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Pro Basketball Betting – Karl Era Begins for the Kings

  • Updated: February 23, 2015
    • Pro Basketball Betting – Karl Era Begins for the Kings

    By Charles Jay

    Without question, the Sacramento Kings have had an unusual season. It began with much hope, as they sprinted out to a 9-5 record, but it has been downhill from there. If you have ever heard the team’s owner, technology tycoon Vivek Ranadive, speak in interviews, he has talked much about analytics and also about playing a fast-paced, pressing style of basketball that would be pleasing to the fans. Apparently he was not getting that out of Mike Malone, the coach he fired after just 24 games and, we are told, numerous disputes. And Ty Corbin, who was supposed to be handling the job on an interim basis until the end of the season, was falling way below expectations.

    Pro Basketball Betting – Karl Era Begins for the Kings

    So as BetAnySports customers have probably read, there was some anxiety about making yet another move to address the situation with the Kings.

    Now the team hopes that George Karl will supply a solution. Karl has been all over the NBA, with head-coaching jobs in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Seattle, Golden State and Denver, and he has won 1131 games as a head coach. There were a lot of rumors about him coming aboard, and those had to be rather distracting for Corbin as he was trying to win games. That couldn’t linger, so ownership took the initiative and made the move before the All-Star break to hire Karl, who is rumored to have a four-year contract.

    Karl has a history of playing a finesse-oriented brand of basketball, with teams that like to run. So at least on the surface, he should fit right in. Even though he has rarely gotten far in the playoffs, Sacramento would be tickled to death to get to the post-season anytime soon.

    The team does not have a lot of depth, but BetAnySports patrons know it is not devoid of talent in the starting lineup. Rudy Gay is a natural scorer, and though he has had a tendency to get selfish, he is said to have matured over the last few years. Point guard Darren Collison was a key acquisition (he was with the Los Angeles Clippers last year), as he has provided some on-floor leadership.

    Like it or not, the immensely-talented DeMarcus Cousins is the main focus of this team, as his scoring and rebounding numbers would demonstrate. He knows it too; he openly says “I’m the franchise,” and implies that management might have consulted him in making this coaching change, but didn’t. Any team with an 18-34 record like the Kings has to have some problems, and many NBA betting observers see this club is a potential power keg. Karl is no stranger to working with selfish players; after all, he spent years with Carmelo Anthony at Denver before the team dealt him off to the New York Knicks.

    The new coach begins his journey on Friday night as the Kings play host to the Boston Celtics at the Sleep Train Arena. Ranadive is undoubtedly looking ahead to the future, though, as he brought David Arsenault Jr., well-known as one of the architects of the crazy-fast system at Grinnell College in Iowa, to the Reno Bighorns, the team in the D-League that is affiliated with the Kings. Arsenault is only 28 years old, and this experience is being termed an “experiment,” but we know that this owner loves to think out of the box, so there could be some surprises down the road.

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    Pro Basketball Betting News - George Karl named head coach of the Sacramento Kings, and he will make his debut on Friday night against the Boston Celtics.
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