He has not yet planned for the coming season and therefore the off-season which will precede it. One thing is certain, according to De'Aaron Fox : the Kings must progress.
“ We must do better. With 46 wins, you are by no means a bad team. But in the end, we didn't make the playoffs. This is no one's goal “, hammers the playmakerby adding : ” Whatever that means…I don't know. These are the elements, the guys we have now who must be better. »
With their 46 victories, the Californians finished 9th in their conference and therefore had to go through the play-in to try to qualify for the playoffs. After their victory against the Warriors, they were unable to continue against the Pelicans. Result, no playoffs after their promising first round last year.
According to De'Aaron Fox, a common thread ran through his team's season: success on free throws. “ I believe that at the top, if we make our free throws, we win 52, 53 games so do we have to make big changes? I don't know », asks the team leader.
Bankruptcy of leaders
With a 74.5% success rate, his team finished last in the league. On average, the Kings gave up more than 5 points offered per game. However, the Californians were among the good students in the league with a 79% success rate a year earlier.
Among the individual responsibilities in this collective bankruptcy, we can point the finger at the team leaders, starting with De'Aaron Fox precisely (78% last year, compared to 74% this season) and Domantas Sabonis, who also lost four address points (from 74 to 70%).
“ I know that if we weren't the worst team in terms of free throw percentage, we would look at the season completely differently. Even a little below average (editor’s note: 78.4%), we're at 50 wins and we're not even playing the play-in », finishes, sure of his explanation, the game leader.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| De'aaron Fox | 74 | 35.9 | 46.5 | 36.9 | 73.8 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 26.6 |
| Domantas Sabonis | 82 | 35.7 | 59.4 | 37.9 | 70.4 | 3.6 | 10.1 | 13.7 | 8.2 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 19.4 |
| Malik Monk | 72 | 26.0 | 44.3 | 35.0 | 82.9 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 15.4 |
| Keegan Murray | 77 | 33.6 | 45.4 | 35.8 | 83.1 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 15.2 |
| Harrison Barnes | 82 | 29.0 | 47.4 | 38.7 | 80.1 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 12.2 |
| Kevin Huerter | 64 | 24.4 | 44.3 | 36.1 | 76.6 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 10.2 |
| Trey Lyles | 58 | 20.0 | 44.5 | 38.4 | 70.0 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 7.2 |
| Keon Ellis | 57 | 17.2 | 46.1 | 41.7 | 74.3 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 5.4 |
| Sasha Vezenkov | 42 | 12.2 | 44.0 | 37.5 | 80.0 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 5.4 |
| Davion Mitchell | 72 | 15.3 | 45.2 | 36.1 | 71.4 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 5.3 |
| Javale McGee | 46 | 7.4 | 59.8 | 14.3 | 57.8 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 4.0 |
| Chris Duarte | 59 | 12.2 | 38.1 | 34.6 | 78.8 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.9 |
| Alex Len | 48 | 9.3 | 61.7 | 0.0 | 58.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| Colby Jones | 30 | 6.4 | 39.4 | 9.1 | 54.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 2.1 |
| Jordan Ford | 6 | 3.6 | 57.1 | 66.7 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Kessler Edwards | 54 | 5.1 | 41.5 | 38.5 | 55.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.7 |
| Philip Petrusev | 2 | 3.3 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Mason Jones | 5 | 5.5 | 25.0 | 28.6 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 |
| Jalen Slawson | 12 | 3.1 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Juan Toscano-anderson | 11 | 4.8 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 |
