2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[TXBamanut]

I absolutely think part of it was from the coaching staff and possibly a spillover from the dysfunctionality of the front office as a whole with Haralabob.

For example, I've already detailed how I think Carlisle didn't help him in the post up and why several times on the board, so I think absolutely it was coaching to a degree. 

Carlisle talking down the postup and how it doesn't work with the analytics -- KP with "I want to post up" pushback privately and publicly -- the extremely limited way they went about getting him into the post which was lame -- the poor (or no) entry passes.

I think if they ran a decent postup set for KP, you might not see him slipping every screen to try to pin some dude down.   I remember KP talking about his limited minutes when he was working his way back from injury, where he said he felt more pressure to force up shots to get into a rhythm because of the limited minutes/touches, etc.   That's telling to me, so you have to manage that.

And for the RECORD, I don't like that kind of talk from a player, but if he's here, then you have to work around that, get rid of the employee or correct that, because slinking off to the break room and having complaining sessions about it will only make it worse all over your organization the longer it goes on.  Some change has to be made, and they've made one giant one, in the coaching staff and front office...and hopefully, Haralabob being gone or at least extremely limited in his personal contact with the team.

If Haralabob is the jerk that people portray him to be, I don't see Kidd taking any of that crap from him anyway and probably less so than Rick.