07-23-2021, 09:26 PM
(07-23-2021, 08:58 PM)cow Wrote: The most recent version of KP we witnessed is worse than THJ and it's frankly not close IMO. And that's coming from someone who isn't the biggest fan of THJ on the court, check my tag. And that's also coming from someone who has defended KP's shortcomings a ton because I think a lot of the blame rests outside of his shoulders. You have a lot more cap space to tinker with the roster if it is a KP for Kawhi swap rather than a Kawhi addition. If Kawhi sits for a year, we'd certainly be a worse team but we own our 2022 pick.
Injury is only part of the KP issue. Kawhi would be easy to trade and get great value from. We'd be lucky to recoup half of what we still owe for KP at this point.
For the record, I think Kawhi is the pipe'iest of pipe dreams.
The one that had KP put up career high in #s efficiency wise and the same ppg as his 1st year here?
Or are you talking about just the Clippers series?
We know the Mavs decided to use him that way based on the gameplan (which almost worked btw). And defensively they did even worse to Gobert.
Again THJ is also a really bad defender. and always has been. He got abused constantly in that series too. There is reason to hope KP is a solid defender again.
I think that people are wildly overreacting to the Clippers series and think that was how KP played this year.