01-27-2021, 11:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-27-2021, 11:13 AM by KillerLeft.)
(01-27-2021, 10:32 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: But has KP not shown that, when healthy, he's almost on the same level?
I was speculating for fun throughout this entire "trade KP" conversation. I don't think there's a realistic way to trade him and stay on the current timeline of developing into contention (we hope). So, I'm fully on team "hope for the best" with him. But, I'm being dead serious right now:
I know you framed the above as a question, but is that what you believe?
In all seriousness, I'm not sure KP would be the 2nd best player on a single contending team right now. MAYBE you could say he's better than Middleton.
I think we love Dirk so much that we're very eager to file KP into the same "unusually skilled big guy" category, and while he fits there to an extent, I've been pretty disappointed by how limited he is offensively, and lately he has been a flat out negative on defense, going all the way back to the bubble. Now, I fully hope that these are temporary, injury related problems having to do with rust and/or rhythm (I bet the shooting is), but I think it's disingenuous to claim he has played well here. He had a nice stretch after the all star break last season, and he was doing some major damage in the Clipper series, too, but all in all there has been more bad play here than good so far, imho.