Since I watched the NBA, I've never seen the Kings in the playoffs...
More than a decade, look at the kings around the comrades- in arms, after sending away Wiggins, the Timberwolves finally cleared the clouds and found a way to the playoffs, and the sun, they directly carp jumped the dragon gate, turned over to become the first in the league today, only the kings, still struggling in pain, as of now, they have only achieved a record of 27 wins and 49 losses, ranking 13th in the West, only 5 games more than the Thunder, who are the first in total salary.
The King's problems are too many, the most fatal of which is the lack of training ability, as well as long-term strategic vision, more than ten years, only cultivated Cousins, Fox 2 stars who can put on the table, as for other geniuses, basically reduced to parallel goods, others do not say, such as Stauskas, even if they leave the King, they have not been able to play, but Marvin Bagley, a draft champion of the year, a talented top rookie, but also not valued by the Kings, which is a bit unspeakable.
Scouts who have watched Bagley's games will be impressed by his talent, just like Durant, Bagley is also a big man with a height of 2.11 meters, but he has the skills of a small striker and athletic ability, from high school to college, he is an insoluble existence.
In his first year of high school, he averaged 19.6 points, 10.3 rebounds per game, and led the team to the state championship, and as soon as his junior year of high school ended, he jumped to Duke University;
In the first season of the NCAA, the 18-year-old Bagley showed extraordinary maturity and stability, although he had to face his classmates who were 3-4 years older than himself in every game, Bagley could still give and give, handing over a report card averaging 20.7 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, setting a new series of team records, as well as historical records, which is why he was able to pressure Doncic to be selected as the top of the list.
However, it is such a genius with a very high ceiling, but it has never been taken seriously by the king, no way, the king's management, after ten years of infighting, has long been divided into multiple factions, they denigrate each other, tear each other down, suspect each other, even the head coach will be involved, so many of their decisions, not from the perspective of the team, including the choice of Bagley, is only Divac's wishful thinking, completely disrespectful to the opinions of the coaching staff, the result is that Divac and coach Jogel were both fired.
Bagley, on the other hand, has become cannon fodder in infighting, a victim of power, has not received enough room for growth, and his performance has declined year by year, and his self-confidence has been seriously destroyed.
In his first year, he averaged 25.3 minutes per game and averaged 14.9 points and 7.6 rebounds.
In the second year of his career, he averaged 14.2 points and 7.5 rebounds in 25.7 minutes per game.
In his third year, he averaged 25.9 minutes per game and averaged 14.1 points and 7.4 rebounds.
In the fourth year of his career, he averaged 21.9 minutes per game and averaged 9.3 points and 7.2 rebounds.
During Wharton's tenure, Bagley was even more hidden in the snow, sometimes even the big list could not enter, basically sat on the title of "parallel goods", fortunately the salary was high enough, forcing the king to have to trade, 42 days ago, he was sent to the Pistons, leaving the cloud-shrouded Sa City, so after changing the environment, what about Bagley's performance?
After a short period of adaptation, Bagley has gradually gained the trust of Coach Casey, slowly rising from the bench to the starting lineup, especially in the last 2 games, Bagley has 25 points, 5 rebounds, and 27 points, 7 rebounds, for the first time in his career, he has at least 25+ in 2 consecutive games, and throughout his time with the Pistons, Bagley has averaged 27.6 minutes per game, can get 15.2 points, 6.9 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.8 steals, plus 0.4 blocks, shooting 55%, including points, steals, Shooting percentages are all career highs.
Now Bagley, has gradually found the student era of playing confidence, the ball attack is very resolute, of course, the efficiency is not low, the real shooting rate in March is close to 60%, 117 points per 100 rounds, according to this trajectory, the renewal should not be a big problem, and the Pistons will have a position left for Bagley in the future.
In fact, not only Bagley, leaving the Kings' Halliburton, is getting closer and closer to the All-Star, joining the Pacers so far, he has averaged 16.2 points, 4.3 rebounds, 9.5 assists per game, shooting 47% from the field and shooting 40% from three-point range.