I don’t understand why ppl think Kawhi is not trying 100% and building himself up for the end of the season. Last year, he started off worse than this year but he said himself he didn’t feel 100% at the start of the season, and also said coming off the acl was a lot harder than the meniscus, which was like a “clean up procedure”. He was playing the best offensive basketball of his career last season and all of sudden he’s dramatically worse because he’s preserving himself??? It’s nonsense. He ramped up last year because he wasn’t 100% but by all indications he’s 100% right now.
Just watching his game, his rim pressure is non existent, he was no burst and his offense looks laboured and difficult. He hasn’t taken over one game this season, today was a type of game where Lebron, KD etc would drag there team against an inferior opponent. Never mind his stats are underwhelming as well. I just think it’s Copium that he’s building himself up because last year was the only time he did it and that’s because he came off a major injury. Our team is flawed but we’d have at least 3 more wins if Kawhi took over (Today, Memphis, Brooklyn)
Kawhi is so slow that trash NBA players are able to stay in front of him this year. If the playoffs started today and Kawhi had determined, All-NBA type players on him, I think he struggles to score 10+ points. Do you all not actually see how slow he is this year? How he has zero lift? Dude could not even finish a layup at the rim last night. Just last year he would have dunked it standing off two feet. It’s time for people to really see that this is the new Kawhi, and this new Kawhi is less dynamic.
He doesn’t really use speed that much anyway, he’s all about pivot move fakes which you don’t need to be fast at, see Luka.