For everyone out there wondering - I LOVE STATS! They tell you lots about players! Especially Advanced stats. So I figured I would give a rundown of where the players lay 30 games into the season and with a fresh brand new start in 2013. I left Outlaw and Honeycutt off this list as the stats are to skewed with less then 300 minutes (Less then 20% of all minutes including OT per position)

League Average is for guys with over 300 minutes played: Total 284 players at all positions)

Sacramento Kings stats

Go Kings and FTM!!

Minutes played: Total this season: 1450 (per position) (1 double OT) ( League Average: 712)

We all know people cry for more minutes for Jimmer, and don’t disagree, but I think the should be coming from Aaron Brooks Expense, not IT’s.

Player Efficiency Rating (League Average: 14.8)

The SSS loved Jimmer’s efficiency just about a month ago to the degree of around 35. It is starting to normalize more and more, and I think It will settle in the 18.5 – 19.5 region

True Shooting %: True Shooting Percentage; a measure of shooting efficiency that takes into account 2-point field goals, 3-point field goals, and free throws. (League Average: 53.1)

3 PG’s all at the top then your power forward ..That’s not really great. But this begins to show you why AB needs less minutes, and Thornton needs to be getting out of that funk ASAP!

True Rebounding %: Total Rebound Percentage; an estimate of the percentage of available rebounds a player grabbed while he was on the floor. (League Average: 10.03)

These need to be higher plain and simple- We are great at Defensive rebound - Due to Run and Gun nature, no-one stays back for Offensive rebounds. What really intrigued me is as much as we think DMC gets his own misses a lot , he’s barely at 11% Offensive rebounding (1% more then JT, and only 2% more then Hayes) which leads me to believe the stat counters aren’t counting them as rebounds, but more so as tip ins)

Assist %: Assist Percentage; an estimate of the percentage of teammate field goals a player assisted while he was on the floor. (League Average: 14.3)

Who remembers are beginning of season when Reke was top assist man? Well I will say this, this stat has gotten a lot better lately from all positions, and guys are hitting their assisted shots. This is the 1 stat I hate because to get it requires 2 guys – The assister and the shooter. (How many times did JT drive people crazy, getting an assisted pass, only to do the 1 dribble then shoot, which wrecked the assist)

Steal %: Steal Percentage; an estimate of the percentage of opponent possessions that end with a steal by the player while he was on the floor.(League Average:1.7)

Top of this list doesn’t surprise me, and honestly neither does the bottom – JT is a guy who whenever it looks like he is gonna reach in and try to steal, you can see the refs salivating ready to blow the whistle. If his less attempts means more time on floor and less fouls I am all for it.

Block %: Block Percentage; an estimate of the percentage of opponent two-point field goal attempts blocked by the player while he was on the floor. (League Average: 1.7)

Johnson and Garcia don’t surprise me at all here, what does surprise me is DMC is so low..Maybe that is because they call way too many fouls on perfectly blocked shots on him, negating the stats??

Turnover % (Less is better) Turnover Percentage; an estimate of turnovers per 100 plays.(League Average: 13.5)

I am really not surprised at Hayes/Brooks/Johnson – They really needs to clean up their passing more

Offensive Rating/Win Shares:

Off Rtg: 104.3 (17th of 30) ▪ . But how does only 2 of your main starters rank in top 5 (I only count Salmons and JT) That’s just plain Horrible..Better decision making needs to happen –

Defensive Rating/Win Shares:

Def Rtg: 109.6 (28th of 30) ▪ . We know Johnson was not brought in for his offense (See above), but what kills me is what everyone says about our PG’s. Look at the defense – All exactly the dang same. While I do think Jimmer is worse against PNR teams then AB or IT, he balances it out against cutters.

WS

Win Shares: Estimated of the number of wins contributed by a player. (League Avg 1.6)

And I know a lot of people would say well, why don’t we start Jimmer then since all the stats show he’s just plain better? Plain and Simply - we need him off the bench. When you are going to put guys like ThROb and Hayes and Cisco – You need a guy who can offensively balance them out, and Thornton can only do so much off the bench (Especially with how much we play our bench) with no other offensive guys

And remember all the stats are based off just barely off a little more then 1/3 the season. I know some guys like Johnson are starting to show how the really should be playing, so you have to take these with grain of salt

Now here's our team Stats - We are only above Avg: 3pt , FT, Stls and TO - And 3 pts are from last 2 weeks mostly