04-19-2021, 10:42 AM
(04-19-2021, 10:22 AM)TXBamanut Wrote: I always love your reviews, and usually agree, but I'm going to push back on this statement as lacking context. They were blowing past EVERY Mav all night and KP was consistently stuck between rotating to help D or keeping Whiteside or their other center off the boards.
When you funnel a driver to the shotblocker, you have to get a body on his man, and the Mavs DON'T do that at all and that's not on him. I would literally feel danged if I do or danged if I don't. I either block the shot and catch it or it's a waste of time and I get blamed either way. It's hard to have full force energy to continue to fail like that. He's a pro, so he has too, but that's not easy to know that you either get something that happens 2 times a game if you are elite or you are an idiot.
Thanks, Bama, I am always happy to receive other perspectives.
I find your views on KP very interesting, and will try to consider them in evaluating his performances.
I actually never meant to suggest that the loss was only on KP, just that his performance was below his usual standard. And that was surely not just on him -- the offense needs to operate in such a manner as to create good looks for KP and the other scorers.