05-30-2021, 03:20 PM
(05-30-2021, 03:09 PM)fifteenth Wrote: @"SleepingHero"
Do you really believe that RC is pretending to care and isn't letting KP contribute?
Yeah, it's getting to the point where I just stop reading when people try to blame Carlisle for this, even posters I respect a lot, like @"SleepingHero". I think that opinion is so insanely far from the truth that I can't even understand the seed of it. Time and time again, Carlisle goes out of his way to get the ball to KP in "his spots" (spoiler alert, he has no spots). Time and time again, Carlisle defends him in interviews.
I give Carlisle less than 1% of the blame for this situation, at least given what we know. The reality is that KP has simply not played well on either end this season, with the exception of maybe 10-12 games, total. I actually think game 2 of this series was one of them, so there's a little hope, and I can respect the opinion some have that there's hope for him to become more of a positive contributor in the future, even if I disagree. But this notion that Rick Carlisle, who's probably better at his job than any of us are at ours, isn't doing anything and everything possible to get Porzingis, his highest paid player who the franchise went all-in to to put on this roster, to play in a way where his strengths contribute to winning basketball is nut-bar factor 7 to me. It really is.