FWIW, the Kings interior defense has been pretty solid for the last year and a half. The team gets torched from outside, and especially on corner threes. The defensive philosophy has been nothing inside, but with poor rotations and slower bigs like Cousins and JT and stubby, slow bigs like Landry and Evans it was impossible to cover the perimeter and the inside. That is where WCS should shine, using the mobility and length to be able to sag off a guy and still contest a three.
A healthy Moreland is a vast defensive improvement over both Evans and Landry. I hope he gets some burn this year.
That's simply not true.
Our opponent field goal percentage at rim was 26th place last year, which is a slight improvement over 2013-14 when we took the 27th place. And also ranked second from the bottom in protecting the restricted area (opponents shot 65.2 percent).
We also rank as the team that gave up the 10th most field goals made within 5 feet (2nd highest %), and 2nd most made field goals between 5-9 feet (10th highest %).
We are among the teams that suffer least between 10-14 feat (27th in made field goals) and middle of the pack from 15-19 (13th in made field goals).
We do seem to have a problem in the range of 20-24 feet (long two's and short/corner threes) ranking 5th highest in field goal made, but I wouldn't say we are getting "torched" considering the percentages aren't that high (17th highest %), and we are OK between 25 and 29 (deep threes) at 17th most field goals made and 14th in % from there.
To sum it up, our interior defense wasn't all that great and our perimeter defense (and what I mean by that is guarding shots taken away from the basket and not keeping players from getting to the basket) was better.
