2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[BasketballJones41]

We have all been wanting both coaches to figure this out for like three years. 

I don't understand why we have only gotten it for one glorious half (maybe even just a quarter) during that time. I really, truly don't get it, and that frustrates me. I have reached the point where I think it must be that Porzingis simply doesn't want to play that way. That's not a take I can support with evidence, and I could be (and hope I am) way wrong, but I can't dream up any other reason this approach has been absent for the entirety of the tandem's partnership.

This is the conclusion I’ve drawn as well. Because we know Luka thrives on the pick and roll so he obviously wants to run it. But outside of the first part of KP‘s first year here and the bubble series against the clippers the fit just hasn’t seemed to consistently be there. Sure they have moments and games where we think they might be turning a corner but it always ends up being fools gold. And I can’t come up with anything other than for whatever reason KP doesn’t consistently want to set real screens. Now that JB has turned a corner and moved into the starting lineup I guess we need to give the Luka/JB/KP trio a little evaluation time but I’m becoming increasingly skeptical that KP is ever going to be a part of getting us to the mountain top. 

That’s not to say that he’s a bad player at all. He’s having a borderline All-Star season in fact. But there’s a lot of very good players in this league that just don’t fit together and I think Luka and KP might be an example. For the most part Luka and KP just exist on the floor as individuals instead of working together to make the defenses pay. I agree with whoever said earlier that Luka would probably benefit way more from playing with somebody like Sabonis.