10-23-2021, 12:59 PM
https://twitter.com/mavsdraft/status/145...98693?s=21
I used to go back to this stat A LOT (in the sense of that he actually has that skill in him when healthy) during his first season here where he was in the single digits percentile in post plays for a long time at the beginning of the year, but at some point you gotta be honest and face the facts. I think the idea of KP being remotely „good“ in post plays is just not gonna happen anymore for whatever reasons. Tbh he didn’t even look good in those plays during preseason.
I guess he just lost that skill through all the injuries and/or was just red hot for a while in his allstar year.
A few positives though:
- he looks genuinely better/quicker on defense so far
- he can impact the game on offense in plenty other ways than the postplay
- he should benefit a lot from playing faster as he’s still very quick for a player his size when we’re talking about north-south quickness. He should get plenty easy buckets that way.
I used to go back to this stat A LOT (in the sense of that he actually has that skill in him when healthy) during his first season here where he was in the single digits percentile in post plays for a long time at the beginning of the year, but at some point you gotta be honest and face the facts. I think the idea of KP being remotely „good“ in post plays is just not gonna happen anymore for whatever reasons. Tbh he didn’t even look good in those plays during preseason.
I guess he just lost that skill through all the injuries and/or was just red hot for a while in his allstar year.
A few positives though:
- he looks genuinely better/quicker on defense so far
- he can impact the game on offense in plenty other ways than the postplay
- he should benefit a lot from playing faster as he’s still very quick for a player his size when we’re talking about north-south quickness. He should get plenty easy buckets that way.