I was just taking a gander over at assisted FGM stats and those kind of tell the story in the potential issues depending on the player the Kings go after if scoring and production are the goals. Kuzma actually provides the needed attitude for Kings needs heading into the playoffs but it's the results that kick it right in the nuts. Without fail, all 3 of Huerter, Murray, and Barnes this season aren't creating their own offense. They are all around 75-90% of their offense being created for them within the system. Murray and Huerter have yet to show in the iso stats this season (Murray has yet to in his career) due to a lack of individual scoring opportunity and mostly likely the inability to get to the line consistently, however, just in this recent run Barnes has not only finally showed up but has already shot up to the 40th percentile. He's normally in that upper 20% range of the entire league. Kuzma is about a 60/40 split assisted/unassisted this season but he's in the 19th percentile in iso. Woof. Kuz doesn't hammer the ball into dust by any means, but he's takes some very bad shots and always has. Kuzma and Jerami Grant are both surprisingly similar across the board statistically when it comes to their game along with their roles currently in both isolation and in assisted vs. unassisted. The difference is basically Grant is much better in the raw percentages off ball. If Monte is throwing a first round pick at a player like that, Grant should be that guy over Kuzma. Neither are terrible fits but I'd bet on Grant not disrupting things over Kuz in a worst case.
