Revived wrote:Damn i really thought KD would’ve been ready after the break. He seemed to look fine moving around in shoot around and such.
Means he still hasn’t practiced with the team and has very limited understanding of the playbook and system that Monty runs here. He’s barely gonna have 1 month of on-court games with our current squad to build chemistry before playoffs begin. And without him, Booker/CP3/Ayton gonna have to shoulder a heavier load to make up for the 30ppg that were missing with Bridges/Johnson gone. Hopefully none of those 3 get an injury in the meanwhile doing that.
I don't think a guy like him needs to develop chemisty to fit in too much. The main normal issue would be him and Book and how well they work together....kind of like Paul and Book were bad their first month together until they clicked and got great.
But with Book and KD they already played together at the olympics, so they know each other's game. It will be kind of weird, in a sense, that we have always seen Book with the ball running the clock down to the last shot for like the last 7 years, so will that continue or will it be KD? People always want to # the options. I assume in this case KD is the #1 option and Book the #2? I mean that would seem obvious but also it will be so different to watch after all these years.
As always though, I say get the best shot available. The thing is, with KD and his length, that will ALWAYS be him if he has to go 1 on 1. I mean you could almost take him over anyone ever, outside of him not having the killer instinct until he joined the championship record breaking Warriors. It will be great for all 3...Book and Paul can all win their first championships and KD can get one without it having joined a team that already won a championship and just had a record breaking season. We only got to the finals and won 64...similar...close, but no cigar...and we had to get rid of half of the top 6 of that team to get KD whereas KD basically just replaced Barnes.
Of course with the injury taking longer than the month they said, if it worries me is more that the injury is still nagging and taking longer to heal. While of course it's good to take as much time as you need if the recovery time is expected at a month and it's 6 weeks, I wouldn't necessarily spin that into a positive (like has been suggested earlier) even though I agree with not rushing him back.
