06-15-2021, 04:25 PM
Posted from another thread "Cato's view is that confidence has declined that KP can be the second star that was originally envisioned. He thinks the hope is that KP can improve his shooting to elite level, and sharpen up his defense to the point that he is not a liability, and maybe is even a slight positive, on that end of the floor. He sees them as eliminating a lot of his posting up, and some of his shot creation, and using him more as a tall shooting guard, who gets his points off spot-ups, cuts, off-ball movement, etc."
This is a good way to approach KP ^^. Makes me think even more than Mavs are like 20/80 trading KP only if the right deal comes along this year (this can change as things evolve obviously). At any rate, adding a guy like Collins, getting a good MLE player could make this team significantly better given how much a zero J Rich was this entire season. What was worse than him being a zero and not getting playing time (e.g. Delon Wright) was that the trade + Duffy made Rick basically start him all year. If he had just not play important minutes I bet the Mavs would have won more games.
In another universe I want to see what would have happened had Rick just stuck with THJ starting the whole year and gave Rich 20 mpg off the bench.
This is a good way to approach KP ^^. Makes me think even more than Mavs are like 20/80 trading KP only if the right deal comes along this year (this can change as things evolve obviously). At any rate, adding a guy like Collins, getting a good MLE player could make this team significantly better given how much a zero J Rich was this entire season. What was worse than him being a zero and not getting playing time (e.g. Delon Wright) was that the trade + Duffy made Rick basically start him all year. If he had just not play important minutes I bet the Mavs would have won more games.
In another universe I want to see what would have happened had Rick just stuck with THJ starting the whole year and gave Rich 20 mpg off the bench.