The second season of the Sacramento Kings with Mike Brown at the controls of the bench will begin this next day. After putting an end to a 16-year drought without playing in the playoffs, the California franchise hopes to ratify this dynamic, continue growing as a team and settle in the noble zone of the Western Conference.
To do this, the coach has given all his players small duties and tasks to undertake in order to grow in the individual section and, consequently, increase the team’s competitive ceiling. Kevin Huerter has been asked for greater offensive performance, while Keegan Murray expects a broader dimension of his offensive game.
Murray, the fourth pick in the 2022 draft, established himself as a starter in his first season in the NBA, where he was chosen to be part of the Best Quintet of Rookies after averaging 12.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. However, his offensive role focused almost entirely on spreading the floor, so Brown expects him to be more aggressive in his second year.
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«Last year, because of the way we played, our rhythm, movement without the ball and with the ball, he achieved many baskets in situations of ‘catch-and-shoot’. “Now we expect Keegan to raise the ball if he captures a defensive rebound and starts the attack,” Brown said, according to the media. HoopsHype. «We want him to be a little selfish and look for his own shots, which we already saw a couple of times throughout the season and in the Summer League. We also want him to be tough on offensive rebounding.”
However, defense is a mandatory subject for the Kings, so the coach repeated the speech he shared about Huerter. «He has worked very hard to strengthen his body. We want him not to be intimidated in defense, for him to be able to defend the ball in situations of ‘pick-and-roll’. Keegan has been working on these areas and we now expect him to put them into practice come game time.”
A meeting, the first of the 2023-24 season, which will be held tonight at the Delta Center, with the Utah Jazz as a rival.
(Cover photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
2023-10-25 17:00:00
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