07-22-2021, 11:01 AM
(07-22-2021, 10:23 AM)Mak Wrote: I won’t say it would be a 100% bad decision to trade him this summer becuase there’s always that 1% chance some team willingly offers up a chance to fleece them … so let’s say there’s a 99% chance it would be a bad move to trade KP right now.
And it has almost nothing to do with being ‘in’ or ‘out’ on KP being a good fit in Dallas / with Luka but almost everything to do with his current value. This is arguably the lowest value he’s had in his entire career, which isn’t exactly the best time to trade a guy who’s also currently attached to the most expensive contract of his career.
Plus, superstar-player-whisperer Jason Kidd allegedly being able to get KP to play well with Luka and becoming a true superstar duo is arguably the main reason hiring him as the head coach / manager make some sense at all — so either way, we’re kinda committed to giving Kidd a shot at turning this thing around 360 degrees.
I am aiming this post more at the "lets see how Kidd can integrate KP".
I get that there is a new regime in town...let them see what they can do with KP yada yada yada
But Luka was purposefully freezing KP out last year. I will say that I believe Brunson would do it too.
Kind of hard to turn things around for KP when being offered the cold shoulder.
I get it...KP needs to improve on defense...offense isnt really the issue.
Why Luka would refuse to pass ball to wide open KP behind 3 point line and rather take the contested step back 3 himself is up for debate. Just seems like a hard problem to solve for a coach.