The click is finally perhaps happening on the side of Sacramento! Mike Brown’s players remain on seven straight wins, and the Kings seem to have weapons strong enough to hope to return to the playoffs after sixteen seasons of drought, a record in the history of the league.
Kevin Durant has sounded the alarm on “The Boardroom”, he who was at the heart of a game that will perhaps remain as a tipping point of the Kings season, when they demolished the Nets: 153 to 121 !
“It’s a tough team to play for everyone in the league, I don’t care if you’re Boston or the worst record in the league”, did he declare.
Kevin Hurter, author of 19 points that evening, 5/7 from 3-pointers, particularly impressed him. It must be said that the former sniper started on an exceptional basis since he shoots at nearly 50% success behind the arc.
“Kevine Huerter right now, he’s playing like Klay (Thompson), like Stephen (Curry). The way he’s coming off hand-to-hands and taking his shots now… If you’re not a big league-focused basketball fan, you have to look at how Kevin Huerter is shooting right now. He’s around 50%. When you look at the scouting reports, everyone always looks better than they really are. Because you have to respect the opponent. But Kevin Huerter taking 7-8 3-pointers in a game, every night at 50%, and you hear that, and you watch the clips, the shots he takes. You say to yourself: ‘Damn, we can have enough for a long evening’. »
For Kevin Durant, Sacramento has managed to build a coherent workforce and now ticks all the boxes, with a Fox-Sabonis tandem perfectly complemented by threats that can come from anywhere.
“Besides that, you have De’Aaron Fox who is going to come and attack you the whole game, Harrison Barnes who can score against anyone, in isolation situations. And Keegan Murray, who plays like Michael Porter Jr, with his size, catch-and-shoot. And off the bench, Terence Davis had scored more than 30 points. They had shot amazingly. There are guys who can score, who can get hot, Malik Monk, Trey Lyles, who is also a good player for the bench, Matthew Dellavedova who can shoot too. They have a team with good bench depth, with even Richaun Holmes playing for them and I have to forget a few of them.
The next opponents of the Kings are warned.
| Kevin Hurter | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2018-19 | ATL | 75 | 27 | 41.9 | 38.5 | 73.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 9.7 |
| 2019-20 | ATL | 56 | 31 | 41.3 | 38.0 | 82.8 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 12.2 |
| 2020-21 | ATL | 69 | 31 | 43.2 | 36.3 | 78.1 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 11.9 |
| 2021-22 | ATL | 74 | 30 | 45.4 | 38.9 | 80.8 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 12.1 |
| 2022-23 | BAG | 15 | 32 | 50.0 | 49.5 | 66.7 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 16.6 |
| Total | 289 | 30 | 43.5 | 38.7 | 77.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 11.7 | |
