06-27-2021, 10:50 PM
(06-27-2021, 10:06 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: Am I the only one, for reasons of realism and things that are actually worth getting excited about, who is more focused on us pilfering their other good players if Dame leaves? Those four "new foundation" players that Dan mentioned are each better than every current Mav other than Luka (GTHO if you're one of those who are going to argue that that isn't true regarding KP for any one of them. It requires colossal Mavs homerism to assert that KP was better in '20-'21 than any of those four). If they want to give away one or more of them after the Lillard trade, lets get in on that.
This is kind of a ridiculous take. Forget for a second that we are cherry picking one season where KP came back early from an injury and struggled to get fully back to speed.
McCollum. I will give you him. I think they are similar in on court value, but McCollum is definitely more durable.
Powell. Probably similar value this year, although he fell of a bit when he joined Portland.
Covington? He scored less than 9 points a game.
Nurkic? He plays less games than KP
I realize KP had a rough year defensively (the only one of his career) and a counter argument is going to be defense related, but those guys were supposed to be the backbone of the Portland D and it was terrible (29th I believe).
KP has been a disappointment so far, and if you want to talk contract value it is a different discussion, but I think sometimes the KP bashing goes too far.