We Keep Forgetting About De’Aaron Fox

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You could argue when it’s all said and done and maybe not even that in the next few years he’ll go down as the greatest Sacramento King Sacramento King ever I’m not mad at that statement even as of now and that’s saying a lot with with some

Of the names you just listed but all that is predicated upon winning you know you you can score individually and be great but the the the true greatness shows on how far you can take your team you saw with C Webb was able to do this

You know take these te guys to the Western Conference finals and get cheated by the refs and not be able to go to the finals so everything is predicated upon winning obviously scoring is great but you got to get your team there with you every day when we

Talk about the NBA I’m sure this is something we can all relate to we always talk about the same players every time Giannis Joel embiid Luca donic it gets tiring after a while and because we always talk about the same people we tend to forget that there’s other people

On this Elite level as well and there’s one guy whose name I never hear in conversations when we talk about the NBA’s Elite and that guy is dearon fox and it’s weird cuz this guy’s really having an elite season I mean he’s averaging 30 points per game which is

Fifth in the NBA 6.1 assist is 21st in league and he’s doing this while shooting 48.2% from the field and a ridiculous 39.8% from three this guy’s career average is 33% from Deep to say he’s having the best year of his career would be an understatement it’s by far

The best season he’s having in his career the other day I was scrolling on Twitter saw some tweets about the Jeffrey Epstein list that’s apparently coming out in January saw some tweets on blue face cuz that guy always seems to come up on my timeline don’t ask why I

Know he comes up on yours too though but then I saw one tweet that really caught my eye and honestly it’s pretty much the reason I made this video this is the MVP tracker so far up to this point from basketball reference embiid yic SGA Giannis Luca halberton Tatum sabonis

Maxi and lard okay makes sense but then I was reading the replies and I saw this picture this is a comparison of the Aon Fox this season with two other guys in the top 10 Maxi and Lillard and it made me realize how much better of a season

Fox is having than so many people realize he’s averaging four more points per game than both these guys the three of them essentially average the same amount of rebounds and assist per game but then Fox is averaging 1.6 steals per game while Maxi is only averaging point8 and Lillard’s averaging one FOX also

Leads to the three in field goal percentage 3% higher than Maxi and 5% higher than Lillard he leads in 3point percentage 2% higher than Maxi and 3 and half% higher than Lillard and Maxi and Lillard are two guys you think of as snipers Fox isn’t although Fox does have

By far the lowest free throw percentage but then he has the highest effective field goal percentage of the three I’m going to be completely honest I have no idea what BPM and V bar are we counting heart right now beats permitt it but for real though this got me thinking why do

I hear so much about a guy like tyres Maxi but I won’t hear anything about dearon Fox especially in MVP or all NBA conversations and then I saw this this video of Mike Brown talking about fox and how he gets completely disrespected in these conversations uh uh you you guys ask me

Questions I’m going start this thing off asking you guys questions okay got to show you got to raise your hand who is the only two-time player of the week in the NBA who can answer that no don’t don’t yell at don’t yeah I’m sorry I didn’t hear you dear

Fox dearen fox okay I got a second question who is not on anybody’s freaking MVP list right now I I I haven’t seen one okay put your list out put your list out put your put your list out it really is weird to think that fox still goes

Unnoticed around the NBA I mean he averaged 25 points per game last season the Kings went to seven with the Golden State Warriors everyone was tuned into that series everyone saw how they played there one of the fastest most exciting teams in the NBA and somehow they still

Go unnoticed on the Sacramento Kings broadcast they were talking about a reason fox goes under the radar is basically because he just plays for the Sacramento Kings I mean not many people are tuning into Kings games and this is especially people who aren’t on Pacific time cuz if you aren’t the game starting

At 9:30 p.m. the earliest for you and I mean if you you think about it Maxi and Lillard are both East Coast players who play eastern time more and they’re both on national TV a lot the guy brings a level of toughness you know he’s fine

Through it he’s not even 100% right now either and he’s still out there doing his thing I love the confidence he is playing with and you can tell the offseason work has played a huge role in his development this year you’re seeing it with the shooting it’s great for the

Sacramento Kings yeah and uh hopefully in some ways in some ways I’m like yeah hopefully he’s more in that conversation right you see how the NBA works there’s politics no you know what it is oh what is it hey East Coast people I need you to stay up and watch NBA games because

What you’re witnessing is the East Coast I need you to watch some of this stuff on the west coast I know you got to stay up till 10:30 for that tip off watch these games and you’re going to see a talented player one of the best in the

NBA he plays right here in Sac hey not only dear and fox playing like that but this team as a whole is so fun to watch so stay up stop sleeping over there would you I guess it makes sense I don’t know is that a reach you let me know

Here’s one thing about dear Fox this season so far or really fox in his career he’s become drastically a better shooter in every single season of his career so far specifically pull-up jumpers check this out this is his effective field goal percentage per season of his career for pull-up jumpers

Specifically in 1920 only attempting 5 and a half pull upjs a game Fox had a 42.4 effective field goal percentage the following year actually the following two years that’s so weird that the next two years are the exact same but these two seasons attempting 8.7 pull-up jumpers a game he shot

44.9% The Following Season attempting essentially the same amount per game .1 less he rose his percentage to 45.6 so we’ll say he took the same amount but Rose the percentage a little but now this season this season he’s been going crazy he’s attempting 9.3

Pullup JS a game by far the most he ever has in his career and he’s hitting this at a 56.3% rate that’s an elite rate for anyone and that’s by far the best of his career like by a wide margin over 11% more than he ever has in any other year

But this 56.3% isn’t just a leite for Fox it’s a leite for anybody in the NBA actually it’s fourth in the entire league just behind James Harden CJ McCollum and Tyrese halberton three guys you consider considered knockdown Shooters and fox is taking the second most pull-up JS out of the top four 70

And 100 more than Harden and CJ respectively but I want to show you something as fox has gotten better throughout the last few seasons and obviously only made the Kings better and with the Kings being better they made the playoffs for the first time in like 700 years but in their series with

Golden state they kind of developed a little rivalry and it seems like they play them every other night nowadays well on Golden State they have one of the greatest defenders in the League’s history Draymond Green and Draymond has said specifically just how much of a

Challenge it could be to guard the a fox I love the uh you know Fox is a great player man he’s incredible he continues to get better and anytime you know you you you draw the assignment to go guard the other team’s best best player you know you you appreciate the

Opportunity and I I definitely did and wanted to guard and try to help this team win and so I as far as that conversation went they just told me like yo you got foxing I’m like all right cool and I said you try to take on that

Challenge and get his team what it needs you know of Dre green is praising you you got to be doing something right he isn’t out there just praising a lot of guys I want to look at a little bit of this season though to start off the

Season in the first seven games the Sacramento Kings started off 6 And1 and this included some dominant performances from the a fox like 43 against San Antonio Spurs here ear 39 against Golden State and 37 against the Lakers but then in the eighth and Ninth games of the

Season the Kings had the Pelicans on back to backs and this actually resulted in back-to-back losses for the Kings Fox only put up 14 and 26 in these two games and people were kind of falling off the Sacramento Kings the airon fox hype train I mean not Fox himself though dear

You’ve been a part of some teams that didn’t do so well and had similar starts as far as record-wise what about this team makes you makes your trust with them you know different well I think um what we did last year obviously you know it’s still I would feel like holds a

Little bit of weight and um we know that we can go out there and we can compete with anybody especially with the offensive weapons that we have but for us for us we know we have to hang our hat on the defensive end and with our

Offense we like I said we can hang with anybody that’s not and that’ll probably never be the problem um so we already feel like we can win games with that alone but uh for us we know that just being able to take our defense to the

Next level I feel like makes us a top tier team and we have confidence that we we can win every game that we go out there Fox was right cuz in the next three games he went for 36 29 and 40 against the Los Angeles Clippers that was the

End off December and to pick things up even further Fox dominating in the month of January but one thing in specific that he drastically changed this month his three-point shooting Fox shot 43.7% from downtown and it wasn’t on nothing attempts either he made four of 9.23 a

Game look at this this is just comparing last year to this year but last year out of all guards who got rot ation minutes in the NBA Fox’s shot quality from three was a a minus this year it’s down to a D+ I’ll tell you why just give me a

Minute though but the other three categories he drastically improve like just straight up three-point shooting Talent last year he was in F this year he’s in the B plus category and we’ll pull up threes again last year F this year he’s risen it all the way up to the

A minus group one of the best in the NBA and the same goes for three-pointers made per 75 possessions last year he again towards the bottom of the NBA this year A minus again towards the top of the NBA the a fox’s three-point turnaround has been something kind of

Crazy to watch it reminds me of what LeBron added that Elite three-point ability to his game if you remember that but the shot quality did go down I didn’t forget the reasoning though is kind of simple Fox is new to this he’s never been a three-point shooter it’s

Never been an elite weapon of his and he’s kind of still testing the water seeing what he could do with it I was listening to a Sacramento Kings podcast recently and they broke down the question of why Fox’s shot quality went down perfectly check this out you got to love it from a

40% three-point shooter and if that keeps going up you better change your mind you better just shift your mindset and I know you would but my point is I think some there’s so many people who want to look at it this way where he’s going Birds to all of you I am this

Effing nice I can shoot this ball trust my form trust my mechanics trust my decisionmaking now I know for some of us we’re like well why would you shoot that far away shot when your other shot’s so efficient and beautiful inside the paint and no one can stop it because he is

Just trying to add that range to his game and allow it to happen especially at this age allow it to happen I mean it does make sense if you think about it but it isn’t just his ability to show from Deep this year something dearon fox has done his whole career he’s been

Elite at scoring near the basket on isos right now dearra Fox is third in the NBA and unassisted points per game on two-pointers he’s averaging 15 and 1 12 points like this the rest of this list guys you would definitely expect here SGA Luca Giannis Zion plus he’s

Averaging more than Giannis and Zion on a real note though look how much ahead SGA is than everyone else SGA video coming ASAP you heard it here you can hold me to it but like I said unassisted field goals is something that fox has always been a lead at

Check this tweet out this are the top players in the NBA whose percentage of their field goals are unassisted Fox is currently fourth in the league with 71% of his mies again Luca and SJ fall in the top four and this time Trey young is

The fourth guy to crack the list but 81% of Luca’s field goals being un assisted is kind of wild that guy just goes out there and gets buckets at will but all four of these guys should be Allstars Luca Trey SGA and fox but like the whole

Point of this video we forget about dearon fox and he said himself that he doesn’t care about making the All-Star team although he does think he should make it do both of you expect to be back ooh this would be a good one for you in Indianapolis in February where you

Started with the Pacers you have an expectation that you’ll be an All-Star again this year um no just to go out there and and get wins like me and fox I mean I think everyone knows us we don’t we we just want to go out there and win

And and play play tough and play ball the the right way come on you you you you pitch for this guy on on X all the time on Twitter let’s I definitely do for me personally I’ve never allar has never been my goal should I be an

Allstar or should we be allst star this year we should be but uh that’s that’s not what I’m worried about that’s definitely not what I’m worried about but’ll be there I mean I said we should be I mean it’s pretty safe to say fox should be an Allstar this year but

There’s a few games I want to look at in specific the first game being against the Washington Wizards this is because Fox and sabonis both dominated in this one for Fox he had 30 points six assist and five rebounds Sab bonus 28 points 12 assists 13 rebounds the two of these

Guys have been dominant this season and if you watch Kings games you know how often they run the pick and roll well in the NBA this season as a pick and roll ball handler Darren Fox averages the seventh most points per game but he’s shooting by far the best percentage in

These pick and roll situations shooting 70.7% and a big reason for this well it’s pretty obvious the de Fox damont sabonis pick and roll is become a lethal part of the Sacramento Kings offense and the Aon fox actually did a really good breakdown of it and how him and sabonis

His two man game has come such a long way in the last year the years to really get this going he’s averaging almost seven assists a game so it’s like that’s unheard of almost in this day and age oh I mean there are times where if he’s there obviously we’re both left-handed

So there’s not many times where this where this happens but uh if I’m getting a split cut or anything I can get down the lane he might pass it uh I can come off he could hand it off he could fake the hand off obviously we have shooters

Everywhere I could shoot it or there’s times where I just tell whoever this is get out of the way I can come and set a screen to get him to go left now he has either a small I can pop there’s just so many different things that we’re able to

Do here and he can make any pass in the book so there’s times where he just he just throws it up Falls right into my hand and it’s a layup now was that something you guys worked on was that like Mike Brown said yo guys here the system is going through YouTube let’s

Work on that and you got people to come back during the summer or was that you guys during the year just kind of figured it out through film it’s really us figuring it out we have so many different options of stuff and like I

Said he can make any pass so as long as you cut hard you actually screen for your guys if you screen you’re going to be open and he just makes a read yeah your guys’s unselfishness is is amazing to watch and you”ll be one of the

Funner teams to watch this year and last year we we hear a lot about chemistry is that just something that happens on the court H how have you guys developed that between the two of you I think it just happens on the court naturally both of us want to win there’s

Moments in games where I’m bringing the ball up like he said he randomly sets a screen on me so then I’m going downhill I’m reading him if his team helps I hit him we both just want to win so like it kind of goes it clicks I don’t know you

Guys are you guys are players you know you you feel it when you play and you know like oh he’s going to go there and you it didn’t click when chanting and like three years andry the two of them have been great but as great as they’ve

Been I don’t think many people expected it at this level the third seed finished last year the fifth seed as of right now this season and when I say no one expected it to work to this extent this include the king’s general manager the guy who literally made the trade for

Sabonis again we do a lot of um you know kind of planning and forecasting of of what it’s going to look like and um we talked about it when we initially traded for for domas and our and our vision but um until it comes together it’s you know

You’re not sure exactly what it’s going to look like but those two guys have have just I think surpassed expectations both individually and with each other um and then really ultimately with how their teammates play off of them and play with them um so you know seeing

That’s been been great um and uh you know those two guys just they not only are great individually they make the game easier for others but guys love to play with them uh their unselfishness their ability to uh make their teammates better um their personalities um all

Those things make uh you know give us a chance to to be pretty special I want to look at another game though this one was the Blazers Kings game and although the Kings lost Fox still went off he had 43 points eight rebounds four assist all 16

For 26 from the field just efficient all around then after the game they were talking about the game and Fox’s performance overall and they asked the question is the Aon fox in contention for the greatest Sacramento king of all time I think so hey I think you have to

You have to his body is work I mean obvious though they they’ been you know a list of great point guards that have come through Sacramento I put the a right at the Top If not number one oo you know okay it’s sometimes I go is this a prisoner of the moment

Conversation but then not only are you looking at what he’s doing this season I feel like coming off of last season you’re seeing Oh this is who he is in the NBA absolutely and you’ve seen it since the beginning he’s been one of the best scoring guards in the game since he

Touched the floor but I think just the expansion of his game on both sides of the ball on top of being a better leader uh all that kind of stuff elevates him to you know being one of the greatest Kings and he still got a lot more work

To do honestly this got me thinking so I did some research about the question and then I remembered Oscar Robertson as a part of the king’s history maybe they met actual Sacramento King cuz he was in Cincinnati Royal all right whatever following this game though actually the

Very next game we have the Atlanta Hawks versus Sacramento Kings and I bring this game up because of the Trey young vers the Aaron Fox matchup and the Hawks broadcast before this game was hyping it up a lot we have two-point guards that b Ando just talked about in the first

Segment that are Premier Marquee matchup at the one ni how do you see it playing out as far as what dearon fox brings to this game versus what Trey young does as well well what you have here you have two point guards that the focal point of

Your offense on the other end you have Daren Fox who’s been unconscious this year so far so he can get in the lane anytime he wants but he’s a long ball shoot as well but if you put all that the together with his speed he’s unguardable he’s one of those

Unguardable guys and then on the other end you got Trey young who can play inside and out and what I mean by that he can break your defenses down and get in the lane shoot his little floaters but it’s going to be an interesting matchup between these two guys and you

Can best believe that they are both going to try to get out of the gates early well Fox ended up getting the better of this matchup Fox had 31 and8 Trey had 24-9 but the Kings ended up getting the W and that’s really what the Kings have been doing all all season

Their record is currently 19 and 13 and their best player continues to get better every season and this team continues to click more and more each night I think the fox disrespect keeps going on because they’re such a small Market team and not a lot of people are

Tuning into Sacramento King games on a nightly basis but whatever it is more people got to start finding out cuz this king’s team only gets better and better every night except for the Hornets loss but we won’t talk about that but if Fox continues this play he should easily

Find himself on the allstar Squad and maybe even the all NBA team after the season and who knows maybe he does pass Oscar Robertson one day probably not who knows whatever see you next video SGA soon