Sacramento Kings: Crowded frontcourt complicates 2019-20 outlook

Storyline 1: How does the frontcourt rotation work out?

You didn’t think I’d just brush off the bevy of bigs, did you?

Let’s get one thing clear: the Sacramento Kings’ strength for this season is competency. Most of the players who suit up in purple-and-black will be solid and that’s a lot better than the past few Kings teams can say.

The issue is how new coach Luke Walton gets them all to play major minutes. Assuming everyone is healthy, here are all the players whose natural positions are the 4 or 5: Marvin Bagley III, Harrison Barnes, Nemanja Bjelica, Dewayne Dedmon, Harry Giles, Richaun Holmes, Tyler Lydon and Caleb Swanigan.

Barnes will start at the 3, but his best work in the NBA has been alongside three perimeter players and a big. Bagley should get some tick as the 5, ditto for Giles, but doing that would squeeze Holmes and Dedmon.

Trevor Ariza deserves some time at the 4 as well, which mucks up the rotation even more. Arguing that Bjelica can survive at the 3 is wishful thinking at best.

The obvious solution is to make a move or two. That might end up being necessary; on top of there being too many mouths to feed, having all these athletic slashing bigs doesn’t exactly space the floor for Fox.

Though when you look around the league, who’s trading for a big right now? Boston needs one, but not of the archetype Sacramento would give up. The same goes for both Los Angeles teams.

Maybe a rebuilding team will take a chance on Giles, as ESPN’s Zach Lowe and Kevin Arnovitz discussed on The Lowe Post, but that wouldn’t have to be a talking point if the front office didn’t grab so many frontcourt players.