Monk feared to have sprained MCL (Update: out 4-6 weeks)

[Caccia]

Malik Monk is doing "better than expected!"

https://sports.yahoo.com/kings-monk-addresses-possibility-early-062826912.html

 

[SacTownKid]

You can see just how much the team is missing Monk even after two games. Against the Knicks, I saw maybe one pick-and-roll with Sabonis or Len. With so many guards on the team, surely one of them knows how to do it? It was not so long ago that pick-and-rolls were estimated to make up 60% of the plays in the NBA.

De'Aaron Fox is a brilliant player, but he lacks his friend's creativity as a point guard, that chaos factor that has defenses scrambling. He is too...calculating, perhaps.

Those 15.4 points per game from Monk, and 10.2 from Huerter, are proving hard to replace. At least Davion Mitchell and Keon Ellis are stepping up their games in his absence.

One thing the Kings are NOT missing though is the guard ball. Brown has gone from from using as many as 5 G's and replaced them with size. That has forced teams to go away from mismatching in the post or on drives and it's put Davion back in his natural position on both ends. I thought the Fox, Monk, and Keon unit was not that bad, but the stats really don't back it up. It's awful when next to Keegan and Domas.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I think until yesterday we weren't missing Monk as much as I'd have expected.

And what is interesting about yesterday like the game we lost Monk in was a 20+ disparity at the free throw line. both Keon and Keegan got into foul trouble early and were taken from their games.

that's probably where the depth being gone crushed us. But on the plus front Sasha got a good run yesterday and that can only benefit us moving forward.

 

[NewArena]

Malik Monk is doing "better than expected!"

https://sports.yahoo.com/kings-monk-addresses-possibility-early-062826912.html

Praise God