04-08-2021, 03:58 PM
(04-08-2021, 03:52 PM)TXBamanut Wrote: I agree...And I think it's fair to say that KP sometimes comes off arrogant and irritating.
I think KP is just an easy target and fans vault from "he does nothing" to "why doesn't he do everything" whenever it suits their pre-determined narrative.
And by the way, I'm not trying to bag on Luka either. If it was either KP or Luka, I'm going Luka all day long...He is a good guy, but he is going to have to learn that to lead a team, you may have to lead people you don't like or who are irritating or irrational sometimes. Rarely do you ever have a team or an organization without some hard to manage people in it. KP is his right now...and part of that is realizing that KP is a useful player, but he's only going to be as useful as Luka decides for him to be.
There is a reason that you have the sentiment that you "have to let the big dog eat" or you "have to reward the big man", and talented offensive players want their shots...NONE of this is some new phenomena only to KP and it's not only to "bad" players or "malcontents"...If Luka wasn't getting his shots, he would handle it differently (I didn't say better), but he wouldn't like it.
There also has never been a big man that didn't depend on the PG and the offensive scheme to get shots. Luka just takes them when he wants them, but KP can't do that. If we want someone to just let them take turns, we need to trade KP for someone like Bradley Beal and then he and LUka can just take turns.
Also, I don't think Luka is necessarily an easy guy to play with, even though he is a great passer, for the same reason guys like Kevin Love and Chris Bosch had trouble adapting their games to LeBron even though LeBron is the greatest point forward in the history of the game. He's an extremely ball dominant player and not a traditional table setting point guard.