Accidentally posted this in the Around the NBA thread. Re-posting here:
Cousins is by far the best center in the NBA, and Sacramento is wasting his talent by hiring one incompetent coach after another. Paul Westphal was one of the dumbest coaches I've ever seen in action. Keith Smart wasn't much better. Corbyn was a disaster. Malone was the only decent coach, but I think even he is overrated by most Kings fans, because he is the only not-completely terrible coach they have had. I think Karl is doing a decent job with their offense, but their defense has to be one of the most atrocious I have ever seen from an NBA team. They just switch on everything all the time, giving the opposing team any mismatch they desire. They don't try to get through even the softest most half-assed screens. They actually have decent talent around Cousins now, for the first time in his career, but they need to get a coach who will sort out their defense really badly. Unfortunately for them, they will likely lose Rondo in the offseason, and Sac isn't exactly a prime destination for free agents, especially now that everyone will have tons of cap space. This summer they really need to find a good coach, do whatever they can to keep Rondo or grossly overpay a decent PG, and get some players who can defend. If they don't make the playoffs next year, they will lose Cousins and go into another rebuild without having made the playoffs for 11 years.
If he is traded.