06-11-2021, 06:42 PM
(06-11-2021, 04:46 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Yeah, it really boils down to why KP looked like a statue out there this season.
If it's temporary and can be fixed, well then he's only 25 and still offers the promise we all once hoped for. I can see an argument to underscore the possibility of that view.
It's the gamble the Mavs must make. In my opinion, its hard to imagine that 4 months of rest, conditioning without any sort of rehab has to make him look more spry to begin the season even if its *fools gold.*
I just have a feeling that once GMs see KP looking like 2019 KP, that his value all of a sudden goes up. I believe we saw this effect with Oladipo last year. Ya he was a ticking time bomb but he was healthy until much later in the season and Houston was stupid enough to trade for him (Dipo somehow was a major piece of the Harden trade) and offer him a huge extension.
This was because Dipo started the year off in Indy looking like old Oladipo. Whose to say the same kind of thing couldn't happen with KP? They are in similar situations a little bit, except for contract. Dipo wanted out but was on a 1 year deal. KP is on a much longer deal.
All that to say its basically up to the Mavs brass to decide whether he is in rapid decline, so much so that they need to move him this summer, or if he could have an uptick in health given a full offseason, etc. to improve his value.