2025-26 Season
MALIK MONK
2025-26 Season
MALIK MONK
Monk produces at an below average rate for a 22-minute workload.
About this model: Net Impact can't measure floor spacing, help defense rotations, or playmaking gravity — so wings and guards are slightly undervalued vs bigs. How Net Impact works
TEAM COMPARISON
of 17 teammates (10+ games, 10+ min)
SKILL DNA
Percentile rank vs 235 Guards with 10+ games
THE SEASON SO FAR
Malik Monk's opening stretch was defined by a maddening inconsistency that swung entirely on his shot selection. When his jumper fell, he was an absolute flamethrower. On 10/24 vs UTA, Monk completely flipped the game's momentum with a barrage of deep threes, racking up 20 points and a massive +11.5 impact score. However, his tendency to force the issue often punished his own team. Look at 11/26 vs PHX, where he poured in 15 points but still posted a -6.6 impact score because he bled value defensively while chasing buckets. His erratic decision-making hit rock bottom on 11/09 vs MIN, yielding just 2 points and a staggering -13.8 impact score as wild, contested jumpers killed the second unit's rhythm. He remains a highly potent scoring punch, but his refusal to attack the paint when his perimeter touch vanishes makes him a dangerously volatile rotation piece.
Malik Monk's midseason stretch was a wildly erratic rollercoaster where brilliant scoring explosions were constantly undermined by disastrous shot selection. He looked like the league's most lethal sixth man on 01/18 vs POR, pouring in 23 points and posting a +12.9 impact score because his perimeter shot-making completely broke the opposing defensive shell. Yet, high scoring totals often masked deeper flaws in his overall floor game. During his 18-point outing on 01/20 vs MIA, Monk registered a -5.5 impact because his decision-making devolved into heavy contested pull-ups. Even when the shots fell flawlessly on 01/21 vs TOR, his 17 points on 6-for-7 shooting still yielded a -2.9 impact score due to a glaring inability to navigate defensive screens on the other end of the floor. When the jumper abandoned him entirely, things got truly ugly; a scoreless, nine-minute stint on 12/08 vs IND resulted in a brutal -11.8 impact score driven entirely by forced, out-of-rhythm jumpers early in the shot clock. This maddening inconsistency turned him into a volatile wildcard who could shoot his team into a game just as quickly as he could shoot them out of it.
IMPACT TIMELINE
Game-by-game performance vs average. Green = above average, red = below.
Boom-or-bust player. Monk's impact swings wildly relative to his average — some nights dominant, others invisible. Scoring varies by ~8 points per game.
Middle-of-the-road efficiency — shoots 45%+ from the field in 51% of games. Not automatic, but not a problem either.
Good defender on his best nights, but it comes and goes. Some games Monk locks in defensively, others he gets picked apart.
In a rough stretch — 4 straight games with negative impact. Longest cold streak this season: 6 games.
MATCHUP HISTORY
Based on 66 games with tracking data. Shows who guarded this player on offense and who he guarded on defense, with their shooting stats in those matchups.
ON OFFENSE: WHO GUARDED HIM
His shooting stats against each primary defender this season
ON DEFENSE: WHO HE GUARDED
How opponents shot when he was the primary defender. Lower FG% = better defense.
SEASON STATS
GAME LOG
59 games played