TAKE DAT WIT YOU 9/8

[Tyler]

I see it as a matter of player development. Rarely is the most efficient usage of individual talent immediately evident, especially when multiple variables are involved in a team environment. Sometimes there are growing pains that hurt near-term efficiency but are hugely helpful in the long run. 

An extreme example would be never playing Green because the stats say that the team isn't very efficient when he's on the court. But the effect is that he never develops the necessary skills to fit the current paradigm and the team never takes the time to discover his best usage. And the end result is that you waste a good long-term talent in the name of maintaining the status-quo to maximize near-term efficiency.

The KP situation isn't quite like that, but I do think that the team got a bit lazy last year when it comes to putting him in a position to succeed. All I'm sayin' is that I'd like to see what happens when the coaches actively try to build him up rather than force him into a box. IMO, the guy who encouraged Giannis to embrace playing like a PG rather than stereotyping him as a center is a particularly interesting person to take on the KP challenge.