(04-19-2021, 12:51 PM)hakeemfaan Wrote: Bama. As mentioned on the game thread, this is the wrong game to stand up for KP.
I have called out Luka’ heroball and lack of defense plenty this season. I have defended KP as well.
However last night KP looked lost. I don’t know a better way to put it. He was not assertive at all. Luka started his heroball stuff after no one other than Jalen seemed interested in doing anything. Plus Luka was playing hard on defense too.e
Well, that is your perspective, man, and though I respect your perspective, I still disagree, because we aren't talking about him turning down shots last night or just one game. This is a problem that is snowballing with each game, so I don't think relegating it to a "game by game" basis when it crops up is the issue. This has been going on all year...and it's a problem and the bad night, looking lost --- all that is part and parcel of the problem, but it is ongoing.
Every game where it starts to be "well, you just stand here until I'm done" type of thing with a star player becomes "here we go again" in the mind of a person, often and that becomes attached to what happened last time.
Like I pointed out also, at half, as terrible as KP was shooting, Luka was shooting worse, but they didn't go away from him and he corrected himself. Similar to the Milwaukee game I just referenced. KP went 1-5 in the 3rd and they didn't stop going to him and he went 4-4 in the fourth. We will either win consistently with them both as a big part of what we do, with Luka driving the boat obviously, but when he gets relegated, because of the makeup of this team, the team will be hurt.
Star players are like this. You expect them to get righted so you go with them. Role players like THJ or Brunson or DFS, they can be off and you just move to the next guy because you have a bunch of that category. You can't just move to the next guy because your star isn't because you have 1, maybe 2 of those guys and if they are what you go down with the ship on. Just is the nature of sports.
"There are no friends on the court." - Luka Doncic