09-24-2021, 09:50 AM
I have enormous respect for Carlisle. Last year was just weird though. The cohesion of the team just seemed off and for the first time I thought he didn't make the whole better than the parts. In almost every other year, I thought he made the team better than it should have been. Yeah, he didn't win a playoff series since the championship run, but I don't put that on him at all.
The KP situation was really odd too. Sure, KP made things harder because he was not the same player last year. I felt like the team talked like KP was Luka's sidekick off the court, but on the court it never seemed like they treated him like this.
I believe Luka needs to treat KP different than DFS and the others. Luka will do his thing and will mostly make the right pass to the open guy. I can understand KP's frustration playing this way while a guy like DFS is fine with it. On the other hand, KP needs to prove to Luka that he is what he sees himself being. I can understand Luka wanting to see this from KP before you get more special treatment from him. I am really interested to see how things look this year. I expect some bumps.
Personally, I really wanted to protect us from KP injury with another scorer this offseason. I believe KP can be a better fit here, but I didn't want to be as tied to him as we are now.
The KP situation was really odd too. Sure, KP made things harder because he was not the same player last year. I felt like the team talked like KP was Luka's sidekick off the court, but on the court it never seemed like they treated him like this.
I believe Luka needs to treat KP different than DFS and the others. Luka will do his thing and will mostly make the right pass to the open guy. I can understand KP's frustration playing this way while a guy like DFS is fine with it. On the other hand, KP needs to prove to Luka that he is what he sees himself being. I can understand Luka wanting to see this from KP before you get more special treatment from him. I am really interested to see how things look this year. I expect some bumps.
Personally, I really wanted to protect us from KP injury with another scorer this offseason. I believe KP can be a better fit here, but I didn't want to be as tied to him as we are now.