Rudy Gay Traded to Kings

[Mexi]

Uh hello
This aids the kings tank

But really, this is their new ownership making a "splash"

I guess jimmer is going to see some backup pg minutes

Idk what the fuck the kings are doing. Isaiah is goinf to start too and he isnt a passing pg anyways


Gimme this lineup
Isaiah, thornton, gay, dmc
lol

 

[jonathanlambert33]

What's really sad is for the first time in his career, DeMarcus Cousins is finally living up to the hype that surrounds him.

 

[NV]

Thomas-Mac-Williams-Gay-Cousins
 
On paper that's solid at least. 
 
Idk maybe he'll change his ways. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He won't, we are way past that.

He's only the fourth player in NBA history to use 30% or more of a teams possessions, and shoot below 40%. That's a historically rare combination of shot chucking and brick laying.

 

[NV]

Still a lot of time left.
 
Hopefully he's motivated to prove people wrong.
 
We're a young exciting team without much of an offensive identity. This is a low for him FG % wise so it's not like he can't improve upon it. 
 
Set to debut Wednesday against the Jazz. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He's 27 years old, if he was going to change his ways, it would have happened already. At 27, he is what he is.

He's been saying the past few years he was going to put a bigger emphasis on things, and maybe he has, but at the end of the day he is what he is. He is not a guy that chucks up a ton of contested threes, or long twos. That's a misconception with him. That is not why he shoots such low percentages. Truth being, 60% of his shot attempts this come from within 16ft (about the short corner/ft extended area) and at the rim. Last season 61% of his shots came from that area. He's just not a very good scorer.

 

[NV]

He might not be an efficient scorer but he's certainly not a bad scorer..
 
And he wont even be the go-to guy on Sacramento. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

What kind of scorer is he then? He's definitely not good or even average.

0.93 points per play, good scorers are up around 1.02 (Eric Gordon, Luol Deng type guys) points per play, elite of the elite is 1.20 points per play (LeBron, Durant), 2nd tier or elite are guys like Paul George, Kevin Love, etc.

 

[NV]

He's a career 18ppg 44% shooter i don't know how you just dismiss him as a below average scorer. 

 

[elcheato]

Rudy is definitely better than he has shown as of late, but what he has shown as of late is so bad, its hard to dismiss

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He's a career 18ppg 44% shooter i don't know how you just dismiss him as a below average scorer.

Sports are "what have you done for me lately" leagues. Rudy Gay hasn't shot 44% or better since 2011-2012 season. And even 44% is still below average for his position. And still, I would put more stock into something like true shooting percentage, and hasn't been average in that since the 2010-2011 season. And he's never broken the barrier of "good" which is 56%. His best season was 54.8%, in 2010-2011. If you expect him to be anything other than a chucker who shoots a very low percentage, you will be disappointed. THAT's what he is. We aren't talking about a short string of 20 games or something that he's been off, he's been a low percentage player his entire NBA career aside from maybe a season or two during his rookie contract. And he's taken that to a whole new level as of late.

Bottom line is, Gay makes you worse. Not better. There's a reason Masai Ujiri, who's one of the better GM's in the league, was so desperate to trade him, and there's a reason every team in the NBA gave an abrupt no.

 

[Pugz]

i also think it shows something when dumars who was rumored to be interested in rudy turns down any offer, even when it's dumping our own trash

 

[jonathanlambert33]

The Raptors canvassed damn near the entire league in their quest to become the second team in two seasons to dump Rudy Gay well in advance of the trade deadline, according to sources across the NBA. They went to every team that made at least some theoretical sense: Detroit, with expiring contracts and at least some need on the wing; Milwaukee, with fading postseason ambitions and a massive hole at small forward the Greek Freak isn’t quite ready to fill; Cleveland, with a playoff mandate, a GM on shaky ground, and perhaps the worst group of starting wing players in the league; and many others.

Everyone said no, and they did so abruptly. This is how far Gay’s value has declined league-wide over the last 18 months. I know GMs who say they wouldn’t touch him now in free agency for the midlevel exception. Only one team was left: the Kings, with a new ownership group determined to make a splash and a new GM, Pete D’Alessandro, who worked with Toronto GM Masai Ujiri in Denver. The Kings’ wing rotation is a disaster, even after the recent acquisition of Derrick Williams, who has never resembled an NBA-caliber small forward. The Williams swap and DeMarcus Cousins max-level extension left Sacramento without meaningful projected cap room this summer, putting the Kings in a position where they could plausibly look at Gay’s $19 million player option for 2014-15 and say, “No harm, no foul.” The Raptors were betting Gay would pick up that option given his poor play this season, and dealing Gay allows them to plan with more certainty.

And so here we are: The last remaining Rudy Gay suitor has agreed to send four rotation players to Toronto in exchange for Gay and (very tall) salary filler. If you’re even a medium-level NBA fan, you probably know the names of all four players going to Toronto. But don’t be fooled: This is a salary dump. This is not about Patrick Patterson, or Greivis Vasquez, the league’s second-leading assist man last season. This is about Toronto sloughing off Gay’s endless barrage of midrange bricks and beginning a full teardown — with the potential for a top-five pick in this draft, max-level cap space this summer, and similar space every summer going forward.

 

[RipCity32]

Uriji is a great GM, but if he is trying to cut salary, I really don't see why he would not take that deal we offered before the season started lol. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He probably wanted to see a little bit of Gay first, he may have even bought into the so called "new Rudy Gay."

 

[elcheato]

Yo, I forgot we get the Kings pick if it's 13th or higher.
 
Rudy can and will change

 

[Mexi]

kings are now cheese in 2k
rudy is a 2k god

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Rudy Gay bought tickets for friends & family for last nights game. When he found out he was traded, he asked for a refund. (@sam_amick)
 
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lol

 

[Rios15]

 
Gonna miss Gray and Acy for sure

 

[Pugz]

"I know GMs who say they wouldn’t touch him now in free agency for the midlevel exception," wrote Lowe.