KCP Discussion: Kentavious Can Produce!

And that ladies and gentlemen is why you can't purely rely on +/- stats.

+/- stats should only count as half a point in garbage time.

Maybe we can utilize those metrics and trade him to Houston. No one loves that s*** more than the Twitter master himself.

I do hope he can get used to that role, because when Kuz and Rondo are back, that's the only place he should get any minutes.

 

KCP
King Carbage Pime

 

But it wasn’t garbage time minutes bro.

He led our team with +8 in Quarter1 (only guy that was a positive for our team other than Cook who was a +1:
https://stats.nba.com/players/boxscores-traditional/?Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&LastNGames=1&sort=PLUS_MINUS&dir=1&Period=1&CF=TEAM_ABBREVIATION*E*LAL

Was a +2 in Q2:
https://stats.nba.com/players/boxscores-traditional/?Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&LastNGames=1&sort=PLUS_MINUS&dir=1&Period=2&CF=TEAM_ABBREVIATION*E*LAL

Was a +8 in Q3 (when we went on a run and ended the quarter up 21:
https://stats.nba.com/players/boxscores-traditional/?Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&LastNGames=1&sort=PLUS_MINUS&dir=1&Period=3&CF=TEAM_ABBREVIATION*E*LAL

So if you’re keeping score, that’s a +18 after 3...before garbage time hit. If anybody took advantage of garbage time it was Dudz and Caruso with +11 a piece in Q4.

This isn’t really directed at you J, but we get it...y’all don’t like Kcp. Why keep rehashing it? (see what I did there?)

 

he was 0/4 before the the game got out of hand and went 5/5 in the fourth or something and ended up 6/11, so yea I give him no creds for those 13 pts, he gets some cred for the early passes he made to AD and howard

 

That’s fine...still 2 sides to the court.

 

you mean the other side where Allen was sort of lighting it up with KCP on him?

 

His defense actually helped with the win yesterday.

https://stats.nba.com/players/defense/?sort=DEF_WS&dir=-1&Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&TeamID=1610612747&LastNGames=1

Still super duper early in the season, but he’s a top 5 defender on our team and top 3 if you adjust it to player’s that avg a min of 20mpg...

https://stats.nba.com/players/defense/?sort=DEF_RATING&dir=-1&Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&TeamID=1610612747

I’m not the biggest fan of his contract, but if he continues do play defense like this and doesn’t resort to being KCBean, I’ll be happy with the results.

 

I hope this gets his confidence up.

 

Quin Cook is the #1 defender on the team according to that, you really believe that?

 

Nah, it implies Cook’s defense attributed to the team win last night. Same goes for Kcp.

All I’m saying is that shooting comes and goes (Green, Cook and Daniels can all attest to that)...but if they showing out on defense every night, they’re more likely to be a net positive for us even if their jumper ain’t wet on that night.

 

I dont care to use stats to judge KCP, these metrics are hard to correlate to KCP when I constantly see him getting lost and leaving his guy wide open for 3s or his guy gets easy layups/buckets.....but sure as long as he's does something more than just shoot I'm all for it, just a shame we have no recourse in terms of trading his a**

 

Kentavious
Caldwell
Primetime

 

let him have his moment in the sun

 

3rd on the team in PER after AD and Lebron. Don't @ me.

 

wth, hows that possible with the 1st 2 gm performance?

 

I'll say this - offensively he's been garbage but defensively he's been showing effort. I'll take that any day of the week and twice on sundays.