06-08-2021, 03:30 PM
(06-08-2021, 10:22 AM)TXBamanut Wrote: The only way to get a guy to the post is not for him to set a screen. That just shows how stat conscious you are, but not basketball savvy. For example, one of the games...screen set FOR KP, crossed to the Low block, pass in from DFS, jump hook score. Clean as a whistle. The ONE and only time I remember that play being run in this series and honestly FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON. Dirk got on the post with the help of a screen for him ALL THE TIME. He was not exclusively set a screen for JET and then go post).
For example...why do we never see this run for KP? Everyone just goes "He can't set a screen so he can't get open"....
This is one of the great mysteries to me and I wish someone would ask Rick or some basketball person would explain this. I would see screens set for KP on occasion get to get loose but not a lot. THJ would get screens to get him open. I guess they just didn't want to do it. KP with a clean look at the basket is a good shooter so it doesn't make sense to me why the Mavs wouldn't try to help him get open. I do think there is hope for him on offense.
On defense it's really about whether or not his body can recover back to where it was. Sometimes a new conditioning program can help with that sort of stuff. I know he looked pretty good body wise after his ACL because he had such a long-time to work on his body. Coming off an injury last year maybe he wasn't able to do the kind of body-shaping stuff he needed to do.