2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

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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.

I can probably find stats that make KP look horrible too.  I'd rather watch the games and see that he's turned into just as bad of a defender as THJ, that he has no offensive game in the post, that he played in 43 of the 72 games the past season, that he has no flow with Luka on offense.  And that's not even looking at the playoff series against the Clippers.  I think better days are ahead for KP but I just don't see it with the Luka pairing.

And let's not act like this is an either or situation for KP and THJ.  My dream scenario for the start of the season is for both of those guys to be playing for someone else.