04-02-2021, 07:04 PM
(04-01-2021, 11:27 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Thanks, fifteenth. Not sure I am completely certain of what question you are posing.
Are you suggesting the possibility that Rick wants KP to play a certain way against smaller players, KP may not have been going along with the plan, and being pulled in the fourth was a message from Rick in that regard?
I hadn't really considered that possibility, but it's an interesting take.
First, all this is just a guess. I don't think of it as "not going along with the plan" and an overt benching. The process of developing KP's game so that he can routinely punish smaller players is probably multifaceted. Maybe he's doing some of the stuff, and having trouble implementing some of the stuff. RC probably really wanted Brunson in the game. So it gave him an excuse to low-key sit KP for a bit. And then you have KP in the post game saying that he wants a plan where he plays against smaller lineups so that he can punish them.
Make sure to take all of this as a flimsy theory developed with no inside knowledge. So it's just "for fun" talk.