Mike Brown on Kings injuries, getting rest & Keegan Murray’s offensive struggles
November 21, 2024
Mike Brown on Kings injuries, getting rest & Keegan Murray’s offensive struggles
Mike Brown discussed the injury status of Sabonis, DeRozan & Monk, the Kings getting some days off & Keegan Murray’s offensive struggles.
2 comments
We're one of the best opponent 2 point fg% and one of the worst opponent 3 point fg%. I think this is enough games to realize we should balance our priorities and stop giving up so many open threes. These 40%-50% 3 point shooting nights for our opponents are killing us. I'm glad coach mentioned working on the pick and roll defense because that's one of the causes of the wide open 3s. We almost never switch, and instead the guard defender fights over even a good screen, so he's trailing the ball handler and essentially covering nobody. So it's a 4 on 5, leading to collapsing and kickouts for wide open threes. Also, in situations where no help is needed, we've also gotta stop cheating sooo far off the perimeter guys that we can't close out. Hopefully we figure it out.
We're close to being great, we were a top 10 defense the last 2 months of last season with nearly the same core players, if we can get back there we'll be dangerous!
2 comments
We're one of the best opponent 2 point fg% and one of the worst opponent 3 point fg%. I think this is enough games to realize we should balance our priorities and stop giving up so many open threes. These 40%-50% 3 point shooting nights for our opponents are killing us. I'm glad coach mentioned working on the pick and roll defense because that's one of the causes of the wide open 3s. We almost never switch, and instead the guard defender fights over even a good screen, so he's trailing the ball handler and essentially covering nobody. So it's a 4 on 5, leading to collapsing and kickouts for wide open threes. Also, in situations where no help is needed, we've also gotta stop cheating sooo far off the perimeter guys that we can't close out. Hopefully we figure it out.
We're close to being great, we were a top 10 defense the last 2 months of last season with nearly the same core players, if we can get back there we'll be dangerous!
Mike needs to step it up