Saving the Sacramento Kings, step 4: Build everything around Fox and Bagley
The most important thing for the Kings to do is to continue to build around De’Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley III. If nothing else, the one thing that the Kings have unanimously done right is draft Fox, and they need to fully hand over the engine of the team to him.
Bagley has shown promise early on in his career, but the fit on the team is questionable with this current roster. The team needs to lock Bagley into the power forward spot and have him grow to be more of a perimeter threat. From there they can fill out around the pairing.
Richaun Holmes has shown great prowess as a defender and roll man, he makes sense to continue to play for the team as a long-term center. Outside of those three, the rest of the roster can really be shaped and molded around the young duo.
Emphasis should continue to be on the wings with a 3-and-D philosophy. Fox is going to have the ball and run the floor, Bagley hopefully will develop to be a viable perimeter threat, and Holmes will man rim-running duties.
If the team can nail the draft and make good moves in free agency, hopefully, the players they bring in will be consistent 3-point threats. They should then put emphasis effort defenders who show more initiative than the current crop of Buddy Hield, Bogdan Bogdanovic, and Nemanja Bjelica have shown.
The Kings actually aren’t in the most horrible spot, they just need to be able to flush out some of the fluff that resides in both their organization and roster to turn and actually flourish for the future.