Good, Not Great

DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY BY A LITTLE SUCCESS

That was the easy part, the transition from awful to good. Next step is the tough one, good to great.

Kings fans are thrilled with this season’s progress, a hungry audience given a meal of rump steak, starchy potatoes and organic lettuce. Now let’s talk about dessert and remember reaching the NBA playoffs is not a major accomplishment.

Everyone does it. Or almost everyone, other than the Kings for the past 16 years.

Here’s the difference. Great teams know the regular season is a long, slow warmup. They take a strategic approach to those soggy winter games. Some nights they sleepwalk. Other times