Its very Keegan Murray of Keegan Murray to make the star leap after the extension for sure
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Its very Keegan Murray of Keegan Murray to make the star leap after the extension for sure
TaxMan
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Keegan's "contract year" is the first year of his new contract.... of course lol
iowamcnabb
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Keegan has played 233 minutes this year. Without looking it up, how many turnovers does he have on the year? For reference, Russ has 20 ( obviously different role) during the same 6 game span.
Srzly
Bench
This is a good example of how stats don’t always tell the full story
I'm pretty sure that "allowed 7/9 shooting" and "had 3 blocks" (via boxscore) are not mathematically compatible.
If he helped on one or more of the blocks, I imagine the shooting stat is solely 1:1?
I would think even if the guy wasn't primarily "yours" that if you block the shot then they're on your ledger, but I dunno. I guess that could be the explanation.
If a guy beats his man and then beats the help, who gets tagged with it? I don't know, but I guess thinking about it that way and assigning it to the primary defender would partially explain the way they might score keep these things. Defense is such a tricky thing to stat keep correctly.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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I totally read his name as "Tsunami" at first glance...
And I know that I ain't the only one...
I infer several things from this data:
1) Our defense tends to result in emergency closeouts
2) Keegan is doing way too many emergency closeouts
3) Domas and Fox could also be bothered to do emergency closeouts last year
4) Nobody on our team aside from Keegan (and perhaps Domas - INJ) can be bothered to do emergency closeouts this year
SacTownKid
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Part of that is definitely because Christie is burning him up with minutes.
TaxMan
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what a weird stat….your thesis makes sense.
Caccia
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Murray is only shooting 27% from three in his first 8 games, in 6 attempts per game. That percentage has to come up if the Kings want an effective offense. His overall FG% is 44.7%, which is low for a power forward. He is ahead only of Westbrook, Ellis, Clifford, and Schroeder, all shooting in the low 40% range.
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ShastaKingsFan
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His best shooting season in his first year, came when his main role was shooting. He wasn't even rebounding at a good rate then. Lets see if he can increase his % when having to work so hard on both ends at all times. It isn't easy
gunks
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I mean, if we move on from Domas, Deebo, and Zach, in theory Keegan won't have to cover for the other starters on defense anymore. I guess that depends on who we bring in.
It's entertaining to see Keegan switch around and totally bust up a play by defending 1-5, but we can't expect him to do that AND average 20ppg. Not at the pace we want to play anyways.
ShastaKingsFan
Hall of Famer
I don't know, covering or not, he's expected to take the best wing scorer....and also work for rebounds. In doing so, he obviously expends a lot of energy. Many will be disappointed if they're told that they can't expect him to average 20
Caccia
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Considering the importance of this muscle, which, as the name suggests, has three parts, it looks highly doubtful that Murray will play against the Pacers. I imagine that Precious Achiuwa would get the assignment to guard Pascal Siakam. They must know each other well, coming from neighboring countries in West Africa.
wut
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Apparently more relevant than the fact they were teammates in Toronto.
Caccia
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Cameroon for Siakam, Nigeria for Achiuwa.
macadocious
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I though the same thing.
How well do you know people living in Canada? Or Nevada, for that matter?
I actually took that as a wry joke. Could be wrong, I guess.
I plead Poe's Law. We live in interesting times.