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Mavs are my second team so I watched a good bit of KP in Dallas - not that he was a bad player then but he’s improved leaps and bounds from those days in almost every facet of his game. he’s actually a damn good post player now which was something that was noticeably lacking when he was a Mav
in Dallas he was the de facto #2 behind Luka, now next to Tatum and Brown he can settle into a #3 scoring role on most nights. Boston is also a much better team when it comes to perimeter defense so there won’t be as much pressure on him to cover for guys getting beat off the dribble
as you said really comes down to health but at full strength the on-court payoff looks really exciting, provides so much space and versatility to our offense
Carlisle stopped using him as a post up player because he was awful and it resulted in a bad shot or turnover almost every time. People blaming Carlisle for “using him incorrectly” just didn’t watch him in the post enough during that time period. Carlisle is a great coach and knows how to get the most efficient offense possible.
However, the numbers say KP has improved dramatically in those same situations with his time in Washington, so he’s obviously made improvements.
yea he’s greatly improved the weaknesses in early post game, attacking switches etc and really refined his game just in terms of knowing his spots on the court and when to rise up. he’d be a much better complementary player to luka now.
next improvement i want to see is getting him corner looks. he’s always been solely an above the break 3 point shooter and with his shooting ability getting open corner looks for him could be lethal. horford was the same way up until we really started weaponizing it the past couple seasons. hoping to see the same here.
No, because Luka wouldn't pass him the ball when KP had a mismatch. The same problem surfaced again with Christian Wood. The team would freeze him out and then finally pass it to him and wonder why he would miss.