA head coach. Vietbet customers know that he does have a habit of being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. But right now, the Kings would settle for just getting there. At the moment this team is hopelessly out of the playoff race, with a 18-34 record (20-29-3 against the NBA betting odds), with only two teams in the Western Conference – the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves – sporting worse ledgers. Karl will take things over on Friday night, as Sacramento plays host to the Boston Celtics.
Whether Karl supplies a long-term solution or not remains to be seen. The Kings may have someone waiting in the wings, as David Arsenault Jr., who was best known for implementing the Grinnell System along with his father at Grinnell College in Iowa, in which the team plays at a tempo unmatched anywhere else, is in his first year as coach of the Reno Bighorns, the Kings’ affiliate in the NBA Developmental League. That hiring was no accident, but Arsenault is only 28 years old, and that is a bit too young to be taking over an NBA team.
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