TAKE DAT WIT YOU 11/11

[KillerLeft]

If their number one goal is to load manage KP---with the goal of keeping him healthy for a trade near the deadline---then I 100% support that. 

If the goal is to load manage him for the playoffs, then I am not supportive of that if it means playing poor basketball in the meantime. I don't believe in just turning things on in the playoffs and I think the regular season is a really important preparation for the playoffs--a time of building the team chemistry and cohesion needed to perform at an elite level against the best of the best. 

Basically, if the Mavs are planning to keep KP for themselves, then they need to figure out what lineups and combinations work best. If they are planning trade him, then by all means, do what you need to keep him healthy and putting up good numbers.

GREAT POST. 

The only way I differ is that I believe so much in the importance and difficulty of what's laid out in the last two paragraphs that I think it's shooting yourself in the foot to put even an ounce of thought into what's described in the first. 

Since I haven't said this in a while, let me just declare again that NOTHING is going to work as it should on this team until the horrible KP misstep is resolved. If they still believe he can work here, fine. I don't understand why they'd think that, but fine. If not, DUMP HIS ASS for what you can get and begin to move FORWARD again as a team.