Will the signing be completed? Is Monk suitable for the Warriors?

It is reported that Kumingga has landed in Kinshasa, preparing to represent the Congo (Kinshasa) to play in the African Basketball Championship, which seems to mean that his contract issue is about to be resolved. As the drama intensifies, Malik Monk's name is becoming more closely linked to the Warriors. What kind of player is

Monk?

In terms of mid-range distance, Monk's performance in the reasonable collision zone (within 0-4 feet) in the past two seasons has been relatively stable, with averaging 4 shots per game, an average shooting percentage of 62%, an assist rate of about 50%, resulting in a penalty rate of about 5%, and a blocked rate of about 11%. In the mid-to-shot area, the efficiency of 5 shots per game can maintain close to 50%, but the efficiency in the mid-to-far shooting area is not good.

We can make horizontal comparisons within the Warriors to make it easier for everyone to understand that the shooting percentage in this reasonable collision zone is about the same level as Hilder (66%), Pojmsky (66%), and Curry (65%) in the Warriors, but Monk's shots are higher than them. In terms of shooting numbers, Monk and Butler are in the same level (butler's shooting percentage within 0-4 feet is 70%).

In addition, Monk's shooting percentage of his landing last season is very worthy of attention. As a guard, he can reach 53.4%. This offensive skill is extremely lacking in the Warriors. In last season's lineup, only Payton and Post had a shooting percentage higher than Monk (about 66%), but the two of them averaged 0.6 shots per game together, which is obviously not a conventional weapon. Monk's throws per game can punish the opponent's franchise guards well. In this era, throwing is undoubtedly a good weapon to open the offense.

Monk's mid-range data table in the past two seasons

Other offensive methods:

Monk received 0.3 pick-and-roll last season, scoring 0.88 points each, inferior to Podjemsky;

fixed-point 5.1 times, scoring 0.85 points each, scoring the number of fixed-point times is higher than any one of the Warriors' team, but the efficiency is unbearable, and it is only higher than Kevin Rooney (scoring 0.78 points each time);

empty cuts 0.5 times, scoring 1.57 points each time, but the number of empty cuts is not too many, but the efficiency is extremely high, even higher than Curry's 1.48 points;

hand-handed attacks 2.8 times, scoring 0.91 points each time, the first production effect except Curry.

Then there is the most popular three-pointer:

Monk's three-pointer related data table in the past two seasons

As a guard player who has had many highlights in his career, the 32% three-point shooting percentage last season was incredible, and Monk's SD% (three-point volatility) was about 18.8%. Intuitively, this data can be understood as Monk's shooting state stability last season was slightly better than Hilder, but not much, and it is comparable to Hilder.

The expected three-point shooting percentage is higher than the actual three-point shooting percentage, which also shows that Monk's three-point shooting environment (defender distance) is actually quite good (about the same as Pojmsky, Kumingga and Butler last season), but the fluctuations are relatively large and the nerve knife attributes are obvious.

Although his three-point assist rate is close to 80%, this is already the best level of self-developing three-pointers besides Curry. The lowest assist rate for three-pointers outside Curry last season was Podjemski, whose assist rate (84%) is still higher than Monk.

A brief summary of other three-pointers: the base angle is relatively stable, and the non-bottom angle performance is average; the three-pointers are particularly inaccurate, and the efficiency of large open space is worrying (never breaks through 40% after the last 22-23 season); the receiving and shooting can only be considered middle-class and middle-performance.

Overall, in terms of offense, although Monk can fill the gap in the Warriors' current independent offensive players, in terms of data, Monk's efficiency and output horizontal comparison between Moody's, Pojemsky and Hilder did not show an "overwhelming" advantage. Even the random battle conversions that everyone remembers, Monk's score of 1.07 is not impressive. The data shows that it is only higher than Curry and Green in the Warriors.

Monk's defense-related data table in the past three seasons

On the contrary, on the defensive end, Monk has several data that are more eye-catching - although the diversity of the counterparts is slightly weak, it is not the worst, and the difficulty reaches 65 last season. He is not afraid of the excellent players with 2.4 breaks and attacks the opponent's shooting average of 14.7 times, which is at the top level in the Warriors (although they also lost. The cost of fouls per game)

In summary, we can conclude that if the sign-up is reached, Monk can make up for the lack of diversity in offensive development to a certain extent after coming to the Warriors. However, as a large number of defenders holding the ball, Monk lacks the scoring method of killing one move, his touch fluctuates greatly and has a tendency toward a nerve knife. At the same time, although he is full of enthusiasm, his defensive effect is not satisfactory. Perhaps this is the main reason why the Kings want to trade him with a draft pick.

In addition, it should be noted that in this signing, the exchange between Kumingga and Monk cannot be directly implemented.

According to salary matching rules: As a team below the tycoon line, the total salary given by the team can be within 125% of the total salary received plus $100,000.

Meanwhile, when a team re-signs their free agents with the Bird Rights or Early Bird Rights, if the player's salary increases by more than 20% in the first year of the new contract, then the player's salary will be subject to special restrictions on Salary Matching if he is traded for the next season..

means: In the transaction, the player's outgoing salary will be taken the higher of the following:

half of his first year salary in the new contract (50%).

His salary last season.

In the Kumingga-Monk transaction, according to the news, the king issued a contract for Kumingga of 3 years and 63 million, which has triggered the base annual compensation clause, which is often referred to as the Byc clause.

Therefore, Kumingga's "salary matching salary" in the transaction should be half of the first year of the new contract and the salary last season's salary, which is $9.705 million.

So, as Kumingga's parent team, the Warriors' salary matching cap: give away salary x 125% + $100,000 = $9.705,000 x 125% + $100,000 ≈ $12.13 million.

$12.13 million is obviously smaller than Monk's requirement for $20.19 million next season, so the Warriors must deal with the gap of $8.06 million in 2019-1213=8.06 million, so if the Warriors want to get Monk, they will inevitably send one of Moody's or Hield away with a smaller return.

But, is this 27-year-old defender really worth the Warriors giving up so many assets?