Tyreke Evans Quietly Having His Best Season
In the final year of his rookie deal, Tyreke Evans is finally showing the improvement so many have desired to see since his stellar rookie of the year campaign.
Numbers
Preseason Stats Round-Up
The preseason is over so I thought it'd be a good time to take a look at how our players performed during the successful 5-2 campaign. Below are both team, opponent, and individual stats, as...
NBA Salary Cap (and Minimum) Numbers for 2012-13
The National Basketball Association, of which the Sacramento Kings are a member (pending clearance of the last dues check), have released their salary cap and luxury tax numbers for 2012-13. The...
Advanced Stats: DeMarcus is DeFuture
While the best story for the Kings on the court this season was Isaiah Thomas coming from nowhere, the most important one was DeMarcus Cousins' rise. DeMarcus blew almost everyone's expectations...
Advanced Stats: Terrence Williams Deserves to be Brought Back
In continuing our end of the year wrap up on the Kings, we now take a look at the Kings' weakest and most troubled position: The Wings. Sacramento has desperately been looking for a solution at...
Advanced Stats: Watch Out NBA, Isaiah Thomas is Coming For You
Throughout the season, I took several looks at the Kings players using advanced stats. As the months passed, the sample sizes became larger and so more data was able to be gleaned from them. Now...
Isaiah Thomas Continuing To Thrive As Kings' Starter
Isaiah Thomas started his fifth straight game for the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday, and the team earned its second straight win, 103-96 over the visiting Jazz. Thomas had another strong game with 18...
Advanced Stats: Cousins is the Kings' Centerpiece
Most championship teams that I can think of have that one guy that a team drafts and cultivates to be their centerpiece for years and years. Dirk in Dallas, Duncan/Robinson in San Antonio,...
The Story Of The 2011-12 Sacramento Kings ... So Far
For maybe the first time ever, the NBA All-Star break coincides with the midpoint of the season for the Sacramento Kings. The Kings have 33 games in the books, and 33 left. As such, and with a...
Advanced Stats: Greene is The Lone Bright Spot in the Small Forward Department
Not much has changed in a month. The Kings wing players are still playing terrible basketball, aside from Donté Greene, who is playing mediocre basketball! Greene is leading the wings in almost...
Advanced Stats: Isaiah Thomas is Flourishing, Rest of Kings Guards Aren't Half Bad Either
Last month we went back and took a look at how our players had been performing through the first few weeks of the season. That sample was of just 10 games or so, mostly under Paul Westphal. Now we...
Kings On Pace To Be Historically Bad Shooting Team
As Jerry Reynolds likes to say, the goal of a basketball game is to put the ball in the basket. If you can't do that, you're not going to win many games. The Kings have been atrocious at putting...
Advanced Stats: Kings' Big Men a Bright Spot
The Kings as a team have definitely been worse than expected, but if there is one group that has been better than the rest, it's the bigs. With DeMarcus Cousins, J.J. Hickson, Jason Thompson, and...
Advanced Stats: Sacramento's Wings Are Barely Functional
Yesterday we took a look at our guards' advanced statistics, and today it is the wings turn. Sacramento has received very little quality production from its wings so far this season, and as you...
Kings' 1-4 Road Trip At A Glance: Dry Heaves Ahoy
The good news is that the Sacramento Kings will not go 0-33 on the road this season. Thank you, Toronto. The bad news is that the Sacramento Kings might go 1-32 on the road this season, because...
Advanced Stats: Looking At Tyreke Evans, Jimmer Fredette And Kings' Guards
Statistics are a valuable tool when analyzing how a player is performing on the court, but at their most basic, statistics don't tell the whole story. Advanced Statistics help broaden the narrative...
Kings Still Struggling, But DeMarcus Cousins' Numbers Are Great
DeMarcus Cousins has begun to put up monster numbers for the Kings, despite their struggles.
DeMarcus Cousins' Changing Shot Structure
DeMarcus Cousins is changing the way he gets shots, and it's a good sign of things to come.
Introducing the Advanced Statistics Calculator
About a year ago I created an Advanced Statistics Calculator for my general NBA Blog, the Pick and Scroll. Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in a day, and I decided to focus solely on...
Talking Myself Off the Ledge, One Graph at a Time
On a scale of Kenny Natt to Here We Stayed, re-acquiring John Salmons and dropping 3 spots in the draft to do so ranks as a solid Reggie Theus (that's bad in layman terms). Salmons takes the...
What Is A Point Guard, 2011
Determing what is a point guard circa 2011.
Kings' Defense Improving (On Paper)
The Sacramento Kings' defense is improving. Why?
The Sacramento Kings of the 21st Century
How long have the Kings actually been bad?
To Natt, Or Not To Natt?
In-season coaching changes over the past 10 years in the NBA.
Checking In on Tyreke Evans' New Jumper
Looking at the data to see how Evans is shooting so far this season.
Misleading Stats vs. Misreading Stats
Ailene Voisin, today: And in yet another example of how stats are more reflective of performance in baseball than basketball, [DeMarcus] Cousins' assist/turnover averages (2.3 for each) are...
