11-29-2020, 10:59 PM
(11-29-2020, 09:28 PM)fifteenth Wrote:(11-29-2020, 07:29 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: I can't disagree with this more. Did you not see what happened to KPs game after Powell went down? They aren't going back to KP/Powell.
I expect them to try DP/KP again. There were factors involved in KP's slow start other than just playing with DP. So that you can't conclude definitively that it was them playing together.
I don't think they will. We didn't see Rick play KP with another non shooting big all season except once he started Boban with KP. Rick could have started WCS with KP but didn't. Now Powell can presumably rotate to the perimeter better than a more traditional big but I think offensively Rick doesn't want to mess with what works. Rick didn't even try to start MKG, another big that can't shoot next to KP. Rick has embraced the modern NBA. He loves small ball and KP + some of the other guys we have (Maxi,. Johnson) let you play smallish without really giving up much.
I don't see why he would take post Achilles Powell and stick him back with KP, ever. Powell pre achilles was still doing a lot of triple single stay lines. He lookes good in the PNR with Luka but he can do that off the bench. I don't expect to see Powell and KP starting again. That would keep KP out on the perimeter and he's too good to just be a stretch big.