02-15-2020, 06:43 PM
(02-15-2020, 05:21 PM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: Partly rust maybe, but his shooting numbers are pretty consistent with his career. Even his best year in New York, his shooting efficiency wasn’t good enough to make him a good player. Just a guy who took shots and people noticed his style so he seemed better than he really is, a la Antoine Walker or someone like that. But, like I said, he has the talent to get better, good coaching, and a bunch of really good offensive players around him. He’ll get a lot of good looks. He has no excuse to not get closer to the 50-40-85 standard he needs to be at. If he keeps his Recent performance up long term, all will be good. But this can’t be a good stretch. It needs to be the normal.
My hope, even prediction, is that his NY inefficiency was due to the offense he was in and the load he carried, his inefficiency this season is from rust and learning a new system, and that his Feb #s are more like what we'll see from a healthy confident KP and an in sinc KP and Luka.
Having said that, 50/40/90 with a .683 TS% with good volume over a number of years is HOF level.