(08-26-2022, 10:11 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Man, I wish I had your confidence about this. I do not.
He will obviously play fewer minutes, no question about that. You seem to think he's going to go from team leader and starter to "completely and totally buried, out of the rotation altogether" overnight, basically. I think he's viewed as a more important presence than that from within the organization. Much more so than Bertans, that's for sure.
This is going to be interesting.
You think they don't understand that their priority is getting a team ready for the playoffs, or that they won't follow that priority. I do not.
Yes they like Powell. He's a try hard type of player. But Powell has made it very obvious he can't be of any real use in the playoffs. So in the regular season he has to be used accordingly, taking a back seat to the prep/minutes needed for those who can. No doubt at times he will get some garbage time minutes or perhaps an injury fill-in here and there, but they didn't acquire both McGee and Wood in order to keep playing Powell.
This team is about winning a title. Now. Kidd gets it, his job is to make the tough choices, and he decides who plays.