Bucks' Snell putting the 'shooting' in shooting guard

The decision to re-sign Tony Snell in the offseason is paying off for the Milwaukee Bucks.

It's been just 18 games, but the fifth-year guard is trending towards several career highs, including minutes (32.2), points (9.3), assists (1.8), Player Efficiency Rating (11.8) and Offensive Rating (131).

Snell is also, to use a cliché, shooting the lights out.

No guard in the NBA has a better field-goal percentage (minimum 100 attempts) than Snell's 54.4 percent. The next-highest is Philadelphia's T.J. McConnell, who is far behind at 51.8 percent. Snell is also sixth in the NBA in 3-point percentage (min. 50 attempts) at 47.8 percent. Last season, his first with the Bucks, Snell set career highs making 45.5 percent of his field-goal attempts an 40.6 percent of his 3 attempts.

Using true shooting percentage -- which takes into account 2-pointers, 3-pointers and free throws -- nobody in the NBA is better than Snell.

Milwaukee certainly could use Snell to help take some of the pressure off Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton, who rank 1-2 in the NBA in minutes played at 39.5 and 37.5, respectively. Only Cleveland's LeBron James (37.4) averages more than 37 minutes per game

Other notes:

-- Milwaukee and Sacramento have split their last 12 meetings.

-- The Bucks have scored 100+ points in each of its last nine games against the Kings. That is Milwaukee's longest streak of its kind against any opponent since doing it nine straight times against the Golden State Warriors from 1991-96. The last time the Bucks had a streak longer than nine games was 1983-93 -- 21 straight vs. Denver, which was known for playing in high-scoring games.

Statistics courtesy STATS and basketball-reference.com