2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[SleepingHero]

If PG is a loser...what is KP? PG made the playoffs as the best player prior to his injury. ECF in his 3rd and 4th season. Broke his leg and missed an entire season, bounced back and returned to an allstar level (finished 3rd in MVP voting). I don´t like PG and he hade some really bad moments in the last few seasons but at least he was good enough to get his teams into the playoffs and out of the first round.

KP's entire career can be summed up as blue balls because he always gets injured before anything can really happen.

So to answer your question to what is KP? I don't know yet. In his time for DAL there has been growing pains, but with him the Mavs have posted historically efficient offenses. In the playoffs with a largely injured roster last year the Mavs almost played spoiler with KP playing very well until he got injured. This year's playoffs, KP isn't producing in the counting stats department but his presence has been largely positive and the Mavs are once again playing well in the playoffs with him at 2nd fiddle.

PG has had the better career so far, no arguing that overall. But there's a reason why he's called Pandemic P. Or No OT tonight P. Dude has consistently laid eggs when it matters most. IND was happy to get rid of him. OKC had 2 unremarkable playoff runs. Now in LAC we see PG underperform last year and while he's playing much better this year it's not leading to wins. 

So I'd take KP over PG since we've seen KP average 30/10 and play great defense. The potential, as always with KP, is too tantalizing to pass up on. Meanwhile we know what PG is. A top 20 guy that may or may not lose you a game in the playoffs.