02-22-2020, 05:41 AM
(02-22-2020, 05:06 AM)mavsluvr Wrote:
Kristaps (34 min) had another brilliant game, with an almost unparalleled line of 24-10-5-5 (blocks). He has come a long way this season, playing with a confidence and swagger that was missing at the beginning of the term. With Powell's injury, KP has become less of a spot-up shooter, and much more involved in the offense, getting more touches and being used more in the PNR. He is an underrated facilitator, and had a gorgeous bounce pass through traffic to Luka for a layup on a give-and-go. The Luka-KP connection continues to flourish, and Porzee thinks that the best is ahead of the duo. Jet described Zinger as reaching a new level, and especially complimented his increasing familiarity with his teammates and the system, along with his rim protection and rebounding.
KP has been on a different level for seven games now with six of them being great plus a bit of a stinker against Washington. In those seven games he's averaged 24.3 points and 10.4 boards. He's getting to the line 8 times a game, hitting 40% of his 3's and .517 from the field. It comes to 1.44 points per shot attempt.
Something I find interesting...shot attempts for the season are 15.2 per game and he's only taking 16.8 shots per game in this stretch. So, he's doing this on only 1.6 more shots per game. He's just hitting more of them. FG% has gone from .417 to .517. FTA's have gone from 4.5 to 8. He was getting shots before, but they were mostly stand above the break and we'll throw you the ball every once in a while (which works for Maxi). But, that kind of inactivity may have been tough for KP to take. Now he's more integral to the offense and much more involved in plays and it seems to get his juices flowing. If we are still having this conversation in March, watch out.