07-12-2021, 08:02 PM
So I posted this the other day on the Discord.... But regarding KP, he's a mid range shot away from being a 25 ppg guy and very efficiently.
KP was horrible all year defensively.
If you get him back to not being horrible and just neutral, I think it's very likely KP improves offensively over the rest of his deal and is an elite 3rd guy. I think one of the bigger issues on the team is the roster around KP. Tough matchup against the Clippers and we had absolutely no answer behind KP or next to him. KP will always have some defensive limitations as all bigs typically due. Gobert can't even run around with small ball.
That's a known thing and you should have a roster prepared for it. Sign a backup big that can play that way defensively. That's not Dwight or WCS.
Also there's absolutely nothing else going on in the offense that isn't started by Luka. That's a huge problem. Nobody else can create their shot and Luka constantly goes into attack mode.
I watched some highlights off one of the Clippers series games just now and saw 8 different plays on the highlights where Luka misses a wide open shooter to take a contested shot. And of course it was a highlight reel so he made all of them lol. But he doesn't always. Point is, that he's constantly missing open guys when in attack mode. KP was open a ton around the 3pt line in the series and was missed a bunch. And perhaps Luka dominating everything was our only chance at winning. But if you have another guy on offense who can attack and score, or can facilitate the offense when Luka is in attack mode, I think KP is going to flourish offensively. And I think Luka becomes more of a true pg running the offense and picking it apart ala Chris Paul.
KP was horrible all year defensively.
If you get him back to not being horrible and just neutral, I think it's very likely KP improves offensively over the rest of his deal and is an elite 3rd guy. I think one of the bigger issues on the team is the roster around KP. Tough matchup against the Clippers and we had absolutely no answer behind KP or next to him. KP will always have some defensive limitations as all bigs typically due. Gobert can't even run around with small ball.
That's a known thing and you should have a roster prepared for it. Sign a backup big that can play that way defensively. That's not Dwight or WCS.
Also there's absolutely nothing else going on in the offense that isn't started by Luka. That's a huge problem. Nobody else can create their shot and Luka constantly goes into attack mode.
I watched some highlights off one of the Clippers series games just now and saw 8 different plays on the highlights where Luka misses a wide open shooter to take a contested shot. And of course it was a highlight reel so he made all of them lol. But he doesn't always. Point is, that he's constantly missing open guys when in attack mode. KP was open a ton around the 3pt line in the series and was missed a bunch. And perhaps Luka dominating everything was our only chance at winning. But if you have another guy on offense who can attack and score, or can facilitate the offense when Luka is in attack mode, I think KP is going to flourish offensively. And I think Luka becomes more of a true pg running the offense and picking it apart ala Chris Paul.