After an 0-5 start to the season, the Sacramento Kings went 12-9 in their next 21 contests to rally back to 12-14, despite missing both of their franchise building blocks with De’Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley for the majority of that stretch.
Since Bagley and Fox have both been healthy in the last four games, the team has looked somehow worse than they did without them in the lineup. Buddy Hield and Harrison Barnes have been unable to throw the ball in the ocean, Marvin Bagley has been outplayed by Nemanja Bjelica and Richaun Holmes, and guys the Kings committed serious money to in the offseason are either sitting on the bench (Dewayne Dedmon) or are complete liabilities on offense (Trevor Ariza and Cory Joseph.