05-23-2021, 08:09 AM
(05-23-2021, 05:39 AM)omahen Wrote: KP has to do better. I am sure he is frustrated for not being involved more, but that is a consequence of not being able to exploit your height advantage. He can't beat Kawhi and his long arms one on one and he should be just forbidden to put it on the floor in these situations. He needs to be active without the ball, attack the glass and everything will come to him. Also more energy on defense would be nice.
I've mentioned gravity in a couple of posts, but if KP takes Leonard out to the three point line, then I'll take my chances with Luka, THJ, Maxi and DFS against PG, Morris, Zubac and any of their guards. Lue has an interesting decision to make. Will the Dallas secondary players be this good three more times? If the bet is no, then keep Leonard on KP. If you take Leonard off KP, you run the risk that 30 point KP shows up and beats you.
Maxi is super important to this series. He's the one dragging Zubac over to Luka for the switch. They have to switch it because they can't afford to leave either Maxi of Luka trying to fight through. That wouldn't be the case with Powell or WCS.
I agree we have reserves, as you put it. But, we won't always win the rebounding war 42-39 (we got 13 from the Maxi-Melli PF combo). We also won't hold the league's best 3 point team to 27%. Leonard was 1/6, Morris was 0/6 and PG was 2/8. I imagine one adjustment will be more Batum and less Morris.