the gloves to Matt Turner and that arrangement looks likely to continue. Edgar Castillo was a creative hub from the wing-back position last year in Colorado and will be deployed in a similar manner in New England. His vision, passing and range should take some pressure away from what was a congested midfield last year.

Luis Caicedo, Diego Fagundez, Cristian Penilla, and Wilfried Zahibo will provide the midfield energy, pace, and passing. That is a solid four-deep depth chart to keep rotations and legs fresh. Becoming tactically stale was just one way this team beat itself. Line-ups that create frustrations for your own team should be avoided but Freidel was married to his tactics far too often. Cristian Penilla, Teal Bunbury, Juan Agudelo, Juan Fernando Caicedo and Carles GilNik Stauskas made his preseason debut for the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, and while the No. 8 overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft made an impression with his shooting from the 3-point line, he also did so by shooting from the hip.

While he scored 12 points on 4 for 8 shooting (2 for 4 from 3-point range) in front of a friendly Canadian crowd in Vancouver, the Ontario-born-and-bred Stauskas admitted to feeling a bit nervous in his first NBA action; it showed at times, as the former Michigan Wolverine committed four turnovers and four fouls in his 26 minutes of work off the Sacramento bench. After the Kings' 99-94 loss to the Toronto Raptors, though, Stauskas offered another plain-and-simple admission, according to Jason Jones of the Sacramento