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Sacramento seeks to correct the situation

The league’s best offense in the regular season (120.7 points per game) and downright the most effective offense in history (118.6 points on 100 possessions), the Kings have however lost their superb offensively in these playoffs: 112.3 points per game, for 108.4 points on 100 possessions.

As they manage the rebound better, this does not prevent them for the moment from leading 2-1 against the Warriors, with Game 4 to be played in San Francisco tonight. However, this less good attack, which is certainly not surprising at this stage of the season, could ultimately prove detrimental in this first round.

Especially if the shooters of Sacramento do not adjust the target over the course of the series. It must be said that with only 27% success at 3-points (for 43% of overall address), the men of mike brown are struggling to convert their attempts against Golden State and they would be well advised to correct this problem as soon as possible. Even to find the 37% of success at 3-points (for 49% of global address) of the regular season.

Shots are different now compared to Game 45 of the regular season », considers the Coach of the year 2023, on this clumsiness. ” The intensity level has increased and therefore you are doing more work than you are used to. But we need to repeat things because you expend more energy, physically and mentally. You have to be focused and stick to the game plan because the Warriors are so good… »

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Continue to draw, at all costs

Among the many failures of Kevin Hurter and Keegan Murray, respectively, limited to 15% and 13% from long range, the Kings have no players above 33% 3-point skill in their base rotation of nine players.

This is the rhythm of our attack “Judge Kevin Huerter, who was running at 40% from afar before the playoffs. ” [Les Warriors] did a good job of removing a lot of movement, rhythm, traffic. The shots are open, but they are not the ones we are used to taking in the rhythm of our attack. »

Sacramento’s inexperience in “postason” certainly has something to do with this sluggish success, but the Warriors’ defense is also responsible for this offensive breakdown. A nice challenge in perspective for Mike Brown’s men, who must not however change their way of playing.

We gotta go through this, we gotta find a way out concludes the coach. ” I trust the guys when it comes to shooting and we’re going to keep telling them to draw. They have to. »

Shots Bounces
Players GM Minimum Shots 3 points LF Off Def Early pd bp Int CT party Points
De’aaron Fox 73 33.4 51.2 32.4 78.0 0.5 3.6 4.2 6.1 2.5 1.1 0.3 2.4 25.0
Domantas Sabonis 79 34.6 61.5 37.3 74.2 3.2 9.1 12.3 7.3 2.9 0.8 0.5 3.5 19.1
Kevin Hurter 75 29.4 48.5 40.2 72.5 0.6 2.8 3.3 2.9 1.3 1.1 0.3 2.4 15.2
Harrison Barnes 82 32.5 47.3 37.4 84.7 1.1 3.4 4.5 1.6 1.0 0.7 0.1 1.3 15.0
Malik Monk 77 22.3 44.8 35.9 88.9 0.4 2.2 2.6 3.9 1.9 0.6 0.3 1.6 13.5
Keegan Murray 80 29.8 45.3 41.1 76.5 1.1 3.5 4.6 1.2 0.8 0.8 0.5 2.0 12.2
Trey Lyles 74 16.9 45.8 36.3 81.5 0.9 3.1 4.1 0.9 0.9 0.4 0.4 1.3 7.6
Terence Davis 64 13.1 42.3 36.6 79.1 0.3 1.9 2.2 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.2 1.6 6.7
Davion Mitchell 80 18.1 45.4 32.0 80.6 0.2 1.1 1.3 2.3 0.8 0.6 0.2 1.4 5.6
Chimezie Metu 66 10.4 58.9 23.7 74.0 0.7 2.3 3.0 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.3 1.2 4.9
Kessler Edwards 22 13.9 43.5 34.9 76.9 0.8 1.4 2.1 1.0 0.4 0.5 0.2 1.7 3.9
Richaun Holmes 42 8.3 61.8 62.5 78.9 0.7 1.2 1.9 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.3 1.2 3.1
Neemias Queta 5 5.7 66.7 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.2 2.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.4 1.4 2.4
Alex Len 26 6.2 53.3 0.0 68.8 0.9 1.4 2.3 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.4 1.1 1.7
Keon Ellis 16 4.4 43.8 50.0 57.1 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.6 1.5
Matt Dellavedova 32 6.6 34.0 33.3 57.1 0.0 0.4 0.4 1.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.6 1.5
Pj Dozier 16 5.0 30.3 12.5 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.4 1.4
Kz Okpala 35 7.1 42.1 33.3 87.5 0.2 0.8 1.0 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.1 1.3
Chima Moneke 2 4.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0
Deonte Burton 2 3.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

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