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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • I just think that Carlisle’s decision to reduce KP’s role to “stand in the corner and be ready to catch and shoot” was a big reason it didn’t work out on the Mavs. undoubtedly KP wasn’t as good as a post player as he is now but his role in Dallas was almost insulting to his talent. they could’ve easily gotten him some easy baskets with some pick and pops or rim runs but they almost completely stopped going to that PnR by the end of his tenure in Dallas

    at the end of the day though I think KP needed to go to Washington where he’d have a lot more freedom to operate not playing with Luka/Carlisle and more importantly no pressure to win, that situation helped him really hone his game and now the Celtics are getting a much better version of him than Dallas got


  • 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