It's been discussed a bit in the comments, but the need for Sergio to get a longer look deserves a space of its own. Here are a few reasons I think Sergio should get more burn.

1. Sergio is entertaining.  This aspect of the game is not spoken of much in this space; presumably because everyone is trying to be taken "seriously" and serious sports fans do not acknowledge that sports are entertainment.

Whatever the reason, the fact is plain; this team is far more interesting with Sergio on the floor than without him.  We are not going to win many games this year, and I'd much rather the time I wasted watching the Kings was spent being entertained than otherwise.

2. Sergio is the quickest of our PG's - and Ziller has oft mentioned and provided the statistical proof that our team does better with a quicker pace.  Sergio seems to push the ball nearly every time down the court - much to my delight and to the benefit of the team.

3.Beno seems to need competition to get fired up - Sergio is an ideal candidate to fire up Wabeno again, as he's seemingly in a mini-slump.  Ideally, Beno'd then play well for the next few weeks so we can get Lebron or someone for him.

Counterarguments

1. Sergio sucks at defense: Our whole team sucks at defense.  We are currently 27th in the league in PPG allowed.  GOD FORBID we should play Sergio and end up 28th.

2. Sergio has been successful in garbage time: therefore he will suck in non-garbage time.  This is ridiculous and incoherent.  We will not know if he will be good or bad in prime time until he is given those minutes.  And I recollect a game or two earlier in the year when he played down the stretch of some close games and generally acquitted himself well.

(Note: I'm from Jersey and Jordan's role in the Net's success in the early 2000's should not be overlooked.  This is more of a fanshot, but the archives of the Star Ledger are N/A)

EDIT FROM TZ: Though the Star-Ledger's archives are forked, I'm not comfortable posting an entire copyright-covered article. Snips below. It's a 2003 article on Byron Scott and Eddie Jordan.

[S]omehow, there is a perception Scott can't coach. It's a school of thought that says Scott was merely a front man, Jordan was the brains behind the team's motion offense, and Scott will now be exposed.

Nets president Rod Thorn calls that a "misperception," calls the idea that Jordan really ran the team a "misconception" and says Scott hasn't gotten enough credit. Scott says the Jordan talk, "sounds like backstabbing to me" and says the Byron-can't-coach movement was started by people within the organization - people he will not name - who resented his rapid success.

"I've been pretty successful since I've been in the league. I've won some championships and done some pretty good things," Scott said. "A lot of it is envy, a lot of it is jealousy, and probably a lot of it is started by people who were close to me - people in the organization. But I don't allow that stuff to bother me." [...]

"The guys are looking at him pretty closely," forward Rodney Rogers said. "Last year when we had pregame talks it was Eddie doing all the talking. Now it's Byron doing all the talking. It's a different approach. Last year guys were sometimes wondering if he could talk. People were wondering if he could handle the team without Eddie around. Now we'll find out." [...]

Scott said the final 20 minutes, where [Lawrence] Frank does most of the talking, are not a representative sample of his practices.

"You can ask the players: Ninety percent of the practice I run," Scott said. "they hear my voice most of the time."

In single-blind poll of four players - single-blind in that the players were not told about what Scott said about his practices - Jefferson, Rogers, Collins and Harris indicated they heard Frank's voice the most in practice. [...]

"He wasn't the brains of everything we did," Scott said. "Defensively, we're the same as we were three years ago. Our players just got better. Offensively, with the Princeton offense, I was with Pete Carril (the offense's creator) in Sacramento before I came here.

A link to a feature story on Williams performance at the summer games is below.  Nice to see him getting some attention - which will hopefully translate into playing time this coming year.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_22770.shtml

P.S.  If we just ignore Shareef, Kenny and Brad for a moment, a starting frontcourt of Mikki and Justin with Spencer as a backup sounds fairly exciting (if Mikki can repeat last years performance, that is)

On a more realistic level, though, Mikki and Justin will serve as a nice set of energy subs.  (Still, the Kings still have at least one too many big men.  I almost think the Kings should just cut Kenny.  The only role Kenny plays effectively these days is as a source of humor.)