Sleepy51 wrote:SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:Like Poole Kuminga thinks he is better than he is.
Kuminga is starting to outplay people and is getting minutes.
Last year Lamb outplayed Kuminga and that was not Kerr’s fault.
Kuminga dramatically outplayed Lamb in the final 2 months of the regular season last year. When Wiggins was out Kuminga shined and was a positive contributor to a prolonged stretch of winning plan. Lamb became virtually unplayable over that same stretch as more teams began playing with 48 minutes of effort and urgency. Lamb was a try-hard. And while try-hards are endearing to coaches and can take advantage of opponents inconsistent efforts over the course of a long regular season and the meaningless winter doldrums he was an unplayable nobody in games where opponents were tuning up into playoff shape.
Before you point to Kuminga's washout in the playoffs, He was inserted irregularly and inconsistently at C instead of SF where he had been playing successfully for the last couple of months and Lamb also washed out of the playoffs, remaining as unplayable as he'd been down the stretch of the regular season.
My eyes said Lamb did all the little things better than Kuminga. Lamb understood what spaces to move into on help defense. Lam rebounded better than Kuminga. Plus minus said Lamb was a lot better than Kuminga.
Kuminga had spectacular moments. Lamb was a boring but reliable player.
But you Sleepy are not expected to be like the foolish kids enchanted by shiny objects.
Anthony Randolph was not baby Jesus.
This year’s Kuminga is playing better than last year’s Lamb but Lamb played better than last year’s Kuminga.