REACTION: Six-time All-Star DeMar DeRozan joins the Sacramento Kings

REACTION: Six-time All-Star DeMar DeRozan joins the Sacramento Kings

Demar D rozan is a Sacramento King and with Chuck sworski coming up the voice of the Chicago Bulls radio broadcast coming up in about 25 minutes we’ll talk to him about dear yeah as a human uh as a as a player as a a vet all the stuff you want to know but he is a six-time Allstar three-time all NBA player and the Kings gave up two second round picks Harrison Barnes Chris dwarte and a future first round swap on the surface Jason well dwarte wasn’t really fitting in last year Harrison is Harrison but when you look at just at least offensively the the difference between the two it’s a huge upgrade yeah two second round picks whatever right I don’t care um I’ve heard 24 and 26 so let’s call it three years and uh 75 million you know 25 million a year with the the third year uh only partial guarantee that’s going right oh yeah yeah that’s fine in fact his deal is far better than Paul George’s deal and uh obviously George is a better defensive player but their offensive numbers are incredibly similar except that D rozan plays in like 30 more games here than George yeah um I’ll tell you one thing about the trade though and I’m not gonna stick on this but it’s just going to bug me I get it if you had to get it done you had to get it done man I that that pick swap worries me a little bit San Antonio is so smart I know it’s like I get it we’ve talked about it before like oh I don’t have to pay that bill for another 10 years I’m gonna enjoy the sports car now that is a pick swap in six years seven years uh that’s when both sabonis and fox are gonna be in their early 30s assuming they’re still here which odds are who knows and San Antonio it’s just so smart of them that’s Victor wanyama is gonna be what 25 they’re gonna be almost certainly competing for titles at that point or at least at the top end of the Western Conference I just I don’t want to be sitting here and as a Kings fan you have to have this thought where uh you get demard de rozan you’ve got this team they’re a 50- win a year team they’re the BL as always say the example I always use they’re the Blazers with Dame Lillard they’re they’re gonna get to the second round they’re gonna get to the third round sometimes they might even sneak in a Western Conference Finals but they’re ceilinged out everybody gets old you start rebuilding oh we got a pick swap in 2031 the other side of that is it’s a long time for Mone to get it back if he wanted I’m not GNA I’m not going to stick on that but dearo rosen’s a Sacramento King when you thought when you heard that Jason what was your first thought I was very excited for multiple reasons one the player uh and I was I wanted to look up the the stat because I didn’t have it in front of me when I brought it up earlier but just where he is statistically and I know there’s more to basketball than than points but part of the goal is to score more points than the other team and he’s one of the best bucket Getters the the league is had he’s 31st alltime in scoring so if he has a standard year and I’m just giving him he doesn’t have to go off but he’s been a 20 point per score uh score per game um if he has a standard year this year at 31st in the league all time in scoring these are the names he will likely pass this year potentially Steph it just depends on if Steph would probably have to be injured but I’m assuming he won’t get him uh Barkley Iverson Ray Allen Patrick Ying Reggie Miller and Jerry West oh those are some decent names so and now you’re talking about like more of the top 25 and okay so that’s one part um the positives continue to be um a guy who can get his own basket a guy who’s A Gifted passer uh clutch right fourth quarter him and Deon Fox have battled for the most uh clutch points the last couple years uh love that he has a mid-range game loves love that he gets to the foul line um experience he’s been a number one option he’s kind of been versatile you know at times for Chicago he played three and four in a sense um you know when LaVine was healthy he was more in that three four position I think ideally maybe he’s a two but I mean I don’t know I think he can play a lot of different spots um I said it earlier I’ll go back to just the final New Orleans game the sixth loss the second playing game when Monk’s not there right Fox does a lot of the heavy lifting sabonis had trouble with Valen chunis they don’t look the same and then you’re needing Keon you’re needing Davon you’re needing Barnes you’re needing Murray and it just uh it it they didn’t have it and again I’m not saying they win with d rozan but D rozan helps you offensively and for the people which this is a 100% Fair criticism to say I don’t think they addressed their defense I don’t think they did either but I don’t think we can ignore I think a lot of people go they’re fine offensively well they were number one offensively two years ago not sure they were middle of the pack yes so I I mean I think they were middle of the pack in both that’s good be good at be great at something and I think they can be great offensively there are concerns defensively that’s more than fair to bring up um but you know a team that I don’t think was very good defensively and I think statistics showed it was Indiana but they were special offensively yes and they had a great year now things fell right and they got to Boston and ultimately it lost out there but I don’t know that the Kings will do that I just think you kind of need to pick a lane unless you can identify you know a player that makes you that much better defensively but I think they made a player found a player that fits a lot of things offensively there might be something on this and obviously we’re going to talk a ton more about Demar fit but I would say from an NBA from a Kings fan point of view the thing that takes the wrinkles out of the shorts more than any part of this deal perhaps Demar D rozan working off sabonis pick and rolls dude oh my God yeah he’s never ever played with the type of spacing and screens he’s gonna get from this team and from damont sabonis he hasn’t he just not anywhere he’s been the the amount of wideopen midies this guy is going to have and the he is the king of the mid the amount of time sabonis is going to set a screen and dear’s gonna all he needs is a split second and an open shot he doesn’t even need to be open right that’s going to be fun to watch yeah and one of my critiques of the team last year when they talked about you know we didn’t shoot enough threes or what was the spray threes catch and shoot all the things they wanted to do I said great in theory I I thought they were a good shooting team sure I I didn’t think like we had the Splash Brothers like no you know there’ll be Knights on Man keegans on Fire monks on fire her or whoever they’re Fox they’re great there are enough nights are like man the threes aren’t going so and D rozan will shoot them he doesn’t he doesn’t avoid it but he’s not a high volume guy and the fact that if he can get twos he can get some free throws like to stop some of the runs that they were given up last year oh good Demar D rozan got to the foul line all right he’s at least making one most likely two um can carry a team for stretches they’ll be nice well he’ll be the high scorer in the team he’s his best assist years were with Spurs that’s a pretty well-run offense so I think I think they’ll figure it out I think it might be clunky at the beginning I mean it’s it’s yeah you got some gifted offensive players but they they’ll figure it out we’ll take a break when we come back uh that’s the second free agent if you will uh that CHS the kings of their own free will for the culture

Carmichael Dave and Jason Ross react to the news that six-time NBA All-Star forward DeMar DeRozan has signed with the Sacramento Kings.

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