HOLY KRISTAPS: All Things Porzingis | TRADED to WAS

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Vaild.

Again, all we can do is wait and see. Maybe he's excited about being around Cuban (no joke). Maybe, he's happy to be out of a leadership position, given that it went so poorly. Maybe, he's happy to be out of WAS, no matter what. Maybe he won't come off the bench for long, even.

One thing I'm confident about: in the worst case scenario, wherein Dinwiddie comes in and hates his role, isn't happy, whatever, I think that will be much less of a problem than the team has had trying to make it work with KP over the past couple of years. Starting, not starting, whatever, he's being brought here to help as a piece on Luka's team. He knows it, they know it, we know it. Those will be the expectations, and they come with considerably less pressure from all angles than KP had on his shoulders just two days ago. I think that's a positive change, for literally all involved parties.

Agree great point. One of the issues for KP was that huge expectations and the gap between expecations and what he can do and how he fits in the team. The gap was just too high. SD starts on exactly the opposite. No expecations. He starts from the bottom and will work his way up. Same with Bertans. Nico stated both are brought for the depth. That's the expecation, improve the depth. I think both players are talented enough to do even more than that.

Always better starting from lower expecations and surprise, rather than start from too high expectations.