This guide exists because I wanted to figure out what our free agent possibilities were for the next few years under various scenarios and decided to subject the rest of you to my inane ramblings.  It also helps that I am pissed off I have to work today and Friday which has motivated me to be more productive in terms of FanPosts than actual work.

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I was interested in trying to determine what we are doing on offense, so I rewatched the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters of last night's Utah game and made some notes.  I was real interested in determining how often we are getting the ball to a post player, and whether it was working or not.

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Well, we waitied all summer for this, here at the NBA Masochist Forum.  No wins, three losses, but some items worth noting and getting excited about.  Note that I'm giving out these grades based on my (hopefully) reasonable expectations, not comparing players to each other.

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The emotional transition from a fan's perspective is one of the best things about sports, especially as a long-term fan.  From the team coming to Sacramento (yes I'm that old), to the reality of bad basketball, but our bad basketball.  The excitement of getting the number one pick, the reality of Pervis Ellison; years of misery balanced by the pleasure of watching a true pro, the Rock.

The rejection of a young prima donna who doesn't want to play for your team.  The disbelief of the turnaround.  Witnessing a revolution, seeing a young point guard bring art back to basketball.  Revelling in the beauty; watching the development of a contender.  The excitement of rooting for a team that is truly your contender for years, the disappointments, rooting for the ultimate anti-hero Chris Webber.

The decline, pretending there isn't a decline, when its plain to see.  The apathy knowing your team is "ok" but really has no chance; hitting bottom.  So why am I as excited now as I have been in years to watch our team? 

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A lot has been said about the draft, we've been through the roller coaster, everyone's coming to terms with where we are going as a team.  There have been dozens of opinions posted; we should have taken Rubio, Evans will be John Salmons, Evans will be the Big O.  Cutting through all the opinions, there's only one thing we actually know:

Given the chance, Petrie selected Evans over Rubio.

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Now that we know where our #1 pick is (boo/hiss) I thought it would be interesting to lay out my hopes and expectations for the summer and see how many (if any) our beloved GM achieves.  I also think its much more fun to do this now, and then look back on it, rather than just second guess later. 

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A few months ago, intrigued by Mr. Thompson's growth, I looked at his compiled statistics in his rookie year up to then and tried to figure what NBA player those statistics resembled.  I thought the same kind of exercise with resident star Kevin Martin might be interesting.

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