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Things have been rough in Sacramento since ... well, since New Year's Day, actually. (Curse you, Kobe.) But things have been especially rough this week, as coach Paul Westphal faced an illness in the family (his wife was seriously sick) and questions about his rotation. On Tuesday, three players -- rookie dynamo Tyreke Evans, 21-year-old part-time starting center Spencer Hawes and DNP-CD magnet Sean May -- were quoted in a Sacramento Bee by Sam Amick expressing varying levels of confusion, consternation and discontentment with Westphal's seriously inconsistent rotation and playing time decisions.The concerns were well-founded -- no team has had a rotation as flighty as that of Sacramento. Still, Westphal took issue with the tone of Hawes's comments and made him inactive for Tuesday night's game against Detroit while allowing Evans and May to play, despite the fact observers considered Hawes's quotes to be the least invective of the bunch. Throwing fuel on the fire, in his post-game comments Westphal turned the table on Hawes, responding to a question about the benching by telling reporters that Hawes surely "knew his role" now.
Hands were fairly wrung, but apparently Westphal and Hawes were tired of the drama they created, and decided to choreograph a show of mutual accord before Friday's home game against Utah.
Perhaps this isn't quite to the level of a Cleveland Cavaliers pre-game production, but it turned out OK. The Kings beat the Jazz, with Hawes playing brilliantly in the start (15 points, 12 rebounds, five assists).
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