Is Pascal Siakam worth the gamble for Kings?

Is Pascal Siakam worth the gamble for Kings?

I don’t know that they can wait until the deadline well you can’t wait until the deadline and I mean you can but here’s the thing people like Pascal are going to be off the table and that’s that’s where the issue lies because you go if you are if you’re looking ahead

And you’re like we can make under the radar tweaks and we think we can be a better team go in that direction wait until the trade deadline do what you got to do but if you know if you are inside that organization and you know you cannot be a better team without major

Tweak then make the major tweak doesn’t Ma I mean does matter what it takes but make it happen I think cakam is getable for the Sacramento Kings okay the question is how concerned are they about making the trade without knowing that he’ll resign with them now with that

Said if they were to trade for SE yakum they could pay him more than any other team would yakum go you know what I don’t care about getting paid a lot more money and just go test free agency or what do you go oh this isn’t too bad it

Goes back to what I was talking to you last podcast about yeah I think there is maybe a perspective from Sacramento that they should think about it’s all right we get him in our building even if he’s questioning what we’re about because we’re Sacramento we have not been good for more than one

Year if we get him inside our walls and show our facilities our coaching staff what our front office is about sabonis and fox and this kind of core that we have and then we win and we make a nice push maybe he’s like I I’ll take

That money winning is going to be the number one thing that convinces any player if you’re trying to resign them right like that is going especially a player like in the tier of Pascal SE yakum winning winning is the number one thing not even money let’s just put

Winning first then then money has got to be pretty but then you’re exactly right Deuce I think there are so many players around this league especially nowadays where you’re still going to have players and and personalities that are like let’s rage on the road and be hung over

While playing let’s you know Club all night do what we need to do whatever but there’s so many players these days that are focused on getting that money going to work and doing their thing and some even like enjoy their this is so F some even enjoy their family life and their

Kids but seriously like that is another reason why I know a lot of players like being in Sacramento because they do enjoy that life and they feel like there’s stability here in the city um and on top of that Pascal seak put him on a scooter behind me while I ride if

Anyone that goes on a scooter ride with me I sell the out of this place you think I work for visit Sacramento we could sell him for sure give us a cut and we’ll go ahead and convince him to stay in Sacramento I see a couple people in the chat mentioning

Oh but dce I don’t think you’re the Kings can get past gyakum without giving up Keegan I thought that at one point too um I think Messi knows at this point Keegan’s off the table Keegan’s off the table like so the talks would not be coming back up potentially if it was

Involving Keegan that is known that is known I think that was known a couple of days ago and if you start hearing stuff in the next couple of days it’s not because all of a sudden Keegan’s on the table I’d be shocked I’d be shocked I think what’s going to end up happening

Is messiah’s like fine you don’t want to give me Keegan then you know what I need I need some pics I need two picks I need three first round picks are you willing to give up three first round picks and I don’t that’s a lot and I don’t want pick

Swaps and Messiah I want P swap Messiah is a wild wild to deal he’s I mean he’s good at what he does he’s done it he’s so good he literally has forced people to give up their first born to make a trade so do you that’s true people don’t

Realize that that’s happened before thank you um and because I see someone saying what about two and a pick swap maybe they could get there or something like that but I do feel like he’s going to want multiple picks and now you think about from Sacramento’s perspective okay getting SE yakum to Sacramento

Adding him to this and if you had you could keep Keegan you got Keegan you got sabonis Fox and sakam that’s pretty nice but are you willing to be like hey we just gave up three first round picks we get bounce in the second round and SE yakum goes you

Know excuse me oh he coughs I’m going Test free agency and then he walks yep he goes you know what not only am I leaving I’m going to Detroit got C cap space I’m going to the Pistons I I don’t know I I’m just throwing something out there like I want

To be the guy somewhere or I want to be the two here I’m not the two well then you just gave up three picks three first round picks in some pieces to get a guy for three months a rental that’s the challenge right you have to have some

Level of confidence that you can keep him I think the next thing too is can you live with it though too if you didn’t get a keep challeng that’s another but that is another part of it the other thing I want to get back to though is something you said about I

Think they need to make one before the deadline here’s the other reason I think it’s important to make one before the deadline if you wait until the deadline there’s like 25ish games left if you make a deal sooner it just allows you more time to get whoever you acquire

Implemented and more comfortable and that’s kind of what the the Clippers did right they didn’t wait till the deadline to trade for James Harden they did it like early early to get him in the fold and they went through the time they they went through a tough time and now

Now what do you know it’s clicking a bit for them and what if they also traded enough away where it they had to and then there was more cap space right and then there was other moves and tweaks that little ones the under the radar ones that we’re talking about what that

Could be made um after a trade like that is made and no and you’re exactly right being implemented and working out all the tweaks playing some crappy basketball together and then figuring it out is definitely something you want to do before it’s too late and I I just

Think SE AUM we know we saw it the other night I’ve said it for I mean I I told Morgan a little bit ago I’m like God I remember talking about the Kings trying to get seak three years ago like this guy is a very versatile player he is

Long athletic he can go get a bucket it gives you some more size at the Wing Spot all of a sudden you’ve got Keegan and SE yakum on the wing things change a little bit you know and of course there are going to be some things to Iron Out

Offensively but I start thinking about the potential of seum bring up the ball little seum sabonis pick and roll you got Fox still you got monk you got Keegan that’s a pretty potent lineup with more size and I think you get better and who knows what else the deal

Could be like could you get a Dennis schrudder back in the deal could that look is it involving more than one team I don’t know I think there are going to be options out there but I think a game like tonight probably makes you pick up the

Phone you know I it has to Ryan says DNM do we need a captain or third star and I think when you I mean here’s the thing in this league too when you are looking at that caliber of player no matter what next to sabonis and fox it’s going to be

Interchangeable at times and that’s what you want you don’t want this whole team to look so different when Fox is on the court um because it’s it’s just you know domos is your big he’s the Hub of the offense but who else is really that Force well adding someone like Pascal

Sakam you wouldn’t just go downhill your identity wouldn’t be completely lost because you’re building a new identity with someone in that same tier of play and David the chess says we don’t need offense no I think the Kings do need some offense they need another guy who

Can go create and get a bucket but I also think SE yakum is a capable Defender that I think could play some good defense in Sacramento too um his length alone I also you know the other thing too is from his standpoint and I’m repeating myself from

The other night but just to reiterate it is you know the pecking order right like Fox and sabonis are going to take a lot right they are okay he’s not even if you go well he could be the number two in Sacramento okay but H how long is he the

Number two is Keegan Rising you know is he the number three is he comfortable being with the number three some nights being the number two some nights being the number one or does he want to go to a team where it’s like hey I’m like two

Or one B ifan if you have the right personality combination it doesn’t matter again I’ll give you this one little nugget I had with my oneon-one with domas sabonis yesterday he he mentioned at one point he goes Fox and I we we both are not too we are we are

Neither one of us care about the spotlight neither one of us care we don’t care who has the spotlight that’s good so I mean that alone Duce you’re one and two guy on this team they don’t care about that so it’s like they just care about playing good basketball

And wherever that means that they’re playing good basketball you know domas if he had a game where he had 20 assists and 20 rebounds and zero points somehow he’d be like great I mean we would all be like great of course but my point is there are a lot of those personalities

On this team especially when you look at Keegan dearen sabonis and then you add someone like Pascal I don’t know what his personality is like I don’t know if he is like craving something else after Toronto that is more in the spotlight or wanting to be that one 1B type guy I

Just don’t know let’s get to some super chats including a familiar face some Kings fans love him Many Many Kings fans hate him Kevin oconor donates $10 saying loving the Trey talk winky face he’s like winky face I told you they need a move he says this is the year to go for

The title window is open next year may not be king should feel urd urgency look at you K K thank you so much um thanks yeah I I think his point about the window is super dead on Denver’s got floss yep I’m watching him the other

Night I’m going do you trust their bench at right they don’t have the same pieces they had last year they got the same core but are those young guys ready there’s flaws there right flaws I’ll say I’ll just say flaws but but that’s the point is there’s flaws go up and down

The West OKC I’m sorry they’re flawed I like them long long term I don’t think this is the year for them and I think they’re patient enough to go let’s just see how this group works together I don’t view them as a legit Contender cuz I don’t like their size Golden State

Warriors flaw Beyond flaw the you got Steph Curry Warriors have the Kings number flawed okay Minnesota they’re looking pretty solid they’re looking really solid right now I don’t completely trust it yet but it’s hard to deny that they defend ant a problem goar has been playing incredible defense he looks spectacular this year

The cat dynamic’s always weird but they’ve got depth they got size they defend okay the the Pelicans flawed Zion’s the biggest flaw they’re flawed but against the Kings I’m not talk but it doesn’t you may not have to play I you’re just talking about in

The west I get it usually there’s a team you like dude there’s like two teams that for sure they are the okay flaw Dallas come on I don’t Dallas not even in the picture for me fla Galore the clipper okay I mean they’ve they’ve been playing some pretty good basketball I think

Partly with the Clippers you’re going track record a bit like do you trust it they’re playing well right now do you trust Kawai staying healthy do you trust that Harden’s going to show up when it counts do you trust all that Paul George right yeah do you trust it okay that’s

It you don’t trust the Suns I know you don’t trust the Lakers we just named all the true people the true teams in the west there is a window weird things happen things break right you can with the right move be in that Contender category in the Western Conference this

Is a year where you can do it yeah um yeah it’s it it it it is it is but I love that we are saying that after a game where the Kings looked sure more than it doesn’t look like one player is going to fix the flaw yeah but you know

What though you say that when one player makes a defensive mistake out there on the floor for the Sacramento Kings it messes everything up sure one player that gets targeted or two players that changes everything so yes I do think one player can shift things especially when you’re talking

About someone as dynamic as Pascal seaka well and even I look at I I look at the way that the Pelicans were blowing up the dhos tonight and I go okay you add someone like Pascal yakum that automatically right there Mike Brown’s not having to run a whole bunch of dhos

He I mean you still can and you can try different things different actions out of the pick and roll you can do so there’s just he’s so versatile and there’s so many more things that you are capable of doing and then you’re adding that length to the defensive end yeah

It’s um it sounds cute right now

Deuce and Mo discuss if the pursuit of Pascal Siakam makes sense for the Kings and the challenges that come with his pending free agency in the summer of 2024.
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