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

[cjeter24]

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.

To be fair to KP, alot of those games were missed at the start of the season and injury management. During a normal calendar year, KP misses 0 games to start the year and he probably doesn't miss that many games for rest on BTB nights. That being said, he did have two different stretches where he had injuries that made him miss more than just a few games.

He was no doubt a bad defender as THJ last year. But there's a career of that for THJ and one short season with all sorts of stuff going on for KP. 
Again KP was good offensively this year. The offensive issues came in the Clippers series. There's been some clunkiness offensively at times the last few years. I think that's 100% an issue with the starting lineup around them. It's a bunch of bench guys being forced into starting roles. And the end result is Luka being a more ball dominant version of Harden at times.