Sacramento Kings: Best Rotations- Offensive
By Tyler Watts
Power Forward- Omri Casspi
Omri Casspi may be somewhat of a surprise selection, but I think he deserves the inclusion. Let us view his stats from his second stint with the Kings spanning the last two seasons. In those two seasons, Casspi has shot 48.4% from the field, 69.4% from the free throw line, and 40.7% from beyond the three-point line. In some ways the NBA is a pace and space league nowadays and throwing on a player that can shoot forty percent or better from three is a big advantage.
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The Kings expanded the role of Casspi last season and he produced with that extra run. Looking at the advanced metrics, he created 2.0 and 2.1 offensive win shares the last two seasons with the Kings in an average of 24.2 minutes per game.
The last feather in the cap of Casspi is his corner three-point shooting. He shoots 42.2% for his career on corner threes. Last season, he nailed 43.5% on those attempts. He is not going to need the ball in his hands and can just spot up, space the floor, and knock down triples. That makes him my choice for the best offensive lineup for the Kings this season.
Note: Rudy Gay and Omri Casspi would be pretty interchangeable in this lineup, so you could say Gay was the power forward and Casspi was the small forward if you preferred to view it in that respect. I chose it this way because Basketball-Reference classified Casspi as playing 66% of his minutes at PF last year and Gay only 24% of his minutes.