One of the strangest things about the 2019-20 Kings was how slowly they played. A year after running the ball down opponents’ throats with De’Aaron Fox’s speed, the Kings had the 19th-ranked pace in the NBA and only finished 14.1 percent of their possessions in transition, below the league average.
That should no longer be the case in the 2020-21. These Kings are even younger, even faster, and more importantly are now under the offensive tutelage of Alvin Gentry, who the team hired as its associated head coach last month. In the last 10 years, Gentry has been an assistant for two seasons and a head coach for seven others; his teams finished in the top ten for pace all nine seasons, and in the top five four times.