{"id":825860,"date":"2013-12-18T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=25643"},"modified":"2013-12-18T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T15:00:34","slug":"sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings vets coping with specter of trade speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jt_questioning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-25647\" alt=\"Jason Thompson shrugs his shoulders while waiting for a free throw attempt. (Photo: Tobin Halsey)\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jt_questioning.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>This season hasn\u2019t been easy for <strong>Marcus Thornton\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Jason Thompson<\/strong>. Amidst the excitement and buzz surrounding the Sacramento Kings due to the aggressive approach by general manager Pete D\u2019Alessandro to reshape the roster, uncertainty looms ahead for two of the team&#8217;s longest tenured players.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton and Thompson have been fixtures in Sacramento for the last several years. Thompson is playing his sixth season in a Kings uniform while Thornton, a five-year veteran, is in his fourth. But both players have struggled mightily for the Kings this year and considering the trade speculation surrounding them on an almost week-to-week basis, their struggles should be no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d Thompson told Cowbell Kingdom recently of his current campaign with the Kings. \u201cAnd the game was easier years before. Seems like it\u2019s getting a little harder, but you kind of gotta adjust\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson knows the drill by now. For six straight years, the 27-year-old forward has had to deal with questions about his game. And for six straight years, he\u2019s continued to outlast his competition.<\/p>\n<p>The list is long. Thompson has faced a number of challengers to his reign in the Kings front court. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dalemsa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-cowbellkingdom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Dalembert<\/a><\/strong>, Chuck Hayes, J.J. Hickson, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/robinth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-cowbellkingdom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Robinson<\/a><\/strong>, Patrick Patterson and Carl Landry are just some of the players who\u2019ve tried to take Thompson\u2019s spot in the past. There were others (remember <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mayse01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-cowbellkingdom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sean May<\/a><\/strong>?), but just like the names mentioned prior, they\u2019ve come and gone while Thompson has remained.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his track record of success, Thompson continues to face a carousel of challengers. The Kings brought back Landry for a second tour of duty and just picked up Derrick Williams, Rudy Gay and Quincy Acy who are all capable of stealing minutes from Thompson at power forward. Throw in the fact that Thompson has had 63 different teammates and five different head coaches over the course of his career and you have to wonder if the constant turnover coupled with the recent trade speculation is finally wearing on the 27-year-old big man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean it does get frustrating,\u201d Thompson said when asked of having to prove himself time and time again. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy when you don\u2019t see familiar faces coaching you and on the court with you as well. It doesn\u2019t get easy, but that\u2019s just life at the NBA at times. I\u2019m not sure if any other guys have gone through that, but I just try to learn from it and get better each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s struggles are evident through his play and his numbers. Despite reclaiming his spot in the starting lineup, Thompson is playing at a career-low rate. Through 23 games, he\u2019s averaging just 22.8 minutes per contest. It doesn\u2019t help Thompson\u2019s cause either that he\u2019s averaging the most personal fouls per game (3.4) since his sophomore season in the league.<\/p>\n<p>His offensive output has taken a hit this year as well. After shooting above 50 percent from the field his last three seasons, the Kings big man is just at 48 percent this year. With the development of DeMarcus Cousins\u2019 low-post game, Thompson has found himself positioned at the elbows and free throw line more often in the Kings\u2019 offense this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean it\u2019s tough not getting as many touches and not being able to get into a certain type of rhythm,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cEspecially with the different types of players that\u2019s coming in the rotation and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/thornton_frustrated.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25648\" alt=\"Marcus Thornton frustrated during a match-up with the L.A. Clippers. (Photo: Jonathan Santiago)\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/thornton_frustrated.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Thornton has struggled equally as much, if not more than Thompson this season. Two years removed from leading the Kings in scoring, Thornton is averaging just 8.1 points per game while shooting 35.3 percent from the field and 28.2 percent from 3-point distance &#8211; both career lows. \u00a0He\u2019s also been a healthy scratch from five games this season. Not since his second year in New Orleans has Thornton missed action due to a coach\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old veteran came into his fifth campaign with the starting shooting guard position his to lose. With the departure of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/evansty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-cowbellkingdom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tyreke Evans<\/a><\/strong>, Thornton appeared to be the ideal bridge to help ease the NBA transition for rookie Ben McLemore. However, he found himself competing for minutes with Jimmer Fredette through preseason and eventually lost the starting gig to McLemore after the Kings\u2019 first six games.<\/p>\n<p>With roughly $16.5 million owed to him this year and next coupled with his struggles on the court, Thornton has been rumored to be on the trading block just as frequently as Thompson. He has been dealt once before, but the specter of another deal hanging over his head can&#8217;t be easy to shake. Thornton&#8217;s trying his best, however, to block out the noise and do what he can when presented the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just gotta keep your mind on one thing and that\u2019s playing the game of basketball,\u201d Thornton said recently to Cowbell Kingdom when asked about the difficulty of shutting out the distractions. \u201cYou can\u2019t control what goes on outside of basketball. Just try to focus on what you can do to help the team win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As coach of the Kings, it is Michael Malone\u2019s job to put Thornton, Thompson and the rest of his players in positions to succeed. But keeping them engaged in the thick of major turnover through the first month of the season is another story. \u00a0Malone does what he can, reminding players to stay prepared because of the anything-can-happen nature of the NBA. But ultimately, the responsibility to stay focused while surrounded by trade talk and hearsay lies solely on the player himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the NBA,\u201d the Kings head coach said prior to Sunday\u2019s meeting with the Houston Rockets. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have mental toughness and you can\u2019t understand what the NBA is about, I don\u2019t know how much I can help you. You\u2019re a professional, you\u2019re getting paid, you have a job to do. My expectations are that you come to work everyday and you do your job. And if you\u2019re not mentally strong enough to do that, then obviously you\u2019re not going to be ready when you\u2019re called upon and you\u2019re only going to make your situation that much worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty. Following the off-court events of the last few years, surely Marcus Thornton and Jason Thompson thought they\u2019d heard the last of that concept in regards to their careers. But with the Kings still actively dealing, it\u2019s an idea they\u2019re having to familiarize themselves with one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tough season for Jason Thompson and Marcus Thornton has been mired in trade rumors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[34017575,610259419,610259684,35890,610259592,610259429,15283471,4764763,5944924,1032221,76563,610259346,610260247,7161141,2629175],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sacramento Kings vets coping with specter of trade speculation - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sacramento Kings vets coping with specter of trade speculation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-18T15:00:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jt_questioning.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Sacramento Kings vets coping with specter of trade speculation\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-18T15:00:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-18T15:00:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/\"},\"wordCount\":1108,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sacramento-kings-vets-coping-with-specter-of-trade-speculation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jt_questioning.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ben McLemore\",\"Carl Landry\",\"Chuck Hayes\",\"Featured\",\"J.J. 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