I don't think that's the only one that matters: I'll tell you another one that I think is equally as important: 7-7 versus 4-13.Bring up all the stats you want to Brick. The only one that matters is 6-6 without 5-13 with.
To me, it's not a "Ewing Theory" situation, it's a "Too Many Cooks" situation. It's not a matter of the team playing better without Evans, it's a matter of there only being one ball. People sometimes forget that, when this team is at "full strength," we have seven shooting guards (three of which are ridiculously undersized, and thus nominally assumed to be point guards, when they really aren't). We have seven shooting guards, whose first instinct is to dominate the ball, and/or chuck it up, as soon as they get their hands on it.
The Kings are 7-7 when five or fewer of them play, and 4-13 when six or more of them play.
So, it turns out that reducing the number of people chucking the ball at the rim improves ball movement. Who would have thought?
are we better off without Tyreke?
What is the record when he plays? or doesn't play?
I will simply re-post what I said in the most recent "Trade Evans" thread:
With the notation that, since I made that post, the Kings are now 9-8 when five or fewer of them play, and 4-14 (counting tonight) when six or more of them play.
The obvious solution is to get rid of some of the guards. Whether one of those guards needs to be Evans is a matter of taste.