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ANALYSIS: It's been a wild month for Malik Monk's shooting stroke. In the past 30 days and through Saturday, Monk has appeared in 13 games and he's hoisted a total of 137 shots from the field. The outcome: 53 FGM to 84 missed field goals for a putrid 38.6% from the floor. Ugh...
That's not very good, I know, and there is no way I can fool or trick you into seeing that as a positive. But that's not everything to look for when trying to find some upside in a potential addition of Malik Monk to your squad.
Monk has still found a way to score 12+ PPG in the last month of play and he's scored at least 11 points in his last three games through Saturday. He's connected on six three-point attempts in the past two games combined, too, while getting some of his rebounding and diming back.
In January alone, Monk is average a daily 11-3-3 line even though he's struggled at shooting the ball mightily. His minutes have gone down a bit, too, which doesn't help on a pure counting basis, but on the other hand, allowed him to prove his excellent per-minute production.
Monk is putting up an extraordinary 1.08 FP/min this month (league average at just 0.90) so it's reasonable to expect Sacramento to increase his MPG at least a bit and to his early season numbers. Monk merits many more than his current 20 MPG, and in the early stages of the season (first two months), he was getting a more palatable 25 MPG that he should earn soon enough.
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