TAKE DAT WIT YOU 11/16

[mavsluvr]

Yeah, for sure. I don't believe for a split second that Carlisle didn't want to develop a two-man game between Luka/KP. I think there must be at least a partial explanation we don't know, having to do with willingness from either Luka, KP or both. There has to be.

Dameris, I think, was talking about the long road to buy-in for KP. Said that when KP was traded here, he fully believed that he was going to be the clear #1 option (did not say whether someone told him that, or if that was his own idea). 


He was very resistant to altering that stance, and resisted coaching strategies that painted him as a #2. It took him a LONG time to buy in, but now, it appears that he is at least accepting the idea that he and Luka may be co-first options. 

My own gloss on that is that possibly, to the extent he and Carlisle didn't get along, he might have dug in on resisting whatever Carlisle proposed, whether consciously or subconsciously. Now, KP apparently thinks Kidd's system is featuring him, and that Kidd is allowing him to play more in the way he wants. The reluctance to perfect the two-man game could also have been a result of KP's periods of immobility, when rolling and running just seemed beyond him. Maybe being healthy (by his standards) and being allowed to eat up some inefficient possessions posting up were some of the keys to securing his cooperation. I'm just speculating here, it could be anything.