03-22-2021, 10:38 AM
(03-22-2021, 10:25 AM)omahen Wrote: Luka assisted KP exactly 118 times this season. KP converted on 60 attempts. There is only one player that received more passes from Luka - THJ.
That's good to know.
I really think people are just coming to grips with the idea that KP isn't who we all hoped he'd be, exactly, and that we're all doing it in a variety of ways. It's a tough thing to swallow.
For me, the make or break issue is defense. If he can play defense AT LEAST as well as he has over the past three weeks or so (hopefully even better as time goes by) I can handle the offensive disappointment. Just because he's nowhere near the same class as Dirk (who he's being compared with by the people here, whether consciously or not) doesn't mean he's not incredibly useful on that end. If he can just learn to punish teams for guarding him with forwards, somehow, then having him pull the opposing bigs out of the paint will be difference-making on offense whether he gets shots off or not.
But, I'll say it again: you cannot have a good defense if your center isn't a good defender. I like what I've seen from him on that end more lately, but it's still not where I hoped it would be on the day they traded for him. He has bought a little hope from me that he's improving though. My mind is a little more open about it than it used to be.