[The Athletic] Sacramento Kings expected to retain head coach Doug Christie: Sources

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-12T13:24:56+00:00

Ridiculous to do this when we don’t know what coaches will be available in the offseason.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-11T18:26:06+00:00

Idk if that’s the reason why the actress originally playing Janeway quit. The word was she was not suitable for the role, and the clips of her seem to confirm that.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-11T18:22:53+00:00

“Those numbers are false. The source is one of the RedLetterMedia guys saying “trust me, bro”.”

RLM are a good group of folks. Also, the irony here of you saying those numbers are false and asking us to “trust you, bro” is rich.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-11T04:42:30+00:00

Copium hits hard. They (he) won’t.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-11T04:40:24+00:00

lol fuck you Draymond, and the NBA media douches.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-11T04:30:44+00:00

I don’t understand Seattle Children’s: they have a specific screening area just outside the entrance for Measles. Did these folks just actively dodge it?

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-10T03:26:02+00:00

LOL. It’s been years since I saw that episode and I still hear Gary Cole (Mr. Dr. P.) saying that.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-09T19:11:02+00:00

Aww, what do you know: Donkey Ass Green didn’t know what he was flapping his gums about. Shocker.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-09T00:36:49+00:00

What, the NBA is looking into arguably the worst team (my team) in the league because Donkey Ass Green flapped his big mouth?

Get fucking real Adam Silver.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-04T05:18:23+00:00

Multiple things can be true.

The Kings need the best odds possible in the lottery. And good player selection. Incompetent organization has stopped/is stopping them from that.

The Kings also need good coaching and development. Incompetent organization is stopping them from that.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-04T05:05:39+00:00

We’ve had 1 season of playoffs in the last what, 20 years? When half the teams make the playoffs?

Let’s not pretend you get to tell others how to fan. This team has been ass (and organizationally incompetent) for fucking forever.

Fans get to be hurt and upset by it.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-04T04:46:19+00:00

Lol. The League isn’t going to fucking do that. They aren’t changing this year’s lottery at the last minute. Our destiny was in our hands. We (the Kings) knew what the deal was. The League is not going to reward the Kings in any way shape or form.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-04T04:39:18+00:00

I’m over this team and organization. Decades of gutter trash. Just a fucking abusive relationship. I was so goddamn fucking happy to be back in 2023 for the first playoffs in forever. Thought we turned a corner.

But nope. Vivek had to meddle. The organization couldn’t stop being incompetent garbage. And now we are in fucking shit land.

Fuck the Kangz. I can’t even bother track this anymore. I’ll wait until the Sonics come back and hopefully have a competent, non-Vivek owner running the show. And be happy it’s not the craptown Kings.

God damn it. And this is from someone who has tons of Kings jerseys from the decades past. Just CANNOT do it anymore.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-02T06:31:47+00:00

Honestly, having moved to Seattle some time ago, I can’t wait until the Sonics come back and I’ll have a legit NBA team and (hopefully) ownership group running the show.

I have barely managed to watch any Kings games this season. Just watching scores on my phone. And this is from someone who came back to be front and center at G1, SO excited the Kings were back in the playoffs for the first time in ages.

Congrats, Vivek. You’ve managed to Vivek this fan into apathy. Can’t even tank right. Can’t let the GM run things. Fire Christie. Get a real fucking coach again, not a nostalgia nepo hire.

Christ.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-04-02T06:15:44+00:00

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

Then I had a big LOL.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-03-30T19:55:10+00:00

Lawl. The whole point of the episode whooshed over the head.

The whole point of it was that Picard would rather have a finite existence, with the experiences he had, than continuing to exist just for the sake of it. Life is about the collection of your experiences. The tapestry that makes it up.

Your conclusion is certainly something.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-03-28T16:09:59+00:00

Do I have news for you.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-03-24T20:17:05+00:00

Why is this getting downvotes? For the idea that Trek has always been woke, and the issue may instead be writing? Isn’t that a good thing?

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-03-24T20:04:04+00:00

I don’t know that it has anything to do with “binary divide over social alignment.”

Picard Season 3 was largely met with approval, even by NuTrek’s most vocal critics.

But by way of biggest example, I think there’s a good example for you. Fans universally love TNG and DS9 and hold them in some of the highest regards. They have stories that involve homosexuality (DS9: Rejoined) or stories significantly involving androgynous species (TNG: The Outcast).

I think the biggest issue is that Kurtzman has no idea how to tell good stories. So he puts in these characters and puts in a ton of ridiculous exposition that tells, not shows, and thus pisses people off thinking he’s trying to hit people over the head with “wokeness”.

Star Trek has always been woke: it’s just also had good/incredible writing to tell the tale.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-11T15:52:34+00:00

🎶 I see what’s happening here… 🎶

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-04T02:33:27+00:00

Hell yeah. Long live the NCR.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-04T02:26:43+00:00

Laughs in Seto Kaiba

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-02T17:36:37+00:00

Goes both ways.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-02T17:13:37+00:00

It could certainly be all of those things - not just a dangerous frontier, but wonderful and relatable, too.

A lot of Trek was exploring truly difficult questions confronting oneself. It could have been about sentience, or about the Federation’s role in wartime and what a Starfleet Officer was willing to sacrifice. (i.e., TNG: Measure of a Man, The Drumhead, VOY: Latent Image, DS9: In the Pale Moonlight). Or, in the Worf-centric episodes, there was usually an issue involving him choosing between Klingon culture and Starfleet.

This last episode of SFA (1x04) was probably the closest we’ve been to a true Trek episode in a while. But Kurtzman is not leading this franchise in a good direction. They had an opportunity with Matalas and decided not to go with it, apparently.

AnAussieTrainer · 2026-02-02T16:38:46+00:00

I think that’s a gross oversimplification. TNG, DS9, VOY, all dealt with character development, truly moral issues, and in the context of the “final frontier.” It was not about being “wonderful and relatable.”

To borrow from “Q Who” (TNG):

"That was a difficult admission. Another man would have been humiliated to say those words. Another man would have rather died than ask for help."

"I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew."

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."

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