07-12-2021, 07:44 PM
(07-12-2021, 05:59 PM)Okstate819 Wrote: Two reasons he's got to go now IMO.
1. He is one inevitable injury away from being untradeable for the 3 remaining years on the contract. (John Wall esk) We have one more chance (this offseason) to sell another team on his potential and get back usable players or get space to acquire additional FA.
2. We just watched him get played off the court in the playoffs. Our highest investment in a player on this roster couldn't play without us going zone. Could he come back looking better early next year? yes probably will. But by the time the playoffs come around will he be available and close to 100%? doubtful.
To be fair, KP was equally torched in the Clippers series, we just didn't notice it all that much because it was for 2.5 games. But his defensive stats and off/on were pretty similar when I looked at them the other day.
The defensive player of the year in Gobert also got played off the court, or at least he should have. They kept him on the court lol.
Clippers are a brutal matchup for bigs and shouldn't be the standard for what you are up against. Any other matchup in the West and he's better defensively although probably still not great due to the offensive talent for the bigs.
Offensively he was simply game planned out but offense ran fine with him on the court still except when he was the only guy on the court aka Luka sat lol.
John Wall had one major injury and it was a killer. That's really not a fair comparison. Almost anyone on a max deal that's not an absolute superstar is untraceable with a single major injury.