Doug Christie

But we saw a lineup of Malik Monk, Daquan Plowden, Zach Levine, Alex Caraban, and DeMontis Sabonis.

So the Kings and Doug Christie clearly trying something.

Trying something to jumpstart the offense.

Especially against the Spurs team with the likes of Victor Wembenyama inside.

You know, the first quarter of this game wasn't even so bad.

A couple of Wemby dunks to start the game.

Doug Christie calls a timeout.

Then the Kings have a nice little response.

And it's interesting because...

These are the areas where I almost feel sympathetic towards Doug because it's your responsibility as a head coach to preach what you want and hold your team accountable to that standard.

But Doug Christie, going back to training camp, talked about being attack-minded defensively, being on the front foot, initiating the contact and not reacting defensively.

to what opposing teams are doing.

Going back to last season, Doug always talks about defensively.

We got to make them feel us.

They got to know that we're there, defend with our chest.

If in those minutes, well, first off, once Cardwell gets those minutes, Acuff should be on the floor with him the whole time.

It's one of those things where it goes from bad to worse.

It goes one of those things where, you know, we talked last year about how Doug Christie never played a single game with what his projected starting lineup was.

Well, that may not necessarily be the case with the starting lineup, but Doug Christie still hasn't coached a game with... what he thought his projected rotation was going to be.

I don't know what Doug's rotation was going to be.

I don't know that Doug knew what his rotation was going to be, but I do know Maxine Raynaud was going to be a part of it.

You've heard from Emmanuel Sharp on this show.

He praised Doug.

Darius at times has talked about Doug Christie.

I hope it's not that.

I hope it's Doug Christie.

If it's not Doug Christie, I hope it's not Mark Jackson.

This is what has been starting to heat up when it comes to Scott Perry and the Kings.

Is Scott Perry just a real old school type

They haven't been able to keep them.

Doug Christie's not a good coach.

And I think most people see that.

I agree with you, Grant.

And it's unfair.

We don't know if Doug Christie's a good coach or not yet at the NBA level.

But I think right now my fear is that the narrative's going to really start to go against him when, as you say, there's really not much he can do.

That to me is...

Can he sustain that, though, before he just loses all friends on the team? I'm curious to hear your take on that.

mean it sounds like he can doug christie is encouraging him to continue to be aggressive like i i think everybody on the king's roster right now knows that they're not part of the long-term plan so it's like let's let this younger guy develop i don't know what and who they would be trading sabonis and levine and like these other guys like malik monkford but i'd imagine they're not on the team Definitely not past this year, but I wouldn't be surprised if they get traded at some point this season.

Levine's a little bit harder to trade because I think he has a really dumb, expensive salary right now.

But yeah, I mean, everything points to Chrissy encouraging him to continue to do it.

And then Precious is going to be the chalk.

Probably the chalk gets value playing the slave, but for good reason.

I mean, Doug Christie loves this guy.

He wants to play him a ton.

Yeah.

Lou Dort strikes me as a Doug Christie guy.

Yeah.

Him and Sharp, they kind of play pretty similar.